ITALIAN TROOPS ON THE MOVE
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Forces Sent to Morocco and Libya "DEFENCE" STRATEGY
(By Telegrapk-
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(Eeceived 20, 8.45 a.m.') EOME, Sept. 18. "The Foreign Offiee cannot apeum« the task of denying all ten.dentious i»t ports of Italian activities emanating from Ked sources." This was a declaration issued follovring a report emanating from France that 700Q more Italian troops had - landed at Morocco. On the other hand, amid renewod attacks by the newspapers on Britain, the Press xeveals that 231 officers nn.d 2791 men, including two battalions of infantry, a machine-gun battaiion and * battery of artillery, eailed this evening for Libya, while three battalions de» parted to East Africa. These troops' movements recall that Italy aeted in a similar manner following the .dispatch of the British Fleet to the Mediterranean during tfie Abyfr> sinian crisis. Although there is at present no official confirmation of the statement, the troops going to Libya are "engaged on Mediterranean defence work."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 209, 20 September 1937, Page 5
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