EYES ON YUGOSLAVIA

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 133, 6 May 1940, Page 8

EYES ON YUGOSLAVIA

POSSIBLE ITALIAN MOVE. BELLIGERENT TONE PERSISTS. (United Press Association- —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON. May 3. Yugoslavia is the centre of speculation as the possible touchstone for any action in the Mediterranean. Italy has already protested ‘ against Yugoslavia’s recent defence 1 measures,’ but Belgrade officials • point out that they are due to tile arrival of Italian workmen on the Albanian frontier, who are •generally believed to Le troops. Yugoslavian officials and Italiau and German diplomatic circles to-night declared that nothing had happened to alter the character of Yugoslavia’s nonaggression treaties with Italy and Germany. The tone of the Italian Press is harsh and belligerent. The newspapers publish news of the movement of the .Allied fleets, but give first place to the cruel • defeats in Norway, which is the first hard blow to proud Albion.” The Lovora Eascista says the myth that Britain is an invincible Naval Power has gone. It hardly seems timely to attempt to intimidate Italy. Several British merchantmen are reported to have left Italian ports, but Italian ships continue to operate to schedule. The Italian air line, has suspended the Italb-Abyssinian service via Egypt and Libya. Six Italian bombers bound for Abyssinia landed at the Cairo airport to-day. The Daily Mail’s Belgrade correspondent says the Italian Legation is reported to be removing documents to Rome and destroying others. The police have arrested 250 Germans. The British Air Ministry, announces the appointment of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur M. Longmore to succeed Air Chief Marshal Sir William G. S. Mitchell as Air Officer Commander-in-Chief the Royal Air Force in the Middle East, as from May 20. Sir Arthur Longmore,' who was born in New South Wales in 1885., visited Australia and New Zealand in 1939 as a member of the British Air Mission. British Official Wireless.