WILL NOT ACCEPT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 229, 27 September 1935, Page 7

WILL NOT ACCEPT.

ITALIAN REACTION.

Expected Nothing from the

League. FEELING IN FRANCE. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, September 26. Italian reaction to the League Council decision is that "Italy expected nothing from the League and was not mistaken." Signor Gayda, editor of "Giornale d'ltalia," reiterates that Italy will not accept tlie League's dictation, adding "that when Japan refused to accept the same principle nclKier l*ie League nor any of the other Powers reacted." "Tlie Times" Paris correspondent says the League's decision, though not welcomed, has been received with relief because, failing a hostile Italian move 011 Abyssinia, sanctions will not be practical until the resources of Article XV. are exhausted. The Press emphasises that the period of formulating the committee's report offers possibly the last chance of keeping the dispute within manageable limits. Prance, meanwhile, is increasing the defences on the Jibouti railway. The Associated Press Geneva correspondent points out that the most discussed phrase of Mr. Eden's speech was his reference to possible further measures to safeguard peace during the Council's preparation of its report. The Associated Press was assured that Mr. Eden did not intend the phrase to signify a minimising of the British objection to action being taken outside the Council. A further Ethiopian request for the dispatch of impartial observers must be considered in relation to its practical difficulties. MANY SPIES SHOT. New Mania in Abyssinia and Somaliland. ARMY ON MOTOR CYCLES? (Received 10 a.m.) ADDIS ABABA, September 26. Spy mania has broken out on both sides of the frontier. The Italians are allegedly nsing Somalis to penetrate Ethiopia. Many of them have been caught and shot. The Italians have captured a number of spying Abyssinians. Those eluding capture report that the Italians are massing thousands of motor cyclists and hundreds of tanks on the frontier of Italian Somaliland. LEAGUE CRITICISED. Screen for Hypocrites, Says Mr. Borah. ADDRESS TO FARMERS. NEW YORK, September 26. "The League of Nations has become a screen for hypocrites who are trying to divfclc the territory of Europe," said Mr. W. E. Borah, Republican member of the Senate, who was chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Hoover regime, in an address to an audience of farmers at Wilder, Idaho. He warned them to fight for sovereignty in matters pertaining to the Constitution, "as that document is the only protection you have on God's earth." After asserting that a war which would involve European nations appeared only too probable, Mr. Borah recalled recent statements by spokesmen for Brftain to the effect that the United States must defend the peace of the world, but it was likely, he said, that behind the peace of the world was a thing that concerned Britain a great deal more, namely, "the territory she has down there around Ethiopia." Continuing, Mr. Borah said: "The Premier of Italy has discovered that there are some vast natural resources in Ethiopia and he has a hankering for them. Ethiopia has committed the crime of being a small nation in possession of vast riches, so she is to be punished. I venture to say that if the people of Italy had the kind of Constitution you have, with power to express themselves, the right of free speech and the right to discuss whether or not they should go into war there would be no war in Europe." Time and again Mr. Borah was interrupted by applause. FOR BRITISH BORDER. BOMBING 'PLANES TO PATROL. LONDON, September 26. "The Times" correspondent at Nairobi, Kenya, says five Fairey day bombers and four Vickers transport bombers have arrived there. They will co-operate in patrolling the northern frontier, which divides the colony from Abyssinia, where, in the event of war, the* Government is anxious to avoid clashes between nomadic tribes and refugees seeking the scanty water holes. SHELTERS UNDER ROME. ANTI-GAS PROTECTIONS. ROME, September 26. The Vatican's building department has planned a deep anti-gas shelter in the Vatican gardens for use of the Pope, cardinals, prelates, soldiers and civilians of Vatican City "in the event of an air attack. The shelter will be linked with the Papal Palace by concrete underground corridors. The Italian Government proposes to liavo similar shelters built beneath Rome. PANIC OF ETHIOPIANS. LIONS ROAR IN ADDIS ABABA. ADDIS ABABA, September 26. Five of the Emperor Haile Silassie's lions escaped from their cages and roamed the streets. They killed one man who sought to capture them, entered a stable and killed two Arab horses and then dispatched 12 sheep. People in the capital were panic-stricken. Finally 200 members of the Imperial Guard be"an a big-game hunt and the lions fell I'jader a fusillade of bullets.