Rome, Oct. 19.
Italy has received an invitation from the Belgian Government to attend the Nine-Power Conference. An answer will be probably sent in a few days.
Authoritative circles indicate that Italy may accept, because the invitation has come from Brussels and not from the League of Nations. Officials had previously been cool because they thought it would be held in Geneva.
So far six nations have agreed to attend the conference which will endeavour to find a peaceful solution to the Sino-Japanese dispute. These are the United States, France, Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand and China.—Reuter,
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