The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-16
,veral Spells of Selling Unsettled Market To-day
Huge Ethiopian Army WiLL Meet Italians
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(Continued f main points where the main push is expected.
 Inopportune rains in the South, hampering the Italian advance from Somaliland, and the pause of the northern forces to consolidate positions occupied there is believed to have hasteneo decision of the war council here to assume the of- fenSive.
 The cabinet members were or- dered today to prepare to lead their own forces into battle the instant the command to advance came. One of the first to depart, it is un- derstood, will be war minister Mulu Getta. His destination is believed to be Dessye, where large con- centration of Philippians is reported already established.
 Thousands of Tribemen
 The only concrete evidence that Adds Ababa is ready to go to war in earnest is the huge encampment outside the city where thousands of the widest tribesmen from the south have pitched tents. There are three of these miniature tent cities in the fields outside the cap- ital.
 While waiting the order to march inactive troops have been seeking an outlet for their excess energy by staging some pretty savage fights among themselves. Thirty wounded in one camp marked such a fracas Tuesday night.
 The constant reiteration by stra- tegists that the Italians will be un- able to make great headway in the drive toward Addis Ababa from the north, coupled with the drift of large Ethiopian forces toward Dir tdawa seems to mark the region north and northeast of here as one of the strategically crucial regions in the realm. It would be in this region that the Italians might be expected to attempt to effect junc- ton between their northern and easern armies.
 Bad Country to Cross
 Although it is comparatively easy to reach the country around Dess- we, when travelling in a north easterly direction, the countryside between there and Adds Ababa is criss-crossed by tortured canyons and many mountains. The easiest approach is through the chain Of lakes marking a valley to the southwest of Addis Ababa. Opera ton of tanks and motorized units would be possible there, but, in or- der to reach the lakes, an invader would be obliged to cross some Of the most rugged mountain country in Ethiopia. And some of the strongest Ethiopian forces are grirnly waiting in those mountains
 League Legally Bound.
 Geneva, Oct. 16-(UP)-All mem- bers of the League of Nations are legally bound to fulfill their engage ments under the punitive article 16 of the covenant, the sanctions com mittee of IS decided tonight in adopting report of its legal sub committee.
 The decision came in the wake of a formal proposal by Capt. Anthony Eden of Great Britain that Italian exports be choked of by an embar- 20, despite French reluctance to adopt that step until a boycott of exports into Italy is tried out first.
 In connection with the legal com- mittee's report, Dr. Enrique Ruiz G,iinazu of Argentina, which has ar- gued that some parliamentary delay may be necessary before official sanctions are adopted by that coun- try, announced:
 "The Argentine government al- ready is studying all measures of public law necessary for the appli- cation of its engagements under the covenant"
 The committee of 18 also approved a report of it's military sub-commit- tee, adding apparatus for chemical and incendiary warfare and all kinds of poison gas to President Roosevelt's list of war materials"
 Poland, Greece and Cuba notified the league that they are putting the required arms embargo against Italo into effect.
 The whole committee of 52 na- tions, representing the entire league met publicly at p. m and approv- ed the reports of the military and legal sub-committees, which are now officially effective.
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 Arms From England
 Rome, Oct. 16.-(UP)-Press re- ports from Aduwa to-day said that the military command, examining arms and ammunition abandoned by Ras Siyoum, Ethiopian general in the north, had discovered large quantities of explosive bullets manufactured in Birmingham, Eng land.
 Giornale D'Italia referred to them as forbidden by international agreements"
 The war ministry decreed to-day that the age limit for examination of citizens exempted from military service for physical unfitness has been raised from 32 to 55, owing LU tIlC BACdt Alu1lUCAo VI dpPAlNdAAtI for service in East Africa"
 Dispatches from Aduwa said the Ethiopian Holy City" of Aksum which surrendered to the Italians was calm and the populace was fol- lowing its ordinary mode of life, ex- cited only by it's curiosity over the modern Italian weapons.
 Detachments of the Gavinana di- vision crossed the city and estab- lished posts in the outlying dis tricts, it was said.
 Tanks Surprise Them
 Gen. Pietro Maravigna, com mander of the division, entered the city in a tank, followed by a squadron of tanks. They were the first tanks the natives ever had seen and they gaped wide-eyed Several tanks parked in the center of the town since the Italian en- trance are surrounded constantly