The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-14
HALLE REJECTS TTALYS PEACE Bid:
AKSUM SURRENDERS TO INVADERS:
LEAGUE VOTES TO CUT OFF LOANS
OuCe Asks Territory for
Ending of Battle: NO.
Says Emperor.
NATIVES SWAY RULER
Subjects Unable to Believe
They Are Facing
Certain Defeat.
BY EDWARD BEATTIE
Copyright, 1895, by United Pressl

tCopyrlght, 1888, by United Pressl
Adds ABABA, Oct. IA
Italy has made indirect but
definite proposals to Ethiopia
to end the war in return for
substantial cesSions of terri
tory and economic advan-
tageS, government Spokes-
men revealed today.
Emperor Halle Selassie's answer
was fat No"
1t was reliably learned today Italv
proposed to keep all the territory
its invading armies now occupy and
wanted additional concessions to
give it virtual control of the entire
country.
The emperor is unwilling at the
present time to give up any Ethi-
opian lands
He is controlled. probably, by the
pitiable inability of his subjects to
realize that they face almost certain
| defeat in war with any modern
military power So confident is the
populace of Adds Ababa that
grinning men and women predict
on every street corner that before
many weeks Ras Seyoum will reach
the sea and We will be rid of the
Italians forever"
Refuse to Believe Italian Victories
They have not heard. or refuse in
dignantly to believe, that the Ital-
ians have pushed RaS Seyoum's
forces back from Eritrea and have
captured Aduwa, Adigrat and Ak
sum-
The proposals for peace came to
Adds Ababa through the Ethiopian
delegation in Geneva which, in turn.
heard them from representatives Of
several European powers.
Officials of the ministries of war
and foreign affairs believed the at
tempt by Count Luigi Vinci-Gigli-
ucci to resist expulsion from the
country was in expectation that oc-
casion would develop for negotiation
of a peace.
Ambassador Stays On
The government was undecided
today whether to allow the ambas-
| Sador to remain until two italian
cOnSulS arrive from hinterland
points or to deport him without
ceremony. He is under close 90
servation" in a private house to
which he was removed Saturday
from his legation. His meals are
being furnished by the government,
repeatedly to prevent ANY manu-
featured incident" such as, possibly,
poison plot.
Officials of the highest stations
were pitiably uniformed today Of
developments of the war. Although
Italian troops were known to be
advancing up the river valleys OF
the south and intense fighting was
reported along the Takkaze River.
40 miles southeast of Aduwa, no
department of the government has
had reliable reports from the fronts
for four days.
Diplomats of European powers and
officials of the Ethiopian govern
ment fear frankly that departure
of Vinci-Gigliucci will bring upon
the capital fleet of Italian bomb
ing planes that could easily make
the round trip from either front
with full loads.
White Men Not Safe
The native in the street is utterly
unprepared for such catastrophe
and actually only half believes in
its possibility. "Aduwa,'' where
Philippians massacred Italian forces
SO years ago, still is the exultant war
cry of tens of thousands.
Hundreds of savage tribesmen
who have poured into and through
Adds Ababa since the war began
have made streets unsafe for white
men. Many of them never had seen
white man until they reached the
capital A ma jority of them identify
all whites as Italians
Newspaper correspondents have
been stoned while driving through
the streets. Several photographers.
using horses to transport their
equipment. were yanked roughly to
the ground and hauled before
tribal chiefs for judgment" before
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