| Show i ai of 1 DUCE DUE WITHDRAWS WITHDRAW'S ALL ALLi tt CONSULS CONSULS' N L IN I ETHIOPIA Eva Evacuation Held iY i 1 Presaging Armed 1 Action in Dispute Unofficial Sources in n. n A African Nation R Re Reject I 5 j t ProP Propos ls s of In International or Ital tal Italian l ian A Aimed m Protectorate for Co Country try I t S By Associated Press 11 v ADDIS ABABA Sept 7 Italy 7 Italy today ordered all all' its consulates con con- cony on y J in Ethiopia withdrawn and some diplomatic observers observer y here interpreted interpret d this as pcr perhaps aps presaging the he use cf armed 11 force oree in the Ethiopian dispute At the same time unofficial Ethiopian sources rejected ted as a t I 1 t beyond all discussion a reported compromise proposal froth from r Geneva Gencva that italy Italy be given a pr protectorate over Ethiopia ion somewhat some some- what similar to the thc B British it sh position in The same sources also rejected as impossible the reported proposal of Premier Laval of France that Ethiopia be placed la dunder d under an international police force or e similar to that established In the basin territory before last ast winters winter's plebiscite te re re- turned it to Germany Other well informed Ethiopians s however repressed the tJ opinion that emir mP r. r r whose Intern Internal i tI tion ni m is now regarded as stronger lr nger than it h has s been for s some m time tim could persuade the tribal chiefs to such a force a-force it would be bo bett better r than military occupation war might bo be averted and Ethiopia's Ethi pias pia's sovereignty and In independence preserved by the league of nations While there there app appeared ared in the l latest tat lat t- t est eat dispatches tr from m Geneva Gene to be some sonie faint hopes of peace pence these hopes were apparently no not shared by the Italian minister who under orders of Premier Mussolini not only ordered th the withdrawal of tho consulates but shipped abroad largo Jarge quantities of the legation furniture fur fur- paintings and silver plate Italian Minister Vinci said that all consular per personnel in the country country country coun coun- try was being being- withdrawn to Addis Ababa because of the present Unpleasant unpleasant un pleasant incidents affecting consuls con con- on- on in the tho interior a number of ot which h he he said had occurred re re re- re S 'S He cited as examples the tho arrest arrestor or molestation of several Ethiopian of c consulates especially z and Debre Marcos Tho The personnel ho explained would be retained in Addis Ababa There are about 25 consulate em em- at Harrah Debre Marcos Gondar Dessle Dessie Adua and Ba Baron on Falcon Falconi consul at Debre Marcos who has been in the Italian n hospital here from bullet wounds he is said aid to tD have suffered accidentally on his way to that post pOt recently will leave for Italy September Sep Sep- 17 S I I. GE GENEVA EVA Sept 7 ff The i-The The Tha five five- power committee of tho the league ot of nations council dealing with the Italo Ethiopian pian crisis tod today y in ef effect ef ef- feet asked th the disputants n not t to resort to force pending efforts t to solve their differences peacefully Although the words not resort to force were omitted from a 1 letter sent to Italy and Ethiopia officials explained that they constituted the 1 official meaning m o of the document The letter repeated tho the words of ot otan an official issued after alter today today's session of the tho committee which said In part that the committee commit- commit tee teo eo relics trelles upon tho the governments concerned to refrain from any act which might hinder or compromise its ts efforts Today's session of oC the power five committee was devoted to a review of at the cast Afric African s situation u tion Premier Pierro Pierre Laval of Franco France and Anthony Eden of Great at Britain told old the representatives of Spain Turkey furkey and Poland l l. l what t happened at the Paris trl power conversa- conversa ions Th The power five committee will wll hold its next meeting Monday Premier Premier Pre Pro mier Laval arranged to leave f fo for Paris this afternoon and to return early next week Eden will fio go 0 to the thc he country near Geneva Genyn Sp Spanish representative tive Jos Joseph ph Bec Beck of t. t and Tevfik Aras Aras' 0 of Turkey will m studying l documents docu docu- spend pend the interval t s sl menu meats concerning the Lbs Paris parey par- par 0 s Joy Icy ey Madariaga said SId no concrete sug- sug gest had hud b been e made to th the it d on on ca Fait FaSt a. a Tw or Trel i ir ITALY CONSULS I CALLED GALLED HOME HOMEI I 1 t One Continued from Pare Page Ir i I r committee for tor a solution of the controversy asserting tIn the tho meeting a as really the tho preliminary to a prel pre pre- l f r The members of ot the power five-power were prese presented te as recognizing fully tully that tho the problem turns turn on an the possibility of satisfying Italy's military ambitions in Ethiopia I Premier Benito Mussolini reserved re re- served complete freedom of action I his delegates to the league of nations nations na nn- na- na k council which appointed the thel l committee having abstained from t voting r t They May 1 P Police lIce Area Are r. r i The league was proceeding on the theory that Mussolini wan wants fundamentally controlled disarmament II ment of oC Ethiopia This was Interpreted to imply Impy presence of Italian troops troop on Ethiopian Ethiopian pian plan soil troops troop troops which h would be he called police to supervise the Ethiopian army or armed Ethiopian tribesmen I This led to a French suggestion that a t peaceful solution to the 4 African controversy might be found In the precedent of military and avaiU n privileges which Great cheat Britain enjoys enjoys' in Iraq To keep the affair under under un un- un- un der the aegis of the league of nations nations na na- na- na 1 the tho idea was advanced also 7 that Chat hat an international police force might bo ho installed in Ethiopia sim similar sim- sim 1 lIar ilar to that sent to the on the 7 i- i occasion of the recent plebiscite Such troops however would be Virtually Italian t Presents Writings An n Italian spokesman said Italy must take police poUce measures to g guarantee its colonial frontiers and 4 t its legitimate interests in i pia Before the council session Aloisi submitted to the tho league a com com- r concerning the Italo- Italo that in ini I Ethiopian dispute asserting i connection with his governments government's memorandum on the Ethiopian situation situation sit sit- nation he wished to forward a collection col col- col- col lection of at writings on Ethiopia at atthe the disposal of league members His list included French English and German books one of them Toward ward Hostile Lands of ot Ethiopia Ethiopia pia by Henry do de and another In Quest of Sheba's Mines Several books were concerned concerned concerned con con- With the question of slavery Copyright 1935 by United Press ADDIS ABABA Sept 7 7 Halt Half of Ethiopia's man power h has joined the colors for war with Italy it was estimated today Unwilling to abandon hope bope of L peace Emperor Haile Selassie Intends in intends in- in tends to delay general mobilization until war war is inevitable When he issues his call he be will bring the total t fig fighting strength to perhaps 1250 men So far there has been no mobilization tion order Mobilization as understood understood under under- stood tood abroad is unknown here But I at t. t present every little army In fn the thi 4 1 nation is getting recruits daily Farmers laborers townsmen are arc I joining up voluntarily or In Inthe the case J of men who are arc not employed are aret t being impressed into the e service of I J J their chiefs f Twenty five national districts are i contributing their quotas of at men- men each a little army army under tribal chief ill In armed untrained in any but the bare rudiments of modern warfare l if trained at all but fanatically any r i brave 11 Estimates of the arms of the war war- remain pitifully small D Despite Despite De- De J spite smuggling it still is indicated I f that in all the country there is not as much ammunition as w was used in one day in the World war |
