Show 1 ITALY Y DECLARES ETHIOPIA ARMING ROME May 10 UP The tM-The The authoritative au u. u 4 e newspaper S dItalia d'Italia in an article reliably de- de as officially Inspired today wd id Emperor Halle Haile Selassie was rapidly mobilizing Ethiopian troops close t to the frontier of or Italy's Arlean Arl- Arl S ean c colonies Tens of oC thousands o of men arc are di under arms near the frontier the I newspaper says and great quantities ties tits o of war materials much of at It allegedly furnished by Germ Germany ny 11 1 have bave been supplied them q Ethiopia's mobilization is of an offensive e nature tho the newspaper I iId t ir h because f i tr ops arc are concen ul trat d at points most favorable foran for or oran xi an in invasion 1 declared also new radio and telephone lines had been erected to keep Addis Ababa c In touch with frontier posts A 1 if war tax tac has haI been imposed it said j and lad war anda against a Italy Is Js being actively conducted r 1 From January to mid-April mid J Mauser rifles cartridges and md ZOO machine guns arrived in S Ethiopia the newspaper declared Germany German it continued was the l thief chief supplier of oC munitions furnishing fur fur- ur- ur SS chemical materials rifles machine guns antiaircraft bati batteries bat bat- 1 teries armored cars and Junkers i 1 t S airplanes Ethiopia pays for or these goods through year five contracts i I tor for particularly coCi coffee cof cof- i S fee tee it was claimed The said Italy called caned the attention of certain European countries to the fact their factories arc Ire furnishing war materials to Y i Ethiopia and received promises toC to C control the shipments |