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Moreover, the Note has given almost as much offence to

Turkey as it has to France. The Porte maintains that Italy, far from having asserted its occupation of Massowah in the sense of full sovereignty, has repeatedly given assurances to the Porte that its rights of sovereignty would in no way be affected, and the occasions on which these general assurances were given are referred to. We suspect that Signor Orispi, knowing that he is to be supported in his claim of full Italian sovereignty, has made a great advance on the language of any prior claim, and that the boldness of his tone now is not the less significant because he takes a new departure, and is not careful in his historical references.

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