Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1935, Page 5

ETHIOPIANS MASS FORMAKALE FIGHT Expect Italians to Attack, but Believe Place Can Be Held. By the Associated Press. ADDIS ABABA, October 19.—Con- eentration of Ethiopian troops for a major clash with an Italian army was disclosed today by Ethiopian authori- ties. ‘The government announced & care- fully prepared plan had been com- pleted for a strong stand against the Fascist invaders. It is expected to take place at Makale, 60 miles south- east of Aduwa. Emperor Haile Selassie’s warriors have been strengthened by a stream of war materials into the country, fol- lowing. & lifting of munitions embar- goes. Ethiopian officials said the populace around Ambaalaje, Northern Tigre Province, was infuriated by the kill- ing of a child by Italian air bombs. Although the government did not state the quantity nor the places to which the arms and munitions ship- ments were going, it is known they include American machine guns and Belgian and Czechoslovakian rifles and | cartridges, and are modern. | Commenting on reports that Italy was ready to refrain from bombing Addis Ababa and Diredawa if no mili- tary activities were permitted in those cities. an official said Selassie would find it virtually impossible to abandon Addis Ababa as a military center. He said Selassie would have as much right to ask Premier Mussolini to abandon military activities at Rome. As officials said Italian planes had attacked Makale apparently as a pre- lude to a ground advance, observers here expressed the belief if Italian troops attempted to take Ethiopia's mountain strongholds in the north, which are reportéd held by warriors with machine guns, rifles and mortars, they would face a severe task. They pointed out if the Italians strike at Makale, they would have to attack up a northward-sloping hill from whose top a few sharpshooters could make an almost impregnable defense. ETHIOPIANS REPORTED ROUTED. Italian Sources Say Raid into Eritrea Is Stopped. 12 No. 1—An Ttalian troopship, dec- orated from top to bottom with por- traits of the likeness of I1 Duce, prepares to leave Naples with its human cargo bound for duty in Eritrea. No. 2—A war poster bearing the likeness of Mussolini as it appears on a wall in Rome beside a cruci- fix. No. 3—I1 Duce, bearing a dagger and wearing his traditional uni- form of a corporal in the Black Shirts, is shown as he reviewed a contingent of Italian troops in Rome, —Wide World Photos. Rome (Continued From First Page.) Libya, where Britain sees a threat of attack upon Egypt. Despite League sanctions, Italy opened a campaign today for foreign | trade. The government passed a de- cree forcing the exportation of silk, by ordering a requisition at’10 per cent By the Assoclated Press. ASMARA, Eritrea, October 15 (de- | layed in transmission). — Ethiopian | ‘warriors who attempted a swift raid | into the Italian colony of Eritrea were thrown back with heavy losses Mon- day, Italian officials anrounced. A sharp fight took place along the Betit River, which marks the western | end of Eritrea’s frontier. The raid took place near Omager. Many Ethi- opians surrendered. Although scoffing at reports of Ethi- | opian scouting flights, strict precau- tions are being taken in Asmara against air raids. Street lights are extinguished every night. Word from Italy’s southern army said it was about to occupy Gorahei. League (Continued From First Page.) to extend assistance to members which are hurt by the blockade against | Italy, notably nations close to her geographically, such as Rumania and | ‘Turkey. i A committee recommendation to | shut off the Fascist kingdom from “key products” for manufacture of war materials also was approved by- the fast-moving League. Additional sanctions ‘may be voted, but probably will not be considered seriously until October 31. In a speech after the League’s final approval, Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet Russia’s commissar for foreign affairs, said economic sanctions are not com- vlete. He expressed regret that vari- ous sanctions had not been approved unanimously and that certain states had made reservations. President Vasconcellos emphasized that a “very important problem” had | not yet been settled—that of non- | member states. He said these nations | “can facilitate or weaken measures | adopted in common for the represe slon of aggression in defense of in- ternational law.” Asserting he wanted to insist on the moral aspect of the situation, he said “where is the state which is not pro- | foundly interested in the triumph of | right