PROGRESS OF WAR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 7

PROGRESS OF WAR

REVIEW BY IL DUCE REPORT TO CABINET THE PEACE PROPOSALS ! DTD NOT SATISFY ITALY

■ «• ißy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] ROME, Dec. 30. Signor Mussolini informed the Italian Cabinet that the Hoare-Laval pro•asals went far from satisfying Italy’s ' minium requirements, especially in •‘spect of the security of frontiers and ’.ie lives of Italian subjects. t A communique states: “JSignor Mush -iini also pointed out that the pro- | -als were abandoned before the Fas- • • Grand Council had time to examine t '-m. The causes of the failure of i .filiation consequently must be - ight outside of Italy, as men of good • :h are beginning to admit.” " gnor Mussolini then explained the itary situation, particularly refergto the Eritrean frontier. He ein- . -i-e<l that the rapid advance neces- • ted complicated and extensive work r the organisation of communications ■■ rder to guarantee and facilitate the movement of a mass of soldiers ; workmen number.ng hundreds of :v. msands. He declared that every war, especially a Colonial war, has necessary :-es. Recent engagements, notably 1.-se on December 15 and 22, were the •]->st important sinve the outbreak of 1.0-tiiities, and proved the daring and -- irage of the Italian and Eritrean ■oops. Their moral and physical conlition was excellnt. II Duce reported on the progress uxade in fighting the economic siege, adding that science was busy in disovering substitutes for many of the aw materials formerly imported. He 'Utlined certain measures of a military hararter taken in Italy, and stressed ’he special efforts made by war indus-r-o> since they had been placed under -ingle control. Signor Mussolini reported on the i uiancial arrangements concluded with ! \ustria, Hungary, I’-elgium, Switzer- | land, and Germany. i The Minister of Finance (Signor Phaon «1e Reval) reported that the lAu Igetary deficit f' r 1934-35 was £33.000,000. ! Cabinet considered and approved the : Budget for 1936-37, which is expected i show a surplus Nevertheless, the I •omniuniquc states, the extraordinary i 7*?quirements in East Africa, costing £300.600 to £400,000 a day, could not I ’iPiTnit of a forecast, nor vould they 1-e met from ordinary resources ITALAN ACTIVITY SHIPS AND MEN ON DODECANESE ISLANDS Received Jan. I. 11 p.w. LONDON, Dec. 31. i The Telegraph’s Athens correspondent says that a courier from the I i'odeeanes*- Islands, reaching Athens a ’tor eluding Italian guards, claims | that more than 5".'K»O men, which is I 'ouble the native population, are on I Rhodes Leros alone. He claimed that I t ere were four Italian cruisers, I - venteen destroyers, and twelve sub- : arines now in the neighbourhood, v.hile 9uo airmen and 250 machines assembled on the islands. | It i.- officially stated, in London that I the Government has been long aware r- Italian activities on the Dodecanese I I-lands. but had no conformation precise figures of man and arms.