WAR CERTAIN

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 232, 28 June 1935, Page 11

WAR CERTAIN

View of Many People In Italy ABYSSINIAN DISPUTE Direction of Italian Ambitions TROOPS STILL LEAVING By Telegraph.—l’ress Assn.—Copyrl-ln (Received June 27. 7.15 p.m.) Rome, June 26. The right to build roads, railways, bridges, and schools in Abyssinia, to use Influence in civilising it. and also the general right to peaceful possession of colonies, afe believed to have been Signor Mussolini’s aims as explained to Mr. Anthony Eden. Signor Mussolini pointed out that Italy was not prepared to lag behind Germany in claiming colonial expansion. It is understood that Mr. Eden did not expound the British proposals because they were unacceptable to Italy. fl The “Daily Telegraph’s” Rome correspondent, a London cable states, says that the Press remains silent upon the conversations with the exception of the reports cabled abroad. While everybody hopes that Italian aspirations will be realised peacefully, many believe war is inevitable.

Things have gone so far that nothing short of a military protectorate on Moroccan lines will achieve Italy's ambitions of providing room for surplus population, freedom to exploit the supposed untold mineral wealth of Abyssinia, to control its foreign policy, and the right to represent the Emperor in Europe. There seems to be no objection to the Emperor remaining on the throne. Italy would suppress slavery, and open schools throughout the country. In the meantime the departure of troops continues. BARELY DOZEN LEFT Italians at Addis Ababa London, June 2G. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Addis Ababa correspondent says that owing to the tension and the possibility of an Italian-offensive in July barely a dozen Italians remain there excepting those at the Legation. MR. EDEN RETURNING TO PARIS (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, June 26. Mr. Anthony Eden, British Minister for League of Nations Affairs, left Rome this morning by rail for Paris, where he will have a further conversation with the French Premier, M. Laval, to-morrow before returning to London.