CONDUCT OF WAR

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 112, 13 April 1936, Page 7

CONDUCT OF WAR

APPEAL BY LEAGUE. MESSAGE TO COMBATANTS. OBSERVANCE OF AGREEMENTS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 11. The Secretary-General of the League of Nations (M. A'yenol) has transmitted to Governments which are members of the League, on behalf of the Committee of Thirteen, the following text adopted by the committee on April 9:— The Committee of Thirteen, having taken cognisance of the communications addressed by the Ethiopian and Italian Governments to the SecretaryGeneral on the subject of various failures to comply with international agreements on the conduct of war, and expressing the emotion which, these infractions have caused to public opinion, addresses an urgent appeal to both belligerents inviting them to take all (necessary steps to prevent such failures to comply with the said conventions and of the principles of international law. The committee hopes to receive from the Powers to whom it addresses this appeal such assurances as will allay the emotion to which it has given expression. Signor Suvich (Foreign Under-Secre-tary), in a letter to M., Avernol, said: "Observance of the laws of war has been and is a constant rule with the Italian army. Such" assurance must be bilateral. Italian military authorities cannot avoid any repression of any act of ferocious atrocity committed by the enemy in defiance of the principles of right and morality."