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US GAINING
ON TWO KEY CITIES
Occupation of Addis Ababa
by Tuesday Promised
in Rome.
By the Associated Press.
ROME, April 18.—Marshal Pietro
Badoglio's troops drove forward on two
fronts toward the two principal cities
of Ethiopia today.
Although official reports were lack
ing, the best-informed sources said
Gen. Rodolfo Graziani, commander of
Italy’s southern army, had engaged
the forces of Ras Nasibu In battle on
the “Harar line,” but that the Italians
still were a long distance from the
city of Harar itself.
The occupation of Jijiga. controlling
the road from Berbera to British So
maliland, was believed imminent, and
as soon as Jijiga is occupied the Fas
cists intend to take Harar.
While Graziani’s men fought the
fourth day of a battle for Harar, an
Italian column in the north continued
to move along the road to Addis
Ababa.
Prepare for Celebration.
Fascists in the homeland prepared
for a great celebration Tuesday, the
traditional anniversary of the found
ing of Rome by Romulus and Remus.
Tuesday, they said, would enhance the
glories of the “Eternal City,” for on
that day. they predicted, the Ethiopian
capital would be in the hands of
Roman legions.
A communique from Badoglio spoke
only of the southern army’s advance
guard having made contact on the
Harar front, but well-informed sources
said it was Graziani’s main column
which was threatening the railroad
City.
While the infantry moved through
Ethiopia, the Italian navy went for
ward with its preparations against
•ventualities in the Mediterranean.
Leaves Due to Be Canceled.
Naval officers said they expected
all leaves of absence to be canceled
and an excellent authority said the
government, always alert to military
efficiency, was forming a corps of
sailors corresponding roughly in or
ganization and purpose to the United
States Marines.
The Italian “soldiers of the sea,” it
was said, are being stationed at Spezia,
on Italy's northwest coast, and at
Maddalena, on the Island of Sardinia.
Indications were that the govern
ment expected its armies to win the
war in short order, thereby removing
the Italo-Ethiopian situation definitely
from the sphere of League of Nation's
Influence.
Churchill
(Continued From First Page.)
taken a ballot in which no fewer
than 11.000,000 persons in Great
Britain nad voted in favor of active
adherence to the covenant of the
league and a large proportion in
favor of making serious and even mil
itary exertions to enforce it.
Pressed Sanctions.
Upon this strong national Impulse
both of Baldwin's foreign ministers
pressed the case for sanctions against
Italy to their utmost. Great Britain
took the lead at Geneva. Eden fought
a vigorous battle for sanctions upon
the committees there, and whipped up
nations in support of the British
view as if they were to vote in a
lobby.
Early in September, when the
ground was thus prepared. Sir Samuel
Hoare flew to Geneva and delivered
an oration in favor of enforcement
of the covenant, which was accepted
not only throughout Europe, but all
over the world as one of the greatest
declarations upon international affairs
ever made since the days of President
Wilson. He received the rapturous
applause of all the small states at
Geneva, and support of not only all
the parties at home, but of all the
dominions of the British Empire. The
Baldwin policy and Baldwin's minis
ters were thus raised to the highest
pinnacle and the British foreign pol
icy became the cynosure of world at
tention.
The prominent part Great Britain
was taking against Italy galvanized
the League members into action and
more than 50 states imposed their
censures and their sanctions upon the
Italian aggressor. The Ethiopians
were encouraged to desperate resist
ance by a feeling that almost the
whole world, and, above all. Great
Britain, was behind them. These
steps excited the vehement resentment
of Italy. Threats filled the govern
ment-controlled Italian press. It be
came urgently necessary to reinforce
the British fleet in the Mediterranean
and place all our important establish
ments in and around that inland sea
upon a war footing.
Possibility of War Seen.
As these movements of ships, troops
and airplances became apparent, the
possibility of war between Great
Britain and Italy suddenly broke
Royal Family’s Throne Totters
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upon the British public. The labor
party and trade unions, by a large
majority, threw their weight behind
the Government and its cause. They
dismissed their pacifist leader. George
Lansbury. and were in fact split from
end to end. In these circumstances
the general election was fought under
most favorable conditions for Bald
win. Electioneers returned an
enormous majority in favor of his
policy and he reached a position of
personal power unequaled by any
prime minister since the close of the
great war.
