London, Sept. 13.
The rapid conclusion of the Nyon anti-piracy agreement is welcomed with unreserved satisfaction by the press here. The papers likewise manifest great satisfaction at the report that Italy will take part in the patrol service in the Mediterranean conformably with the suggestions contained in the protocol. Regret is nevertheless expressed that Italy did not attend the conference.
The "Daily Telegraph" stresses that Soviet Russia has been excluded from the control in the Mediterranean and that in general the neutrality in the Spanish conflict has been pre-Served so that neither Germany nor Italy can object to the agreement. The paper goes on to say that if those two powers should ce-operate in practice in carrying out the agreement, an important step will have been taken towards the decreasing of the tension in Europe.
The "Daily Telegraph" proceeds to point out that the only power which has so far expressed dissatisfaction with the agreement reached at Nyon is Soviet Russia. This, however, according to the paper, is of no practical importance since from the beginning Soviet Russia had no interest in the conference except as affording her means of sowing seeds of dissension—Trans-Ocean,
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