WAIT TILL MAY 11.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 106, 6 May 1936, Page 7

WAIT TILL MAY 11.

League Talk on Effects of Sanctions. CONFERENCE OF NATIONS. British Official Wireless. (Received 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, May 5. In reply to a House of Commons question as to whether the Government was satisfied that sanctions were achieving the purpose for which they were imposed, and, if not, whether it would urge at Geneva reconsideration of the League's policy in the light of experience, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Cranborne, replied that the situation that had arisen as a result of recent events in Abyssinia would form the subject of joint consideration by the States concerned at the meeting of the League Council on May 11. TO LONDON AND GENEVA. HAILE SILASSIE'S PLANS. (Received 12.30 p.m.) JERUSALEM, May 5. Haile Silassie and his family are expected to remain six weeks here before going to London, after which the Emperor will go to Geneva to observe negotiations for the reconstruction of Abyssinia. He will be the guest of the High Commissioner, Sir Arthur Wauchope, for a few days and will then occupy an Abyssinia-owned building in the Street of the Prophets. AMERICAN WARNING. IMPORT OF ITALY'S VICTORY. NEW YORK, May 5. The Ethiopian debacle almost crowds all other news from the front pages or American newspapers. The «*ew York Times" warns the Italians against too much optimism over their victory. "Whether the victory means all that it now seems to mean to the Italian people in their first flush of enthusiasm mU st be left to history to determine, S,ys the paper. "It would be premature S include either that Italy has won a victory which will mean her _real enrichment or that this victory incidentally marks the downfall of the League of Nations. "There is good reason to suppose that the whole eystemof the League must be abandoned, because experience has proved that the League to-day is no stronger than the nations of the woild are prepared to make it. 5