FRANCE CONCERNED.
OVER FUTURE OF JIBUTI. VALVED LINK IN COLONIAL COMMUNICATIONS. MENACED BY ITALIAN VICTORY. (Received Monday, 9.20 p.m.) LONDON, May 25. “The Times” Paris correspondent says Signor Mussolini’s assurance that the Italian occupation of Abyssinia did not affect the Jibuti Railway, which shall continue to be used normally, has little value in French eyes, because it is not the railway, but the future economic and political existence of Jibuti itself which is endangered. Even the most rabid anti-sanction-ists are beginning to discover that Signor Mussolini’s Abyssinian adventure concerns France more closely than ever and are prepared to admit that the Italian victory threatens French colonial communications which cannot be ignored, as Jibuti is an important link between France, Indo-China and Madagascar. Moreover, its maintenance costs France nothing, as it lives on Ethiopian trade. Thus any interference with it, either by Italian monopolisation or by the prohibition of commercial relations between Abyssinia and sanctionist countries, must be disastrous.
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Wairarapa Age, 26 May 1936, Page 5
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