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ARMS FOR ABYSSINIA ACTION BY BRITAIN DIPLOMATIC ANXIETY (Elec. Tel. Copyright —United Press Assn.) (Received .July 12, noon.) t ‘ , LONDON, July 11. 'The. Government has< received several applications' for licenses to export arms to AbVssiniaJ but* has not'granted them pending consideration! No application has been received in respect to Italy, but ,it js understood that, all applications will .be treated in. the same way. Tin* diplomatic world' continues to be absorbed-in the problem of ' averting an Italo-Abyssinian war." ‘ M. Aveual',' ’Sdcretary-General of the League, . has already conferred with Signor Grandi, Italian Ambassador in London, and with the French and Polish Ambassadors. . The .strictest secrecy is being observed everywhere,; but it iis reported with reserve tively : proposing as , a , solution that Italy should .be I granted a. zone in the Abyssipign -hinterland, of Eritrea and Somaliland, ill which she would exercise political , control, and behind this-a; fufther: Zone of Italian • influence to .be Recognised ilyy-sAbyssinia, in which •Italy * Would have, a free haiid in rehabilitation and suppressing slavery. . It is 'believed that the present consultations iaro everywhere centring primarily on the .immediate proceedings.
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■QLO&b' OBSERVATION ’* (Received July 12, 11 a.m.): , .WASHINGTON, July 11. The Secretary.. of State, Mr. Col'dell Hull, said at a press . conference that the United-States was deeply interested in doing whatever she could to preserve tha peaefe in all the world, and was closely observing . tho Italo-Ethiopian developments. NO. ACTION BY. JAPAN TOICIO, July 11. The foreign spokesman denies the report cabled yesterday that the Japanese Emperor is trying to avert the Italo-Abyssiniaii' hostilities.*
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18756, 12 July 1935, Page 5
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