THE SANCTIONS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 27, 13 November 1935, Page 7

THE SANCTIONS

PROTEST BY ITALY JUDICIAL AND MORAL GROUNDS SUSPENSION OF TRADE. NOTIFICATION OF REPRISALS. NOTES SENT TO THE POWERS. lOnrted Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.50 p.m.) ROME, Nov. 11. Italy has, notified alPthe Sanctionary Powers that' she is protesting, on judicial and moral grounds, against i the application of sanctions, denying the justice of the League’s action in enforcing Article XVI. against Italy, inasmuch as the Article was not involved against Japan, Bolivia, or Paraguay. Italy is dispatching a differentlyworded Note to Egypt, because she is not a member of the League. The protests are ‘believed to repeat the charge that Abyssinia is the guilty party, against whom League ‘action should he applied. The Government has issued a decree announcing virtual suspension of all trade with the sanctionary countries, providing that a permit from the Finance Ministry must be obtained before merchants may import any of the 128 listed articles. The decree becomes operative next Monday.

A CHIEF SURRENDERS.

WITH 5000 NATIVE CAVALRY.

KEY PROVINCE GIVEN UP.

(Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) • ASMARA, November 12.

The 2nd Army Corps penetrated deeply into the Tem.bien region, suggesting that the Abyssinians have |ompletely evacuated it. The Sultan Mahomet Jahio (chieftain .of Aussa) submitted, with 5000 native cavalry from Mussali. His defection places the province, which is the key position between Eritrea and Somali, in Italian hands, which will be a great asset to the invaders.—“ The Times.’ 1

NO DIPLOMATIC COURTESIES.

ONLY NEWSPAPER INTIMATION

(Received This Day, 8.35 a.m.) LONDON, November 12

The Rome correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” says that Italy's Note protesting against sanctions also draws attention to what Signor Mussolini regards as the flouting of diplomatic courtesies, and complains that it was only from the newspapers that he learned that sanctions were being imposed. Italy had received no notification either from .the committee as a whole or from the nations comprising it.

The decree includes iron, steel, cotton, wool, silks, films, wireless goods, fresh meat, fish, butteP, oils, greases, cereals, precious stones, (chemicals and manures. The effect is to replace the industrial and commercial life of the country more than. ever under the Government's control.

LEGALITY OF ACTION DENIED.

NOTE TO THE UNITED STATES.

WASHINGTON, November 11

A synopsis of the Italian Note dispatched to all nations that approve sanctions was made' available by the Ambassador (Signor Augusto Rosso) shortly after he had submitted it to the United States Government for its information.

The Note made a very strong and full protest against the seriousness.and injustice of the procedure adopted against Italy, and challenged the authority of the Co-ordination Committee of the League of Nations to apply sanctions. In effect, Italy questioned whether the sanctions programme was in fact a collective League

measure. • The Note contained a warning that Italy • would be forced into reprisals against economic and financial pressure and called attention to the serious consequences, not only to Italy, but also to. the economic world generally, that would result. Each Government was the individual judge of, and was for, the measures against Italy, the Note said, because the Italian Government did not recognise the legitimacy of the Co-ordination Committee. The Note (concluded: “The Italian Government asks to be advised how your Government, in its free and sovereign judgment, proposes to act with regard to the measures proposed against Italy.” ______