It is" understood that the Italian Government's view that the Franco Talian Agreement of 1935. is no Jonger valid has been confirmed to the French Government in writing.
It Is suggested that the Italian object behind this move is to induce France to produce fresh proposals for fulfilling a clause in the London, Treaty of 1918, whereby Italy was to receive colonial compensation for her part in the Great War.
The. Agreement of 1935 dealt principally with the status of the Malians in Tunis, the French cession of the Tibesti region of the Sahara, the cession of the Red Sea Island of Doumeira, with a strip of the nelghbouring coast, and of a number of, shares in the Djibouti railway, The ceded territories, it. is learned, already marked on italian maps as though the frontiers have not, hitherto, been demarcated.
The Italians generally. it is gathered, hope that Great Britain will use her good offices to prevent France from rejecting the Italian view out of hand, without giving it the consideration necessary if Franco-Italian relations are to be smoothed out, and peace is to be consolidated in the Mediterranean, and in the Red Sea, Reuter.
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