Show Europe War Threat Seen x xIn In Italian Anglo-Italian Friction PARIS Nov 28 Premier UP Premier Pierre Laval warned Italy any act of war by her such as an attack on a British British Brit Brit- ish warship would mean not only war against Britain but hut against Jhc entire league including France it was vas learned toda today By United Press LONDON Nov 28 28 War War clouds hung heavy over Europe today as tension between England and Italy b became came increasingly increasingly increasingly grave Anxiety reminiscent ent of the summer of 1914 was evident in ip all capitals as a result of Mussolini's defiant measures to discourage Britain and the other members of the League pf of Nations from shutting off Italy's supplies of oi oil cotton and I metals vital metals vital necessities for her war var with Ethiopia tf assurance to the United United I i States State that the league general genera staff of oC 18 would meet December 5 to extend Italian anti sanctions to toan toan toan an oil embargo revived tension that had more or less been dormant for or about three weeks Some 0 observers b s e r vcr s outspokenly claimed a war between the two countries hinged on the application of th the oil embargo They pointed out that Italy Is entirely dependent on the outside world for petroleum and without it Mussolini would have to his East African campaign Utmost significance was attached ed to Romes Rome's move In cancel canceling ng furloughs furloughs fur fur- laughs of oC troops and to Italian Italian Ital- Ital ian an troop movements undertaken according to Mussolini's official spokesman in view of oC the uncertainty uncertainty created by reports on the possibility of extension of sanctI sanc- sanc tI ions OJ s. s Europe interpreted this statement statement statement state state- ment as meaning that 11 II duce was not riot bluffing when he said an oil embargo would be regarded as a hostile act cause act cause for war Assured of oC American lon in an oil oll embargo because of ot the United States governments government's warning to petroleum exporters to refrain from business with belligerents England it was said reliably toda today oday is adamant in her determination tion ion to extend sanctions Meanwhile a further threat to Italian Anglo-Italian relations was seen in reports from Ethiopia of oC the tho possIbility possibility of an Italian invasion of ot the region around Lake Tana spear Tana-spear- spear spear- head of Britain's vast irrigation projects in the Nile valley alley I |