IRATE ITALIANS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 261, 4 November 1935, Page 7

IRATE ITALIANS.

Public Bitterness Against Britain. EMBASSY GUARDED. LONDON, November 3. The Komo correspondent of "The Times" states that Mr. Baldwin's friendly references to Italy 011 October 31 are sarcastically rejected by most Italians, and the newspapers, with increasing vehemence, are declaring- them to be a "smoke screen" whereby the British Government is seeking to conceal its Imperialistic designs in Abyssinia to crush Italian expansion. The British Government, therefore, is begged to drop once and for all its "hypocritical" references to friendship for Italy and to speak out with the same loyalty and courage with which Italy is defending her interests and aims, and with the same clearness which, it is ironically said, is revealed in the acts of British policy. Another correspondent states that anti-British demonstrations continue. Students painted with black enamel the British coat of arms in the window of a well-known chemist's shop and plastered the front of an English jeweller's shop with posters inscribed: "Buy Italian goods and be proud of it."

Students also broke tiio windows of a tailor's shop in which was displayed "British cloth." English signs everywhere are hurriedly being takten down and shopkeepers are hastening to give their displays an all-Italian aspect. The Hotel London now is called the Hotel Adowa. Carabinieri and plain clothes detectives are guarding the British Embassy. Public hostility to France also is growing. Dressmakers and milliners arc removing the names of Parisian firms from new French models, which now are masquerading as Italian. EMERGE WITH HONOUR. EMPEROR'S CONVICTION. (Received 10 a.m.) ADDIS ABABA, November 3. After a special service in the cathedral the Emperor, enthroned at his palace with the Empress, received the salutations of the Diplomatic Corps on the seventh anniversary of his coronation. He expressed the conviction that Abyssinia will emerge from the ordeal with honour and dignity.

LED BY DESERTER? GUGSA AT HEAD OF ITALIANS. LONDON, November 3. Correspondents at Asmara state that Gugsa, the Emperor's son-in-law, who went over to the Italians, is leading the advance to Makalle with 1000 followers. Gugsa is most impatient to push on owing to rumours that Kas Seyoum has sacked his palacs. On the other hand the Abyssinians are eager to capture Gugsa, on whose head there is a reward of £2500. If he is taken he is threatened with various fates, from being hanged to being burned alive. A message from Addis Ababa says an Italian deserter declares that the morale of General de Bono's troops is suffering owing to a plague of flies and mosquitoes, from lack of water and from fear of fierce Danakils who are raiding at night, killing sentries, penetrating the lines and slaughtering sleepers round camp fires.