WORKS IN ABYSSINIA

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 128, 1 June 1936, Page 9

WORKS IN ABYSSINIA

SPECIAL ITALIAN FUND ROME, May 30. The Italian Cabinet has decided to create a special fund to finance public works in Abyssinia, the initial capital being £1,600,000, and has authorised the issue of shares in. Italian and foreign currencies, which is taken to indicate that Italy may seek to borrow abroad to develop Abyssinia. ALLEGED , ABYSSINIA CRUELTIES The Italian Consul for New Zealand states;-— "By the Note of May 9 the Italian Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs lias informed the Secretary-General of the League of Nations that the Italian Government was aware that for some time agents were working in Egypt jn order to invalidate the declaration made by some members 'of the Egyptian Medical Mission in Ethiopia regarding the atrocities perpetrated by the Abyssinian troops against Italian prisoners. Those agents tried to get the members who signed the declaration to retract their statement, threatening them with accusations of falsehood and dishonesty, and further tried to obtain from them contradictory denials. However, not less than twenty members of the above-mention-ed mission have confirmed by declaration the information given of the cruelties to which Italian prisoners have been submitted. A copy of their declaration has been sent to Geneva."