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Fascist Propaganda for Annexation is Increasing

Protest Move Is Gaining Momentum in Switzerland

Trader Special Service.

ZURICH—Large circles of the Swiss people are watching with rising indignation the attempt of private Fascist organizations closely allied to Mussolini’s bands to start a movement for the annexation of the Swiss canton of Tessin (Ticino) to Italy.

Although Mussolini has himself given his word to respect the sovereignty and integrity of Switzerland, unofficial Italian Fascist organizations in Tessin want to annex this Swiss Canton. They declare it is the last of the three Capital Ts—Trieste, Trentino, Ticino—which must be “liberated.”

Posted inAviation Daily News

Seeking U. S. Help for Graf Pole Hop

Dr. Walter Bleistein Coming Here to Enlist Aid of Federal Government.

Co-operation of the United States Government and American scientific organizations in a proposed Arctic expedition of the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin will be sought here this week by Dr. Walter Bleistein. secretary and treasurer of the Aero-Arctic Society, who arrived In this country from Europe recently. Dr. Bleistein probably will arrive in this city tomorrow and will remain here two or three weeks, it is expected.

Dr. Bleistein will request the assistance of the War Department, Navy Department and Weather Bureau in arranging the details of the expedition, in setting up fueling and servicing depots and in maintaining communications and weather forecasting services while the big dirigible is in flight over the areas mapped for exploration. The scientific party aboard the Graf Zeppelin probably will be headed by Fridtjof Nansen, noted Arctic explorer. The Graf Zeppelin is to leave Friedrichshafen, Germany, its home base, some time in April, according to present plans, and proceed to Tromsoe, Norway, where a mooring mast has been erected.