The Archive · 1939

Insurrection in Libya

Paris, Apr. 13.

An insurrection has broken out in Libya as a result of the Moslem indignation at Italy's action in Albania, the Cairo correspondent of "Lo Petit Parisien" reported today. ing to a French press message.

Rumours of a revolt at Senussi, on the Sahara frontier, have spread through Tripoli in spite of official precautions and have aroused an undercurrent of hostility towards the Italian Government.

The -travellers also- state that a decree granting partial- Italian nationality to all Tripoli Moslems who ask for it, has not met vith the expected success as only a few officials have applied for it—Reuter. would suffer somewhat from such action, but he declared it would be worth while for the soke of defending larger American interests and principles.

He said he did not believe such a step would provoke war between the United States and Japan. "If Japan gets away with her present acts of Banditry,". he said, "there will be.a greater certainty of war later because then certainly the Philippines (Consinuied on page 8)

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