| Show ITALY i MAKES TRUCE OFFER II Duce WillingTo Willing f To Hold Off War I With Ethiopians Ethiopia s Would Allow League Time Time- Timeto to Bring In Re port Unless Something ng Happens' Happens England Eng England England land France Draft Mutual A Aid d Pact 1 1 GENEVA Sept 27 AP- AP Baron AP-Baron Baron Pompeo Alois spokesman spokes spokes- s v man of the Italian delegation to the L League Legue ague of Nations to today today to- to day protested the leagues league's plan merely to adjourn the ai ai- ai- ai j t. t instead of closing it He made his piot protest stat at a. a ameet meet meeting ing lag of the i assembly's steering committee ROME Sept 27 An 27 An Italian government spokesman said said today that Italy wa was willing to observe a two weeks' weeks unofficial truce with willi Ethiopia unless s something mit ing happens happen TIle rne spokesman o observed mat tas I rains had ceas ceased d In Ethiopia an and 1 i the ground would s soon on b dry enough for troop movement He said that unless ss something happens Italy will wait for the I League of ot Rations Rations' council to bring in its report t ten n days o or two wo weeks hence adding But t. t QU our patience cannot last cannot p ot Jast ast forever Assures Assur s' s C Cooperation oper t n Italy assured the world that silo sho I would continue contin e t to coll OrL b with 1 Ith the League ag e of ot until p. p ever very every reasonable effort to adjust th the Ital Italo- Italo Eth Ethiopian pr problem bl had b been en ex ex- hausted lausted The Th feeling was expressed In sources close t to the th-e government however that the tile league council embarked ed on a fruitless excursion into treacherous juridical waters waters' with Its invocation of article XV of the league covenant to bring out a report on the Ital Italo t crisis risis This article authorizes council coun cil to report on disputes and arid recommend rec rec- measures in the event that conciliation between two members of the league fails falls Disclaim Disc Equality Government nt sources insisted that article XV or article XVI which hl h provides for sanctions against any nation resorting to war cannot apply ap apply apply ap- ap ply in the present case contending that Italy and Ethiopia were not on equal footing tooting before the tho league or before th the world The steamer left Messina Mes Mes- sina Sicily today with specialists special special- IsIs for service In lri Italy's East Af M- rican colonies The steamer prepared to sail later in the thO day lay with 2100 troops and officers and three other ships were we're were ready to depart almost immediately imme with additional troops and c cargo 1 I PARIS PARIS Sept 27 Great 5 Great Britain Brit Brt ai ain and France are n negotiating a mutual assistance agreement nc t to copp cOPF with any Eur European war threat French officials said Mid today Th The proposed pact now In hi the discussion stage is said by these officials to be an outgrowth of oZ the tho It lo Italo dispute It was also stimulated by the promise of ot Sir Samuel Hoare British British British Brit Brit- ish foreign secretary before the tho League of ot Nations that Britain would stand by the league at flat all places and at all aU times N. N The pact Interpreted as as the Brit British ish reply to the French request for more precise on 4 of C Continued on Pare Para Twenty three t IT ITALY TALY At Y OFFERS 12 12 2 WEEKS' WEEKS TRUCE 1 i Continued from Pate ue One Hoare's Hoare's speech was officially des described de de- de- de s scribed as very satisfactory and Just what we wanted Premier Laval Lava one official said mow now has no fear of going ahead with Great Britain GENEVA EVA Sept 27 UP The P-The The League of C Nations council meeting Ii as as a a committee of the whole today adopted in principle Emperor Haile Selassie's plea for the dispatch of league observers to the Ethi Italo-Ethi- pian ian trouble zone one fc It was decided to cable the Ethiopian Ethiopian Ethi Ethi- apian monarch and ask sk him what form he would like this commission of f observers to take It had bad been Suggested unofficially aUy that they go goas gos 13 as s an air patrol the patrol the eyes of the thel l league ague covenant to to watch over Ethiopia's boundaries f The assembly of the league also met today accepting the resignation tion of oC Frank B. B Kellogg former United States secretary of state l tom tm m the world court tiThe The council members had under consideration the possibility of end- end wg g even the threat of war I British delegates said that more Important II than the councils council's de- de Ision yesterday to proceed under Article Ucle XV of the league covenant covenants was as s Anthony Edens Eden's Eden s hint that war threats also could be throttled by Sanctions i close to the British min min- hUr for league affairs disclosed that he was studying closely article XI 1 under which the league could t take ke any action deemed necessary to safeguard peace not only against War ar but against threat of war ADDIS ABABA BABA Sept 27 U UP- UP Heavy rain today interrupted the ceremonies of the festival of Mask Maskal Mas- Mas k kal which kal-which which celebrates the end of the tho rainy season in Ethiopia r The populace however evidenced ft a grim realization 1 that the crisis I might momentarily force Emperor Haile Selassie to sound the tocsin I Ifor for a nationwide mobilization Knowing that the Ethiopian delegation dele dele- cation gation at Geneva believes war in- in the king of kings kings central central I ig in today's ceremonies ceremonies await await awaited ed d' d only a signal from his i tion on to boom the drums of tion throughout the land I Proc Proc- posters already were vere in rIOt print Today's Maskal ceremonies were mixture of religion war politics nd d gaiety From Prom the spot where he was crowned king of kings in 1930 Emperor Em Em- Halle Selassie reviewed his I I I i warriors clad in lion Hon skins as they brandished swords daggers spears and rifles The warriors shot long slender wooden lances resembling lances resembling magic wands with festoons of flowers fastened fas- fas ened to th their ir ends toward ends toward a towering towering towering tow tow- ering central post resembling an ancient ancient ancient an an- Maypole but intended to represent represent represent rep rep- resent a The exact meaning of this ceremony ceremony ceremony cere cere- mony has been forgotten in the sweep of the centuries but it is believed believed be- be generally to be an outgrowth of the pagan ritual celebrating the end of rains and the advent of the harvest season LONDON Sept 27 UP The A The possibility possibility possibility pos pos- of a special cabinet meeting being eing held beld during Anthony Edens Eden's vis visit to London this weekend now that hat the Italo crisis has entered a new stage at Geneva was discussed today in some British quarters With the dispute brought within he the the range of article XV of the league eague covenant co some circles believed believed be- be the question of British support support sup sup- port for or sanctions might be con con- Simultaneously government circles circles cirdes cir cir- cir cir- cles des stressed the hint dropped b by Eden at Geneva that the work of conciliation would continue while the he council committee of the whole drew up its report Preparations for defense against air raids forged ahead as officials of the London county council began beran be- be ran gati laying plans for protection of the he city's civil population from gas bombing attacks Airplane construction was delayed delayed de- de ayed by a sudden strike of nearly engineers engineer at the Blackburn works near Hull where many of ot Britain's fastest flying boats are built The dispute arose over employment employment employment employ employ- ment of a a. number of ot youths in Ia the factory |
