Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1935, Page 7

U..D. C. IN'VIRGINIA SELECTS OFFICERS Mrs. W. M. Forrest of Char- lottesville Named Presi- _ dent of Division. By the Associated Press. ROANOKE, Va., October 4.—The Virginia Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, prepared for ad- Jjournment this morning as officers for 1935-36, elected yesterday afternoon, were installed. Final items on the program were the reports of several special committees and the transac- tion of routine business. Members from cities and towns throughout the State attended the convention which opened Tuesday evening. The meeting reached its peak point with a historical program | last night at which Dr. Matthew Page Andrews, Baltimore historian, and| Stuart Campbell, Wytheville attorney, | delivered addresses. Mrs. W. M. Forrest Elected. Election of Mx',. W. M. Forrest of Veteran Chiefs Ready Again Charlottesville as president and pres- | entation of crosses to four veterans of | three wars were high lights of yes- terday's program. In addition to Mrs. Forrest, who| succeeds Mrs. Severn Nottingham of Orange, other State officers chosen were: Mrs. J. G. Osborne of Radford, first vice president: Mrs. Harry Quisen- berry 6f Lexington, second vice presi dent; Mrs. W. A. Coleman of Rich- mond, third vice president: Mrs. W. O. | Bickle of Staunton. treasurer: Mrs. B. C. Baldwin of Lynchburg, record- ing secretary; Mrs. James S. Fitz- hugh of Charlottesville. correspond- ing secretary; Mrs. James B. Morgan | of Roanoke, registrar: Mrs.- E. H. | Hibbs of Manassas, historian: M C. C. Linkenhoker of Pearisburg. re- | corder of crosses: Mrs. H. G. Robin- son of Wytheville, custodian. et Delegates Named. Thre delegates named Mrs. William Ellis of Elliston, oldest surviving child of former President John Tyler, an honorary president of the Virginia organization. and appointed Mrs. Cavell Flournoy of Lexington. custo- dian of the Lee Chapel there. The crosses, highest award of the U. D C. were given to Rev. Richard Henry Leg of Lynchburg and E. G. Baldwin of Roanoke, World War vet- erans. and W. O. Trenor and Thomas W. Spindle of Roancke, veterans of the Philippine Insurrection and Spanish-American War. . Rome THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1935, These two tribal chiefs are among the veterans of the battle with Italian troops almost 40 years ago at Aduwa, bombed yesterday by Italian planes as the troops of Premier Mussolini crossed the frontier. again lead their warriors to battle if the chiefs have the traditional lion robes. They will Around their shoulders —A. P. Photo. necessary. War | (Continued From First Page.) | of fighting in the southeastern sector. From the northeast the Fascist legions were coming in two columns. They occupied Maibaria and Mount Rama and bombed Trea from the air. | The northeastern forces appeared | to be attempting to strike at Aduwa from the east and west. The Addis Ababa correspondent of Paris-Soir reported that Emperor Selassie would soon leave for the front, and the Asmara correspondent of Le Journal said that Count Galleazzo Ciano had returned to- the Italian base from a flight of his squadron over Aduwa, announcing that he | dropped three bombs on a munitions | dump and a government building. | Other pilots were reported to have dropped bombs en Ethiopian troops | on the outskirts of Adigrat. | (Continued From First Page.) | flight which extended beyond Macalle and beyond the River Tacaze. “Other squadrons dropped pam- phlets upon the populace. Two bom- | bardment squadrons were made a target for violent rifle and artillery fire. and bombarded Ethiopian armed forces encountered in the vicinity of Aduwa and Adigrat. “During the night troops encamped in their advanced positions. At dawn today the advance began again all along the front. . “Gen. Emilio de Bono has tele-| graphed ‘The morale of the troops 1s | the very highest.'” | Sanctions can only increase danger | of a European war without halting Italian occupation of Ethiopia, in- formed Italian circles said today. The “wheel of destiny” of which Mussolini spoke Wednesday during Italy's vast one-day mobilization has started rolling. they declared. | They asserted Il Duce meant what he said when he dismissed the Ethiopian question in his mobilization speech with a brief review of what | he called Ethiopia’s bad faith, and shouted: “That's enough!” Treaty Signed With Spain. Mussolini today signed a new com- | mercial treaty with Spain. Unofficial | sources suggested the action was a | preparation