CAUSE OF PEACE

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 276, 27 November 1935, Page 3

CAUSE OF PEACE

Letter to Signor Mussolini

VIEW TO ENDING THE WAR

MR. BALDWIN’S INVITATION

By Telegraph—Copyright—Press Assn.

LONDON, Nov. 26.

Mr. Stanley Baldwin’s invitation to Signor Mussolini to formulate conditions on which he would expect to end host’lit.es was a passage in a i letter that Sir Eric Drummond read

co 11 Duce, according to M. de Brincn, M. Laval’s mouthpiece, writing in the Parisian newspaper “L’lnformation,” which the “Daily Telegraph’s” diplomatic correspondent quotes in support of the statement that Sir Eric’s conversation with Signor Mussolini represents a new phase in British peace efforts and diplomacy.

“EAGER FOR SETTLEMENT”

A REPORT FROM ROME

By Telegraph —Copyright -Press jvssn. LONDON, November 26.

The ‘'News-Chronicle’s” Rome correspondent says ifchat Signbr Mussolini is reported to be eager for an, Abyssinian settlemdnit. If he could arrange it now, while his armies are victorious, he would 'consent. He realises that if the wiar conltlinues another month he .will not bo able to conduct it on itlhc extravagant scale practised iiijthQrto. He also knows thalil despite h'is ipeop/le’is igaMant efforts to resist sancitlilotals, doubts and murmurings are bog-inning to be heard of the possibility of Italian defeat. It' is even for the firfSt timo suggested in the official-ly-i umpired Press. Thus Signor V. Gay da, in ‘ 1 G-iornal'e-d’ltalia,” writes: “If Italy is brought to .her knees by increasingly .severe sanctions, tho fundamental question between Itlailiy and Abyssinia will remain unsolved.”

THREE BATTALIONS ROUTED ITALIAN LEADER KILLED ADDIS ABABA, Nov. 26. Abissinians assert that a detachment of Rais Seyoum’s troops, under Dedpazmateh Worres, surprsled and routed (three Italian bahthlionis enjoying a feast of roasted oxen commandeered from natives n*o.rth of Maleate. The Abyssinian'S killed the Italian commander and many soldiers and captlined eight horses and 13 ammunition mules. Italian tanks and aeroplanes are reported to have capfureid an Abyssinian caravan en route to Jijiga and to have destroyed 25 lorries.