Rome, Oct. 19.
Considerable uneasiness has been caused here in the press by. the Feport, of a change of ownership of the "'Yogostavian. "dockyards "at Spalato which are stated to: have been" transferred. to. management by" the "Eveneh shipyards Dela Tire at Nantes. 'The' paper press "rave apprehensions that Thier French "nonagement and With" the help of French copie {al the shipyards will. soon be developed as an. important. naval base or the French feet and, ixion, wall build war especially submarines.
This, the press asserts, would constitute a direct and indirect threat to Ttaly's position in the Adriatic, being in line with France's after-war policy of creating a system of political and military alliances" encircling Germany well og Italy and, in particular, of strengthening the military power and armaments industry' of her Allies, the control of the Skoda works! in -Caechoslovakia by the firm of Schneider-Crenzot being now followed up by the purchase the Yusoslay dockyards Spalato—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
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