It was therefore with an Intense
spasm of surprise and disgust that
Parliament and the public found
themselves confronted with the Hoare
Laval proposals to reward the Italian
aggressor with a great part of Ethio
pia. These emotions wer esitmulated by
the fact that, at that time, the
Italian campaign seemed to be at a
deadlock. Baldwin approved and led
his cabinet in approving the Hoare
Laval scheme and he told the House
of Commons that, if his lips were un
sealed, no man would vote against
him. However, when, several days
later, he felt the full tide of public
indignation, he forced his foreign
minister to resign and solemnly ad
mitted he had made a mistake.
He sought to placate the League of
Nations’ union and its eleven million
balloteers by placing Eden in sole
control of the foreign office, he re
pudiated the Hoare-Laval proposals
and resumed a policy of limited sanc
tions from which he and Sir Samuel
Hoare had recoiled on account of its
great danger. Prom that moment,
we saw Baldwin and his cabinet car
rying out a policy which their better
judgment told them was too dan
gerous. •
trance uraggrea aionj.
Meanwhile, France had been drag
ged so far by Great Britain upon the
sanctions path that her good rela
tions with Italy were seriously in
jured. The so-called Stresa front
was broken. Hitler saw his opportu
nity and ordered his German legions
to occupy the Rhineland. A crisis of
supreme magnitude thereupon de
veloped and henceforward dominates
European affairs.
Great Britain is forced by her
treaties to range herself, if necessary,
in the defense of France and Bel
gium. At the same time, by pursuing
the policy of sanctions against Italy,
which had proved so popular in the
Autumn, she condemns herself to
weaken France and strengthen the
force and prestige of the German
Nazi regime. We thus have been led
during the last nine months into a
contradiction of purpose as hazardous
as it is grotesque. To persist with
sanctions 1s certainly perilous and
probably futile. To recede, exposes
Baldwin and his ministers to a humil
iation before all the world that would
be ludicrous If it were not tragical.
Meanwhile, what has happened to
the Negus and his barbaric Highland
warriors? I shall not attempt a
prophecy, but obviously the Italian
armies have made immense and un
expected progress in their campaign.
Seared and suffocated by poison gas,
mown down by machine guns, bat
tered by artillery, bombed from the
air. the primitive military organiza- j
tion of the Ethiopians is in fearful
disarray.
Can They Last?
Can they last till the torrential rains
begin? If so, they must maintain
guerilla warfare until Autumn. If
they do, can Mussolini and his gold
reserve stand the strain?
And, in any case, what other events
are going to happen in Europe during
these months with the ever-growing ,
tension? Ought we to encourage them
by feeble, half-hearted sanctions to \
further resistance? Ought we, on |
the other hand, to become parties to
a settlement on terms incomparably
worse than those which excited the
British wrath in the Hoare-Laval
agreement?
The government must not obstruct
a conclusion of peace if the Negus
is forced to it, even though its terms
are profoundly repugnant and mor
tifying to British public opinion. Un
less Baldwin is prepared to take effec
tive action and face the consequences,
the sooner he ceases to baffle and
tantalize Europe the better.
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League
(Continued From First Page.)
presented with a resolution deplor
ing the continuance of the war and
declaring that the existing sanctions
against Italy will be maintained.
The Committee of 13 recognized offi
cially that it had failed in its efforts
at conciliation, but it will continue
its official life, ready to seize on any
new chances for mediation.
Despite the collapse of peace ef
forts, the “atmosphere’* of Geneva
was less tense. Italian delegates
smiled as the committee acknowledged
its defeat.
The real cause for the relaxing of
tension undoubtedly was the harmon
izing of the views of Great Britain
and Prance on the Italo-Ethiopian
War and the larger problem of Euro
pean security precipitated by Reichs
fuehrer Hitler’s remilitarization of the
Rhineland and his subsequent pro
posals to put European peace on a
durable basis.
Turkish Complication.
To these problems now has been
added the subject of Turkey’s re
militarization of the Dardanelles, an
act prohibited by the Lausanne treaty.
In his report to his committee, De
Madariaga disclosed that Italy wants
the League to recognize what Italy
calls the ‘'realities” of the situation
brought about by the campaign in
Ethiopia.
The report showed that Mussolini
accepted an immediate opening of
negotiations for cessation of hostili
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ties, but preferred that an armistice
should be accomplished by peace pre
liminaries instead of preceding these
talks.
"The Italian delegation," the report
said, "believes these negotiations can
only be based on realities as they exist
after six months of military opera
tions. In starting conciliation, the
Committee of Thirteen doubtless ac
cepts that there is this situation and
facts and that it should not ignore
them.”
