Rome Mar. 25.
Italy will probably decline to participate in America's proposal, authoritative quarters said here to-day.
Despite the prevailing sentiment here about the plan, Signor Benito Mussolini is expected to consult Berlin before answering the American Government. The consultation was believed necessary in view of the Italo-German alliance.
Refusing to make general observations on the plan, Count Galeazzo Cicno, Italian Foreign Minister, said it would be necessary to refer the American note to Signor Mussolini, it was learned here—United Press.
Taotsing Railway, west of the Peiping-Hankow Railway a Japanese troop tr scoring direct hits, The pilots reported that thes train go up in flames.
A third squadron pf Chinese aeroplanes, the announcement continued, bombed Japanese troops concentrations at Fengchin, on the north bank of the Yellow River, opposite Kaifeng, "inflicting heavy casualties on Japanese troops attempting to cross the River at that point, in order to cut the Lunghai Railway between Hsuchowfu and Chengchow."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.