ITALY UNEASY

Evening Star, Issue 22276, 29 February 1936, Page 15

ITALY UNEASY

CONTINUED POSTPONEMENT OF ATTACK OCCUPATION OF AMBA ALAGI CLAIMED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright ROME, February 25. (Received February 29, at noon.) 'Marshal Badoglio’s continued postponement of the attack is causing much anxious speculation, the people uneasily wondering what obstacles are ing him. Activity is confined to sporadic and not very successful bombardments of Ras Kassa’s forces, the Abyssiniaus replying vigorously with anti-aircraft guns. A later Rome message states that Marshal Badoglio’s communique announces that the Italians have occupied Amba Alagi. USE OF MUSTARD GAS ADDIS ABABA, February 28. (Received February 29, at noon.) The Red Cross units on the northern fronts urgently require antidotes for mustard gas, which the Italians are reported to be using on a considerable scale. The Abyssinian Government spokesman denied as grotesque the reports from Rome and Djibouti that the Emperor Selassie is ill. OIL DISCUSSION PENDING (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegranh—Copyright RUGBY, February 28. (Received February 29, at 1 p.m.) Mr Eden will leave London on Sunday to attend Monday’s meeting in Geneva of the Committee of Eighteen, the main purpose of which is to consider the question of adding oil to the list of commodities on which the embargo against Italy ahs been placed.