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Italy welcomes the return of a friendly France but cautions due to the lapse in government, we will not allow a French presence in Tunisia. We offer the French free access to any other if their former colonies.

The Italian nation will cease any movement into French territory, or it will consider itself at a state of war with the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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The Italian nation will cease any movement into French territory, or it will consider itself at a state of war with the Austro-Hungarian Empire.


Italy cannot risk another crisis on our borders. If France can pledge a joint rule of Tunisia to ensure our security we will end our operation. Until then our troops will be ordered to halt. Italy urges France and A-H to commit to talks. We cannot withdraw at this time.

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8 divisions of 28,000 men, 300 artillery guns and 3000 horses are being organized along the Fiume Adige border. 200 bombers and 1200 fighters flew the air bases along the Northern edge of the country.

A further 300,000 men, 1800 artillery, and 1200 L3/35s have been deployed to the Po River. They are expected to arrive in four days, and organize in twelve. Already, however, the transportation of troops was crippled by bureaucracy, leaving railroads packed and roads clogged.
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Italy cannot risk another crisis on our borders. If France can pledge a joint rule of Tunisia to ensure our security we will end our operation. Until then our troops will be ordered to halt. Italy urges France and A-H to commit to talks. We cannot withdraw at this time.

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8 divisions of 28,000 men, 300 artillery guns and 3000 horses are being organized along the Fiume Adige border. 200 bombers and 1200 fighters flew the air bases along the Northern edge of the country.

A further 300,000 men, 1800 artillery, and 1200 L3/35s have been deployed to the Po River. They are expected to arrive in four days, and organize in twelve. Already, however, the transportation of troops was crippled by bureaucracy, leaving railroads packed and roads clogged.

Italy will begin withdrawing immediately, the temporary misstep in French governance is not an opportunity to rewrite borders.

 

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The 41 Infantry divisions, 4 Mountain divisions, 4 Armored divisions, and 3 Luftlandetruppe divisions (A total of 612,000 men, 800 tanks, 400 tankettes, 2250 field guns, 425 "mountain" guns, & 1225 anti-tank guns) already stationed in the Austrian province of Tyrol, would be given the order to mobilize, with emphasis on it not being a drill. The Landwehr manning the well-defended passes would come running out of their barracks to man the bunkers and guns.

 

The Luftfahrtruppe would immediately bring the the 2400 BF-109E-7 fighter aircraft, 396 Bf 110 heavy fighters, 600 Ju 87 dive bombers, and 1200 He 111 bombers, stationed around Austria onto high alert.

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"There will be no talks, Tunisia is a French colony, and we will not tolerate Italy grabbing land from underneath our nose when we were without formal government for less than a week."

 

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A full half of the French military would begin movements to Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Rhône-Alpes.
 
450,000 men
1500 47mm APX anti-tank gun
1000 Canon de 75 M(montagne) modele 1928
2000 Canon de 75 CA modèle 1940 Schneider
3000 Canon de 105 L modèle 1936 Schneider
800 Canon de 105 court Mle 1935B Schneider
400 Canon de 155 mm GPF
250 Canon de 194 Mle GPF
600 Char B1 bis
1500 SOMUA S35
500 Panhard 178
 

Aircraft would begin making patrols, 1500 Dewoitine D.520 and 1500 Morane-Saulnier M.S.410 would be assigned to patrol the border, with the majority on standby along with the rest of L'Armée d'Air. 

 

Additionally, the Troupes Coloniales would begin their own movements towards Tunisia.
 
250,000 men
1500 47mm APX anti-tank gun
2000 Canon de 75 CA modèle 1940 Schneider
3000 Canon de 105 L modèle 1936 Schneider
800 Canon de 105 court Mle 1935B Schneider
400 Canon de 155 mm GPF
250 Canon de 194 Mle GPF
200 Char B1 bis
1500 SOMUA S35
500 Panhard 178

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The British Empire likewise stands by our French brothers in solidarity. Italy will remove itself from all French territory or face the wrath of the Empire.

 The French thank the British for their support.
 

The Italian nation will cease any movement into French territory, or it will consider itself at a state of war with the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

 The French thank the Austrians for their support as well.
 

"It looks like Germany won't be the only country to lose to France."
 
-Kaiser Kranz

We do not wish to see war, but we will not have our land stolen from us.
 

 

Italy requests assurance by the French government that the Tunisian territory will remain stable.

It will be kept stable, as will all of our holdings.
 

The Spanish empire hopes the French republic continues to have relations with the contra regime and urges it enter talks with fellow nationalist in Italy.

We will have relations with all nations that are not acting against France.
 

"The Ottoman Empire hopes France will not have any more stability issues, and prays for continued prosperity and good relations between our states, while also encouraging a peaceful solution to the issue in Africa."
 
- Sultan Sadik

"I should certainly hope not, or else I will be out of a job, we appreciate your well wishes and hope our assurances to Italy will be enough to avoid conflict."

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[PRIVATE]

Pietro Badoglio paced in front of the Count, who had only hours prior return from a stressful talk with Egypt. Benito Mussolini say by his son-in-law's side, trying in his ill mind to comprehend the situation.

Count Ciano slammed his fist in the desk. "You tell me while I'm gone YOU allowed out military yo invade French territory during a lapse of parliament? Are you mad? Were you hoping to see our nation become a worldwide pariah! And you tell me Austria-Hungary, France AND Great Britain intend to attack us within the next twelve hours? What in God's name are we going to do?"

