ITALIAN OVERTURE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1939, Page 6

ITALIAN OVERTURE

MUSSOLINI’S TRUCE PROPOSAL REJECTED BY BRITAIN. FOLLOWING ON GERMAN ACCEPTANCE. (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) BERLIN, September 4. The “Hamburger Fremdenblatt” says Signor Mussolini’s proposals were: — First, immediate cessation of hostilL ties, the respective troops in Poland to maintain their positions; secondly, the summoning immediately of a FivePower Conference. Germany accepted and France agreed in principle, but Britain torpedoed the proposal at the twelfth hour. DANISH COMMENT LACK OF WAR ENTHUSIASM & HATE. (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, September 4. The Danish Press points out that Signor Mussolini’s compromise naturally was unacceptable to England and France. The “Politiken,” drawing attention to the general lack of war enthusiasm and hate, says something unreal hangs over it all. EFFORT ABANDONED ITALIAN OFFICIAL NOTE. (Received This Day, 1.50 p.m.) ROME, September 4. An official Note reviewing the Italian peace efforts after Britain and France had made a German withdrawal from Poland a prerequisite of a conference outlines the various contacts Signor Mussolini made with the Go? vernments concerned and adds that after Britain and France made the evacuation of the occupied territories a fundamental condition of their participation in an international conference, the Italian Government limited itself to advising Herr Hitler of this condition, adding that unless the German Government decided differently, Italy did not think it possible to continue her activities. SUPPORT FOR BRITAIN ALL EGYPTIAN PARTIES. (Received This Day. 11.15 a.m.) CAIRO, September 4. All the political parties, including the powerful Wafdists, have unanimously determined to stand by their ally Britain to lhe utmost. They state that the Arab world “is solid with Britain.” U.S.A. NEUTRALITY PROCLAMATIONS TODAY. EMBARGO ON SHIPMENTS OF ARMS. (Received This Pay, 11.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 4. The Roosevelt Cabinet have decided to issue two neutrality proclamations tomorrow, the first, as required under international law, and the second invoking the Neutrality Act, thus placing an embargo on arms shipments to belligerents and preventing the delivery of pianos ordered by Britain and Franco. President Roosevelt's secretary said Cabinet did not discuss calling Congress to repeal the Act.