Istanbul, Sept, 23.
A report that Italy is withdrawing her surplus troops {ror the Dodecanese islands, in the A&gean sea, has produced a favourable impression in the Turkish capital. Although the report is still unconfirmed, Turkish sources believe that Signor Mussolini is continuing his plan to neutralize the Balkans in the eastern Mediterranean. Under the plan, Italy recently withdrew her troops from the Albanian-Greek frontier.
Turkey had considered the presence of Italian forces in the Dodecanese islands, in the immediate proximity of the Turkish aegean coast, as a continual Jmorning. In isolated spots, artillery attacks were "undertaken "by both The communique admitted that a JGerman submarine was sunk by an
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