THE TRUE POSITION ABYSSINIAN SIDE EFFECTS OF SANCTIONS WARNING OF REPRISALS FINAL APPEALS ELECTIONS IN BRITAIN ELECTION NIGHT BRITAIN'S RECOVERY

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 117, 13 November 1935, Page 11

THE TRUE POSITION

ABYSSINIAN SIDE

EFFECTS OF SANCTIONS

WARNING OF REPRISALS

FINAL APPEALS

ELECTIONS IN BRITAIN

ELECTION NIGHT

BRITAIN'S RECOVERY

London is preparing for the most lively election night since the war. Special licensing extensions to midnight "have been granted to; public houses, as well as to hotels and fashionable restaurants. Mr. Baldwin, besides his last speech in the campaign at Newcastle, in a final message to the nation says:— "Steady recovery for four years has made Britain the most envied of all nations. The world is watching because it realises that the continuance of a strong, experienced, and stable Government here -.will' be a vital factor in the preservation of world peace through the League of Nations." The Prime Minister pledged sthe Government not to spend a penny more on defences than was necessary for safety. The Government would strive to bring the nations into agreement for an all-round reduction- of armaments. .. Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald faced an angry audience at Shotton. He referred to mob dictatorship, and the meeting was prematurely closed.

ACCORDING TO PLAN ?

EMPEROR INTERVIEWED

WILL FIGHT TO BITTER END

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received November. 13, 1 p.m.) LONDON, November 12. Gradually stories from the war front are being elbowed from the main pages of the newspapers, some of which are more concerned to find the true position of the Abyssinians than with Italian achievements. The question is being asked whether Ethiopian assertions that everything is going according to plan and that they are drawing the Italians into more difficult terrain masks their anxiety in handling complex difficulties which the Italain thrusts create or ignorance of actual happenings. Invariably the news from Addis Ababa is about a day behind that filtering from the Italian fronts. .The Emperor's news bureau time and again has professed to be without news concerning the fate of strategic points the capture of which the Italans have already announced. The Emperor's headquarters admits that it has heard nothing from the southern front, but officials at the palace are disposed to think that Ras Nasibu's return to Jijiga from Dagabiir may be a prelude to a quick general withdrawal from Ogaden. The "News-Chronicle's" Addis Ababa correspondent, seeking to discover whether the Abyssinian war plans were being pursued," questioned the Emperor, first as to whether the guerrilla tactics had succeeded as well as he expected and whether the Abyssinians would be able to check the Italians when they desired. The Emperor replied: "The hour of launching a great battle has not yet struck. There has been nothing so far to justify the modification of our strategy. The patriotism of the Abyssinians will enable the. economising of resources in 'order to conduct a lengthy war. We are certain that if economic sanctions are carried out vigorously, they will weaken Italy's capacity and appetite for war, but, with or without sanctions, we are prepared to fight to the bitter end." In the second place, replying to a question as to the possibility of a settlement, the Emperor answered: "We hope for an early peace, but we will reject the infringement of our independence and liberties." He added that over three hundred women and children were killed and mutilated in the first month of the war. t •

ITALIAN WARNING RETARDING OF ECONOMIC RECOVERY (Received November 13, 11 a.m.) LONDON, November 12. Italy's Note to the Powers, announcing counter measures, says that sanctions will retard world economic recovery because they will exclude 44,000,000 Italians from the world's markets, while Italy's retaliatory measures will seriously affect the flow of trade and exchange. Despite the measures taken against her, Italy does not want to abandon the League, bscause she wishes to avoid the possibility of her colonial conflict developing into a world conflict. The Note states in conclusion that the Italian Government would be glad to know how the Governments intend in their own free sovereign judgment to proceed in respect to the restriction measures they propose against Italy. The decree issued by the Italian Government providing that a permit is to be obtained from the Finance Minister before merchants may import any of the 128 listed articles, includes iron and steel, cotton, wool, silk, films, wireless goods, fresh meat, fish, butter, oils, greases, cereals, precious stones, chemicals, and manures. The effect is to place the country's industrial and commercial life more than ever under the Government's control. REPRISALS AGAINST FRANCE. The "Daily Telegraph's" Rome correspondent says that France is the first country against which the Government has taken specific reprisals. Traders are forbidden to export goods to France or any of her colonies unless they are holding anticipatory credits or unless cash payment is made in advance. A further decree, which will be issued today, will virtually, sever trade relations between France and Italy. "The Times" says that Italy's Note protesting against the application of sanctions, states that Italy will take counter-measures against sanctions, responsibility for which will fall on countries which countenanced sanctions. It is believed that one of the | counter-measures will be Italy's denunciation on the day sanctions operate of all commercial treaties between Italy and countries which have imposed sanctions.

SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES ! WASHINGTON, November 11. A synopsis of the Italian Note dispatched to all nations which approved sanctions was made available by the Ambassador, Signer Augusto Rosso, shortly after submitting it to the United States Government for its information. The Note made the strongest and fullest protest against the seriousness and injustice of the procedure adopted against Italy, and challenged the authority of the 'League's Co-ordination Committee to apply sanctions. In effect, Italy questioned whether the sanctions programme was. in fact, n collective League measure. The Note warned tint Italy would be forced into reprisals against economic and financial pressure, and called attention to the sarious consequences, not only to Italy, but also to Ilie economic world generally, that would result. Each Government was the individual judge of and responsible for its mea-

PARTIES AT FULL PRESSURE

RECORD ROLL TOTAL

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received November 13, 11.30 a.m.)

RUGBY, November 12,

Less than 48 hours remain before the nation goes to the polls, and almost every one of the: 1348 candidates for the election has many platform engagements before the campaign closes. The party organisations are working at full pressure on the final' canvass of their supporters.

The number of electors on t^ie rolls1 is the largest that has ever taken part in a Parliamentary election. Normal voting hours are from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., but in many constituencies, in order to suit the convenience of voters, polling booths will be open on Thursday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. The counting of votes in some 300 boroughs' will be undertaken immediately after polling closes, and the results will be known within a few hours. In the more scattered county constituencies the votes will be counted on the following morning, and early Friday afternoon all the results, with but a few exceptions, will have been declared.

Results will begin to be received about 10 p.m. on Thursday, and the British Broadcasting Corporation is arranging to announce them in their programme as they are published.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, made his finaL speech at Newcastle tonight, and nearly every other Minister, including the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, and the Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, spoke at one or more meetings today. The Leader of the official Labour Opposition, Major Attlee, spoke at Nottingham.

LIVELIEST SINCE WAR

WHAT LONDON EXPECTS

(Received November 13, 1 p.m.)

LONDON, November 12.

PARTY CO-OPERATION LONDON, November 12. "It is untrue to say that other countries are recovering at the same pace as ourselves," said Sir John Simon at Gateshead. Britain had recovered far more rapidly than France, America, Italy, or Germany. The reason was that the co-operation of leaders of the different parties had enabled the application of remedies which no party Government could have applied. The work done for peace would bear * comparison with any in history.