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London. Jan. 9.
Reports that soldiers helenaing to the Sth Alpini resiment stationed at Merona, South Tyrol, had mutinied yesterday. are given prominence In ioday's Innsbruck newspapers do-spite emphatic denials from Rome.
According to other reports received in Tnsbruck, large numbers of Tyrolean conscripts have deserted from the Army. and crossed the frontier into. Bavaria, Paris, Jan. 7, The French owners of the ill-fated 42,000-ton luxury liner Atlantique, which was destroyed by fire during her trial trip exactly three years ago, will shortly be pad the sum of Fr. 170,600,000, plus interest at six per cent.
The appeal of the British underwriters against the decision of the, lower courts ordering them to pay this amount was recently dismissed by the Court of Cassation and. judment has now become legally bind Yugoslavia, These reports are also denied by official circles in Rome, which state that the frontiers are closely guarded and that the mountains have been rendered impassable except for expert mountaineers owing to thick:
Since the court dismissed the possibility of repairing the vessel on the ground that it would be unsafe after repair, the company will use the money io replace the lost liner by a new vessel of the same tonnage.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min. snow.
Messages from Belarade. however. atnte It ts understand that 2.000 Talien military. refueos are distelbuted in barracks in Yuroslavia, and that the authorities are considering establishing concentration camps Puzla and Bosnia, Tt Is also reported from Belgrade'that an Ttalian woman was arrested In Marihor recently on charge of spying on Italian deserters, and that about 120 Italian officers have been interned ut Risteitsa.
Questioned concerning the reported desertions, the spokesman of the Foreign OMce in Berlin to-day declared that competent German authorities had no knowledge of any large influx of Tyrolean deserters nto Germany.—Reuter.
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