ABYSSINIA'S FEAR OF FRONTIER INCIDENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 230, 28 September 1935, Page 9

ABYSSINIA'S FEAR OF FRONTIER INCIDENT.

REQUEST TO LEAGUE.

Observers in Case of Act of

Aggression.

SUPPORT ACCORDED

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LONDON, September 27

Tho bureau of .the League of Nations Assembly decided to propose to the full meeting to-morrow that the Assembly should not be dissolved but adjourned, enabling members to be called together at 24 hours' notice in the event of necessity.

Tho Associated Press says that the first meeting of the Committee of Thirteen dealt solely with the Abyssinian Emperor's request for frontier observers, which met with a good deal of support but some opposition on practical grounds. It was decided to telegraph tho Emperor acknowledging tho request, tho decision on which awaits expert advice.

The correspondent adds that Britain took the lead at tho meeting of the Committee of Thirteen, advocating the adoption of tho Emperor's proposals to dispatch neutral observers. It is understood Mr. liden does not regard the difficulties as insuperable.

The experts' committee will probably be limited to 10. Britain docs not desire representation for fear of increasing Italian complaints that she is taking a preponderant share.

Tho Council, after defining the general lines -of the dispute, will leave the specialists to present the historical aspect. It is already manifest that a number of Italian complaints are so well founded that tho Council's report is likely to rebuke Abyssinia to some extent.

A British official wireless message states that the League Council's Committep of Thirteen elected as chairman Senor do Madariaga, who is also chairman of the Conciliation Committee of Five.

The request of the Ethiopian Government for the dispatch of League commissioners to observe conditions on the frontiers and to fix the responsibility for any act of aggression was accepted in principle, but its practical possibilities have been referred to a committee of experts drawn from British, French and Spanish delegations.'

The Committee of Thirteen also undertook preliminary discussion of the form of report and the nature of recommendations which it will submit to the Council under paragraph 4 of Article XV. of the Covenant.

M: Laval left for Paris after the first meeting of the Committee of Thirteen. Mr. Eden is returning to London tomorrow night or Sunday for a few days. ARMS FOR ABYSSINIA. Big Belgian Consignment Breaks Embargo. MOBILISATION RUMOUR. LONDON, September 27. Tho Addis Ababa correspondent of "The Times," in a copyright message, says: It is now clear that the arms embargo has been definitely broken. The Abyssinian Government expects a shipment of arms from Belgium any day. This cargo was banned in July and removed from a ship lying at Antwerp, although the Emperor Haile Silassic had paid for it. Tho cargo includes 1700 rifles, 2300 carbines and seven billion rounds of ammunition, worth £25,000. Numbers of Swiss anti-aircraft guns have reached Addis Ababa and Swiss instructors are teaching native gunners how to use them.

The correspondent adds that a circumstantial report from Addis Ababa circu--1 lated in the middle of this week stating that general mobilisation had been ordered in Abyssinia was instantly officially denied. He reveals that

mobilisation is not general in the interior, but was partial yesterday and was limited to the frontiers facing Italian territory and is believed be impending in the south-west areas, Gore and Maji. However, in the last hour, an official dispatch from Addis Ababa repeats the categorical denial of the statement that general mobilisation has been decrecd. WAR RISK CLAUSE. ADVICE TO SHIPOWNERS. (Received 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 27. The Chamber of Shipping has advised British shipowners to include a war risk clause in all new contracts. BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE. AGGRESSION IN EUROPE. LONDON, September 27. The "Daily Mail" says it understands that the British reply to the French inquiry regarding the former's attitude in respect of any act of aggression in Europe will elaborate passages in Sir Samuel Hoare's speech of September 11 and that it will reiterate the British Government's intentipn of taking the same line should there be an act ot aggression in Europe as is being followed in connection with the dispute between Italy and Abyssinia.