Awaiting London's reaction to today's announcement, Italian newspapers print the communique without any comment or effort to link it up in any way with the recent talks between Lord Perth and Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister.
There is a general feeling, however, that today's development sounds the beginning of Sig. Mussolini's complete liquidation of his Spanish tommittments which cost the lives of approximately 10,000 volunteers and billions of lire. Fascists feel that they won a partial victory because they are now confident the menace of Bolshevism in Spain has been eliminated As a result of recent developments, Italian newspapers have been printing less news about Spain. In particular, it is noted that special correspondents in Spain for several weeks have not mentioned the part played by Fascist volunteers in the different military activities Today's "La Tribuna" does mention, however, that aviation units based on the Balearics bombed Valencia port, destroying gasoline deposits. The despatch does not state whether Italians piloted the planes, but in foreign military circles here there is a belief that Italian pilots are also being recalled from Spain and are being replaced by Spanish aviators which the Italians have trained—United Press, Further Withdrawals May Be Asked London, Oct. 8.
Great Britain, while welcoming a partial withdrawal of Italian troops from Spain, is prepared to demand further Italian withdrawals as a prerequisite for a stabilization of European peace, it was learned today.
Informed sources branded as premature reports from Rome that Anglo-Italian differences had been settled and that the friendship pact would soon go into effect.
Some sources viewed the Italian withdrawal as an attempt by Premier Benito Mussolini to force Britain's hand. However, it is felt that I
Duce is eager to come to terms with Britain to counteract Herr Adolf Hitler's triumph over Czechoslovakia.
—United Press.
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