INTERNATIONAL POLICE
FOR ABYSSINIA
Proposal Behind The Scenes At Geneva
OUTSPOKEN SPEECH ANNOYS
ITALIAN DELEGATION
(Special to "Hong Kong Dally Press") (By "Telegraph. Copyright, Tegraphic Messagai
Received, September 6. 7.30 p.m.)
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Geneva, September 6..
An International" podce force permanently stationed in Abys- sinia is said to be the latest proposal made by Italy in the course of the negotiations still being carried on between Bri- tain France and Italy at Geneva, apart from the Learue "pro- ceedings proper.
of 'such
Britain is said to agree to the establishment force, composed principally of Italian troops but also comprising detachments from Britain, France and other neutral countries. The Italians however, demand a purely Italian military occup- ation of the whole territory by a force to be termed "the con- trol of Abyssinian disarmament." The Italians are also dissatis- fled with the territorial concessions consisting of a wide zone round the central region of Abyssinia.
The sequel to the outspoken speech by the Abyssinian re- presentative yesterday at the League of Nations council ses- sion. at which Professor Jeze accused Italy of breaking her Lea- gue obligations and making unrestricted militarism her ideal, is that the Italian delegation is now said to be considering the formulation of a demand "for "satisfaction."
What this satisfaction is to consist of is not; however, 85 yet quite clear. One thing, is practically certain: that the Italians in future will not appear at the Council table if the Abyssinian representative is also there.Transocean Kuo Min.
JEZE DECLINES TO APOLOGISE
Geneva, Sept. 6. Baron Aloisi called on M. Joseph Avenol, Secretary General of the League, to complain about the language of Professor Jeze's speech at yesterday's Council meeting.
After a conferer.ce with Mr. Eden, M. Laval visited Madariaga and the ministers were presum- ably discussing the proposed com- tittee of rapporteurs for which Spain, Turkey and Poland may not be prepared to nssume › re- sponsibility if Britain, and France accede to Italy's objection and withdraw.
The Council meeting is fixed for 5 p.m., first privately and then in public.
The Italian delegation deny that Baron Aloisi has asked that Pro- fessor Jeze shall be superseded as the Abyssinian representative. Reuter.
NEW DIFFICULTIES
Geneva. Sept. 6. New difficulties have arisen re- garding the establishment of a committee of rapporteurs to deal with the Halo-Abyssinian dispute and the meetings between Mr. Eden, M. Laval, Colonel Beck and Tewik Aras have separated with- out reaching a decisión.
Apparently most of the coun-
tries are not willing to Assume great responsibility in facing the Committee..
WILL NOT APOLOGISE Professor Jeze, the Abyssiniar. representative, has declined either to alologise to the Italian dele- gates or to modify his speech of yesterday.-- Renter
NEW CALL TO LEAGUE
Addis Ababa, Sept. 8. A new call to the League to seek a settlement of the dispute was contained n'a communique issued by the Emperor..
The communique declares that the Valual Commission will show that "Abyssinia was not responsible for the incident,
It was for the League to excute the decision contained in its sec-
plomatist who was acting for Baron | Aloisl, left the Council table...
The fact that the walked out of the Council hall must not be in- terpreted as a serious political move. It does not mean that Italy will leave the League
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1935.
NEGUS MAKES
HIS PLANS
Pack Mules Ready For Transport
Ipho
BOMBERS COLLIDE IN
FRANCE
Ten Occupants Of Both Machines Killed
blown out of his seat by an ex- ploston in the petrol tank.---
Parts, Sept. 6. Consternation has been caused by details of a head-on collision | Reuter, ... of bombers last night engaged in manoeuvres in which ten airmen were killed.
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Addis Ababa, Sept. d. One thousand pack nules are grazing before the gates of the capital ready for transportation of tents, provision and rations of the Emperor Haile Selassie, who is now busily engaged in organising | fire. a military escort.
