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PƐO-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1935

ABYSSINIA'S SCHEME

OF BATTLE

DEFENCE POLICY

IN WAR

ANXIETY ABOUT LẠCK OF ARMS

Addis Ababa, Sept. 11. The Emperor. I learn, is de~: termined to avoid a pitched bat tle if war starts with Italy. writes Patrick Balfour.

His policy will be defence, retreat to isolate the enemy from their base--and guerrilla warfare.

Each man will be called up by the chief of his tribe. He will receive either board nor pay for his services. He will leave

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land and set fourth with his mule. his rifle (if he has one). and provisions sufficient to the length of the campaign.

And he will be completely confident of his ability to defeat the Italian.

*

Mrs. Margaret Hawksworth Bell and Harry Content, aged 74 (above), broker, who were fellow victims of a $50,000 Miami jewel robbery, were secretly married-in New York and are honey- mooning en a trans-Atlantic voyage.

ALOISI'S PROTESTS ARE REJECTED AT GENEVA

At first the confidence of his leaders was almost as blind. But the attitude of the responsible official has changed within the last few months. Ee is learning. to estimate the mechanised Euro- pean army of to-day at its true value. He is anxious. Anxious; (Continued from Page 7 about his lack of arms, anxious

The President about his army's lack of familiar the

of the Council dispute rote last their replied with a statement which leaders, anxious about the effect votes not affecting the adoption he had also made in the secret! on it of those unfamiliar quanti-of the report under the provi-session ties. aeroplanes and poison gas.

The Committees re sions of the Covenant.

ports, he declared, were merely re- Nothing To Bomb

ADOPTED UNANIMOUSLY tailed officially and announced the Since the Italian delegate was fact and recalled the provisions of

to dissent from the the Covenant.

would

be

21

in

planes can do in this country is the only one

The actual damage which aero-

questionable. There is nothing report, it was adopted unanimous-

To-day, October 7, five days to bomb: no big towns. In wary

after the beginning of hostilities, time there will be no army head-

After the votes had been taken the members of the Council were The effect even of the destruction clared that the Council reserved the outbreak of war in its rela- quarters, no large, massed units. the President of the Council de called upon to make a decision on Bombay, Marseilles & London." of Addis Ababa from the its right to make recommendations tion Rombay, Marseilles & London Marseillies, Havre, London, Ham-nomadic by nature, the concep report

to the provisions of the negligible,

since, beyond those contained in the Covenant. burg, R'dam, Antwerp & Hall Bombay, Marseilles & London.

tion of a capital is alien to the The League Council then pro-no way affected the right of the

This imperious obligation Marseilles, Havre, Londen, Ham-Abyssinian. His capital means ceeded to deal with the report by parties to express their views to

nothing to him. He has known the Committee of Six on the ques the Council in a later session. several, and Addis Ababa is only tion of the responsibility of war. Ham-of recent date.

This report, after being read President was

The League of Nations Council In any case, the bulk of dam by the President. was also adopt-fact of war having begun in de-

faced with ageable property in the city is ed unanimously by the Council fiance of Article XII and it was European

with the exception of Italy, who, the Council's task to institute the As to poison gas, its efficacy in is a party to the dispute and so requisite measures. mountain country is questionable, debarred from voting.

Since the The chief danger from gas and The Abyssinian delegate voiced for October 9, it seemed appro- League Assembly was convoked aeroplanes is in their moral his approval of the report. Before priate that it participates in this effect. The Abyssinians have the vote was taken, Baron Aloisi task. This proposal was adopted SAILINGS never encountered either on any made

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dermine Abyssinian morals,

Safety In Anxiety

ALOIST PROTESTS

He declared that he had been given no opportunity on Saturday

the

JUBILATION IN ROME *CHINA MAIL * SPECIAL

Rome, To-day. Although there were no news of stating his views on the Compapers on Sunday, news The nation's leaders are aware mittee of Thirteen's report and capture of Adown by the Italians of the of this danger. They are anxious that he had only received the was quickly spread throughout the The Emperor, attended by his Committee of Six's report on Mon. city after an three Europear. advisers, is day morning“-

announcement by anxious. And in their anxiety

radio on Sunday evening.“ He protested energetically

A Fascist procession, preceded cision on this document of excep streets and proceeded to Casualties apart, a big defeat tional importance without having Piazzo Venezia, where a large would, to the ordinary soldier heard the Italian Government's crowd gathered outside the Duce's! automatically imply the end of

attitude. He would go home. Abyssinia, therefore, will not at- tack

may be their safety. For it will against the Council taking a de by bands, marched through the bring them caution.

the

war

the

official: residence, where the win- dows were still lighted. Shouting Signor Mussolini's

vance will be from Gerlogubi, be- "Our mountains are our for hind which Italian troops are alison, the crowd were not satis tresses.". In the long ran her ready established. The distance fed until II Duce stepped out on topographical situation should from here to Harrar is inconsider to the balcony for several minutes prove to be Abyssinia's strongest able, and little opposition is like to receive the acclamations

ly to be encountered until the

The city, which was decorated

Clear Objective

of

weapon.

If only for the psychological mountains are reached. But the with flags and hunting and h- effect of its capture, avenging country, impassable until the end minated in honour of the victory. 1896, Italy is expected to launch of the Ogaden rains in November showed an unusual aspect. Shop her first attack on Adowa, in the is thick, thorny scrub and difficult windows displayed portraits of north. Beyond Adowa her to traverse.

the King and Il Duce as well as greatest difficulty will be water.

The wells on the plateaux are

large maps of Abyssinia, where the The fertile province of Harrar lines of the Italian advance were sufficient only for a small peasant is clearly the principal Italian marked with flags. population and would soon dry jective. This ancient walled Arab EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS " The small streams dry up city will be the focal point of the were interrupted to announce the The performances at the theatre quickly after the rains. The war. If the Abyssinian armies fall of Adowa, whereupon the valleys of the bigger rivers are can

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sinian shows himself a fighter Milan- As Sunday newspapers But the south will be the main There is none of the smiling, are not allowed by law, the fall theatre of the war. Here Italy is tropical lethargy of the negro in Adowa was only made known to thought to be contemplating two ferocity and strength.

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and the fourteenth official army Harrar as the objective of both rifle of ancient date slung over streets at 8 pm. The news then The man in the street carries a report, which was announced in the One will be in a south-westerly his dirty white clothes and a de spread like wildfire throughout the direction, skirting the desert, from Assab, where she already round his waist. The shepherd Large crowds gathered in the

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the headquarters of their cattle.).

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evious Italian defeat According the King and Duce, crowds, fled throug streets, festively

ITALIAN CONSUL LEAVES Djibouti: The Italian Consul at and his star arrived here continuedthefr. Rome immediately.

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