against the imposition of sanctions. Ttaly will answer any execution of & financial or economic boycott by League of Nations members. informed Italians said. with application of so- cial and civic discipline for which their nation is prepared. In this connection it was recalled | that more than a year ago Mussolini | ‘warned his followers that they might | have to face a lower standard of living to achieve the universal pres- tige of a great nation. To a lifting of the arms embargo against Ethiopia and granting of financial assistance to Emperor Haile Selassie. informed spokesmen said. Itely would respond with the “making of an indelible record of its friends | and enemies.” European War Held Inevitable, Fascists have believed that a war in Turope is virtually inevitable and that | those who sacrifice their friendships over a colonial campaign are storing up untold grief for themselves. Informed sources spoke bitterly of | the idea of member states of the | League preventing sale or transport of munitions and goods to Italy. They said this would thrust on Italy the | necessity for seeking friends else- | where. | They conceded that Italy would suffer—but they portrayed the League | as only a hollow shell, should another | great power. such as Italy, be forced | to quit its chambers. o | News of the Italian advance into Ethiopia, with confirmation by official sources of the bombing of Aduwa yes- terday—attributed to Ethiapian firing at an air squadron led by Count Gal- lezzo Ciano, Mussolini’s son-in-law— was received with complete calm by | the home populace. The Ethiopian charge d'affaires, Ne- | grades Yesus, told the Associated Press | he had received no orders from his own government to leave Italy and no intimation from the Italian foreign office that he would e handed his passport. Newspapers discussed the question of European friendships. In this con- nection, it was recalled that the Ger- man Ambassador to Italy, Ulrich von | Hassell. conversed Wednesday with | ‘Mussolini. | Although a discreet silence was| maintained after the interview, it was | generally believed they discussed the | entire European situation in the light of possible application of sanctions against Italy. Il Popolo di Roma, authoritative newspaper, declared “France has al- ready allowed its fingers to be caught in the gear and wheels of a Geneva which is run from London. “Beware of allowing the wheels to crush the whole arm. French security guaranteed by England is an illusion which France has aiready witnessed.” A Despite the Italian occupation with- out opposition of certain towns north of Aduwa-Aksum line, the Emperor expressed confidence that his army was now intienched in formidable mountain positions on the northern front and would be able to hold the Fascists. He said ‘that while he was greatly distressed by the air bombing of north- | ern towns—involving the deaths. he said. of women and children—the Ital- ian advance was no surprise. Several airplanes carrying arms and instructions to tribal chiefs left the capital today. ) | | Large Area Bombed. Encouraged by their first successes in the Aduwa region and favored by perfect weather. Italian military | planes rained their bombs down on | the area between Aksum and Aduwa— scene of a crushing Italian defeat 40 years ago and goal of the drive {yom Eritrea. The government reported the de- fending forces of Ras Seyoum. gov- | ernor of East Tigre Province, buffer between Ethiopia proper and Italy’s colony of Eritrea, offered resistance. but that Italian columns occupied the town of Maibaria, midway between Aksum and Aduwa. The government officially denied that Ras Seyoum, governor of East | Tigre Province, had suffered a heavy reverse. | It was explained that. according to preconceived plan. the Ethiopians never intended to put up a serious de- fease of the area north of the Aduwa- Aksum line. However, it was stated, the Italians will meet stiff resistance south of that line. The personnel of the Italian con- | sulaté at Dessie—four Italians and nine Eritreans with 132 mules—ar- rived today under the escort of 30 Ethiopian infantrymen. They had no difficulty en route. The caravan was detained outside Addis Ababa by Ethiopian troops. The consular at- taches from Debra Markos are expect- ed to reach the capital tomorrow. The non-official Italians remaining in Addis Ababa, including 10 Italians | and 15 persons under Italian protec- tion, wiil evacuate tomorrow. Sixty Italian missionaries are still | in the interior without orders from the P\ | Italian FALL OF ADUWA ISHELD IMMINENT Northeastern Penetration of Ethiopia Meets Little Opposition. ASMARA, Eritrea, October 4 (#).