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LOOKING FOR

NEW ALLIES?

Italy And The Balkans

Warsaw. Apr. 3..

further Is Italy, looking" even afelt than the Balkans for new allles?

This question is being asked in diplomatic circles in Europe. fol- lowing the announcement that Count Galeazzo Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister, is shortly to pay a visit to the Polish capital.

The question is all the more apt, the announcement following as it does on Count Clano's visit to Belgrade and the rapid conclusion of the Italo-Yugoslav pact.

Franco-Czech Plan Rejected

Belgrade, April, 3.

After the talks had ended the The most important result of the Yuge-Slavian Regent, Prince Paul. Little Entente Conference is rejec-received the Czecho-Slovakian and

Kumanian Foreign Ministers. tion of the Franco-Czech plan for an extension of the Little Entente Pact to an agreement or mutual usamstance.

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Some of the newspapers con- sider that Yugo-slavia blocked the proposal owing to her reluctance to be dragged in to close Alliance with the Soviet,

Prince Paul was later hest to the Foreign Ministers of all three Entente countries at luncheon.

GENERAL SATISFACTION Messages from Rome reveal that the Italian newspapers express general satisfaction at the upshot of the conference.

An attack made by the Yugo- The Italo-Yugo-slav Pact was

Slavian Premier on the spread of generally approved at the confer ence, though some criticism was Bolshevism in Europe and the re-- the mutual assistance expressed at the haste in which it Jection of had been concluded. Definite op-proposal come int for special com-

ment, The feeling exists m some quar-position emerged" to the rumours.

"The system of Versalles and St. ters that Italy, by successful neof a Hapsburg restoration in Aus-

Germain has completely" crumbled gotiation of a pact with Yugoslavia, tria. has succeeded in thrusting 'ʼn wedge between and weakening the Little Entente, part of France's system of European alliances.

Now the question is naked "Is Poland the next to desert her ally France for Italy?"

"Any future negotiations with and with it has faded the dream of Prague to dictate developments Hungary or Austria, It was decided.

in the Danube basin from Moldau," the "Wiener Neueste should be made by the three en-

writes tente countries and not by any

Nachrichten," according to a tele- individual state.

gram from Vienna,

Little concrete information is contained in, the official communi- que issued yesterday.

the Great Poland, ever since

It states that the countries are War, has wavered in her attach- ment to France and Germany al-entirely agreed on political and ternately.

PRESENT COMMITMENTS

Her present 'commitments con- aist of a treaty of non-aggression with Soviet Russia, which is in force till 1945, and a ten-year amity agreement with Germany. to run till 1944.

The paper declares that the for- mer strong alliance between the Little Entente and France has also

weakened, and that the principal question conf. onting the Entente is no longer how to control policy

economic questions, adherence to the League of Nations and read!- neas for more, co-operation within Danubla in the spirit of Ver- neigbouring States.

PACTS WELCOMED The Yugo-Slav pacts with Italy and Bulgaria are welcomed as a An exchange of visits last year, contribution to the peace of south however, between high Polish and eastern Europe, though other ob- French army officers, was taken tolgations of the Little Entente are indicate that some sort of mil-not affected by these agreements. tary understanding exists between the two countries.

This latest development, Count. Clano's visit, seems to show that exists of Italy, "and a possibility Poland coming to some sort of agreement.

NEXT WEEK Count Clano is expected in War- saw between April 15 and Aprli 20,"

He will hold conferences with President Moselcki, the Premier,

ITALY AND SPAIN

Irrefutable Evidence

London Apr. 2. Considerable stir has been creat-

ed in the London newspapers by the latest Note of the Valencia

sailles and St. Germain but to co- operate with neighbouring States. The "Reichspost" says, the con- terence was mainly faced with the problem of adjusting the Entente to the changed relations between European Powers brought about by recent pacts----

Transocean News Service.

NO POLITICAL ACTIVITIES

South African Decree

London Apr. 2..

Cables from Pretoria state that African Government the South has issued a decree prohibiting all giving proofs of Italian interven- | inhabitants of the mandated terrl- tion in Spain

M. Kosciałkowski, and the Forelynovernment to Britain and France, Minister Colonel Joseph Beck.

Colonel Beck, who has been in ll health since the last session of the League of Nations Council, is on the French now recuperating Riviers but will return to Warsaw in time to greet Count Clano.--- Transocean News Service.

REBELS CLAIM SUCCESSES

tory of South West Africa, except The News Chronicle," comment-British nationals, to participate in ng on the photostat copies of Ita activities of any public bodies or ilan Staff documents, calls this ir

political organisations, refutable evidence of Italian in- tervention.

The Conservative press, however, is more reticent.

The "Daily Telegraph" believes that the charge brought against Italy will be dealt with next week by the Chairman of the London non-intervention committee.

The paper says that it is possi-

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British subjects are forbidden to take any oath of allegiance or pro- mise of obedience to any foreign ruler or head of state except the King of England, or to any govern- ment or government official of any

South Africa.

Basque Front Report ble it will then be stated that the state other than the Union of

salamanca. Apr. 3. Successes are claimed by Rebel headquarters in the large-scale operations now proceeding on the Basque Front.

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The loyalists, admits com- munique issued this evening. are putting up an obstinate resistance and are contesting every" foot of ground with grim determination.

