Rome, Oct. 10.
Signor Benito Mussolini was today mobilizing an army of conscripts to meet possible Anglo-Trench reprisals, Officials said that the classes of 1907, 1908 and 1909 had been called to stand by in readiness for "eventual action anywhere." Diplomats believed the conscripts would be sent to Spain if France opens the frontier as she has threatened to do.—United Press, sequently the territorial integrity, of Spain on its mainland, islands and colonies.
Italy fully shares the hope, the document proceeds, that the internal struggles in Spain will cease to be a cause of friction and suspicion between other nations the situation will evolve a manner that in other fields also progress may be realized towards a general detente, They are ready, with the utmost goodwill, to examine all means to render non-intervention effective.
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