Rome, Oct. 26.
Tha Fascist Grand Council, after a meeting lasting over four hours, Signor Mussolini and all members declaring:;—2 being present, issued a communique
"The Council, on the occasion of the military victories achieved by the armed forces of Japan at Canton and Hankow, sends a message of goodwill to Japan, a nation to which the Italian people feels itself bound by a profound and unreserved ideological, spiritual and political solidarity, which found expression in the Italo-German-Japanese Pact—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.