Both sides, it is stated, have lost heavily in fighting which has often been of a hand-to-hand nature.

Rebel headquarters also claim that insurgent regulars and Car- 1st volunteers captured the 1,500 feet high Gorbea Hill, north-west of Victoria, yesterday morning.

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whole question is a matter onry for the League of Nations.

The "Morhing Post" points ont that the Italian delegation in In don will easily be able to reply to the charges by producing ample evidence of breaches of the non- intervention agreement by other Powers, notably the Soviet- Transocean News Service.

It has also been declared A punishable offence to endeavour to Induce others to take such an oath or promise.

Non-British citizens who parti- cipate in political propaganda in the mandated territory may be ex- pelled from the country.——— Transocean New Service.

Soft Coal Strike Averted

New York. April 2. The threatened strike in the American soft coal industry has been avoided

The national coal dispute affects 462,000 miners, who, although they did not call a strike, declared they would not work until their wages and hours were governed by a new contract with employers.

lished to study the problem of uñ- employment resulting from the mechanisation of mining:

The men' will resume work Mon- day after the shortest stoppage in the history of coal mining.

Besides the coal miners, 122,000 automobile workers and 11,500

workers byre

and 5,000 others allied industries, are, idle to-day owing to strikes or work stoppages. To-night a two-year wage and

concluded. A conference arranged with a view hour agreement was

to settling the sit-down strikes in after the mines had been idle all

the General Motors Corporation owners and United day. Mine Mine, Workers signed the pact. It plants, broke up without reathing

an agreement.- wage increase of 50 provides a cents a day for workers paid by Neuter. the day and nine cents a ton for plece workers. Overtime pay will be 50 per cent. above normal.

A joint commission of-mine- owners and workers will be estab-

trenched, are a maze of trenches and fortifications.-

Transocean News Service

Indian Frontier Unrest

Causes British, Anxiety

'London, Apr. 3.

Only minor akimishes are re- The succession of outbreaks on ported to have taken place since the North-West frontier of India then. is, causing the British authorities

some concern.

The Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, General Sir Robert Cassels, is leaving Delhi for Peshawar capital of the North West Province, in order to study the situation personally. S

The Utmanzai tribes are now seeking to come to terms with the Government of India, and their fakir has been appointed to act as mediator with British political officers

Teanioccan News Service.

Reuter adds that large bodies of Latest messages from Delhi state hostile tribesmen are still gather that relative quiet exists on the ed in the lower thaisora Valley and frontier after the recent violent are reported to be contemplating

further mischief: nghting in Waziristan

Later.

It is now learned that the min- ing agreement provides for a 35- hour working week, compared with the 30-hour week desired by the miners and a 40-hour week wanted by the owners-Reuter.

ITALY'S AIR STRENGTH ·

Rome, April 3.

By 1941 the Italian air force will consist of 7.238 officers and 12,847 non-commissioned officers, the number of officer pilots alone being increased from 1,757 to 4,283. Bo declares a proclamation 18- sued on the fourteenth anniver sary of the founding of the mo- dern Italian air force":

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ITALO-YUGOSLAV

CAUSES DIFFERENCES

London, Apr. 3.

The Little "Entente, the paper concludes. will continue its mis-

The paper adds that Yugoslavia Evidence that the Italo-Yugoslav raised certain objections to suen and the other agreement tween the Little Entente countries Powers felt themselves obliged to Treaty has created differences be- an seems to be indieated by the reac- respect her wishes.

the Czecho-Slovakian tion of newspapers

No effort is made, to hide Czech alon disappointment over the agree ment, though the conviction is ex- pressed that much of an impor tant and useful nature was accom- pilshed at the conference of the Entente nations in Belgrade.

Its members ate loyal to each other and to their friends part- cularly France, and it will lend its full support to the League of Nations and will further the cause of peace."

CONSIDERABLE DOUBT Another Prague newspaper. "Die Zeit," gives another side of the picture.

The official organ of the Czech Foreign Ministry; "Lodowe Noviny," admits that the agreement and the excessive amount of secrecy which

The Italo-Yugoslav agreement, it attended it has given rise to grave

considerable doubts in Prague, but that Yugo- says, has created slayla's explanation of her actions doubt in the minds of the other Entente nations as to the loyalty has cleared up the situation.

of the Entente's strongest military PROPOSAL REJECTED The

that member. Journal declares

The effusive protestations of Czeco-Slovakia is not surprised or uneasy over the fact that her pro- friendship by the three Foreign posal for an agreement between Ministers were merely a logical New aviation centres. it was the Little. Entente and France was reaction, since the Entente mem-. added, are to be established in refused, because such decisions bars usually become more de-

must be deliberated and too great monstrative following a rift?" - Libya and East Africa.

haste could ruin the ultimate re- The paper asserts that the opin- ton prevails, especially in Paris, ult.

that the common welfare of the Little Entente is being subjected

individual membern.— more and more to the ambitions or

Transocean Faws Service

Eight thousand military pilots had dasembled in Rome to cele brate the occasion, and a special ceremony was held to-day at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

King Victor Emmanuel present ed a new flag to each squadron in

the presence of signor Mussolini and many high omcials.

Trentocean Neus Service.