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AUSTRALIA'S CHOICEST
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ITALIANS SWOOP DOWN ON ALBANIA
Ruthless Sea & Air Bombardment
LANDING PARTIES SEVERAL TIMES DRIVEN OFF
YUGO-SLAVIA TWO TOWNS
REFUSES TO AID
Belgrade, To-day."
The threatened Italian invasion of Albania began yesterday, and out of-dozens of contradictory messages received the fact emerges that an- other independent country is disappearing mands "in view of the treaty of from the map of Europe.
Albanian troops apparently offered resistance, in spite of the overwhelming Italian superiority in the air, on land and on sea.
It is learned that Albania "do- manded assistance of Yugo-Slavia but Yugo-Slavia refused the de- friendship existing between Italy and Yugo-Slavia.”—Reuter,
LORD PERTH'S CALL ON CIANO
Rome, To-day.
An official communique states
DESTROYED IN BOMBARDMENT
Belgrade, To-day.
The Tirana radio announces that all. Albanian diplomatic representa- |tives have been telegraphically, in- structed to inform the governments to which they are accredited of the Italian aggression.
It contradicts the Italian allega, tion that Italians in Albania have been attacked, and states that Durazzo, San Giovanni and di Me dua were completely destroyed by Italian air and sea bombardment.
It confirmed that the Albanian
Four hundred aeroplanes participated in the at- tack, the infantry operations being carried out by 100,000 men, while 170 warships have been concentrated off the Albanian coast, The Albanian ports of Durazzo and Giovanni di that when Lord Perth, the British Minister in Belgrade informed the
Medusa are reported to have been completely Ambassador, saw Count Ciano, the Yugo-Slav Government of develop destroyed after a ruthless Italian sea and air Italian Foreign Minister, the latter ments, but it added that there is.
gave him full "explanations and
no Yugo-Slav-Albanian agreement bombardment.
the necessary assurances."-Reu- which would justify Albanià call-
ing: for Yugo-Slav^aid. “
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Albania demanded assistance from Yugo-Slavia, ter.
Rome, To-day. but this was refused by Belgrade. A radio
When the British Ambassador broadcast from Tirana appeals to France not called on Count Clano he enquir- ed into the events in Albania as to allow the disappearance of Albania.
in the Mediterranean.
Germany has fully approved | statement said that Italian troops regards the effect on the status the aggression of her Axis part had left Brindisi and Bari direct quo ner, while Count Ciano, the Ita- for Albania on Thursday evening. Reuter. lian Foreign Minister. has given The 1st Naval Squadron, which | the Earl of Perth, British Am- from dawn on Thursday had been bassador in Rome, the Italian cruising along the Albanian coast "explanation" for the attack on from Santi Quaranta to San an Independent country.
Giovanni de Medua, also partici- Germany has also issued alpated, while aerial squadrons statement conveying a veiled were mobilised.
warning to the Western Demo- Italian warships evacuated cracies not to interfere with from Darazzo and Volona con- Italy's action.
veved to Italy "several hundreds
ROME ANNOUNCEMENT of our co-nationals, among them First Indication that the at-women and children." -tack had already started came
from Rome, where an
QUEEN GERALDINE
official
AND BABY CROSS BORDER
THREATENING” EVENTS The oncial Italian statement. dealing with events which led up to these developments, says: “During the past few days and in the course of conversations between the Ita- and King Zog for
The Yugo-Slav Government is keeping in contact with the Italian Government, and is hoping the con- fl'ct will end in a rapid solution that will take into account the in- terests of all three countries. Router.
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