Rome, June 4.
Italy, whose entry into the war was believed by many neutral observers here to be a matter of days or even hours, has flatly refused to hold any negotiations with Great Britain and France for the settlement of her colonial claims, according to a London broadcast' at noon yesterday which was picked up here.
According to the broadcast, Italy categorically rejected a proposal made by the British and French Governments to settle through diplomatic Channels the former's demands for the return to Italy of Corsica, Tunis and British and French Somaliland—Domei,
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