Rome, June 5.
'ALY today continued to prepare for war at top speed by massing resources, men and machines to enforce its "natural aspirations" after taking one of the final steps in the modern scheme of surprise warfare—the banning of telephone communications with Britain and France.
With mobilization underway in Italian African colonies, the Italian press today opened a campaign accusing the Allies and Turkey of attempting to intimidate Greece.
The "Messaggero's" Athens correspondent reported that Greece had rejected Turkey's "urgent request" for permission to occupy Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, particularly in the neighbourhood of Turkey, to prevent Italy from gaining the islands to use as bases to attack Turkey and to guarantee to the Allies the integrity of Greece, ish fighter patrol. Craft such
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