Italy Makes Suggestion.
After proposing direct negotiations
with Ethiopia to be held at Lausanne
with the Committee of Thirteen being
informed of developments, the Italian
delegation expressed the hope that
the "results of these negotiations
would permit Italy to resume with
the League of Nations an active par
ticipation” in world affairs.
The report made by De Madariaga
further said that in rejecting the
Italian demands, the Ethiopian dele
gation interpreted them as meaning
the abandonment of the Ethiopian
people to the aggressor. The Ethio
pians also believed these terms meant
a bargain whereby Italy would give
her support to any European diffi
culty in exchange for the lifting of
sanctions and the disinterestedness in
the Italian aggression.
Italy subsequently modified the
proposals to the extent that the Com
mittee of Thirteen would be kept in
touch with the direct negotiations
and be at the disposition of the two
peace delegations, but Ethiopia re
fused to accept the amended plan.
Finally, the report continued, if
the appeal sent March 3 to the bellig
erents met with replies which per
mitted a hope for prompt cessation
of hostilities and the final restoration
of peace, "these hopes must for the
moment be abandoned.”
COURTS HONOR WYNNE
John S. Wynne, chief of the Air
ports. marking and mapping section.
Bureau of Air Commerce, former
manager of Washington Airport and
son of President Theodore Roosevelt's
Postmaster General, has been admit
ted to practice before the District of
Columbia Supreme Court and the
United States Court of Appeals, It
was announced yesterday.
Wynne, who has been active in
local and national aeronautics for a
number of years and who is a licensed
transport pilot, graduated last year
from the Law School of National
University. He took and passed the
District bar examination this year.
INSTRUCTORS QUIT
ETHIOPIAN ARMY,
Report of Second Break of
Belgians Follows Series
of Kind.
By the Associated Press.
ADDIS ABABA, April 18.—The
members of the Belgian Military Com
mission, employed for the last five
years by Emperor Halle Selassie to
train soldiers and police, were re
ported reliably today to have resigned
again.
The relations between the Belgians
and the government have been
strained often in the past, and they
tendered their resignations in a body
at least once previously since the out
break of the war.
What relation there may be between
the present report and the approach
of the northern Italian Army to the
capital was not specified, but tha
Belgians are known to have had dis
ciplinary troubles in the past.
It was understood that the govern
ment may not permit the Belgians to
depart because of a dispute over the
fulfillment of contracts. It is known
that some of the instructors are de
pendent upon the government for
transportation.
118 From U. S. in Ethiopia.
There still are 118 United States
citizens in Ethiopia, and 58 of them
live in Addis Ababa. Those in the
capital have been offered the protec
tion of the bomb-proof shelters of the
British Legation, since the United
States Legation is undefended.
Ethiopian officials assigned special
guards to watch over the foreign le
gations and assured the various minis
ters that they need not fear for pro
tection.
Cornelius Van H. Engert, United
States Minister-Resident and Consul
General, remained at his legation with
his wife and their two children, with
only the American flag and a small
detachment of native Ethiopian sol
diers for protection.
Ethiopian soldiers, retreating from
the north, are prohibited from enter
ing the capital area in an order is
sued by the governor of Addis Ababa,
which aims especially at protecting
the several thousand white residents
still living in the area.
No retreating troops have as yet
reached the vicinity of Addis Ababa,
but the precautionary measure was
taken because many of the Emperor’s
soldiers from the north who come
from the remote provinces do not
distinguish between Italians and other
whites.
The blanket order actually prohibits
any one from entering the capital
without special permission.
Bombardment Expected.
Despite the promises of Premier
Mussolini not to bomb Addis Ababa
providing no troop concentrations are
permitted within the capital district,
high government officials are con
vinced the bombardment of the city
now is only a question of time. These
officials accuse the Italians of seeking
an ’’act of war” as an excuse by con
tlnually sending military planes over
the- capital.
Gas masks have already been dis
tributed to policemen whose official
duties have been Increased In order
to prevent any one from firing upon
the planes. No preparations have as
yet been made for the removal of
government records from Addis Ababa.
A government spokesman described
reports that Asfa Wosan, Crown Prince
of Ethiopia, may become the "puppet
emperor" under Italian domination
"purely Imaginary.”
The Ethiopian Women’s Association
cabled an appeal to London wherein
they questioned prospects of defend
ing Addis Ababa against the Italians.
“Actually.” the appeal said, “we still
are able and determined to defend
our country’s cause, but the situation
today Involves the possibility that we
may prove unable to defend our capi
tal."
