REACTION IN NEW YORK.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 303, 5 October 1935, Page 5

REACTION IN NEW YORK.

NEGROES FIGHT ITALIANS.

STARTED BY BOYS’ QUARREL.

WASHINGTON, October 3.

The Department of State has kept President Roosevelt fully informed concerning the developments in (the Ethiopian situation, and the president is expected to issue a proclamation concerning an arms embargo against both Italy and Ethiopia as soon as Mr Cordell Hull (Secretary of State) advises that this should be done. Mr Hull said to-day, however,' that an embargo would not be imposed before

there was a further clarification of economic and financial sanctions against Italy. . '• In the meantime, in New York trouble has unexpectedly started between Italians and negroes in both Harlem and Brooklyn, necessitating 1000 uniformed police and 300 detectives being ordered on special duty to prevent further outbreaks. The trouble in Harlem started when negroes boycotted and picketed an Italian market, and resented the efforts of the police.

The Brooklyn disturbance originated with a childish quarrel between Italian and negro schoolboys, in which the parents quickly, participated. Df. P. B. Potter, a member of the international committee which' adjudicated in the Wal Wal incident on the Ethiopian border, on his arrival at New York declared that a random shot at a ; bird by, a restless soldier might have startled the entire Italian and Ethiopian conflagration. He said that soldiers of both countries on that occasion faced each other for ten days at high nervous tension, and a chanco shot started both sides into action.

DEMONSTRATION IN SYDNEY.

POLICE DISPERSES CROWD. SYDNEY; October 4 ; Fifty men and women associated with the anti-war movement in Sydney made a demonstration outside the Italian consulate to-day. They shouted “Hands off Abyssinia !” and demanded an interview: with the acting-consul (Mr L. Vitalii), whoi finally admitted one representative. Mr Vitalii’s secretary later issued a statement, along the lines of those issued in Romg, blaming Abyssinia for aggressive acts and warlike preparations. 1

The police dispersed the gathering outside and afterwards guarded the consulate office.

AUSTRALIA’S ATTITUDE.

WILL SUPPORT LEAGUE FULLY.

CANBERRA, October 4. After an emergency meeting of the Federal Cabinet to-day, the Prime Minister, Mr J. A. Lyons, said that Australia, through its representative, Mr S. M. Brace; on the Council of flie League of Nations, and by direct cooperation * with the British Government, was making all possible, efforts to maintain peace even ,at the eleventh hour. “If, unhappily, active trouble arises in Abyssinia, all our efforts ; will be directed toward confining* the trouble within the narrowest limits, while at the same time giving the League our fullest- support in its attempt to effect a peaceful and just settlement.

Mr Lyons added that no special steps relating to the war situation, were contemplated by the Government at the present moment. Cabinet will be called together again next Wednesday.