A salvo of four bombs is seen exploding in the sea well eastern of a British destroyer during a recent German air attack om ships of the Royal Navy. The Germans' extravagant claims to have sunk countless ships of the British Navy, including battleships and battle cruisers, have been proved to be false. British losses at sea have been very small and the British Navy still rules the waves. may be taken then. Perhaps the meetings may only confirm a declsion already taken by Premier Mussolini, some observers believed.
Regardless of the time or method of the final decision, observers generally believed that Italy's entry into the war would not be by formal declaration of war, but by u sudden Italian blow at the Allied life lines in the Mediterranean.
The Italian press yesterday gave prominence to despatches implying that Spain and possibly Rumania were preparing to cast their lot with the Rome-Berlin Axis—United Press.
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