ITALY DETERMINED

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 141, 16 May 1936, Page 9

ITALY DETERMINED

VICTORY TO BE SUSTAINED. DANGER OF CONFLICT. IF BRITAIN INTERFERES. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, Alay 15. Tho Alorning Post’s Rome correspondent says: If Britain wishes to continue a policy aiming to secure any modification of tho present situation in Abyssinia she can only do so by waiving with Italy, because Signor ALussolini lias staked the Savoy dynasty on his Abyssinian policy. This 10 neither sensationalism nor alarnnsm, but a specific warning. The decree investing King Victor Emanuel with the title of Emperor of Abyssinia with sovereign riguts over the whole country means tnat the Abyssinian issue is placed on a new level and that Italy is given a new status—a status unassailable except as a counter-challenge to tlie Italian Crown, Signor lUussolini’s gesture of creating sovereignty so brusquely was not an act of definance against international usage, but an expression oi a threefold united will, namely, the will of the Italian people, tlie will oi the Italian Government, and tlie will of the Italian reigning house. With the nation thus behind him Signor Alussolini made his gesture in order to stop the League wasting further time. His peremptory telepnone message to Geneva recalling Baron Aloisi signified that he is not going to allow tho question of Crown rignts to be even discussed.

Italy is ready and equipped to face the consequences and tne sooner these two facts are realised the sooner will tho Abyssinian imbroglio be straightened out. Italy is convinced that Britain is the prime mover in the endeavour to throw her hack to a state ol political vassalage from which Italy has at last emerged under the Alussolini regime .

Italy wants to he left alone to develop Abyssinia. It is urgently necessary that Britain should realise that Italy has taken up a position which only war can alser and, in view ot the British Government’s official policy, the possibility of such war seems perilously near.

Tho Daily Telegraph’s Geneva correspondent understands that the Italians propose to use Lake Tsana as a base for a largo fleet of long-range aeroplanes, and will also seek to conduct discussions on tho flow of the Nile waters into Egypt with the Governments at Cairo and Whitehall.

IRREVOCABLE POSITION

DUCE’S RECAPITULATION

PARIS, May 10. Signor Mussolini, in a special interview with Le Matin, recalled that he declared in September that military sanctions would lead to danger and a recasting of the map of Europe. The JDuce Added: “What I then sait! of military sanctions I repeat now in respect of economic sanctions. I say that Abyssinia is irrevocably Italian. It is irrevocable, and I repeat that again and again. All Europe must hear that word. Let the worm m on that the Italian people can, to-mor-row, iif necessary, defend the Empire with all courage and force.”

ABYSSINIA’S CASE.

DEFENCE BY EMPEROR. Received Mav 10, 11-30 a.lll. LONDON. Mav 15. Tbe Emperor Haile Selassie is going to Geneva on June 15 to defend Abyssinia’s case at the next Council meeting.

MISSIONARIES RESCUED

NEW ZEALANDER INCLUDED

ADDIS ABABA, May 1-f

Italian soldiers rushed to Marayo, 70 miles to the south, and rescued two women missionaries, Misses Freda Horn, formerly of Palmerston North, and Daisy MacMillan, an American, who were reported to have been attacked and beaten by Abyssinian pillagers.