Evening star., 1935-10-29
Two Columns Half Way to
Ethiopian City, Native
Forces Scattering-ItaIy
Girds to Meet Penalties.
ADVANCE FROM SOUTH
CONTINUED UNlMPEDED
British Expect Economic Meas
ures to Go Into Effect Within
Two Weeks-Diplomats Skep.
tical of Peace Conference at
Forthcoming Sessions.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Pushed IS miles deeper into Ethi-
opia, Mussolini's forces were half way
today on the march from Adigrat to
Makale, mountain pass gateway to
the interior.
Small concentrations of Ethiopians
tribesmen scattered before the ad-
vancing legions of II Duce.
The eastern column of the Italian
Army in the north reached Hauzien,
25 miles south of Adigrat.
To the west, the advance forces
of the column advancing south from
Aduwa had penetrated the Takkaze
River Valley 80 miles. This force, it
was expected, would swing to the
east and join the other column in a
combined offensive against Makale.
Advance Is Uninterrupted.
On the southern front, the Italian
advance from Somaliland continued
uninterrupted.
A communique issued in Rome
said:
''On the Somaliland front, patrols
of Dubats native Somaliland soldiers
put to flight groups of armed Ethi-
opians between Scillave and Gorrahei.
There have been 1872 rifles captured" ."
Gorrahei is the immediate objec-
tive in the southern sector before the
Italians consolidate their forces for
the drive north to Harar, the metrop-
oils of Eastern Ethiopia.
Airplanes scared over both the
northern and southern fronts, seeking
the locations of Ethiopian troops.
An Exchange Telegraph British
dispatch from the Somaliland front
said Italian planes had flown over
Magalo. half way to Adds Ababa.
In Paris a reliable source said that
Great Britain and France had
reached a working agreement upon
the procedure to be followed at Ge-
neva concerning the Italo-Ethioplan
conflict.
However, both French and British
officials fatty denied published re-
ports that any plan for the settlement
Of the war had been drafted.
The agreement on the Geneva plan
of action was reached in series OF
conferences between Premier Laval
and Sir George Russell Clerk, the
British Ambassador.
The British Embassy particularly
fidiculed reports that an agreement
on a peace plan had been.reached by
British and French experts in Paris,
saying that no British experts had
been in Paris.
AS II Duce's empire building armies
continued their offensives, the League
of Nations, pessimistic over the
chances for an early peace, planned
its campaign of sanctions against
Italy.
"a Nations Apply Boycott.
An official communique in Geneva
showed "a nations had notified the
League they would participate in the
''buy- nothing from-Italy" boycott.
officials of the League said the task
of putting into effect the penalties
against II Duce's government would
be given to various committees of the
League who would be held responsible.
The general sanctions staff of So
nations will definitely lay down the
machinery to watch the application
and progress of the penalties.
Authoritative sources expected quick
agreement on the date for applica-
ton of the economic sanctions. The
British government expects the eco
nomic penalties to 60 into effect
within two weeks, at the most, after
the close of the session opening Thurs
day.
The diplomats in Geneva were skep-
tical over the chances of an Italo-
Ethiopian peace conference at the
Forthcoming sessions of the League,
which open Thursday.
Premier Pierre Laval-who placed
France definitely alongside Britain
and Russia in pledging full aid to
sanctions, but who still seeks settle
ment Of the East African conflict
will 60 to Geneva Thursday.
There, too, will be Sir Samuel Hoare,
Britain's foreign secretary, and Capt
Anthony Eden, the Minister for
League of Nations affairs.
Laval and his foreign Office aides
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