Rome, May 15.
Il Duce knows that his orders will be obeyed in all circumstances," declared Signor Host Venturi, Minister of Communications, speaking in the Senate today. Italy, he added, would not, in the days to come, be taken by surprise, whatever might be the events, certainly glorious, that the country rallied round Il Duce might nave to face.
Signor Venturi referred to the "intolerable conditions" which, he said, were imposed on Italian seaborne traffic, and declared that in the present war, contrary to the war in 1914- 18, vessels were even stopped in the territorial waters of non-belligerent nations, thus not only holding up supplies for the enemy but also limiting or holding up supplies for non-belligerents,
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