Special tents have been prepar- ed for the Empress, who with the Court Indies will accompany her husband in the event of war. She has thus followed the exam-
The machines collided in a fog over the village of St. Jean-Aux- Bols in the Ardennes and caught
One machine crashed near Mairie, sitting Are to a 'building and completely burning, it nut. The other machine fell in a field a mile away.
Troops are standing guard over ple of the late Emperor Menelik's the wreckage. The whole of the consort, who witnessed the Abys-country is strewn with pieces" of sinian victory of Adown from a twisted metal « nearby hilltop.
The Emperor's guard will con- sist of 40,000 uniformed soldiers, trained by European Instructors. The Archbishop. the Sacred Ark and all the members of the Government, excepting the Foreign Minister, will also form part of the Emperor's entourage.
The main bodyguard will be protected on the right and left flanks and the rear by a force of 100.000 trained voluriteers. Mules will be used only in the event of an outbreak of hostilities before the ground is passable, since now It is one single swamp due to the rainy season.
If the ground is sufficiently dry. 50 motor lorries will be utilised for transporting the Negus, who with the whole train intends to pro- ceed to that part of the front where the fighting is the hottest,
Transocean Kuo Min.
Meanwhile the whole question of the constitution of a League Com-: mittee under Article XV remains open. There is some hope that. to privat: talks this evening may lead.
to some new arrangements...
The Question Committee ad- Journed until to-morrow, Bending,
Owing private negotiations. Italy objecting to the presence of the British and French probably & | Reuter small Committee will be constituted which may be an advantage, as it will enable the British and French to conduct negotiations outside the main Committee, which will be kept informed of their progress.
NO DATE FIXED
ALOISI WITHDRAWS "
Geneva, Sept. 5.
The circumstances of Italy's dramatic withdrawal from the Council meeting are reported as "follows:
Baron Aloisi withdrew soon after Professor Jeze began to speak and Signor Rocca took his The Council adjourned at 10.23 place. Later, when Signor Rocca also withdraw, he "sent a private. message to the Chairman of the Council, Dr. Gulnazu, asking him to call professor Jeze to order.
p.m. and no date was set for its next meeting.
When the departure of the Italian spokesman from the con- ference chamber was being dis- cussed after the session it was dia- covered that Baron Aloisi hiraseir had left just before Professor Jeze started to speak.
Signor Rocca left Inconspicious- 17. It was several moments before it was realised that he had gone. Then his departure created a tre- mendous ith.
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A parachute was attached to one of the victims who was presumably
SILVER MARKET
(From Our Own Correspondent)
London, Sept. 6. London sliver prices to-day were up 1/8 for Spot and 3/16 for Forward as follow:-
FI
Sept. 5 Sept. & Spot..
29-1/16
29-3/16 29. Forward
29-3/18 London on New York cross-rate at 200 p.m. to-day was.. 4.9350 compared with 4,9450 at closing yesterday.
Geneva with a country which Italy considers has consistently violated Its League undertakings.-- Reuter.
SUMMARY OF ACTIVITY
London, Sept. 5. The League Council met again to-night first in-private and then In public. Press messages from Geneva indicate the private sitt.ng was concerned with plans for set ting up a small committee of the Council
to examine further the
Italo-Ethiopian dispute and possi- bilities of conciliatory settlement. It is understood the personnel pro- visionally suggested Includes Mr.
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ANOTHER REPORT
Paris, Sept. 5.
when
Ten persons were killed two bombing planes collided yes, terday afternoon in a dense fog, during army manoeuvres at Cham- pagne at St. Jean-Aux-Bols; about 30 kilometres north west of Rothel.
The force of the impact was so great that the gasoline tanks of both the planes exploded. One of the unfortunate planes crashed in à field while the other struck a house, setting fire to the latter..
The planes were manned by one ofleer and four non-commission- ed officers all of whom lost their lives-Transocean Kun Min
meeting to-night. He said the Soviet wished nothing better than to continue the friendly Italo- Soviet relations of the past decade, but the question before the Coun- cil was of the peace of the world.
The Italian representative, said M. Litvinoff, in effect had invited the League Counci to declare its disinterestedness in the Italo- Ethiopian dispute and leave Rome freedom of action.
