A DATE FIXED
END OF RAINY SEASON
ASSURANCES OF SUPPORT
; LONDON, July 9. The "News-Chronicle's"- Rome correspondent says:—
"In the last ten days 20,000 Italian troops have embarked for East Africa, and another 20,000 are concentrated at Italian ports ready to leave."
"Operations will commence on a date already fixed," says the "Giornale d'ltalia," Signor Mussolini's mouthpiece, "namely, the end of the rainy season in September."
It is asserted that Italy has already received formal assurances of support from eleven countries, including France, Austria, the Little Entente, Belgium, Spain, and Greece.
Signor Mussolini, it is added, will shortly officially demand Abyssinia's expulsion from the League of Nations on the ground that she had failed to fulfil any of her engagements, notably the pledge to abolish slavery. Italy's policy, according to the newspapers, is to eliminate Abyssinia not only as a sovereign State but also as a 'protectorate.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 9, 10 July 1935, Page 11
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