“LEAGUE’S DUTY”

Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1935, Page 7

“LEAGUE’S DUTY”

CHECK UPON ITALIANS PROTEST FROM LABOUR DEFIANCE OF THE WORLD SANCTIONS SUPPORTED CLOSING OF SUEZ CANAL By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 12.30 a.m. London, Sept. 2. At the Trade Union Congress at Margate, representing 3,000,000 men, the president, Mr. W. Kean, Sheffield, bitterly attacked Signor Mussolini’s defiance of the world’s condemnation of an “unjust and rapacious assa It on Abyssinia and a contemptuous violation of Italy’s solemn pledges to renounce war.” "The League Council has one plain duty,” he continued. “Italy can be coerced if she cannot be persuaded to keep the peace. Economic and financial sanctions will suffice to restrain Italy’s aggression. If these are not immediately effective the closing of the Suez Canal against Italy would bring to a standstill the East African campaign.

“Such action might brirtg the League of Nations Powers into war with Italy, but we must *ice the issue. War is a certainty anyway unless Italy’s aggression is restrained. If 5 t is unchecked it will destroy the foundation of the League of Nations system and intensify the dangerous tensions in Europe and in the Far East.” “IN FREEDOM’S CAUSE”' ABYSSINIA DIGGING IN Addis Ababa, Sept. 1. While Signor Mussolini was discussing the forthcoming manoeuvres with his naval chiefs the Abyssinian northern army, reinforced to a strength of 400,000, began digging in, entrenching mountain scarps, erecting stone walls and excavating anti-tank pits. The Emperor Haile Selassie Ijas issued a fresh patriotic appeal, urging families to give their sons to freedom’s cause. /