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LAVAL PEACE TALK SHUNNED BY [TALY Negotiations Impossible Un- der British Pressure, Says Rome. By the Associated Press. ROME, October 17.—Italy today watched the peace efforts of Premier Laval of France, resolved to keep out of whatever negotiations there may be. “We cannot talk under British pressure,” a government spokesman explained. “Britain has a dagger at our throat with her fleet in the Medi- terranean and her sponsorship of sanctions at Geneva.” Military progress in East Africa is glow, it was officially explained, be- cause the Italians are advancing cautiously. * The government announced that four more Ethiopian chieftains pre- sented themselves to military authori- tles at Entiscio yesterday and made acts of submission. Communications Cut. An Italian telegrapher named Doni- celli severed telegraphic connections between Addis Ababa and Ethiopian troops in the north, the Asmara cor- respondent of the newspaper Il Tevere reported. Asmara dispatches also told of fur- ther Italian advances on the Somali- land front along the Webbe Shibeli River. They also reported that Eth- opian troops centered at Gerlogubi had been dispersed by Gen. Graziani's forces. Italy directed attention to its home defenses as informed sources expressed concern over relations with Great Britain. Air force and non-commissioned of- ficers of the class of 1906 (men bora in that year) were called out Officials of the ministries of cor- porations, agriculture, finance, com- munications and merchant marine conferred on detailed measures for facing the food supplies situation, in case League of Nations sanctions sre applied, and for defense against na- tions putting sanctions into practice. Pessimism Replaces Optimism. Pessimism replaced the earlier opti- mism as the dominant mood in the capital's political quarters. Informed sources said frankly they were worried lest the tension mount- ing between Britain and Italy should crystallize with unforeseen rapidity. Great Britain was portrayed in these circles as seeking to blockade Italy and hampering the peace efforts of Premier Laval of France. Officially, however, little importance was attached to French moves for set- tlement of the crisis. Britain's Plans a Problem. Although it was considered gen- erally that League of Nations sanc- tions woud probably fail to hurt Italy, Just how far Britain itself might go was regarded frankly as a problem. Italian correspondents reported that Gen. Emilio de Bono, commander in chief of the Fascist forces in East Africa, had assured residents of the captured city of Aduwa that they would be repaid for any damages suf- fered during fighting. The trans-Atlantic liner Saturnia took aboard 6,000 soldiers for an im- mediate departure for East Africa. 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Attack (Continued From First Page.) which made it impossible for the tanks | | to move. | They asserted that five of the mo- bile forts had been bogged down near the wells at Udi. | (The Havas correspondent at Dji- | bouti, French Somaliland, reported | he was informed that Italian air- planes had dropped gas bombs on the | camel corps outfit in British Somali- | land and that a large number of| camels were felled by the gas. The | Havas report did not state whether there had been any casualties among | the men.) REPORT NOT CONFIRMED. British Colonial Office Fails to Give | Substantiation. LONDON, October 17 (#).—The | | British colonial office stated today it | was unable to confirm or deny a re- | port from Zeila, British Somaliland, | that Italians had fired on a British :came] corps unit. | “Personally, we do not believe it,” |said an official, “but we cannot say | {dennitely one way or the other.” | The colonial office said that the | camel corps in British Somaliland was | composed of local native troops charged with police work, with its headquarters at Burac, British Somaliland, 75 miles southeast of the principal port, Ber- bera. | The colonial office said it was in {close touch with Zeila and should | have any authentic report made there, | but that there was no confirmation | of the attack report. ‘ Foreign office officials said they did not believe the camel corps report. | One of these officials stated he had | | heard it as a rumor, had made a most | | careful check and had been unable to | get any substantiation. The same offi- | cial said he believed that the news, if true, would be available to official sources in London by now. ROME DENIES CLASH. Report Termed Absurd and False by Italian Officials. Fiske has been named assistant military attache , at Rome and may go to Ethiopla with Italian troops as an observer' for | By the Associated Press. ROME, October 17 (#)—Official sources flatly denied today a report|arms shipments. that Italians had clashed with troops Fiske of Philadelphia as they sailed —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. of the British camel corps in British Somaliland, inflicting casualties. Officials termed the report “absurd and absolutely false.” A government spokesman repeated his assertion of yesterday that Italy knows where her military forces are. PLANES SWARM AIR BASE. 1,200 Reported at Alexandria Ready for War. ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, October 17. —Military authorities agreed today that the vast establishment for fight- ing airplanes, 16 miles east of here, would be the real British defense base in the event of a Mediterranean con- flict. This air base, behind the historic Bay of Abukir where Admiral Neison sealed the fate of Napoleon's adven- ture in Egypt, is the greatest in the Near East. Authorities estimate that more than 1,200 Royal Air Force planes are here, but all private observers can sec s & barbed wire fence along a road which bisects & great fleld—that, and nu- merous hangars. Proof that the site is becoming a congested air base is the fact that, officers’ quarters are so crowded that their families no longer are admittea. Instead they are sent to Cairo. New construction discloses also how | the Royal Air Force headquarters nave ! been protected by sandbags. In the last few weeks there has | been a continuous arrival of squad- | rons of seaplanes flying from Gueat Britain by way of Greece and now anchored in Abukir Bay. They will be combined with more than 150 planes borne by the aircraft carriers Courageous and Glorious. Transport workers say many land planes are at Abukir, still unassem- bled. Persons in close touch with the camp say large numbers of planes are | being assembled from cases. Ancient Fort Restored. An ancient fort used in the Napo- leon War is being restored and equipped with implements for modern warfare. Informed quarters say the raising of the arms embargo on Ethiopia by the League of Nations has aroused fears that Italian submarines in the | Red Sea or beyond Aden will intercept | For this reason, it is believed, the PERCOLATOR SET 4-pc. chromium set; 9 cup perco= lator, tray, creamer and sugar. 