Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-23
100000 Called
From Four
Classes.
MAY EVACUATE
COAST TOWNS
Residents Receive
Quiz on Means
of Departure.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME. September 23.-Two hun
dred thousand soldiers CT the classes
of 1911, 1912, 1913 and 1914 reported
for duty today, bringing Italy's total
military mobilization to the 100000
Premier MusSolini promised would be
under arms before october l.
At the same time authorities at
Naples. Palermo, laramie Bari, Brin-
dist and other Italian ports and cities,
particularly in the south, distributed
missionaries to their citizens as a
preparation for their evacuation if
necessary.
The QUESTIONABLE was entitled
Evacuation of the population in case
of mobilization"
Evacuation Indicated.
1t asked the number in the family,
the citizenship and whether the fam
lily had its own means Of transporta-
ton. The card then says: The fam
lily will voluntarily leave the city on
receiving the order and will betake
itself to the town of -" The name
of the town is inserted.
The QUESTIONABLE notifies the resi-
dents that if they are engaged in
occupations requiring their continued
presence in port cities, they must make
application to port authorities, after
which they will be given the necessary
permit to remain.
Citizens who do not have their own
means of transportation will be moved
by the military authorities.
Comprise Category c.
The soldiers brought under the COL
ors today are those of category C" Of
the four classes. They are the men
who served only three months in the
army, having been excused for various
reasons from further service
They reported to their various dis
tricts Immediately and were put into
uniforms. 1t was understood that
practically all of them would be kept
in Italy.
simultaneously with the distribu-
ton of the missionaries in the
coastal cities came similar distribu-
ton in hill and mountain towns be-
hind the seaports.
These latter queStionnaires de-
manded to know how many rooms
the citizens had, declaring that space
must be made for certain other num-
bers of persons when they arrive on
a moments notice.
Italians ReasSured Against War.
1t was stated today that some of the
army transports which have been sail
ing from Naples will depart in the
future from laramie.
An official communique assured
citizens of Southern Italian and ST.
Gillian ports that neither British nor
Italian naval concentration in the
meant immediate war
The announcement. issued through
the official Italian News Agency. was
published for the first time in the
newspapers.
1t repeated the news already pub
lished abroad that Sir Eric Drum
British Ambassador to Rome,
had assured the Italian government
that Britain's naval maneuvers in the
seas near Italy did not presuppose
British sanctions against Italy for its
campaign.
The communique said the British
Ambassador was assured in turn
that Italian preparations in the Medit-
erranean were purely precautionary
and without aggressive intention"
The announcement allayed series
of rumors, one of which had Naples,
Palermo, Messina and Bari-all sea-
ports in Southern Italy and Sicily
placed under military law.
Hope for Peace Stimulated.
The reaction abroad to the cabinet
decision was said in informed quar-
tiers to have stimulated hope that the
Ethiopian dispute would not lead
Italy to war with any of its European
neighbors.
The cabinet will meet again to-
when the question OF 1taly's
future relations with the League in
the Ethiopian crisis is expected gen.
orally to be considered anew.
A willingness was expressed IN of1l-
cial circles to discuss compromise
for settlement of the con-
troversy on a basis different from
that for international development OF
Ethiopia advanced by the Leagues
Committee of Five.
Officials said, however, that Italy
was determined to press military
in Ethiopia, feeling that
only by such a calnpaign-in which
modern weapons would be called into
Ethiopia be eliminated as
a danger"
They explained that Italy would do
everything in its power to avoid a
clash with Britain. and If possible.
would localize its conflict with Eth
opia in East Africa.