SHOOTING WITHOUT TRIAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 285, 14 September 1935, Page 5

SHOOTING WITHOUT TRIAL.

ITALIAN WARNS BELGIANS. INSTRUCTORS TO ARYSSINTANS.

(Received This Dav, 11.15 a.m.) DJIBOUTI, Sept. 13

The Italian Consul warned Belgian ax-officers who are en route for Addis Ababa as army instructors, that fn the event of war if they were captured fchev would be shot without trial.

ITALIAN WARSHIPS IN CREEK WATERS.

ANOTHER PROTEST MADE.

LONDON, September 13

The Athens correspondent of “The Times” says that Italy notified the Government that a torpedo-boat was obliged l to anchor at Asida because of bad weather. Tho Government protested against the new infringement of international courtesy.

The “Scotsman,” commenting on the visits of Italian warships to Greece, expresses the opinion that Italy, because the League is considering sanctions, desires to intimidate Greece and possibly the Balkan Powers, and also to

seize Balkan merchantmen for use if a blockade is established, and to secure Greek islands for bases for naval raids, thereby setting up a counter blockade.

IRISH VOLUNTEERS FOR ITALY. ONE THOUSAND BLUESHIRTS. • • GENEVA, September 13. |A meeting purporting to represent Fascists of 1? European countries issued a communique protesting against League intervention in Abyssinia. General Eimar O’Duffy, of the Irish Free State, announced that 1000 of his Blueshirts had volunteered for East Africa because they were conscious that Italy’s struggle was on behalf of civilisation against barbarism.