Belgrade, Jan, 22.
Yugoslavia and Italy decided today to intensify reciprocal trade relations since their "economic structures are complementary," a communique issu. ed after discussions between the Yugoslav Premier, Dr. Milan Stay adinovitch, and Count Galea:
Life-Belts Not Strapped On Ciano, visiting Italian Foreign Minister, revealed this evening.
"Arriving at the true position last given by the Cavalier," he reported, we heard voices calling east of us. We stopped and put over a life boat which was soon overturned by the high seas. We put over another life boat immediately and picked up the ten survivors who were clinging desperately to their life belts, which they had not had time to strap round themselves.
The passengers said the Cavalier sank about ten minutes after making the forced landing. Everyone in the plane appears to have grabbed life-belts before jumping into the water while the radio operator was sending the final, one-word message from the doomed plane: 'Sinking.' Two passengers and the steward were too weak to hang on to their life belts and sank before we arrived."
The life belts in the Cavalier were hung on each seat and clearly marked with instructions as to how to don them quickly. The plane was believed to have hit the water with such force, because of the high landing speed a plane of its weight must have, that the passengers and crew were ordered to abandon the ship immediately after Captain Anderson realized the Cavalier had been fatally damaged.—United Press.
This official despatch also registered both statesmen's agreement upon the "perfect functioning of the Italo-Yugoslavian Pact of 1937, which is one of the fundamentals the policies of the two countries, The Italian Foreign Minister left Belgrade at midnight today. He was seen off by several high personalities, both Yugoslav and Italian. Before leaving, he was entertained at dinner, following which he was decorated with the Grand Cordon of the Order of the White Eagle.
Belgrade's refusal to effect a rap-brochement with Hungary before consulting Rumania was seen in one paragraph of the communique.
"Italy" it added, "is animated by the constructive spirit of the Rome-Berlin axis in these efforts aiming at collaboration."—Havas.
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