ROME ON GUARD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1938, Page 8

ROME ON GUARD

AGAINST POSSIBLE AIR ATTACKS POSSIBILITY OF SPANISH REPRISALS. SEARCHLIGHTS OVER DUCE'S HOME. (Recd This Day, 1.35 p.m.) LONDON, June 26. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Rome correspondent says that although the public are calm and it is generally believed that Barcelona was bluffing when Senor Deazcarate declared that unless air attacks on Spanish cities ceased targets might be sought farther afield than Burgos and Salamanca, there is ample proof that Signor Mussolini has taken precautions against the possibility of an air attack on Rome and other centres, including an attempt to bomb the Villa Torlornia, the Duce’s home in Rome. Accordingly, for the first time since the Mediterranean crisis due to the Abyssinian war, the beams of a dozen searchlights converged- over Mussolini’s house last night. Sentries have been posted to sound the alarm with sirens installed throughout Rome. ATTACKS ON SHIPS i DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY. FRANCO’S REPORTED ORDER TO AIRMEN. (Recd This Day, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 26. The “Daily Mail” says British Government circles state that owing to diplomatic activity’ in London, Paris and Rome, in which Signor Mussolini has co-operated, General Franco is ordering his airmen not further to molest British ships. ———