AS ALLIES

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 426, 6 May 1937, Page 3

AS ALLIES

GERMANY AND ITALY Rumoured Talks For Mlitary Treaty Rome, April 28. A military alliance between Ger- j many and Italy is being discussed I quite seriously in Rome. Persistent i reports are current that the Gorman j War Minister, Marshal von Blomberg, | is coming to Rome to open. General < Staff talks with MarsLpl Badoglio / and Signor Mussolini. There have been repeated assertions i in diplomatic quarters that the Fascist bloc of nations intends to st-ren-I “then itself with a hard and fast military alliance. Mussolini’s coming visit to Hitler, probably in June, is believed to aim at framing such an alliance between Italy, Germany and- Yugoslavia, and possibly Austria and Rumania. Germany’s Air Minister, General Goering, who has been at Capri, will meet Mussolini. Their talk is expected to explore 'this possibility. ;il Duce will ajteo inform General Goering how, during his recent con- . ference at Venice with Dr. SchuschI nigg, he thwarted an attempt, by i France to debach Austria from the Fascist camp. | Allied for military purposes, Germany and Italy could each put into the field, at present strengths, 1,000,000 men, and 3000 to 4000 aeroplanes. At sea their combined fleets would make a toipl of 11 capital ships, 23 cruisers, 50 destroyers, and 100 submarines. Divided by 1600 miles of ocean and 30 miles of land, they could scarcely j conduct a major war in conc?fX . against a group of Powers. If France alone were 'their victim I the case would be different.