over force, the hindering of ag- gression in international life? “Non-members of the League are generally parties to the pact of Paris (the Briand-Kellogg pact, to which the United States adheres), which provides for a settlement of all dif- ferences by pacific means and the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy. The present con- flict affects the pact of Paris. Other Opinions Asked. “We can rely upon the different non-member states to estimate our work and decide up to what point they share our common point of view and up to what point they wish to participate in similar measures.” “Key articles” which are banned to Italy include horses, mules, donkeys, camels and all other transport ani- mals, rubber, bauxite, aluminum, aluminum oxide, iron ore, scrap iron, chromium, manganese, nickel, tita- nium, tungsten, vanadium, a number of other ores and several alloys, and eluminum, tin and tin ores, all “true forms of minerals and metals men- tioned in their ores and scrap alloys.” Selasse Prohibits Plunder by Troops On Way to Battle By the Associated Press. ADDIS ABABA, October 19.— Emperor Haile Selassie wiped out today the 2,000-year-old tradi- tion that soldiers have the right to plunder villages while en route to the front or to seize animals, foodstuffs and other commodi- ties from farmers, With a swift stroke of his American fountain pen he signed a new law under which all his armies must pay for everything taken except fodder, which still must be furnished for war needs. ‘The Emperor also established a flat rate of 8 thalers for the hire of each mule to be taken to the front, regardless of the distance. The decrees caused widespread rejoicing among the peasants. | Pierre Laval hoped tonight he would | under the world's price. This is to encourage the holders of silk stocks | to market them abroad. | The decree applies only to 1934 pro- | | duction. Italy exports about half of | her 7,000,000 pounds of silk annually, but often at a loss, although the com- | modity is subsidized at 45 cents a pound. Announcement that Gen. Emilio de | | Bono, commander of the Northern | | Italian army, had issued a proclama- tion abolishing slavery and pledging respect of Ethiopia’s laws end re- ligions fitted into the picture Italy is trying to paint of herself as a “libera- tor” rather than an aggressor. An unofficial but reliable source said today that Italy’s army now numbers 1,200,000 men—thus in excess of his goal of 1,000,000 soldiers by October. | Laval Faces Test Today. PARIS, October 19 (#).—Premier strengthen his hand in the Italo Ethiopian dispute by receiving a popu- lar expression of confidence in tomor- | row’s senatorial elections. in its first test of voting strength, is out to beat him and has a complete | | list of candidates for the Seine de- partment’s 10 seats, including Marcel Cachin, leader of the Communist party, and two other Communists. Laval's note to Great Britain, gen- erally considered a favorable reply to | the British request for assurances of | naval aid if the British fleet is at- | tacked by Italy while carrying out | sanctions against Italy, was expected, however, to satisfy both Left and Right | groups in general. A development following the not,e‘ was the report in high French circles | that there seemed little possibility France would send any of its war-| ships to replace British units in the | Mediterranean, Although the premier feared the possibility of domestic trouble because of France’s position-in the Italo-| Ethiopian conflict, he himself seemed sure of keeping his seat in the Senate, regardless of the outcome of tomor- row’s voting in the Paris region, where he is a candidate from Aubervilliers. British Fleet to Stay. LONDON, October 19 (®).—Al- though European tension has greatly | lessened as a result of conversations | between Great Britain, France and | Italy, authoritative London sources | said today Britain will keep her huge | fleet in the Mediterranean. This, it was said, is because no progress has been made toward so-| lution of the main issue—the war in Africa. It is possible, however, that a few ships may later be removed from Gibraltar as a conciliatory ges- ture, Premier Stanley Baldwin, in a po- litical speech, made a direct appeal to Rome to understand Britain’s motives in the present crisis. The European atmosphere was made clearer when Britain gave a fa- vorable reception to a note from Premier Laval, which was said to re- move any previous misunderstanding between the two countries. Contents of the note were not announced, but it was assumed Laval assured Britain that France