SANCTIONS FAIL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22412, 7 May 1936, Page 11

SANCTIONS FAIL

LIFTING PREDICTED ATTITUDE OF BRITAIN ITALY AND ETHIOPIA By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received May 6. 5.15 p.m.) LONDON, May 5 The Daily Telegraph's diplomatic correspondent announces that sanctions against Italy will be lifted shortly with a frank admission of their failure. The British Government appears to recognise Italy as the sole Po<*et oapal le of restoring ordor in Abyss'niu Signor Pirelli, chairman of the Italian Institute of Foreign Affairs, in an address at a private meeting of peers and members of tho Houso of Commons in London, said that sanctions must cease because they were unfair and ineffectual. Italy would cooperate with Britain as a great colonial Power in Africa. FRENCH DEMANDS PROBLEM FOR MUSSOLINI THREE IMPORTANT POINTS (Received May 6, 9.45 p.m.) LONDON, May 6 The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that although it is generally assumed that sanctions are dead there is considerable fear that Signor Mussolini will make demands which France cannot accept. It is declared that there are three points on which France will bo unyielding. These are:— (1) That Italy shall not possess rights and privileges in Abyssinia beyond those possessed by Franco in Morocco. (2) That France will stubbornly oppose an Italian attempt to raise an army in Abyssinia exceeding an ordinary colonial police force. (3) That France will demand that the Jibouti-Addis Ababa railway shall bo secured against the competition of Italian motor traffic. QUESTION FOR POWERS DISCUSSION PENDING MEETING NEXT MONDAY British Wireless RUGBY. May 5 Tho Foreign Under-Secretary, Viscount Cranborne, was asked in the House of Commons to-day whether the Government was satisfied that sanctions were achieving the purpose for which they were imposed, and, if not, whether, at Geneva, it would urge a reconsideration of the League's policy in the light of experience. Lord Cranborne replied that the situation which had arisen as the result of recent events in Abyssinia would form the subject of joint consideration by the States concerned at the meeting of the League Council on May 11. OGADEN FRONT ADVANCE OF ITALIANS Times Cable LONDON, May 5 The Rome correspondent of tho Times says the Libyan Division, in spite of rainstorms, has resumed its advance on tlie southern front and occupied Farso, 70 miles from Jijiga and 95 miles from Harrar.