SABRE-RATTLING

Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1926, Page 2

SABRE-RATTLING

GERMANY AND ITALY. AN EXTRAORDINARY SENSATION [Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] ROME, Feb. 8. Signor Mussolini’s speech -aroused an extraordinary sensation in the Chamber of Deputies. .Jumping to their feet, the Deputies began shouting “Viva L’ltalia.” The Italian newspapers have called on the Government to promptly organise for the defence of Italian trade as a counter-offensive to a possible German boycott against Italy, beginning with a survey of those national products, which are able to replace German imports. GERMANY AMAZED. BERLIN. Feb. 8. Signor Mussolini, the Italian Prime Minister’s fill- 1 ire-rattling speech 'has filled Germany with amazement. The. paper “Lokal Anzeiger” says: “His tori; is as incomproheusive as it is unjustifiable.” Some newspapers are trying to pour oil on the troubled waters. They give prominence to conciliatory passages in Signor Mussolini’s speech. Other papers point out that Tvroles« grievances are not a German matter, hut are all Austrian affair. Yet another class of the Italian Premier’s critics consider that Signor Mussolini’s speech furnishes a reason why Germany should reconsider her application to enter the League of Nations, which Dr Strescniaim is likely to sign and to forward to Geneva on Monday afternoon. Official circles profess that they prefer to await the full text of Signor Mussolini’s speech before the German Government replies to the so-called insults to Germany.

FRANCE’S FEARS. LONDON. Feb. 8. The “Daily Express’s’’ Paris correspondent says: Signor Mussolini’s recent statement that 1926 is going to he a Napoleonic year for Fascism has caused a serious discussion in the French newspapers. The newspapers ask if it portends the seizure of a French colony, such ns Tunis, or Syria. It is even suggested now in Paris that Britain has come to ail arrangement with Italy.