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This was surely an invitation to the League Council members to re- pudiate their own international obligations, M. Litvinoff observed.
Satisfied Quite!
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EMIGRATION TO
ABYSSINIA
Rumours Denied By Mr. Debuchi
Melbourne, Sept. 6. Mr. Katsu Debuchi, head of the Japanese goodwill mission to Australia, denied that Japan was vitally interested in Abyssirita except as a market for Japanese cotton goods.
HAPPILY SETTLED The Valual incident, he continu- ed, was happily settled. There was
He said it was not true that nothing now left to justify the threat of Impending military Japanese wished to emigrate to operations.
Abyssinia, the climate of which Could the Council. he asked. Was not suitable for ignore this threat, forget Articles Reuter. Ten, E'even and Fifteen Covenant?
of the
M. Litvinoff declared that no-one sympathised with the internal re- gime in Ethiopia as demonstrated by the Italian documents on the matter, but no internal conditions could deprive the state of its righ to integrity and independence, and the League should stand frm on the principle that no fighting should occur except in absolute
self-defence.— Reuter.
BRIEF SPEECH
London Sept. 5.
Eden, Great Britain, Monsieur Before the League Council ad- Dr. Gulnazu replied that he saw
Laval, France, Senor da Madariaga, journed, the Soviet member. no reason to do so.
Spain, Colonel Beck, Poland, and Monsieur Litvinoff, in a brief but Anyhow. he said, M. Litvinor Mons. Aras, Turkey and that the painted speech, announced on be- was about to speak and he there.umber will probably be limited to half of his Government its readi-
Ave fore,hoped that Signor Rocca would
ness to assume all its responsibl- return.
"At the public session the spokes-ties, man of Ethiopia replied to Baron He repudiated any sympathy Aloist's speech at yesterday's meet-with conditions which Italians ing of the Council. When he made alleged existed in Abyssinia but an appeal to the League to defend claimed it indispensable to protect. the independence and existence of the independence of a member of his country, Signor Rocco, who was the League.
Signor Rocca said he must con- suit his chief, and asked would the Chairman interrupt the meet- ing for a brief interval. Again Official circ1ès are of the opinion | Dr. Gulnazu replied that he could that the situation has suddenly not accede to the Italian request.acting in place of Baron Aloisi as worsened.-- Reuter
COUNCIL REASSEMBLES
Geneva, Sept. 5. The Council reassembled at 7.10 p.m. but Baron Aloisi decided not to attend, and that Signor Guldo Rocca should represent Italy. Pro-
fessor Jeze. the Ethiopian spokes-
man, began to speak in defence Dr Abyssinia soon after the com- mencement of the session. He was very violent and before the middle of his speech Signor Rocca rose and left the table.
The Counc.I meeting had been postponed during the day until 0 o'clock, and Professor Jeze's name was the only one on the agenda. It was expected this meeting would be short since Baron Aloisi had
ignore the Ethiopian, statement.
Thereupon Signor Rocca brought a message from Baron Aloisi that the latter would examine the text of Professor Jeze's speech before coming to any decision.
Italian
of
tallan member, rose and left the Council chamber. Italian delega- tion explained afterwards that this proceeding had no significance in regard to Italian League member- ship but that Italy, did not re- member of the League and her cognise Abyssinia's right to be delegate refused to listen to Aby sinlan representative.
OFFENSIVE REMARKS the fact that Professor Jeze, being
quarters complain
E French lawyer. made re- marks particularly offensive and annoying. They would not have
The Ethiopiar "representative been so disturbed If the speaker had been an Abyssinian, although
said Italy was attempting to dis- they thought the Ehiopian dipla-honour a country she desired to mat, Teckle Hawariate would have suppress. been much more moderate. Professor Jeze imparted a warmth But into his attacks which was quite Although they intended leaving
unstormachable, m
the Ethiopian representative to passent his whois, speech, it was
ond resolution passed on August 4 announced that he proposed to possible that Italy. would object to
whereby the whole dispute will be It was later aanounced that Italy examined and resolved during the also objects to the presence of Bri- present session.
tish and French on the special, Abyssinia as a member of the Committee of Five which is to re- League asks the Council to deport on the Abyssinian question,-on Hiberate on the interpretation of the ground, that they are interest the Italo-Abyssinian treaty and ed parties. other questions in 'dispute- Reuter,
VIOLENT SPEECH
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was invited but declined.
