PEACE QUEST
ITALY AND ETHIOPIA PRELIMINARY DISCUSSIONS BOMBING WITH GAS ELEVEN TOWNS SUFFER (British Official Win-less.) i;ecd. 12.45 p.m. JiUGBY, April LS. The preliminary peace talks between Italy's delegate- to the League of Nations, Baron Aloisi, and Scnor Madariaga. the chairman of the Committee, of Thirteen, opens at Geneva this evening and progress is to la' reviewed at a meeting of the committee to-morrow afternoon on a report 'it' the chairman, lb 1 was in formal conversation al Geneva yesterday with the Abyssinian representative.. There has been no change in the attitude of the British Government from I lie position taken up in ministerial statements in Parliament a few days. ago.
In a communication received from the Abvssinian Government bv the Secretary General of the League, it is staled thai bombing with gas took place I'J line's between December 22, 1935, and April 7 Eleven towns, it is added, were bombed, and during tho last four bombardments of Quorum, which was bombed on seven occasions, the town was drenched with gas.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18991, 16 April 1936, Page 6
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