— Italian sources declared this evening that the fall of Aduwa, “Verdun of Ethiopia,” was imminent. ‘The Fascist columns had advanced to the hills 10 miles away, command- ing the plain on which the city is situated. Bombing planes soared overhead and tanks. lumbering overland, sprayed bullets to lead the advance of the troops into the highlands. Italians asserted “very heavy cas- ualties” had been inflicted upon the natives, who were terrified by the sight of the death-dealing. mysterious tanks. Italian cavalry and infantry were assisted by an air squadron flight in which Vittorio and Bruno Mussolini, the premier’s two sons, participated. The troops were within sight of Aduwa—where the Italians hope to wipe out the memory of their defeat of 40 years ago. Duce’s Kin Drops Bombs. The official version of lows: Aduwa, Count Galleazzo Ciano, son- in-law of Il Duce, flew over Adigrat. There he dropped his remaining {bombs upon an armed group as the fortifications directed a heavy fire at his plane. The squadron returned to its base after completing the opera- tions.” Moving forward without noteworthy obstruction, the PFascist troops forded Pope, but it is believed that if Italy continues its attack, the Ethiopian government may intern them. In view of the present situation, the government requested Luigi Vinci- G gliucci, the Italian Minister, to seal up the legation wireless station. It was said that if he did not comply the government may be obliged to give him his passports. Dispatches to Be Censored. Beginning tomorrow, the government will impose a censorship on all dis- patcles. Two Belgian officers, who understand foreign languages, may be appointed as censors. The Fascist Mount Rama. over-riding Ethiopian resistance, the government said. No further details were disclosed. (Brit- ish admiralty maps place a “Rama” | deep into Ethiopia beyond Mount Mussa Ali. where the first Italian penetration was reported.) The third line development came at Deridawa, on the railroad line be- tween Addis Ababa and Djibuti, rench Somaliland—the capital’'s only modern contact with the outside world. French police ordered evacuation of Americans and other foreigners in the city, in fear of an immediate air raid, which might come from Italian Somaliland on the east Residents Terror Stricken. Residents of the capital itself were in terror of an early air attack. but tre 1talian Minister, Luigi Vinci- Gigluicei, stuck to his post The government, amid the reports of- continuing bombings and battles. was without details as to the strength of the opposing forces or the number of casualties. The Ethiopian government sent an- other note to the League of Nations. declaring that despite Italy's original bombing of Aduwa yesterday. in which 1t said a hospital was hit and wom- en and children killed. Emperor Haile Selassie still hoped for a peaceful set- tlement to the conflict. Italy Denies Report. (Italy also sent a note to the League, denying Ethiopian = reports that Italian detachments crossed the frontier yesterday south of Mount Mussa Ali. The League Council meets tomorrow for action in the case, with France and Britain re- ported already agreed on a program for economic .sanjctions against Italy.) The Ethiopian government reported | that today's battle area was within the neutral, 30-kilometer line (about 18 miles) behind which Emperor Haile Selassie said he had withdrawn his forces. Imperial guards surrounded the legation, where angry Ethi- opians made sinister gestures. Sentries challenged all visitors to | the legation, but the Minister was allowed full freedom. Overwhelmed by mountains of urgent press dispatches, the radio station warned correspondents that in the future only 200 words daily would be accepted from each. When general mobilization was pro- claimed simultaneously ~with the bombing of Aduwa yesterday 500 dis- patches containing 20,000 words were filed, making it impossible for the radio station’s two transmitters to handle them. forces alsb occupied | Ethiopian | the shallow mountain torrents of the | Mareb River. They pushed on steadily paths to the village of Daro Tacle, cquidistant between the river and Aduwa. The advance column of Eritrean cavalry encamped only 12 miles from | Aduwa, commanding all approaches. | Warning Given Tribes. | Gen. Emilio de Bono, commanding | the Italian colonial forces, issued a proclamation to tribesmen of the Mareb River sector, warning them to avoid a conflict. “Woe to