The appeal further accused the
Italians of broadcasting confusing ru
mors In "order to give the Impression
that the Ethiopians are unable to con
tinue fighting.”
WILTON E. NOTT, 82,
EX-PRINTER, DIES
Was Employed at Bureau of
Engraving and Printing
46 Years.
Wilton E. Nott, 82, retired plate
printer at the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, died at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Mildred Fritter, 646 I
street southwest, after a long illness.
Employed at the bureau for 46
years before his retirement In 1922,
Mr. Nott was known among his asso
ciates as "professor” because of several
Inventions he made to improve plate
printing equipment.
He came to Washington from his
home at Hartford, Conn., 56 years ago,
and had lived here continuously since.
Mr. Nott was the second oldest mem
ber of George E. Whiting Lodge, No.
22, F. A. A. M., and also belonged to
the Royal Arch Masons for many years.
Besides Mrs. Fritter, he is survived
by three other daughters and a son,
Mrs. Flora Beavers, Mrs. Grace Beav
ers, Mrs. Rosabelle Flynn and Wilton
E. Nott, jr., all of this city.
Funeral services will be held tomor
row at 1 p.m. at Burch’s undertaking
establishment, 3024 M street. Burial
will be in Congressional Cemetery.
Parran to Speak in Kentucky.
Dr. Thomas Parran. jr., recently
appointed surgeon general of the
United States Public Health Service,
will deliver the commencement ad
dress at the University of Kentucky
June 5. Announcement of the en
gagement was made yesterday in Lex
ington, Ky„ by President Frank L.
McVay of the university. |
GREEKS UNMOVED
IN STRUNG
Calm View Taken by Public
of Dardanelles Action
by Turkey.
By the Associated Press.
ATHENS. April 18.—Greece, the
one-time enemy of Turkey, la taking a
calm view of the conflicting reports
regarding the remilitarization of the
Dardanelles by the Turkish govern
ment.
The late editions of afternoon news
papers published denial that an offi
cial notification of the Turkish move
had been received by the premier.
Earlier the same newspapers had
quoted the premier as announcing
Turkish military occupation of the
Straits which link the Sea of Marmora
with the Aegean.
In any case, ever since Turkey has
requested of the League of Nations
the right to refortify the Straits, the
Greek public has shown little excite
ment.
Some sources of public opinion even
consider that the move would be bene
ficial to Greece, since Turkey now Is
her any.
TURKS CAN CONTROL CHANNEL.
Dardanelles Action Comes During
Russo-Japanese Tension.
By the Associated Press.
Turkey's remilitarization of the
Dardanelles comes at a time when the
relations between Japan and Soviet
Russia are tense.
President Kemal Ataturk of Turkey
has moved soldiers into the zones on
both sides of the narrow straits. Their
positions will enable them to sweep
the narrow channel clear of any
craft. The Hellespont which Leander
swam to visit his love is an easily
closed gateway of war.
Mile Wide at Narrowest.
The Dardanelles is only about 1
mile wide at its narrowest. Field ar
tillery could contend with battleships
throughout its length. From the time
of Xerxes, it has been regarded as one
of the most easily defended strategic
{Mints in the world.
It is strategic because it is the sole
seaway to the Black Sea and fertile
Southern Russia, the main agricul
tural area of Russia.
When the Treaty of Lausanne was
signed in 1923, Japan was one of the
allied powers which undertook to pre
serve Turkey’s promise that the Dar
“ :
danelles would henceforth be open to
fighting ships.
Russia Fought Provision.
Russia opposed this provision at the
time, because Turkey and Russia had
been World War enemies, and Russia
had visions of other nations' navies
being able to steam into the Black Sea
from the Aegean and attack such ports
as Sebastopol without any opposition
from other sources than the then In
ferior Russian navy. However, Russia
finally agreed to the "Straits Con
vention.”
Since that time, the Soviets have
assiduously cultivated the friendship
of Turkey.
NOTRE DAME NIGHT SET
The thirteenth annual Universal
Notre Dame night will be observed by
some 300 graduates of the university
living here at a banquet tomorrow
night at the Mayflower Hotel. The
program will be broadcast over a na
tional hook-up Jointly with a program
on the Notre Dame campus.
The speakers wil include Rev. John
F. O’Hara, president of the univer
sity; Frank C. Walker, former direc
tor of the National Emergency Coun
cil, and Rev. John M. McNamara,
Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore.
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