REPLY TO ITALY

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 304, 21 November 1935, Page 9

REPLY TO ITALY

GOVERNMENTS CONFER, DISCUSSIONS WITH FRANCE. SEEKING A SOLUTION. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received November 21, 11.35 a.m. RUGBY, Nov. 2U. The terms of the draft British reply to the Italian Note of protest against sanctions have been communicated for their information to the other Governments participating in sanctions, many of which had expressed a desire for information regarding the lines of the British and French replies. It is understood the texts of the replies will be published on Saturday morning and the British Note will be handed to Italy on Friday. Mr Maurice Peterson, the head ( ol the Abyssinian Department in the Foreign Office, who several weeks ago visited Paris and had conversations with the officials of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a view to establishing the technical details of the Abyssinian problem as a basis to which any proposals for a settlement of the Italo-Abyssinian conflict might bo referred, is returning to-morrow to Paris to assist the British Ambassador (Sir George Clerk) in the discussions with the French Government of the various matters arising out ol the Italo-Abyssinian dispute. It will be recalled that at the time of Mr Peterson’s former visit no proposals which gave any prospect of fulfilling the conditions which the British and French Government consider essential, namely that they be acceptable to the Ethiopian and Italian Governments, and in consonance with the spirit of the League Covenant, were, forthcoming. While, there are no grounds lor supposing that such proposals are now available, the request made by the League Co-ordination Committee on November 2 that the French and British Governments should work in tbe name of the League for the re-establishment of peace makes desirable the continuation of the technical survey of the problem, SPEECH BY MARCONI. BROADCAST REFUSED. LONDON, Nov. 19. The Daily Mail’s Rome correspondent says that the British Broadcasting Corporation has refused an application from the Marchese Marconi, who is going to London on November 22, to broadcast a 10-minute address throughout Britain giving the Italian viewpoint in the present controversy. The corporation explains that only British Government or League officials are permitted to speak on this matter. A. similar prohibition was extended to General Ezio Garibaldi, a grandson of the Liberator, on a recent visit to London.

RAID BY ITALIANS. IN BRITISH TERROEORY. LONDON, Nov. 19. The Daily Telegraph’s Djibouti correspondent says that native Italian irregulars are reported to be raiding British Somaliland for live stock, once seizing 800 camels and wounding several resisting tribesmen who have strongly protested to the British authorities, demanding compensation. GOLD FOR ITALY. PURCHASING MONOPOLY. ROME, Nov. 19. An official decree creates a Government monopoly of purchases of gold from abroad. All forms .of gold manufactures require a special permit for importation. Jewellers and citizens are forbidden to buy raw gold or second-hand gold articles. Auctioneers must not sell unredeemed gold pledges to the Government. ABYSSINIAN PLANES. ORDERED FROM BRITAIN. Received November 21, 10.20 a.m . LONDON, Nov. 20. It is reported from Addis Ababa that Hailie Selassie has ordered four Per-cival-Gull aeroplanes, similar to Miss Jean Batten’s machine, for communication work.