all those who diffuse false notices or disturb public order!” said | the proclamation, addressed to fron- | tier tribesmen in Ethiopia and Eri- trea alike. “I shall be inexorable!” It was issued simultaneously with a proclamation at Mogadiscio, Italian Somaliland, declaring both Eritrea and Somaliland to be under full mar- tial law The Mareb hitherto marked the borders of Italy’s colony of Eritrea and the Tigre region of Ethiopia Details of the advance, reported to military quarters here, indicated was ordered by Gen. d¢ Bono almost before the echoes of Mussolini’s radio speech to the mobilized Italian mil- lions died away Wednesday. Troops Converge on Aduwa. terday’s | | bombing of Aduwa and Adigrat fol- | “After bombing the fortifications of | | by new it | The vantage point gained by the cavalry permitted them to swarm down upon Aduwa defenses virtually at will. The village of Daro Tacle dominates the Aduwa Basin. Italian officers were jubilant at the | precision with which their first ad- vance took place. They explained that this same territory was relin- | quished by Italy after the rout at Aduwa in 1896, and that this was the first time since then that an Italian army had crossed the Mareb. Immediate objectives are Abba and Carima, 10 kilometers southeast of Aduwa, and the villages of Macalle, Adigrat and Alagi. Each of these centers feeds on a territory half again as large as Switzerland. The forward force, reports to mili- tary quarters here said, consists of a strong advange column of Eritrean cavalry under Gen. Alessandro Pirzio- Biroli. On “Big Six” Council. Mussolini selected this crafty, 58- year-old desert and mountain fighter to act as one of the “big six” generals to whom he confided the responsibility for Italy’s forces in East Africa. Experienced with natives in the sands and rocks of Libyan campaigns, Gen. Pirzio-Biroli was assigned to command the native troops of Eritrea. His native cavalrymen were sup- ported by large detachments of Italian infantrymen, tank corps and field ar- tillery, the numbers and identifica- tions of which were kept a military se- cret. Aduwa Defeat Recalled. Military headquarters experts re- called that it was in the region being occupied that Gen. Baldisera, after the defeat at Aduwa, regathered his forces | of 40,000 Italian and native soldiers and, after surprising the Ethiopian garrison at Adigrat, was ready to march on Addis Ababa. That he did not do so is credited now to the vacillation of the Italian | government of that time. Rugged country in which Italian-Ethiopian war will be staged, showing mountains and difficult rivers which Italians must cross. Here are some of the places figuring in today's Associated Press reports: Maibaria, be- tween Aksum and Aduwa, in the north—captured by Italians. Mussa Ali, scene of reported fighting, near French Somaliland. Deridawa, from which Americans and foreigners were urged to leave for fear of bombings, midway between Addis Ababa and Djibuti, on railway connecting two cif in Agudan Province. Agudan, in the southeast, borders Italian Harar, from which came reports of fighting —GCopyright A. P, Wirephoto. 2 { In Path of Italian Bombing Planes | | Mediterranean and Red Seas | all indications point w0 heavy British |airplane reinforcements in that sec- | tor, particularly around the Suez Ca- | secretary, wn A7 BRITISH TROOPS REPORTED MOVING 'War News Stirs England. Soldiers Believed Embark- ing for Aden. LONDON, October 4—The British public today was concerned with two matters—the news of the Italian ad- vance into Ethiopia aid rumors that British troops were on the move in the trouble zone. Unconfirmed reports current for several days that the troops in India | were ready tc embark [or Aden, on the | | revived again and went undenied in southern end of the Red Sea. were official circles. The British fleet now appears to be almost completely mobilized in the while nal. Lake Tana Watched. The outbreak of the conflict on the Ethiopian frontier led io a revival of reports that Great Britain stands ready to move in immediately to pro- tect the Lake Tana district in case it is invaded by the Italians The lake, which is the headwater of the Nile. is about the only material point of interest for the British in Ethiopia and Premier Mussolini re- peatedly has said he did not intesli to encroach there Ambassador Dino Grandi of Italy called on Sir Samuel Hoare. foreign nd they conversed for 40 minutes. When Grandi departed he | refused to make a statement. Simultaneously, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin