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continue 6 policy of neutrality but was prepared to oppose any internal or external political opposition.
 An Open Problem
 (In Rome Virginia Gayda, writing in the authoritative Giornale D'Italia, said that "there Is an acute problem in relations between Italy. Albania and Greece" He added that "Italy is ready to defend Albanian national rights" Gayda also said that the Greek Ciamuria Peninsula is Albanian and rightly belongs" to Albania.
 (Of the Italo-Albanian- Greek sit- uation Gayda said that I've won't liouidate the affair with gay smile. Italian policy does not seek adven- ture but is ready to defend Albanian national rights and 8 Balkan order based on 'justice.)
 Reliable reports said that in ad- dition to concentrating mobile forces on the Albanian frontier Italy was moving Albanian troops southwark from Northern Albania.
 Metaxas, it was said, had ordered precautions against Fifth Columns and was ready to use the resorces of the entire nation in defense or Greek independence.
 Amidst tension over reports of frontier troop movements 1t was arl- nounced that a commercial mission headed by the manager of the Bank of Greece was scheduled to proceed to Berlin next week.
 Russian air attaches conferred with members of the Greek general staff today and the meeting served to attract attention to inadequate aerial defenses, especially lack Of airports.
 Rome, Aug. 2l-(UP)-Italy ad- mitted an intensification of British air raids on Italian positions throughout Ethiopia today.
 War communique No. "A, issued from general headquarters, said that the British had raided Mega, Cello and Dire Dawa in Ethiopia.
 Neutral shipping had been warned that vessels approaching within 30 miles of the coasts of the Mediter- reanean, Red Sea, Gulf of Alden, Egypt and British African colonies henceforth were fin danger of des- truction by mines or other means of war"
 The comminique said that Italian bombing formations had attacked successfully and hit air bases on Malta" It claimed that all Italian planes returned safely despite vio- lent enemy reaction"
 At Malta, the communique said, British pursuit planes were counter attacked by Italian fighters and forced to withdraw, it was said, and one British plane probably was shot down. :.
 In British Somaliland, surrendered to the Italians by the British, native population were making acts or submission, according to the com. muninue, which said that Askaris of the Camel Corps and bands of Mil- alos surrendered their arms and asked to be enrolled in the Italian army. It was said that the Italians found five destroyerd British air. planes, three in Berebra and two outside the capital.
 Two persons were killed and seven wounded in the British air raids on Ethiopia, the communique said.
 An earlier communique had car- ried the warning to neutral shipping. Widow of Victim Konispoli, Greek Albanian From tier, Aug. 2l-(UP)-Mrs. Daut Hoggia, wife of the recently assas- sinated Albanian nationalist leader. charged formally today that her husbands killing was plotted in Greece and executed by an inter- border organization led by Greeks. Mrs. Hoggia said she had filed the charges with the regional pre- lecture of police and had asked that they be forwarded to authorities at Tirana, the Albanian capital, and to Premier Benito Mussolini at Rome.
 q intend to make the Greeks pay for the murder of my husband" she said. He was an ideal husband" Shell Examined Athens, Greece, Aug. 2l-(UP)- Naval experts today examined a fragment of the torpedo which sank the Greek warship Helle in the Aegean Sea last Thursday. They said that stamped on the fragments were the words Turin 1e30."
 (Turin is an Italian naval base and arsenaD.
 Meanwhile, the Greek govern ment had requested wrecking tugs to lay anti-submarine and anti mine layers nets in the principal harbor of the country.
 (Italy has denied that the Helle was sunk by an Italian torpedo.)