As present circumstances threaten completely to obliterate this cemetery, which still finds brief and appreciative reference in the annual. report of the Public Health Department, this action is very timely and it also finds a historic association with the present British "garrison in Shanghai.
Some of the inscriptions refer to "His Britannic Majesty's Regiments" and one of them is the 3ist Foot, which was the former designation of the Ist Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment, the second battalion of which is now in Shanghai in command of Col, E. L. L. Acton, The 3ist Italy Seeks Way to Justify Claims Fascists in Tunis Now Said to Be "Prepared"; Djibouti Demands Made Rome, Dec. 13a While all newspapers today feature articles seeking to justify the Italian claims against France, "La Tribuna" publishes a report from Tunis that Italian residents there are putting themselves in a' state of legitimate defence.
The newspaper adds no details, beyond stating that the steps taken have been "in accordance with Fascist conception; that is to say, the Italians are perfectly prepared for a counter-offensive.
The same journal yesterday, in an editorial, issued a warning that Italy was determined to press her claims for Tunis.
Italy, "La Tribuna" declared, would not resign herself to considering the question closed until it was resolved in conformity with justice and a fect harmony with the pete 4 of new European solidarity.
Djibouti "Neutralization"
Signor Virginia Gayda sets: out in the "Giornale d'Italia" arguments for a free zone in the port of Djibouti and the cession of shares formerly belonging to Abyssinia in the Djibouti Railway He speaks of Djibouti as having always been the "living centre of a Foot was one of the British regiments brought from Tientsin to Shanghai in 1862 to assist in operations against the Taiping rebels, who had made their reappearance outside the city after some years of comparative quiet and threatened to capture Shanghai
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