arranged to speak at the conservative party conference at Bournemouth this evening. The Prime Minister had a telephone conversation with the foreign secretary before leaving Downing street yester- day and as the conservative confer- | ence was expected generally to raise Upper: Huts like these. ings reported destroyed by Italian bombers at Aduwa. readily. Center: warriors, should the Italians sweep Photo taken in Harar, focal point of Italian advance. through the country. Harar has only typical of those in which most Ethiopians live. may have been among the build- Military observers point out the huts can be rebuilt Many wells, such as this one at Harar, have been marked for poisoning by Emperor Haile Selassie’s one well and it's always busy. The Italians would face a serious problem should the Ethiopians destroy the only source of water. Lower: For every plane at the disposal of Ethiopia. the Italians have scores make effective use of the few they have. One is shown being pushed into a hangar. but the Ethiopians hope to —A. P. Photos. Southern Ethiopian Warriors Mass to Defend North Border iends Ac- company Kuolo Tribesmen Leaving for Front in BY LAURENCE STALLINGS. ADDIS ABABA." October 4 (N.A | N.A) —The Southern tribes are pour- ing their fighting power into the vast | Ethiopian reserves along the Northern border, and the citizens of Addis | Ababa remain in a frenzy of expec- tancy, playing the game of hare and hounds to watch the troops depart. Now the last of 15,000 Kuolos have departed, and at every hamlet, as troops entrain, by African magic the thickets and Tukuls emit soldiers, half-uniformed but full-armed. These are followed by hordes of well wishers and friends, who fight their way into the freight cars as if fully confident | of being taken to the fighting zones. | As all bear rifles, wear a warlike look and are possessed of complete trucu- lency, it is impossible to estimate the draft which each train convoys. ‘They are full of fight, these Kuolos, though they count not on gas or the concentrated fire of modern arms. Scenes around the cars hardly count back to the days of “Forty Men or | Eight Horses,” though there are cer- tain phenomena not unknown to the shipping of soldiers in freight cars— for there are loud and strident claim- ants to favored positions by the grilles. just as there are shouts of men and tears of women. Estimate Is Impossible. Watching more than a thousand of the Kuolo infantry depart—they are really Hoplites, or rural militia—I found it impossible to estimate either the number or equipment of this horde of eager fighters. Because every citizen of Ethiopia who boasts a lineage also arms his followers with rifles, and because every free man wears a cartridge belt, a white chamma and at least one vestige of khaki in the barefoot ensemble, all men look to be light-armed infantry. ‘Thus when friends climb aboard a train it is impossible to determine whether a squad or a single simple soldier is embarking. Only when three-fourths of a box car’s belligerent humanity comes tumbling from the doors as the train rattles out may on2 count the denizens who actually are embarked upon the Emperor’s service. In an effort to arrive at the just complement of a troop train three of us were stationed with cameras along the route for a distance of 18 miles. reaching positions in this well-nigh trackless country aftér a rainy night of bitter recriminations among mules and men in a welter of half-fordable streams and morasses. Even then, with the most careful counting, esti- mates of three observers varied, the tally being 500 to 1,500 soldiers of all ranks on two trains. Discipline Is Strange. It is not, I am sure, a lack of dis- cipline among these troops which be- wilders the Western eye, ‘but a dis- cipline to which such eyes are not accustomed. Surely ./\m train Throng of Families and Fr Freight Cars. means, among other things. cipally stacked arms. sentries, and quartermasters aware that troops. on the eve of battie, amiable and mutual thieves. One refuses to accept the discipline of Ethiopians as such. There seems to be no baggage, no impedimenta. Somewhere, it seems, a word is given much as a note is sounded when bees swarm. It is a fearsome, natural thing, this vast swarming toward a rail line, when woods and vales dis- | gorge such shouting mobs of people, the soldiers among them determined only by the number which remains aboard at train departure. ‘When men poured upon the tracks at train departure their friends and | women folk clung to them until the | l]ast