MONEY FOR WAR.
ITALIAN PREPARATIONS. Received June 5, 1.10 p.m. ROME, June 4. The Cabinet has voted an undisclosed sum for the construction of a new warship and extended the war preparations to the African Empire. A London message says the British United Press Rome correspondent says telephone communication between Italy and France has been suspended. A Washington message says that the President’s secretary (Mr S. Early) said Mr Roosevelt was continuing “correspondence” with Signor Mussolini, vbut he declined to discuss its nature. He refused to answer a question whether he believed Mr Roosevelt’s messages have deterred Italy’s entrance into the war.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 158, 5 June 1940, Page 7
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