IMPORTANT CONCESSION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 88, 14 April 1938, Page 7

IMPORTANT CONCESSION

ITALY TO BRITAIN

LAKE TSANA TERRITORY

CONTROL OF NILE SOURCE

EARLY CONCLUSION OF AGREEMENT

[By Telegraph- -Press Association—Copyright] Received April 13, 7.18 p.m. LONDON, April 13. According to the Daily Mail’s diplomatic correspondent the Anglo-Italian agreement will include an important concession to Britain, namely the Abyssinian territory covering the Lake Tsana district, enabling Britain to con trol the Nile source. It was semi-officially announced in Rome last night that the agreement will be concluded before Easter.

QUESTION IN COMMONS

MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S REPLY [ British Official Wireless,l Received April 13, 5.5 p.m. RUGBY, April 12. The Leader of the Opposition (Mr. C. R. Attlee), in a private notice of question in the House of Commons, asked Mr. Chamberlain (Prime Minister) whether, in the negotiation of the agreement between Britain and Italy, any requests had been made fot the incorporation of some Abyssinian territory in adjacent British territory by way of a frontier rectification or otherwise for the affirmation of the British rights and claims in relation to Lake Tsana.

The Prime Minister replied: “As 1 have more than once informed the House, I am not in a position at ’he present to give any information regarding the subjects of the discussions now proceeding.”