Rome, May 84 1 Benito Mussolini is expected to make an important Empress of Australia, May 8. Speech when he visits Turin next Sunday. His trip to Turin The Empress of Australia is now running through a rainstorm, with a moderate sea running causing situation, Italy's decision to sign a military alliance pact with mes because of the tense European certain amount of pitching. Their y today hastened the imminent possibility of a triple Majesties are good sailors, and the 1 between Tokyo, Berlin and Rome, informed Italian weather has not prevented them from following their normal routine qt ers said. If Russia should answer the announcement of the aboard ship. Even in mid-Atlantic, italo-German military. alliance by resuming negotiations with our passage aroused enthusiasm, re-London and Paris for a triple alliance, they said that Rome and ports Reuters Special Correspondent. Berlin would accept Tokyo's offers for an anti-Comintern military We passed 12 trawlers today, which were rolling like porpoises. They all hurried towards us, giving sharp apanese quarters here admitted Tokyo has already approached blasts on their sirens in salute to Rome and Berlin regarding the military implementation to the Their Majesties. anti-Comintern pact, but confessed nothing has been concluded so Last night, Their Majesties again dined with members of their suite. far, Obseryers believe this because of Germany's desire to see They also listened to the ship's or-whether Russia will observe an isolationist attitude toward Eurochestra, which played, among: other compositions, Strauss' famed waltz, the "Blue Danube," and selections "Meanwhile, reports from Paris that from Walt Disney's cartoon "Snow the Italo-German alliance pact con-White," and from "The Desert Song." tained gri "escape clause" regarding During the early morning, we ran Poland were discounted here. into a heavy mist, which slackened Count Galeazzo Ciano the Italian our speed for a time. Our siren joined Foreign Minister, received the foreign with those of the escorting cruisers press after Iunching with the German in a lugubrious chorus. The mist Foreign Minister, Herr Jogchim von lifted considerably, however, at 8 Ribbentrop, and announced that it had am., and we are now proceeding been decided to strengthen the normally under a rainy, grey sky. Rome-Berlin Axis. Asked whether this meant that the Anti-Comintern 'Their Majesties' Active Morning Pact between Italy and Germany had been converted into a military alli-While the ship ploughed thro" a moderate swell yesterday, with a ance, Count Ciano replied: "Not and exactly, but something very much stiff breeze blowing, the King and along these lines" Observers noted Queen had an active' morning. the difference between the Italian Accompanied by the whole royal interpretation of the new pact and suite, they attended divine service and afterwards, with the whole royal the official statement issued in Berlin where the new agreement was de-party, took part in a boat drill. They After Japanese Bombed Nanchang Aerodrome finitely called "a regular military spent the afternoon quietly reading The wreckage of the Chinese aerodrome at Nanchang, one of China's strongest air bases, is seen and resting. alliance."
The divine service was conducted in this picture taken after the capture of Nanchang. Many Chinese planes and much equip-'Announcement of the new Italoment are reported to have been destroyed in the systematic bombing of this point. German agreement was made in the by Captain A. R. Meikle, the hymns were selected by the Queen and the m strengthen following brief communique: Pact, but he declined to "During conversations between prayers included one used by the question whether it will Count Ciano and Herr von Ribbentrop King's Navy.
Punctually, at noon, the ship's in Milan on May 6 and 7, the present political situation was taken under sirens gave the signal "boat Stations." very close examination and the per-The King and Queen and the whole
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