895 45¢ Down— 50c 4 Week! DE BONO REPORTED SEEKING TO RESIGN Ethiopian Communique Says Italian Leader Splits With Mussolini. (Copyright. 1935, by the Associated Press.) ADDIS ABABA, October 17.—The Ethiopian government issued an offi- cial communique today stating it was informed there were “grave differences of opinion” between Premier Mussolini and Gen. Emilio de Bono, his com- mander in Ethiopia, leading the latter to offer his resignation. The official communique was issued shortly after Emperor Haile Selassie informed the Associated Press: “I will not discuss peace while a single Italian soldier remains on my soil.” Forced to Build Roads. At the same time government offi- cials stated that Ethiopians who have escaped from Tigre Province, which has been occupied by De Bono's forces, said that Ethiopian men, women, and even children, were being compelled by their conquerors to work like slaves on road construction. ‘The communique stated: “Informed persons say grave differ- ences of opinion exist between Musso- lini and his general staff in Eritrea. Mussolini is most displeased with the stagnation of military operations around Aduwa, seriously affecting the prestige of the Eritrean army.” “The King of Italy is reported to have intervened in order to terminate the dispute.” Controversy Reported. The communique continues: “Mussolini, it was asserted, remon- strated violently with Gen. De Bono, even threatening to remove him, whereupon the general is reported to have resigned, saying that owing to topographical difficulties, the enor- mous number of sick, the food and water supply difficulties and the de- termined resistance of the Ethiopians the morale of the Italians had been lowered and he would not assume the responsibility of launching an adven- ture leading to disaster.” Ethiopians from Tigre Province re- ported that all their animals have been seized for the Italian Army and a famine is considered inevitable. FIVE AVIATORS KILLED Two Italian Planes Crash Night Exercises. ROME, October 17 (#).—Five avia- tors were killed October 10 when two seaplanes from the high seas school | at Orbetello crashed in night exercises over Tuscany Island in Tyrrhenian Sea, it was learned last night. Fragments of one plane were found on the Island of Pianosa, near Elba; the other at Palamone, a point on the mainland just north of Orbetello. Cellophane Magazine Covers. ‘The covers of magazines are ex- | posed to view and yet are prevented from becoming torn or soiled by the use of covers made of a moderately | heavy grade of cellophane. number of British warships in the vicinity of Aden is being increased. | An increase also is apparent in the Persian Gulf. Travelers arriving by way of the Red Sea report 16 British submarines are stationed there with the specific duty of protecting ships arriving from foreign countries with ammunition and arms for Ethiopia. in | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1935. Duce’s Flying Son-in-Law Tells How He “Pops” Fleeing Natives ‘ASMARA, Eritrea, October 17 (Reuters).—Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini’s flying son-in-law today discoursed on methods of fighting Ethiopians from the air. “When you see a concentration of Ethiopian troops,” said Ciano, min- ister of press and propaganda in civil- fan life, “you give them a few rounds with a machine gun. They scatter and hide in the long grass. “Then, when you fire a few more rounds at random, each of them thinks the bullets are falling near War (Continued From First Page.) considered virtually impossible that any such proposals, which would have to be within the framework of the League, could be forthcoming before application of sanctions aggravated the conflict. Sources close to the Quai d'Orsay, however, said Laval gave the British Ambassador certain assurances which might allay irritation marking the relations between Britain and France in recent days. DEMAND LAID BEFORE LAVAL. French Premier Asks Time to Consider Ald Pledge. (Copyright. 1935, by the Assoclated Press.) LONDON, October 17.—Authorita- tive sources stated today *hat a British demand on the French government for its unqualified promise of French naval support in the Mediterranean in the event of an Italian attack on the British fleet was laid before Premier Laval of France last night by S8ir George Russell Clerk, the British Ambassador to Paris. The same source stated that Laval, asked by Sir George for “absolutely definite assurance,” in turn requested a few days to consider che matter. Question Put Monday. ‘The specific question asked by the British Ambassador last Monday was whether, in acting together under the League covenant, the French fleet >ould be relied upon to co-operate with the British in the event of any attack on the British fleet by Italy. Sir George explained that this sup- port was explicitly provided for under paragraph 3 of Article XVI of the covenant, by which the members of the League agree to the mutual sup- port of one another in resisting any specific measures aimed at one of them by a covenant-breaking state. The matter was left in abeyance, pending the British cabinet meetings of Tuesday and Wednesday. Last night, in a second meeting, the British Ambassador again pressed La- val for a reply as to whether Great Britain could have absolute and defi- nite assurance that, in certain events, French support of Great Britain would be forthcoming. Fleet Stays in Mediterranean. British officials said definitely that the British Tleet would remain in the Mediterranean. 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Officials explained that the British took “minimum” fleet reinforcement measures in the Mediterranean a month ago and that the French were imediately notified of the step. Since then, the British understand, there had been increases in the Italian forces in Libya. It was stated that the British government requires & definite change in the situation— presumably the removal of these| troops from Libya—before it could consider relaxing its naval precau- tions. Laval was reported to have told' Ambassador Clerk that he would find it easier to give an affirmative reply if Great Britain found it possible to make a gesture in the way of re- ducing its fleet in the Mediterranean. However, authoritative quarters said | today that nothing less than an un- qualified “yes” or “no” would be satis- factory now to Grezat Britain. British Irritation Rises. 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