WISH TO AVOID WAR INVOLVING WORLD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 269, 13 November 1935, Page 7

WISH TO AVOID WAR INVOLVING WORLD.

ITALY'S PROTESTS.

Injustice and Serious Evils Of Sanctions. THREAT OF REPRISALS. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, November 12. Italy's Note to the Powers announcing her counter-measures says that sanctions will retard world economic recovery because they will exclude 44,000,000 Italians from the Avorld's markets while Italy's retaliatory ineasures will seriously affect the flow of trade and exchange. Despite the measures taken against her, Italy does not want to abandon the League because she wishes to avoid the possibility of a colonial conflict developing into a wortf conflict. The Note concludes by stating that the Italian Government would be glad to know how the other Governments intend, in their own free sovereign judgment, to proceed in respect to the restriction measures proposed against Italy.

Discourtesy to II Duce. The "Daily Telegraph" Rome correspondent says that Italy's Note also draws attention to what Signor Mussolini regards as flouting the diplomatic courtesies. He complains that it was only from newsnapers that he learned that sanctions were being imposed. Italy received no notification either from the committee as a whole or from the nations composing it. "The Times" says Mussolini's protest Note says Italy will take countermeasures against sanctions, the responsibility for which will fall on the countries which have countenanced sanctions. It is believed that one of the countermeasures will be Italy's denunciation on the day sanctions operate of all commercial treaties between Italy and those countries which voted for sanctions. Rome's import decree includes iron, steel, cotton, wool, silk, films, wireless goods,, fresh meat, fish, butter, oils, greases, cereals, precious stones, chemical manures and stones. The effect is to place the country's industrial and commercial life more than ever under the Government's control. League Authority Challenged. According to a message from Washington, a synopsis of the Italian Note dispatched to all the nations which have approved sanctions against Italy was made available yesterday by the Ambassador, Signor Augusto Rosso', shortly after he had submitted it to the United States Government for its information. The Note makes the strongest and fullest protest against the "seriousness and injustice" of the procedure adopted against Italy. It challenges the authority of the League's Co-ordination Committee to apply sanctions. Italy, in effect, questions whether the sanctions programme is in fact a collective League measure. The Note gives warning that Italy will be forced into reprisals against economic and financial pressure, and calls attention to the serious consequences, not only to Italy but to the economic world generally, which will result. Each Government is the Individual judge of, and is responsible for, the measures against Italy, the Note says, because the Italian Government does not recognise the legitimacy of the Co-ordination Committee. It concludes by saying that the Italian Government asks to bo advised how the United States Government, "in its free and sovereign judgment," proposes to act with regard to the measures proposed against Italy. The Note also argues that -the raising of the arms embargo against Ethiopia not only increases the gravity but threatens to prolong the conflict.