TO THE BITTER END!

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 February 1936, Page 5

TO THE BITTER END!

MUSSOLINI'S DETERMINATION.

POURING MEN INTO AFRICA.

(By Telegraph-Press Assn.--Copyriglxt) Received Monday, 9.50 p.m. ROME, Feb. 2. "I hope foreign nations will appreciate that the despatch of 50,000 more labourers to Africa .finally disposes of the belief that Italy is ready to negotiate for peace at almost any price when the xaias begin," said Mussolini in an address to Cabinet. This Combined with to-day's announcement that Italy is sending a new picked Alpine division to Africa is interpreted by qualiged observers as showing Mussolini's determination to prosecute the war to the bitter end.

More Wild Italian Press Talk

AMBASSADOR ASKS BLUNT QUESTION.

Received Monday, 9.35 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 3

The Daily Telegraph's Eome correspondent says the French Ambassador ■called on Signor Suvich and asked what interpretation foreign diplomats were expected to place on the Popolo d'ltalia's outburst on February 1. The Times' Eome correspondent says other newspapers, discarding the Popolo d'ltalia's finer distinctions, declare that the extension of sanctions will lead to hostilities. The suggestion that the countries upholding the Covenant are seeking the preservation of peace is discarded as falsehood and hypocrisy.

Abyssinian Army Starving

BRITISH DOCTOR'S ALLEGATION.

Received Monday, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 3

The Times' Stockholm correspondent says in a letter from Addis Ababa on January 13 Eric Smith, a member of the Swedish ambulance, declares that Ras Desta's army is dying of starvation. Three thousand soldiers were ill, while 12,000 deserted in 10 days. 'Malaria and dysentery are rife. SUB-COMMITTEES SET UP. TO DISCUSS MATTERS AFFECTING SANCTIONS. (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) GENEVA, February 3. The Oil Experts Committee, under the chairmanship of M. Gomez (Mexico) has appointed two sub-committees to discuss the control of transport and the effectiveness of oil sanctions in the light of th e attitude of non-League States. .BATTLE AT TEMBIEN. "LOSSES ADMITTED BY ITALIANS. (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) ROME, February 3. It is officially admitted that 16 •officers and 161 men were killed and fourteen officers and 143 men of the Blackshirt division wounded in the recent battle at Tembien. USE OF POISON GAS. URGED BY ITALIAN NEWSPAPER. TO INTENSIFY RESISTANCE TO SANCTIONS. (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) ROME, February 3.

General Diamanti, Commander of the Blackshirts, declares that despite the Tembien casualties the division was ready and eager for future victories.

The newspaper Lavua Fascista urges the prompt employment of poison gas on the Abyssiriians in order to intensify the resistance to sanctions. UNOFFICIAL REPORT. ANOTHER BATTLE IN PROGRESS. (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) ADDIS ABABA, February ."..

It is unofficially stated that a big battle is progressing near Hanzien on the Italian lines and communications between ILanzien and Mal<::le. Then; are also reports of an engagerhent ten miles north of Negelli in v/hich f.n'ty Abyssinians and twentyfive Italians were killed after the Abyssinians approached an Italian encampment thinking it was an Abyssinian camp.