Rome, Apr. 15.
"The war which has fallen upon Norway might fall upon us, but if he bugles sound we shall be the ones to sound them," declared Signor Ansaldo, director of the newspaper "Telegrafo," which is owned by the Foreign Minister, Count Ciano in a broadcast last night to the armed forces of Italy.
Italy, he added, "is preparing for (he moment {which will be most opportune. Such an occasion, which a month ago might have been very remote, may now be nearer than you think, AN who believe that italy can draw into her shell and seek nothing but to make a little money, are in error. Such a pro-,|gramme could not be carried out by a little country like Norway, so how could it succeed in our case who have common frontiers with the belligerents and Mediterranean interests.—Reuter.
London, Apr. 15.
Signor Benito Mussolini has concentrated the Italian Fleet at the Dodecanese Islands at. the entrance of the Dardanelles, Balkan diplomat-ie quarters reported last night. The new Italian naval move was regarded here as part of the Rome-Berlin Axis rately believed to have been agreed upon last month during the meeting between Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini at Brenner Pass. Simultaneously, Signor Mussolini was reported preparing to call up 1.250,000 TiaKan reservists fu an effort to cripple the Allied-Turkish mutual aid pact—United Press.
Stockholm, Apr. 15.
Swedish and Finnish volunteers were thrown into the Norwegian front lines today to halt a drive of German Inrotorized forces which, the Norwegian High Command admitted, broke through an iron ring of resistance encircling Oslo. The Norwegian High Command communique said the Germans had advanced so rapidly that they had crossed the Glommen River, capture Eidsvoll and reached the Skager Rak coast on both sides of the Oslo Fjord.
Big German transport planes, after ferrying Nazi reinforcements across the Skager Rak from Denmark, were reported to be transporting reinforcements from Oslo to new fronts.
The Norwegian Army and Navy Command reported that near Honefors Norwegian troops were forced to withdraw after fierce fighting, the Swedish radio announced today.—United Press.
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