ITALIAN INVADERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 83, 7 April 1936, Page 11

ITALIAN INVADERS

LOAN FOE, AEROPLANES

ABYSSINIAN APPEAL IN LONDON

THE LEAGUE DISCUSSIONS

United Press Aasociation—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received April?, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, April 6. It is reported from Rome that native troops captured Alamata, 10 miles south of Quoram, heavily punishing the remnants of the Emperor's guard and capturing a large quantity of forsaken material. The Italians are 130 miles from

Dessie. Aeroplanes again bombed basa Baneh.

PROTECTION FROM SLAUGHTER.

In consequence of the embargo on foreign loans and the ineffectiveness of the League's intervention, the Abyssinian Minister in London intends to make a private appeal by circular for 100,000 subscribers of £10 each to a loan of £1,000,000 to buy aeroplanes with which to counter Italian air raids. "There will be little difficulty in getting aeroplanes or pilots," he says. He directs attention to the "dire necessity of protecting Abyssinians from slaughter."

FEELING CONCERNING SANC TIONS.

While Rome, is believing that .a triumphant end to the war is imminent and Italian newspapers are claiming that the Emperor is fleeing to Dessie, and aircraft bombing and "strafing" his retreating warriors, the Committee of Thirteen will meet at Geneva on Wednesday to seek a settlement of the war. The Committee will meet with the knowledge that the Emperor can no longer effectively resist an enemy employing every device of modem warfare, and, according to the "Daily Telegraph's" diplomatic correspondent, that important members of the League are unprepared to maintain existing sanctions against Italy, much less increase them. The Geneva correspondent of "The Times" says it is recognised in Geneva that in its correspondence with Senor de Madariaga, chairman of the Committee of Thirteen, tlie Italian Government conveys a plain intimation that the Italian viewpoint is that any'peace negotiations must take place outside the League so long as sanctions are in force and the resolution declaring Italy the aggressor is unrescinded. PURSUIT WITH BOMBS. The Rome correspondent of "The Times" says that a report was current on Sunday that Italian troops had reached Lake Tana. Sixty-four tons of explosives have been dropped in the past two days on fleeing Abyssinians in the neighbourhood of Quoram. All available aeroplanes, including those from the base at Massawa, were employed. ■ . The Addis Ababa correspondent of "The Times," in- a copyright message, says that the Government is now certain that the railway bridge across the Hawash River will be bombed very soon. The Italian Government since December 20 has made urgent representations to the French Government that it desired to bomb the permanent way of the Addis Ababa-Jibuti railway, but has always been informed that France would consider such an attack on French property as an unfriendly act.