CHALLENGE FROM ITALY

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1935, Page 5

CHALLENGE FROM ITALY

STRONG RALLYING OF POWERS KEEPING OF COVENANT DEMANDED LITTLE HOPE OF CONCILIATION By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received 5.5 p.m. London, September 10. THE smaller Powers are rallying strongly to the view that the Italian challenge must be met squarely, says the Geneva correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. Scandinavian countries have indicated that they will withdraw from the League if the big Powers are not prepared to make the Covenant Some of the South Africans also are taking a strong line. A Minister of a European Power after a conversation with Count Vinci, Italian Minister at Addis Ababa, expressed the opinion that there would be a world war within a month, says the Addis Ababa correspondent"of the Daily Telegraph. All hopes that Italy would assist in the settlement of the dispute have been abandoned with the admission of Senor Madariaga (Spain), the chairman, to the committee of five that he had consulted with BaroneAloisi whether the reshaping-of the Paris proposals, which seemed the utmost the League was prepared to concede, might serve as a fresh basis for conciliation, but Baron Aloisi’s answer was abrupt, as was Signor Mussolini’s to the original suggestion, says the Geneva correspondent of the Associated Press.