LEAGUE EFFORTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18992, 17 April 1936, Page 6

LEAGUE EFFORTS

ITALO-ABYSSINIA'N PEACE TALKS BY MINISTERS MEETING IN SECRET SESSION OF TWO HOURS (British Official Wireless.) Heed. LI" p.m. ItUGBY, April 16. A meeting of the League Sanctions Committee of Eighteen has been provisionally arranged for to-morrow at Geneva, "but whether it will be called together depends on the course of the proceedings at the conciliation committee meeting.

Shortly after his arrival at Geneva the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, and M. Paul Boneour were in contact with members of otlier delegations. Mr. Eden received the Abyssinian representative, Mr. Wokle Marian, at Ins hotel and was in conversation, with him for a considerable time. Later, Mr. Eden had a talk with Senhor Vasconcellos. ihe chairman of the Committee of Eighteen, who later called on M. Boneour. COMMITTEE OF TIIIBTTEN The League Committee of Thirteen mot in'seerel at Geneva this evening and, after a session lasting' two hours, adjourned till to-morrow afternoon. Earlier .to-day Seuor Madariaga, the chairman of the Committee of Thir toon, had 'been in negotiation with the Ethiopian and Italian representatives regarding' lite opening of peace negotiations which both Italy and Ethiopia previously had accepted in principle. Nothing .■iiithoritntivc is known ol the outcome of these conversations, but a coniinunhfiie issued to-night states Ihal the Committi I' Thirteen received ;i repori noon them from Seuor Madariaga. The communique adds that it has been decided it 'could l„. advantageous to inform the Ethiopian representatives of the result of •he second con versa I ion which Scnoi Madariaga and the Secretary-General Of the League, ,M. Avenol, 'had with lhe Italian delegate, Huron Aloisi, during the afternoon.

I APPEAL FOR ETHIOPIANS MEDICAL SUPPLIES I PROTECTION PROM GAS I I (British Ollicial Wireless.) ; Reed. 2 p.m. RUGBY, April 16. An appeal appears in the press signed by the Duchess of Hamilton, as the chairman of the Abyssinian relief committee, for funds for the purchase of gas masks and anti-gas medicaids and hospital equipment generally for dispatch to Abyssinia. Large sums have already been sub- • scribed by the British public, as well as in other countries, for ambulance i work in Abyssinia, but have had less than the hoped-for result owing to the large-scale destruction of stores and equipment in the Italian bombing raids, and urgent representations have been ceeived bv British societies from Abyssinia as to the need for further and immediate help in the face of the appalling suffering resulting from the intensification of gas warfare by the Italian forces.