CONFIDENCE IN LEAGUE

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 138, 12 June 1936, Page 9

CONFIDENCE IN LEAGUE

SPEECH BY SELASSIE NOT TIME FOR ABANDONMENT (Received June 12, 10 a.m.) LONDON, June 11. The Abyssinian Emperor, Haile Selassie, attended his first public j luncheon in England when he was the guest of the League of Nations Union, j The chairman, Dr. Gilbert Murray, ■ toasted his health. ! Haile Selassie, in replying, said that there was current an unfortunate ten- . dency to consider the League in its present form as incapable of continued existence and of further action to prevent war. He added that Abyssinian* in the Wallo, Chercher, andi other occupied provinces were rising I against their oppressors, while thej western third of Ethiopia was still! under the government of its lawful) authorities. This was not the moment for abandonment of confidence in the League. "STILL UNCONQUEKED" WAR TO CONTINUE LONDON, June 10. "Abyssinia is still unconquered, and the war goes on," said M. Herrouy, [ Foreign Minister of Abyssinia, on ar- ! rival in London, where he will resume his post as adviser to the Emperor. "The Government still rules from 1 Gore, in the west, where there are ' 10,000 well-armed warriors. Ras Desta, in the south, has 15,000 men, and the scattered troops from Ogaden are rei forming. The rains have immobilised ; the Italians, whose aeroplanes are help- ; less owing to the low clouds, and whose i roads are useless. They are prisoners . in their own garrisons. The Abyssin- ; ian armies will resume resistance in ► October when the rains are over. It > will be mountain warfare. A third of [ the country is still intact."

GBAZIANI AS VICEROY

I BADOGLIO RESIGNS j ' (Received June 12, 9 a.m.) [ > HOME, June IX. Marshal Badoglio has been relieved ' of the Viceroyship of Abyssinia at his j own request, and General Graziani suc--3 ceeds him. ' Signor Ottavio dl Peppo succeeds i Baron Aloisi as chief of the Foreign Ministry. Count Ciano may replace I i Baron Aloisi at Geneva if Italy retains * jher membership of the League.