DRAFT OF SANCTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 87, 9 October 1935, Page 11

DRAFT OF SANCTIONS

ECONOMIC MEASURES

ITALY WISHES TO STATE CASE

(Received October 9, 10 ajtn:) ■'■■:' GENEVA, October 8. Baron Aloisi has sent a letter to the League deploring the Council's decision on the ground that Italy has had no time to define its 'attitude concerning the report of the Cqi*>?-^7~2 of Six and reserves the right to state a case to the Assembly on October 9. The Council therefore did not meet this afternoon.

-It is understood that the United Slates, Germany, Japan, and Brazil will be invited to join the Committee for the purpose of co-ordinating economic sanctions.

The Secretariat of the League, as- j slstcd by economic experts, including' the Assistant Secretary of the British Treasury (Mr. R. G. Hawtrey), has drawn up a draft of sanctions. It is understood that they include rupture of diplomatic though not of consular relations, restrictions on postal, railway, and-other communications, - withdrawal of credits, restriction of all projects tending to assist the conduct of -war, limitation of exports to Italy, the provisions to become more rigorous, including pressure on the civil population should war continue, and culminating: in the last resort in a blockade of the Italian coast, to be entrusted to certain members of the League.

Mr. Tecla Hawariat announced that the Italian Ambassador (Count Vinci) has been ordered to leave Addis Ababa, as the Italian Legation had become a centre of espionage and intrigue and plots against public order.