Count Ciano revealed that Italy had informed "her friends, Japan, Yugoslavia, Poland, Albania and National Spain that should Italy consider herself attacked, she would take sides with her German ally."
He gave details of Italian mobilization last September, when 300,000 men had been called to the colours and the country's total military effectives had been raised from 250,000 to Paris, Nov. 30.
It-Col. Louis Yvon, officer of the Colonial Infantry arid "Breveté de l'Ecole de Guerre." was appointed today the new French Military Attache in China. He will take the place of the late Lt.-Col. Charles Rousselle, who died in Hankow on September 8.—Havas.
550,000. The naval and air forces of the nation were also ready for action. There were four air squadrons standing by while the navy included 22 battleships or cruisers, 114 destroyers and numerous other vessels.
September 29 had been the date set for a meeting at Munch between Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, himself, and the heads of the German and Italian Danger of Returning Colonies to Germany Stressed Lord Bailey Knows of Only Two Reasons for Doing So; Herr Hitler Said to Be Bluffing London, Dec. 1.
The possibility that Germany was bluffing over the colonies question was mentioned by Lord Bailey, former Governor of the United Provinces and Director of the African Research Survey, in 1935, in an address yesterday to the English Speaking Union, Lord Bailey said that it had been affirmed that the German colonial propaganda was designed to create an artificial asset, which Herr Hitler would offer to abandon in return for Lord Bailey continued, would lead to a real danger, in bringing back to Africa, a Power with imperialistic ičeas of expansion.
There was also a serious possibility that the return of the colonies might lead to the break-up of the British The only two reasons which would justify their return, Lord Bailey concluded, would be, firstly, the certainty that it. would avoid war, on which Great Britain's resources, at the time, a free hand in eastern Europe.
It would be dangerous, he declared to "direct our policy on this theory."
The return of colonies to Germany, would not permit her to enter, and, secondly, that their return would make a radical change in securing peaceful relations in Europe,—Reuter.
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