The Archive · 1938

FEAST OF EPIPHANY CELEBRATED

King Offers Gifts of Gold, Frankincense, Myrrh London, Jan. 6.

Representatives of the King, at a service this morning to celebrate the feast of Epiphany. offered on behalf of his Majesty, gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, The ceremony, which goes back for several centuries, took place at the Chapel Royal of St. James's Palace.

"Unnamed Power" Reveals All to Great Britain London, Jan. 6.

Italy to-day was preparing for large scale movements of troops and war materials, the British Governments was understood to have been informed in 2 document presented by an unnamed foreign Power. The nation of the Italian troops and war equipment was not learned, but s presumed to be Spain where would join the Spanish Nationalists in an attempt to bring the Spanish civil war to a hasty vonclusion.

The document presented to British authorities, it was understood, reported that Signor Benito Mussolini had ordered that Italian shippers hold 91,000 tons of shipping space at the disposal of the Government for the transportation of troops pud equipment Sixteen transport ships, originally destined to go to Japan under terms of the liquidation of the Chinese Eastern Railw ill instead be diverted to the document alleged. The transports were built in Japan and intended for delivery to Russia. Italy withholding 1

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