OIL SANCTIONS

Evening Star, Issue 22261, 12 February 1936, Page 9

OIL SANCTIONS

REPDRT OF EXPERT COMMITTEE TO BE TRANSMITTED TO GOVERNMENTS (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, February 10. A Geneva message states that the Drafting Committee of experts which is studying oil sanctions, expects to finish its task to-morrow, when a plenary meeting of the sub-committee will be hold to discuss and adopt the final report. The report, it is anticipated, will be transmitted to the Governments. ABYSSINIANS REPULSED ADDIS ABABA, February 10. A communique admits the first defeat acknowledged by either of the combatants, when Res Seyoum’s effort to recapture Makale was repulsed after a day’s fighting owing to triple Oft barbed wire entanglements, against which the Abyssinians flung themselves to be mown down by machine-guns. THE DEATH ROLLS ROME, February 10. Losses in the Ethiopian campaign in January were 440, of whom 351 were killed in action. The Ethiopian death roll since the beginning of January is 884. ITALIAN PROPAGANDA DIRECTED AGAINST ENGLAND. LONDON, February 11. (Received February 12, at 10 a.m.) Though only yesterday Mr Eden, in the House of Commons, disclosed that official steps were being taken to refute the Italian broadcast story that most of Ras Desta’s troops in the battle on January 17 were commanded by British officers, messages from Rome indicate that the morning papers continue to make England the scapegoat for the war with the announcement centred on the main pages; “ The Negus’s military adviser is an Englishman, Colonel Holt. All the Abyssinians’ ammunition comes from England.” The worst feature of this baseless propaganda, which is described in London as ludicrous, lies in the fact that the announcement is placed alongside the largest list of casualties the Italians have yet published. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL HOLT'S POSITION (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 11. (Received Februai-y 12, at noon.) Lieutenant-colonel H. B. Holt, mentioned in the cable, is senior British military attache in Addis Ababa. Like the United States and French military attaches, he has in pursuit of his duties proceeded to Dessye in order to keep in touch with the progress qf events. There is not the slightest ground for the suggestion that he is advising the Emperor.