CONFIDENCE OF ITALIANS

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21759, 16 April 1936, Page 11

CONFIDENCE OF ITALIANS

/Awaiting Final Parleys

NO INTERFERENCE WANTED ABYSSINIA RELYING ON THE LEAGUE (TTjriT«D FUM 4.SSOCHTIOH—COPTBIGHT.) (Received April 15, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 15. An Italian Government spokesman at Rome declared that Baron Alo ; si's task at Geneva "is to deal with the preliminary period which always occurs at the end of a war before a peace treaty is signed." According to the Rome correipondent of the "Daily Mail," Baron Aloisi will make out a strong case in favour of the League of Nations standing back and giving Italy and Abyssinia a chance to come to terms without interference.

The Rome correspondent of "The Times" says: "The Italian attitude is still uncertain, but that Italy will now open her mouth wider than she would have done a few months, even weeks, ago cannot be doubted. The notion that the Committee of Five's proposals or the terms of the HoareLava' *-l?n can be revived is scouted as p. Serous.

•'Ti.e practical Englishman, it is held, must realise the truth of his own saying that 'possession is nine points of the law.' After all, Italy, it is pointed out, has not asked for the. opening of peace negotiations. Therefore, she is all the more entitled to draw every possible advantage from her favourable military position in Abyssinia." The Geneva correspondent of "The Times" says that the Abyssinian repressntative conferred with Senor de Madariaga (chairman of the Committee of Thirteen), to whom he restated the Abyssinian Government's attitude—that negotiations for a settlement must be within the framework of the League of Nations and in the spirit of the covenant, and that any direct conversations must occur in the presence of a league representative.

AN INTERRUPTED BROADCAST

ABYSSINIAN EMPRESS TALKS OF INHUMANITY

(Received April 15, 7.0 p.m.)

LONDON, April 14

A continuous series of Morse code figures on the same wavelength, at a very slow blurred rate, obliterated' almost the entire English and American broadcast by the Empress of Abyssinia from Addis Ababa. The Empress was dealing with the inhumanity of Italian methods of warfare.

The only audible phrases were: "In spite of all they have been unable to conquer Ethiopia," and "In the came of humanity I appeal for help." No indication has been given v:hence the Morse signals originated.