Reinforcements Due Here in Seventeen Days Rome, Aug. 24.
The Italian Government will send further reinforcements to China, says the "Sera"
The warship Lepanto arrived on Sunday with a battalion of marines on board and the first battalion of the grenadier regiment "Savoia," at Addis Ababa, has been ordered to Massawa where it will be shipped to Shanghai. The regiment is due to arrive there in seventeen days and will be employed in affording protection to Italian nationals in Shang-
Serious Attention London, Aug. 25.
The extent of the loss of life and property in Shanghai, continues the correspondent, has aroused serious attention on the part of the Italian Government and Italian business men.
While great sympathy was felt with Japan when she joined Germany in the anti-Bolshevik pact, he adds, the Japanese campaign against China "has come as a painful surprise. It is feared," the correspondent concludes, "that Japan will find her Chinese adventure a tremendous strain and that Soviet Russia will stow relatively stronger."—Reuter.
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