Show Claim Tanks Drive Within 25 Miles of oF- of Paris Where Duces Duce's Fighting Words Mean More Bloodshed MULHOUSE Iti l U E L F O RT a rte 4 la BRUGG BASEL DIJON BESANCON I c- c 9 PONTARLIER SWITZERLAND 1 LAUSANNE VJ NICE r bra ARLES I CANNES I i i I I F i T 1 TOULON CORSICA M c d r 1 c I- I Ir r ri rr e a or S Sed e d 0 SO MAIN RAILROADS MILES UP CLOSE-UP OF MOUNTAINOUS SWISS ITALIAN FRONTIER France battling nazis in north now must tackle fascists in in so south th Duce pace Strikes to Get Fascist Control Of Mediterranean Rome Denies Intention of Spreading Conflict Into Balkans Turkey or Egypt Moves To Drive Wedge Between Allies and Istanbul ROME June 10 AP Italy AP-Italy Italy joined the war Monday night at the side of the he Ge German man naz nazi legions egions which are pressing down perilously on on France and Paris Pans itself In Berlin it was announced that Italian tr troops ops afe already dy had entered France through the Riviera Notice of the plunge into nto hostilities after months of teetering on the brink was made in a wildly cheer cheered d bombastic speech by by- from th the the balcony balcony of PIazzo Venezia His an announced war aims ains called a led ch chiefly for for Jor recovered control I lof of the Mediterranean He declared for preservation of pea peace in inthe the B Balkans and in Turkey and and Egypt all factors in Mediterranean ari control Our will he said is that Italy does oes not intend i to bring ot other er people into o the conflict Yugoslavia Yi slavia Greece Turkey and Egypt will Avail take notice of this fact He also mentioned Switzerland rland in this this' connection Speaking from the the balcony balcony to to fascist crowded by bythe bythe bythe the thousands thousands' ir in the square below anc and in other squares res throughout through through- out the the kingdom where where speakers loud speakers loud w were r rigged up at at his behest to Listen urgent the premier declared We are descending to Ito battlefields against plutocratic reactionary reactionary reactionary ie Where Italy would strike its first blow he did not say but it long has b been en said in fascist circles that the first act of war would be a surprise sprung probably before the actual declaration declaration declaration declara declara- tion of was wai Mussolini warned the Bal ans Mediterranean Balkans and the Mediterranean nations nations' na nations nations nations' na- na that any breach of neutrality would spread the war to them His pronouncement affecting Egypt and Turkey was seen as Continued on Page Two Column One ITALY DECLARES WAR ON ALLIES Fi F- F i f SEEKS MEDITERRANEAN CONTROL from Pass Par OnOan OnO Ond an as attempt to divert them from pledges pledges- to assist the allies a i to Egypt were made by the Italian press last week but were generally rejected Italians have attempted to break up the mutual assistance J pact the allies have with Turkey a vital point in the control o othe of the eastern Mediterranean Italy's declaration of war Mussolini said had been handed to the ambassadors of France and England A A said Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano had handed the British and French ambassadors identical notes declaring Italy's determination to go to war before il it duck duco duc spoke k It said Italy considered herself at war against the allies effective Tuesday June 11 11 U. Presumably this would mean Monday 4 midnight 4 4 pm p.m. I Salt Lake time In Germany however it was announced that r Italian troops already had invaded French soil on the Riviera Frances France's Mediterranean coast at 6 p. p p m. m Monday Berlin time time time- Q-in Q a n a Tn m Salt cH Lake TIT TaVo time tim 1 i v uJ Trains stood with steam up in the Rome Home station prepared t to evacuate the British and French diplomats FATEFUL STEP FOLLOWS LONG HESITATION The fateful step was made after weeks weeks even even months months of of hesitation to weld into actual hostilities the ends of the long existent existent existent exis exis- tent axis between Berlin and Rome Before making his definite announcement of war on the allies Mussolini called upon combatants on land sea and In the theair theair theair air shirts black-shirts of the revolution and of the legion men and andr ande r e women of Italy of the empire and the kingdom of Albania to listen J I 1 wish to declare he said that Italy does not wish to drag into the conflict other people people neighboring neighboring and nd friendly t people The neutrality of these nations 1 will be severely reI re re- re I I's s 1 ted f He said Italy had tried In vain for peace j After every sentence the g gesticulating premier was cheered by demonstrators who long have asked for war and have menaced menaced menaced men men- aced allied nationals lingering on in Rome in the face of of certain war He declared that the allies should have accepted the proposals proposals proposals pro pro- of Hitler before the Polish campaign which began the war war last last September 1 two days before the actual declaration of open hostilities by the allies CLEARS LEARS UP HIS MEETING AT BRENNER PASS The declaration by Italy today clears up the verdict reached In the historic meeting of Hitler and Mussolini at the Brenner pass a highway now linking the common war war interests of Italy and Germany A CIA great people is ready to face its destiny and mark its own history in the future the premier exhorted his cheering mul mul- r We want to break the chains that su suffocate us us s in the r Mediterranean J g Mussolini's war aims awns it long has been known call for the recovery of mastery over Mare Nostrum our sea to the Italians and this involves the removal of British controls at Gibraltar and the eastern outlet It is a struggle he said between young and progressive people as against the decadent people the struggle of one century as against another century The dies are now cast Mussolini spoke for about 14 minutes For long after he spoke the crowd continued to roar II n duces duce's speech was the climax of a long preparation for forwar war intensified to urgent speed in recent weeks For months Italy has been going increasingly on a war footing foot- foot Ing I Her troops have been mobilized Her meager stores of oil and gasoline gasoline almost almost all imported imported have have been rationed In the past week imperative calls to her merch merchant nt fleet to come home or seek the haven of neutral ports virtually has swept her commerce from the seas Italy has made herself ready The nation has been prepared to expect war war on the side of Germany partner in the axis which was welded a year ago into an even stronger military alliance Italians have been told repeatedly that the day was coming and Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano as far back as last month Indicated to them that it was inevitable They have been told that Italy must have mastery of the Mediterranean our Mediterranean our sea they sea they call it They have clamored for Tunisia Nice Corsica- Corsica Frances France's possessions They have been b en told that Britain is Italy's foe that British imperial power has waned They have been told that the European war Is war among the great powers that Italy Is young and virile 6 and m must st fight to hold her place as a great power v |