ABYSSINIAN DISPUTE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18759, 16 July 1935, Page 5

ABYSSINIAN DISPUTE

LEAGUE COUNCIL MEETING ITALIAN PREPARATIONS INCREASE IN ACTIVITY (British Official Wireless.) Rec. noon. RUGBY, July 15. Members questioned the Foreign Secretary in the House of Commons regarding the meeting of the Council of the League of Nations in connection with the Italo-Abyssinian dispute, and the adjournment of the conciliation commission. Sir Samuel Honre recalled that the council had decided in May to meet if, in default of an agreement between the arbitrators,' an understanding should not have been reached by July 25 as to the selection of the fifth member of the commission, unless the four members agreed to extend the period, and the Council had also decided to meet and examine the situation if on August 25 a settlement by means of conciliation and arbitration should not have taken place. He added: “In view of the above circumstances, an. early meeting of the Council appears to be inevitable." According to reports from Rome, the Government lias ordered 10 new submarines, which are being launched early in 1936, has called up a new army division for service in the East African colonies, and is mobilising six Black Shirt divisions to replace those which have gone to the colonies. Signor Mussolini has also ordered the mobilisation of the Messina division. A communique explains that the orders are due to the increasing momentum of the. Abyssinian military preparations