ETHIOPIANS PREPARING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 246, 31 July 1935, Page 5

ETHIOPIANS PREPARING.

CROWN JEWELS SENT TO LONDON FRENCH SCHOOLS CLOSING. (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 30. The Addis Ababa correspondent of “The Times” says that three Italians, including a diplomat’s wife, left foi Djibouti. Two French mission schools have closed, the teachers declaring that they are going to Europe. The Government & calm, pending the result of the meeting of the League Council, though it hopes the Italian delegation will not spin out the time until completion of the Italian military dispositions and make it too late for'Abyssinia to import arms. The Emperor, Haeli Selassie, has sent the Crown jewels to ‘London for safe keeping, as he; believes six Italian frontier divisions will attack a few weeks hence.

FURTHER DELAY OPPOSED.

OPERATIONS SHOULD BE

SUSPENDED

(Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 30. At the League Council meeting the Abyssinian delegate (Tcela Hawaiisli) intends to protest against further delay unless Italy agrees to suspend military operations.

MORE HOPEFULNESS EX-

PRESSED.

FRENCH AND ITALIAN ATTITUDE

LONDON, July 30.

The Paris correspondent of “The Times” says cautious hopefulness is now r - the keynote of French expectations about the League Council meeting. It emphasised that the essential thing now r is not to waste one hour of the month’s delay which the original arbitration procedure still offers as a further chance for conciliation. The French are also apparently influenced by the feeling that feigner Mussolini’s ultimate aims may he less crude than public manifestations suggest. There is even ground ioi suspicion that ho would be satisfied w’ith a brief military demonstration for purely propaganda purposes, provided that he w r as also assured of official recognition of certain claims long implicit in international agreements.

The Rome correspondent of “The Times” also* reports a more hopeful feeling after the receipt of the full text of the Abyssinian Note. That Abyssinia is still willing to allow the Council to interpret the terms of reference of tiio Conciliation Commission, and that no mention is made of Article XV., are considered to have eased the situation.

The Italian judicial case is regarded

as unassailable; therefore it is confidently expected that the Council will examine only the Ual Ual and other incidents, and instruct the conciliation Commission to resume on this basis, with or without a fifth arbiter.