NOT SATISFIED YET.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13090, 25 October 1935, Page 5

NOT SATISFIED YET.

ITALY SUSPICIOUS OF BRITAIN.

LEAGUE IN HER POCKET. United Press Assn.—By Electric TeJegraph—Copyright.. LONDON. October 24. Lhe limes’ Rome coi respondent say.s although Sir Samuel Hoare’s speech pleased Italy something “concrete and practical” is still demanded. The sanctions machine, it is emphasised, continues to* function unchecked, and Rome could not speak of real relaxation of tlie tension until the machine showed at least some signs of being stopped. Ihe fundamental Italian argument is that the essence of tlie problem still lies in the position taken up at Geneva by Britain. Nobody, it is affirmed, denies Britain’s- right to take a leading part in tlie League, but it is maintained that Britain is not content with the leading, role hut has imposed her views and wishes upon the other nations. Consequently, the main issue, it is argued, i s not so much between Italy and the League as between the different interpretations given the Covenant by Britain and Italy. The possibility of conciliation, therefore, is viewed with some hesitancy. Abyssinia is still considered almost a minor factor in the situation as the. assumption is that she will alway.s end by adopting British suggestions. It also suits the Italian argument to that the League as a whole is equally in Britain’s pocket. Tlie general conclusion thus reached is if British professions of goodwill are to mean anything the Italian case must be studied afresh and the hasty ‘ and unjust standpoints hitherto taken up against Italy revised. A Paris message says the Suez Canal Company’s latest report shows that hitherto Italy lias sent about 250,000 white troops through the canal, the dues in respect to which and tlie accompanying war material total nearly £10,000,000. A Rome message says in order to preserve supplies of newsprint the Government has decreed the limiting of the size of Italian newspapers to six pages daily fiom November o.

HIDDEN PERILS. LONDON, October 23. ihe Daily Ma.il’s special correspondent, Major-General J. F. C. Duller, after the completion of a motor tour of the Tigrc front, states that the country is ideal for sharpshooters- and machine-gunners and sometimes suitable for tanks, but owing to the plentitude of ground cover it is difficult for aircraft. Hidden perils lie at every turning on the roads. A thousand feet below the bend on the Adikaie road lie five lorries smashed to matchwood, whose drivers missed the bend. Such accidents demonstrate tbe supreme difficulty of the Italian problem. -V copy of the Abyssinian mobilisation order for the southern front belatedly received at ’YYhartoum runs: “All boys old enough to carry a spear and all men will be sent to Addis Ababa. Married men will take their wives to carry food and coos. Those without wives will take any women without husbands. Women with small babies need not go, but the husband must take another woman. Tin* blind and those who cannot walk or carry a spear, namely those without a band or foot, are exempted. Anyone iound at home after receipt of this order will be hanged. ’ ’

Abyssinian criminals arc punished for the first offence by amputating a hand and tor tbe second by amputating a foot.