Abyssinian delegate, it was stated. Professor Jeze continuing as chief
Reuter,
...A PASSIVE SPECTATORS
Rome, Sept. 5. circles that Bignor Rocca's action It is stated in Italian political
of the League. Nevertheless, as does not constitute abandonment
It is understood that Britain, France, Poland, Spain and Turkes the Government has decided that have agreed to serve on the Special it cannot participate with Abys Gemra, Sept. 5. Committee and that M. Litvino sinia in the League, the Italian de- legates will again leave the assion when the Abyssinia representative speaks.
As long as the Abyssinians are passive spectators the Italians will remain at the session,
TEXT WANTED
Baron A'olat has called for the text of Professor Jeze's speech and will decide upon the course to take when he has examined it. In the lobbies it is generally felt that the Ethiopian spokesman rather ex- ceeded the bounds of diplomatic usage and calculated unnecessarily to exacerbate Italian reelings.
In the middle of a violent speech by Professor Jeze, the French spokesman for Ethiopia, the act ing chief of the Italian delegation to Geneva left the League of Na tions Council Chamber to-night.
The Council had reassembled at 7.10 pm and Baron Aloisi, the chief of the Italian delegation, was absent when Professor Jeze com- menced to place Ethiopia's case before the gathering and to answer It will be most difficult to restore the charges made the day previous by the Italians. The spokesman was violent in his language, and Signor Guide Rocco, the noted di-
It is uncertain, however, whether Baron Aloisi himself, will attend any meeting at which the Abyssin- fans are present.
The action of Italy's delegates does not indicate any rupture of
a concllatory atmosphere until the Italo-Abyssinian diplomatic rela- personal dispute between the tlons but is a logical sequence of Ttalian and Abyssinian delegates is the Italian decision not to parts adjusted, it is feared,
cipate on an equal footing at
Her accusations were not worthy of a detailed answer. He refuted the charge that Abys
a solemnly pledge ourselves to sinfa was prepared for an attack. respect all our internationa obliga- help from disinterested countries accept
in the modernisation of our coun- try."
tions. We are ready to
Professor Jeze concluded win an appeal to the Council to accept its reapprisibilities under Articles 10 and 15 of the Covenant- Reuter.
*'EXODUS OF EUROPEANS
Addis Ababa, Bèpt, 5.
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There were other than military measures which could ue used to civilise backward countries, could not approve the attitude which the Italian member asked the Council to take up. Russia foined the League to collaborate in the cause of peace and for that not to shrink from necessary deci- reason he advised his colleagues
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JAPAN'S EXPANSION
Melbourne, Sept. 6. A warning that Japan's advance. southward will not be welcome was contained in a speech by Bir Frank Clarke, President of the Legislative Council, at a luncheon given in honour of the Japanese goodwill mission.
SIR FREDERICK LEITH-ROSS
Welcomed In Japan
Yokohama, Sept. 6...
Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, the British expert who is on a mis slon to China to study economic conditions there." arrived in Yoko- hama by, the Empress of Asia at noon. He was welcomed by the vice-Minister Tsushima, people.
of Finance, Mr. and other notable
He will later visit Tokyo, where he will interview the Foreign Minister, Mr Hirota, on Septem- ber 11.
