ABYSSINIA

Grey River Argus, 13 June 1936, Page 5

ABYSSINIA

GRAZIANI VICEROY Badoglio Given Dukedom (Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) ROAI E. .lune 11. Signor Alussolini has created Marshal Bad'aglio Duke of Addis Ababa. Alarshal lladogl.o Ims been relieved of lhe Vieeroyship of Abvssinia at liis own request. Alarshal Grazian’ will succeed him. Signor Ottavio Di I’eppo will succeed Baron Aloisi as Envoy ot' the Foreign M inist ry. Count t.'mno m i.v replace Baron Alo’si at. Geneva, if Italy retn 'is her membership of the League.

Ending Sanctions

MR CHAMBERLAIN’S ADVOCACY. ROME. June .11. ■ The Italian newspapers are giving prominence to Mr Chamberlain’s speech in favour of ( >ndiug the Sanctions. They declare it is the most severe blow yet struck bv :t Br.tish po! tii-inn against the maintenance of Sunet ions. RUGBY, June 11. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was reported in to-day's papers as having severely criticised, in a speech at a political d'nner in London, suggestions that the League Sanctions, .mposed in connection with th,- Ital'ati resort to war in East Africa, should be continued, following the collapse "f the Ethiopian resistance, or even intensified. These reports were the subject of :t quest'ou addressed by private notice 1 o the Prime M nister. i n the < 'ominous. this afternoon, by the leader of th,. Opposition.

Mr Attlee asked whether Air Cham berlain’s speech represented the policy of the Government.

Mr Baldwin replied that the t'h.'in eellor had informed him that th,, sug gest ons he put forward were definitely stated by him to l:e provisional re. Ilections in the Italo-Ethiopian disput l which had occurred to him personallv.

Air Attlee then asked if the v ew< expressed by the Chancellor were the considered v'ews of the Government. The Prime Minister answered that no conclusions on these matters had vet been reached.

Pressed by the leaders of both sections of the Opposition to say if the expression of private views by a Al'nister was consistent with tradition and constitutional usage, and was not embarrassing to other .Ministers. Mr Baldw n replied: “ I mak<> no complaint myself of what the right hon. gentleman said.' ’ LONDON, June 12. Believing that Sanctions should bo a! andoned, the Duchess of Atholl has resigned from th e League of Nations Union. SELASSIE’S STATEMENT. LONDON. June 11. Selassie attended his first public lunch in England, when he was the guest of th,. Letigue of Nations I'nion. Professor Gilbert .Murray toasted his hea It h.

Selassie replied that there was current an unfortunate tendency to consider the Leagu,. in its present form incapable of continued existence, or further action in the yesonl war. He added: The Abyssinians in Wallo. Clterclier and other occupied provinces were rising aga’ust their oppressors, while, in the west one-third of Ethiopia was still under the Government of its lawful authorities. This was not the moment for abandonment of confidence in the League. Selass'e is going to Vevey on June 17th. He will occupy his own chalet there. NATIVES AT VARIANCE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. June 9. Questioned in the Commons on the present position in Abys-.in’a.. Lord ('ranbome ct’d ‘h‘it th'' Government had no information that sine o the c'H'tm"e e.f Add's Ababa on M'>y 5, and lla’r.'.r end Diredawa shortly afterwards, [here had been nn v great rr'” sinr the ''rev which was occupied by tii c Italian forces during the

concluding stages of the campaign. R. ports "from Western Abyso’n’a in-' di'e.ati'd trie evs ewe cf eons'derable uni-est and general insecurity, a feature. of the latter being the" hosti'ity bc ween the Gal'a and Amlw.ru elements in the populat’on. Having regard to .‘the possib'd’ty of d'rorder in this part of the country, the British Consulates at Mega and Maji had been temporarily c used, in view of the impossibility of ensuring the safety of Hie’r stalls

Dr. Ralph Hooper, a member of the American ambu'ance division in Abyssinia, discloses tlm] Ras Dcsta, during the customary hurr’ed retreat commandeered a Red Gross lorry and loaded it with ammuni.ion, but before the work was completed, the Da’ians put him to flight, and captured the lorry. Shortly afterwards, they decid ed to'bomb'the ambulance units.