Rome, June 17.
A plain hint that some circles in Italy might regard Japan's blockade of the Tientsin Concessions as an infringement of European treaty rights in China, and the thin end of the wedge for their expulsion from eastern Asia, is given by Signor Virginia Gayda, mouthpiece o! Signor Mussolini, in an article in the "Giornale d'Itali:
"If the general problem of the European position in China should arise," he says, "Italy will be present on a footing of equal rights with all other great Powers.
"That principle has been stated by the Italian Consul-General in Shanghai, where the Japanese authorities "have proposed a review of the regime of this Settlement of 50 years" standing with a view to bringing it into step with the new conditions created."—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.