moment. Yet these women folk were not the Gallas or Amharics of | the region, but lean, -black plateau | folk from down Kenya way. The | women had followed their men to this | swarming rendezvous, followed them, | in the pitch of the rainy season, over | vast mountain chains and arduous ! trails. They seemed to appear out of | nowlere by sheer African necromancy. Gathering Spontaneous. | There was something spontaneous | about this black gathering. It was | hardly a leave-taking. but a jubilee, | & chorus of hallelujah, with a con- tinual coming and going of riflemen from box cars in the frenzied activity of a beehive. portment nor reason, to a Western eye, in this scurrying from car to car in a wild passion of leave-taking. | It was impossible to discover the | number of rounds of ammunition sup- | plied each Kuolo soldier upon leaving | the capital area. A rifle cartridge, of course, is wealth in hunter's country, and in a kingdom of warriors it is coin of the realm. To issue live car- | tridges to soldiers in the capital area here, expecting these to remain in a | cartridge belt—particularly in the belt of a warrior whose natural weapon is | the lance—would be comparable to the | issuance, to Western troops, of money | belts packed with golden sovereigns, with a corresponding injunction from the supply sergeant to keep them for use near the front. Thus the rumor was passed that the Kuolos would be issued 220 rounds of ammunition, for Mauser rifles, imme- diately upon the hour of departure. ‘This issue was to occur upon the Ras Terterte plain; or in the huts before the war department; or in a vast sheep meadow (the place was vile with mud) some 7 miles from the radio station, which in turn 6 nearly impassable miles away. Finally, the ammunition was to be issued at Akhaki, some 18 miles, negotiable only by rail, from the capital. Corner on Mules. There was immediately at the capi- tal a corner on fln‘dll mules, many prin- tears all are There was neither de- | ‘Hm‘ correspondents who counted on | both hands the years since in the | caddle, and who now prepared, in the frantic search for newsy tidbits nere. to scour unbroken country drenched in four months of equatorial rains 9.000 feet above the sea ! One correspondent. threading through two halts of the train (it moved at corresponding pace), saw exactly two cases of fabulous small-arms ammuni- tion, that golconda lode of the Gallas. ‘These two were escorted by a head- man as they were placed upon the gay-caparisoned saddle of a fine rid- ing mule. The donor of the ammuni- tion led this mule by bridle, himself armed in red velvet-covered scimitar German-made, cheap-bedizened dag- ger, Mannlicher rifle and a scarlet leather set of bandoliers exhibiting his own gleaming. personal wealth in cartridges. A man must carry, with ease if he is hardy, some 220 cartridges in time of war. The headman wore lightly, as personal adornment of his manli- ness, double that number with com-' fort. Leading his premium riding mule, on whose back rested the wwo oblong cases of ammunition, he was flanked and outridden by followers to the number of 50, half of whom car- ried rifles new in Kipling's hey-day, the other half with lance hafts from which the points, for city wear, had been temporarily removed. (Copyricht. 1035. by the North American Newspaper nce. Inc., and Fox Movie- | tone News.) Paris (Continued From First Page.) | League of Nations affairs, agreed on | the program, but that France's pre- | mier was anxious to keep the sanc- | tions within limits to preserve Euro- pean peace. Limitation of the hostilities to East Africa—with an end to them there as soon as possible—was described by authorities as Laval's chief aim. He and Eden were reported au- thoritatively to have agreed to avoid any blockade of Italy which might lead to a European war. The sanctions, when and if applied, probably will begin with a refusal of loans to Italy and a lifting of the em- bargo on arms to Ethiopia, officials said. These steps would be followed by a ban on exportation of raw materials | to Italy, with prohibition of purchases from Italy as the last resort. | Laval intended to follow fmediately | after the cabinet session today, the | two pledging “close collaboration” at the League Council session tomorrow. The ranks of French opponents to sanctions were joined by Senator Henry de Jouvenel, who, when he was & French delegate to the League, sup- ported Ethiopia’s admission to the international body. Economic sanctions are imprac- the mere fact of the existence of pow- erful