felt bound under the covenant to support the League and thus support Britain. A joint Anglo-Italian communique was issued on conversations in Rome whereby an attempt was made to clear up dangerous misunderstand- The statement said Britain’s atti- tude was “in no way determined by its own interests” Informed sources said it was hoped that tension “arti- ficially created outside Geneva” would therefore be relaxed. Despite these developments, the government here felt there had been no progress toward peace between Italy and Ethiopia. —_— Shop to Exhibit Crafts. The work of leading craftsmen of the South will be exhibited here in a craft shop established at 1514 Wis- consin avenue by Mrs. George Howe, organizer and chairman of the Arts and Crafts Exhibit of the Dogwood Festival at the University of North Carolifia for the past three years, Cast Iron Roads. Cast-iron roads are declared to be a success in London. | & “controversial nature.” Y STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 20, 1935—PART ONE T sy L3 ITALIANS TO BE TOLD Wallace (Continued From First Page.) presiding officer. A. C. Edwards, co- ordinator of the course, joined in the | conference with the somewhat flus- | tered reporter. Dr. Woods explained that Secretary | Wallace had not had time to prepare | written address and would speak | extemporaneously. | “He promised to come only if we could assure him that he could talk |saild Dr. Woods. “However, if you | will promise not to publish anything of a controversial nature, we will let | you go in.” The reporter explained he was not authorized to make any such pledge— | that he was sent to report on what | he heard and would have to do just | | that, whether it was controversial or | not. Besides, he pointed out, he had no way of knowing what was meant | by controversial. The officials were | | obdurate, so the reporter said he would | telephone his office for instructions. | ‘While Secretary Wallace proceeded | with his discussion of current eco- | nomic problems before a group of about 230 men and women, the re- porter related his troubles to the city editor, who dispatched re-enforce- ments in the person of another re- | porter, fortified with the necessary | 85 and instructions to enter as a stu- dent—but to make no promises about keeping anything he heard confi- dential. By the time the second reporter ar- rived there had been admitted a re- porter from another newspaper who promised to be good and not tell any- | body about anything that went on of | The second Star reporter joined his | frustrated colleague, and they re-| turned to the auditorium entrance. This time Mr.Edwards, the co-ordina- jtor of the project, had co-ordinated the situation nicely. He said either or both of the reporters now could g0 in—and they wouldn't have to pay any admission fee, either. “Has anything happened?” surprised reporters chorused. “Well, no—except the Secretary has completed his speech,” said Co-ordina- tor Edwards. “I'm sorry.” One of the reporters went in and | found Secretary Wallace completing | a reply to a question propounded by | one of the audience. “—and as long as we have groups ‘ freely competing,” the Secretary was ! ;:ymg‘ “we have differential flexibil- v The reporter made a note of that. It did not seem to involve a contro- versial issue, A final question of “which-way-are- we-heading” import brought this cryptic response from Mr. Wallace: “Out of these disturbed conditions will come a sense of direction. The Nazis in Germany had their sense of direction. Jtaly had its sense of di- rection. Some day we will have a sense of direction—a peculiarly Amer- ican sense of direction, but what that direction will be I am not qualified to the mplete line of standard II A.l.l-Am!riHlI mlde 'AICM SEVEN ITALIAN PLANES CRASH-UP IN LANDING Count Ciano in Making Report Gives Cause of Rarefied At- mosphere Near Equator. By the Associated Press. ASMARA, Eritrea, Tuesday, October 15 (Delayed).—Count Galeazzo Ciano, aviation son-in-law of Premier Musso- lini, said today seven Italian planes The new Left-wing popular front, | freely without fear of being quoted,” | Dave cracked up in landing. This was caused, he said, by the fact that in the rarefied atmosphere of 2,400 meters (about 7,912 feet) near the Equator the planes are obliged to come down at a higher speed than in a lower altitude, where the heavier air | supports the machines. An air field will soon be established in the occupied territory, he said, which will permit flights farther into the interior of Ethiopia. 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