The General sighed. "Sir, I'm afraid to inform
you we stand poised to lose in armed conflict with the coalition. Our troops are greatly outnumbered and outtrained. We have few established defensive structures in the North, and out men are stretched far too thin. While we intend to mobilize and and fling the majority of our army into the North for a, at best, repeat of the Great War, unless we can reach far more sufficient levels of expertise in mobilization we will be unable to fullfill this goal. At current rates, only half of troops expected to arrive will arrive on time. Critical resources are caught up in buruecratic sludge, with thousands of barrels of petroleoum sitting stuck in Florence warehouses.

If the French and Austrians attack soon, our lines will shatter on impact. They will reach Rome within 24 hours. An invasion from the sea could cause that time frame to drop even further. They could occupy the whole of Italy within a month.

If we somehow fix our mobilization problems, our only hope would be to bottleneck the enemy. We would be forced to lose our colonies, and perhaps Sardinia and Sicily. We could establish a static line of defense that will engage the enemy with attrition warfare until their weak populaces demand withdrawal.

Orders have been given to halt excursions into Tunisia; however, the Souths Calvary Platoon has no telephone, radio or telegraph. We have sent a message by horseback but if the couriers don't reach them in time, they could launch their assault on Tunisia. It'd only be a couple hundred men on horseback, but France would take it as a sign of war.

If we withdraw our claim on Tunisia, we will look weak in the eyes of the world, populace and military. I fear a coup."

The Count buried his face into his hands. "There's nothing else we can do. We must pull back."

The General nodded. "I'll tell the presses momentarily, you and the Duce rest."

Badogolio left the room, strutting down the hallway with determination. He knew what must be done.

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An Italian announcement was made over Radio Rome;

 

 

Italy has ordered the tactical redeployment. of all army units assigned to attack Tunisia. We will not launch offensive maneuvers into Tunisia until the issue can be sorted. We refuse, however, to relinquish our claim. Tunisia is Italy.

- COUNT CIANO

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The Troupes Coloniales would begin setting up defensive emplacements within the Tunisian borders, with backup layers of dug out defensive lines to allow for fallback options since it was uncertain exactly what the Italians would be sending to try to take Tunisia, likewise the 1st Armée was growing restless upon the Italian border, but still they waited.

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Spain for a final time demands diplomatic solutions take place between France and italy.


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300,000 imperial troops are being positioned at Gibraltar along with half of the imperial fleet. Increased bf109 patrols over Spanish skies have shut down air traffic. Several divisions of the Africa corps are now under going full combat drills and 400,000 imperial troops are now manned at the French Spanish border.

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We will not back down to the Italian strong arming, Tunisia is French, there cannot be a diplomatic resolution, the Italians have the simple choice of continuing to claim our land, or lose far more than simply Tunisia.

 

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The 2nd Armée would match the Spanish movements.

 

450,000 men
1500 47mm APX anti-tank gun
1000 Canon de 75 M(montagne) modele 1928
2000 Canon de 75 CA modèle 1940 Schneider
3000 Canon de 105 L modèle 1936 Schneider
800 Canon de 105 court Mle 1935B Schneider
400 Canon de 155 mm GPF
250 Canon de 194 Mle GPF
400 Char B1 bis
1000 SOMUA S35
500 Panhard 178

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Within a few hours, an Ottoman battlegroup consisting of a carrier, a battleship, two battlecruisers, four submarine squadrons, 25 destroyer squadrons, 17 cruiser squadrons and two seaplane tenders moved into the Med and loitered outside Italian waters in Sicily and Naples.

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Infantry divisions LVII - LXX, a further 156,000 men, 650 field guns, 325 AT guns, would all be mobilized to the province of Osttirol and Carinthia support the possible opening of an Italian front. The passes of Brenner Pass, Reschen pass, and Timmelsjoch, long since secured by the Landwehr, stood ready for any Italian attempt to break through as well.

 

Forces would be redistributed to allow for better coverage of non-fortified passes such as Birnlucke, Klammljoch, Pfitscherjoch, and Plöcken Pass.

 

Fighter aircraft began a patrol rotation covering the border to ensure that no Italian aircraft would catch Austro-Hungarian forces by surprise.

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We reaffirm our support for France in this matter. Likewise, the British Empire hereby declares the Atlantic Ocean and Indian ocean off limits to Italian shipping and Italian warships. This will be enforced by the Royal Navy. Italy must stand down and reliquish its claim immediately.

 

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The 1st, 2nd and 3rd fleets, supported by the 1st, 2nd and 3rd support flotillas would take up station off the coast of Morocco, waiting orders to move into the straights of Gibraltar to support operations against Spain if push came to shove, though it would not be the desired outcome.

 

Likewise, the 1st and 2nd battleship fleet, supported by the 4th and 5th support flotilla would sail into the indian ocean and take up position in the Gulf of Aiden.

 

Furthermore the 1st, 2nd and 3rd wolfpacks would enter the Med and take up positions along the sealines between Italy and her colonies. The 4th Wolfpack would sit with the Moroccan force. The 5th and 6th would take up position in the Bab El-Mandeb along with the 1st and 2nd Minelaying and Supply Squadron.

 

Italy would be cut off from its colonies.

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