economic entities outside the League.” Applicatign of military sanctions would throw Italy into union with Ger- many, he insisted, and “create in the A Eden stopped here between trains | | yesterday before proceeding to Geneva. | ticable. he said in a statement, “from | the question of sanctions against Italy as a matter of urgency. Baldwin's pro- nouncement was awaited with keen interest. League Maneuvers Studied. Great importance was attached in British circles to the conversation be- tween Anthony Eden. minister for League of Nations' affairs, and Pre- mier Pierre Laval at Paris. before the French cabinet meeting. to consider the questions of sanctions and Franco- British naval co-operation. Their conference lent support to suggestions that the first proposal for sanctions to halt the Italo-Ethiopian warfare would come from a joint Anglo-French memorandum to the League of Nations council tomorrow. Rome’s explanation that Italian aviators bombarded Aduwa because Ethiopian forts fired on their planes came as a distinct surprise. Authori- tative British quarters had no in- formation that Aduwa was anything other than a civilian center, center of Europe a menacing group of 100.000.000 men.” The senator asserted the only course was to negotiate for a solution. He expressed confidence in Laval. 1 SELASSIE LOOKS TO LEAGUE. | Telegraphs League of Invasion, Hint- ing Sanctions in Order. BY WADE WERNER. | (Copsrisht. 1935, by the Associated Press.) GENEVA, October 4—Italy is car- rying out its openly proclaimed threat to conquer an unarmed Ethiopia, Em- peror Haile Selassie telegraphed to the League of Nations today through his foreign minister. Asserting that Italy admitted an in- vasion of the Agame district and bom- bardment of two towns with massacre of women and children. Haile Selassie announced that he was determined, nevertheless, to co-operate with the League. The Emperor was considered by League officials to be making a bid for sanctions against Italy as being justi- fied under article 16 of the League covenant, and to be indicating his willingness to bow to any decision under the covenant. Eden in Conference. An urgent demand for both sides to cease fighting immediately will be the League Council’s first act tomor- row toward ending the East African warfare, South American sources said. In British quarters, however, it was regarded as not yet certain that this | procedure—which was followed in the Chaco War—would be adopted in the present emergency. Anthony Eden, British minister for League affairs, who arrived this fore- noon from Paris. conferred with Sal- vador de Madariaga of Spain, chair- man of the Council, and Joseph A. C Avenol, League secretary-general, on this and other details of procedure. A spokesman for the Italian dele- gation reiterated to the Assoeiated Press that Italy did not intend to withdraw from the League unless th~ Council definitely voted “measures” striking Italy. Ethiopia Pledges Co-operation. “We have received a communica- tion from the Italian government,” the Ethiopian note to the League said. “The Ethiopian government notes | admission by the Italians of respon- | sibility for the invasion of the prov- | ince of Agame, bombardment of two open towns, massacre of women and | children and destroying a hospital | bearing the visible insignia of the Red Cross, describing these attacks as necessary measures of defense and in- terpreting the withdrawal of our troops from the frontier as a strategic move. “In reply to reiterated Ethiopian demands for observations and a pa- | cific settlement since December, 1934, | Italy, who had begun to dispatch troops and armaments in August, 1934, | has only intensified her warlike prep- | arations throughout the entire. pro= ‘cedure before the Council. } “She rejected all proposals for pa- ¢cmc settlement and is today begin- ning to carry out her only proclaimed | threat to conquer unarmed Ethiopia. “Despite the definiteness and bru- tality of the Italian aggression, which | obliges the Ethiopian Army to defend its territory against the invader. the imperial government hereby reiterates its firm resolve to co-operate fully | with the Council within the frame- | work of the covenant of the League of Nations.” { Guards Stationed at Embassies. BUENOS AIRES, October 4 (#).— Police guards were placed at the em- bassies and consulates of Italy and Great Britain yesterday to guard | against any possibility of incidents in connection with the Italo-Ethiopian | situation. It was expected the guards | would be maintained throughout the conflict.