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Show WAR APPEARS SURE; PEACE WORKJAlLS American Missionaries to Remain in Abyssinia During Warfare daffairs of the American legation, lega-tion, announced that he hud discussed dis-cussed possbilc eventualities with American residents here. Abyssinian government spokesmen spokes-men said thev regarded as satisfactory satis-factory the United States reply to Emperor Haile Selassie's appeal ap-peal fur invocation of the Briand-Kellogg Briand-Kellogg anti-war pact against Italy. ' The satisfaction, they explained, explain-ed, lay in the fact that the United States had communicated to Italy a reminder of the pact's existence. exist-ence. LONDON, July 9 (iu; Italian soldiers are writing home telling in moving terms of their suffering suffer-ing from intense heat in the Red affairs, on the Abyssinian situation. situa-tion. WASHINGTON, July 9 (U.fi) The United States today suddenly sudden-ly shifted its representation at Addis Ababa, capital of war-threatened war-threatened Abyssinia, sending there a foreign service officer who is a specialist in near eastern affairs and oriental languages. The state department announced that Cornelius Van H. Kngert, now first secretary of legation at Cairo, had been appointed Charge D' Affaires and consul general at Addis Ababa. George C. Hanson, previously appointed to that post and now enruute there, will be shunted to Salonika, Greece, as consul general. Sea on overcrowded army transports trans-ports which took them to the colonies col-onies in readiness for war against Abyssinia, the Rome correspondent correspond-ent of the Daily Telegraph said today. to-day. Premier Benito Mussolini's fiery speech of last Saturday, the correspondent cor-respondent said, has been withheld from publication in Italy and hence may have been intended mainly for export, to move either Great Britain or France to seek more satisfactory concessions from Abyssinia. Pierre A. Avenol, secretary general gen-eral of the league of nations, conferred con-ferred today with Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign minister, and Anthony An-thony Eden, minister for league SCHEVENINGEN, Netherlands, Neth-erlands, July 9 CU.R) War between be-tween Italy and Abyssinia appeared nearer today when a joint commission named to discuss frontier clashes adjourned ad-journed in complete deadlock. The adjournment was indefinite in-definite and agreement on this one phase of the Italian-Abyssinian dispute seemed hopeless. But two hopes remain the flickering-one flickering-one that the league of nations might take effective action and the possibility that Great Britain yet might find means of dissuading dissuad-ing Premier Benito Mussolini from declaring war. Another Meeting Set Under the mandate by which the commission was established, the league of nations council is to meet July 25 provided that the Scheveningen commission has neither agreed nor named a fifth member to cast a deciding vote. The four commissioners decided j to refer the matter to the Italian ! and Abyssinian governments, and but 16 days remain for action. I , ADDIS ABABA, Abyssinia, July 9 (LLP) American missionaries missionar-ies will remain at their posts no matter how deadly the ;war Italy intends to wage against Abyssinia, their leaders indicated today, and will refuse any American government gov-ernment order to leave the country. coun-try. The missionaries, in defiance of the prospect of aerial bombing, plan ' to do hospital work, thus further risking their lives. William P. George, . charge |