The Archive · 1939

Violent Reaction Feared

Rome, Apr. 3.

The "Revere" accused Britain of wishing to encircle the Axis Powers. especially Italy, who would be threatened by the inclusion of Yugoslavia and Greece in the proposed British system.

A map of the Balkan region was published, with Albania pronfinently figured in the centre together with the Otrente Canal. It was indicated that Italy would react violently against any policy of encirclement.

The newspaper recalled that when Fascism was still young, Signor Benito Mussolini sent a warship to Durazzo, capital of Albania "and thus cut short British and French attempts to influence Albania against Italy."—Haveas,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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