Rome, June 28.
Speculation is rife following an announcement that Signor Mussolint received Marshal Badoglio, Chief of the General Staff, yesterday for "communications of a military character." The Duce, the statement adds, afterwards received General Pariani, Under-Secretary of State for War.
Signor Mussolini, it was pointed out, frequently consulls his military' advisers, but such conferences are not always officially broadcast to the world.
Reports that' special searchlights were played on Signor Mussolint's nce on the outskirts of Rome in view of the reported threats by' the Spanish Republican Government to bomb Italian cities as a reprisal, were yesterday officially declared to be "unfounded."—Reuter.
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