The mission of Sir Frederick haz aroused very great interest in the Japanese Press which forecasts its objective is the strengthening of British influence
that
in, China Reuter,
1
PRESS INTERVIEW
Tokyo, September 6. He said: "For years we have
At a Press Interview, BU recognised one of the most ener- Frederick Lelth-Ross "said: “My getic and most ambitious races mission is to conduct an investi- overflowing her borders. We wish | gatión into the economic and Japan well while the confines of Anancial problems at present con- her expansion are northward and | froating China and report there- westward, but not southward. ron to the British Government. I am convinced that all have recog- am visiting Japan because I desire
to nised this as the plain truth." exchange views with the Reuter.
U.S. REFORM PROGRAMME
Now Substantically Completed
New York, Sept. 8.
Japanese officials and financiers
on Anglo-Japanese relations in... China 边 which Britain and Japan have a common interest.”— Reuter.
THE FLORIDA TRAGEDY
The Dixie Breaking Up
Miami, Sept. 5.
An indication that President Roosevelt, considers his reform completed was given in a letter programme to be substantially
the President, sent to Mr. Ray The death roll in the Florida Howard,.
proprietor, hurricane may reach 1,000, ac- who informed Mr Roosevelt that cording to reports from the state businessmen were afraid there Governor's personal, representa could be no recovery until the tive in the stricken area. Government experimentation has ceased:
newspaper
24
The steamer Dixie, hard sabore
Florida Peninsula, has been aban- and breaking up on a reef be-- yond the southermost tip of the doned by all except her master
DELEGATE WALKS OUT
Geneva, Sept. 5. The remarkable development in the League Council, when the form of protest, came in the Italian delegate walked out as a middle of Professor Jeze's speech In defence of Ethiopia, which was siderable legislative programme and a skeleton crew. who are re- an answer to the Italian charges and adds: This baste programme, maining aboard to retain for the made the day previous.
however, has now reached sub- Morgan Line the technical owner- Professor Jeze asked why Italy stantial completion and breathing ship of the vessel. wished to civilise Abyssinia,
when the administration entered President Roosevelt recalls that into power it pledged a very con-
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Was It in order that an army of space is at hand-very decidedly Reuter
60," hundreds of thousands should be
The President's statement is re- created out of a peaceful people garded as a very important sign in order to carry out Italy's im that no more major legislation is
New York. Bept. 5 The Red Cross workers pent be perial designs? he asked.*
likely, at least until after the pre-President Roosevelt to carry out The Ethiopian conception of sidential elections in 1936, and the rescue work in Florida have not civilisation was certainly
Professor deze added. bringing up the young to hate,ness to take its own course to stal count of casualties at und not President intends to allow busied the authorities that the am-
Reuter
have refused to allow a company The Government is reported to of Italian native troops to guard the Italian Legation, and to have of the League Covenant when long time.
He was referring to Article X businessmen have demanded for a
wards recovery. This is what sent is: 256 known dead 253: in-
Jured ordered foreigners to assemble at Bignor Rocca walked out, certain fixed places. The Emperor Chamber.
of the has promised police protection to the various missions.
The exodus of Europeans from sand troops have entrained for the the capital continues, while a thou frontier Reuter
FRIENDLY RELATIONS
Geneva, Sept. 5.
Commissar for Foreign Affura, M. Maxim Litvinom, the Russian made his country's attitude known ductaly at the League Connell
Président Roosevelt's letter NO INTERRUPTION:
adds:"Conditions now are such as to offer further substantiał Professor Jeze did not allow and widespread recovery. himself to be interrupted. He de Reuter clared that the League's first step should be to apply Article XV and try to settle the dispute without delay, because with more time Italy would be given an opportu nity to further prepare for war
ing a “falt accompli and defeat the League by achieve
The Council had made catis factory proposals which could pre-1
vent war, Professor Jeze recalled:
He further referred to the elephantine tricks" of the Italians in their endeavour to dishonour
roy those whom they wished to des
Teuter.
BAM BODIES CREMATED
Miami, Bopt
The keys are lb at night time by a glare of funerar pyren to which rescuers resorted owing to the absence of coffins and the danger of an outbreak of disease. |_ Keller: headquarters at string- ton have instructed the local offi cisle to do their utmost to avoid cremation, especially of fed bodes, and endeav range the local ma steel coffins- Reuter