Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-09
Meeting Likely in Spite of
Threat Rome Will Quit
Body Then.
CANCELLATION HEARINGS
IN HOLLAND COLLAPSE
Italians Refuse to Allow Ethio-
plan to Testify Incident Scene
Was in His Territory.
BY the Associated Press.


Italy would resign from the League Il
a special session were called on the
Ethiopian question.
The communique was issued follow
ing conferences by Joseph A. c. Ave-
mol, secretary general of the League,
with Sir Samuel Hoare, foreign secre-
tary of Great Britain, and Capt. An
thony Eden, minister for League of
Nations affairs.
1t said Avenol called on Sir Samuel
and Capt Eden and discussed various
questions which will be dealt with by
the Council and Assembly of the
League of Nations in the near future.
Since the next regular session of
the League is scheduled for Septem-
Der, near future was taken to mean
an extraordinary meeting was likely.
King George Consulted.
Avenols conferences with Sir Sam
uel and Capt. Eden were held sep
arately after the foreign secretary had
talked with King George half an hour.
A Qualification of whether Ethiopia
expects to seek arms in Great Britain
is expected with the arrival of the
new Ethiopian Minister. announced
by the legation as Warqnex C. Mar
tin. Martin already is here, but pend
ing the presentation of his creden-
tials at the foreign Office, he has with
held all comment.
Avenol came to London in an effort
to bolster the League and keep peace
in East Africa. Newspapers displayed
prominently today the foreign secre-
tary's statement to the House of Com
mons yesterday that the responsibility
for preventing an Italo-E Ethiopian con-
flict is collective and not an indi-
vidual one.
Embargo Held Unlikely.
Informed British circles, while de-
nying that British munitions were
moving toward Ethiopia, expressed a
belief today that the government
probably would not place any embargo
in the way Of Emperor Halle selassie,
should he turn to Great Britain after
reflections elsewhere.
Despite repeated rumors that Eth
opia had approached British munition
manufacturers, it was learned Official
ly that no application had been made
to the government for the export
licenses which would be necessary.
Peace Effort Fails.
SCHEVENINGEN, The Netherlands.
July [P.-The Cancellation COM
mission seeking to avert war between
Italy and Ethiopia decided today to
suspend its hearings indefinitely.
The members arranged to depart
Immediately, having already COM
municated their opinions to the
agents of the governments they rep
resented
The two Italian delegates were re-
ported to have refused to hear a wit
ness for Ethiopia after a meeting.
held late yesterday in an attempt to
reconcile differences, broke up in
failure. Another meeting was called
today, with observers predicting free
ly collapse of the commission.
Italians Oppose Testimony.
An angry scene was reported to
have developed when Prof CASTOR
Jeze, legal adviser to the Ethiopian
government, asserted that Ualual,
scene of the first major frontier in
cident, was in Ethiopian territory.
The Italian representatives en-
tered a strong protest against such
testimony. asserting that the COM
mission was empowered to consider
only the causes of incidents.
They insisted they would hear no
more evidence from Prof. Jeze. When
the Ethiopian adviser persisted in
giving his views the session ended.
A proposal to call in a neutral fifth
member to resolve the deadlock had
been discussed, but the Italian rep
resentatives, awaiting instructions
from Rome, had not yet agreed to
such a step.
Rome Is Adamant.
Press dispatches from Rome re-
ported authoritative sources as say
ing they regarded the breakdown of
the commission session as the death
of that body.
These sources indicated Italy now
would oppose the nomination of q
neutral fifth member on the ground
that the commission suspended work
after an Ethiopian representative
tried to inject into its discussion the
delimitation of frontiers.
Rome May Quit League.
GENEVA, July tR.-Itanan cir
cles predicted today that Italy would