TENSION INCREASES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 135, 8 May 1940, Page 8

TENSION INCREASES

ITALY AND YUGOSLAVIA. TWO FRONTIER EPISODES. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, .May 6. Tlie Ljubljana (Yugoslavia) correspondent of the Associated Press, says the revelation of two frontier incidents has heightened Italiau-Yugoslav tension. One Italian soldier was killed and three seriously wounded last week when a patrol attempted to disarm a Yugoslav sergeant in Yugoslavia. The sergeant resisted and threw a grenade. The second incident also occurred last week. A Yugoslav anti-aircraft gun brought down an Italian ’plane near Fiume. A Bucharest message says that the Russian oiltanker Sakhalin is unloading 8500 tons of fuel oil at Constanza for carriage by rail to Germany. Genoa reports that the builders have handed over Italy’s new 55,000 ton battleship, the Littorio. Reports from Yugoslavia suggesting that Italy is reinforcing troop concentrations on the Yugoslav frontier gained weight when authoritative quarters in Rome, according to the Associated Press, admitted that Italy was taking precautions “because of British and French intrigues.”