Evening star., 1935-05-25
Argument of Eden and
Laval Wins Muss0Iini to
Yield to League.
2,2O0 MORE SOLDIERS
DEPART FROM NAPLES
Council to Resume Handling of
Case Unless Settlement Is
Reached by August 26.
BY the Associated Press.

GENEVA, May Is Diplomatic
pressure in the League of Nations
Council averted early today an i'm
pending crisis in East Africa. won
from Italy an agreement to arbitrate
her long standing dispute with Ethi-
opia and left the nations free to
settle their troubles under their own
treaty.
The capitulation of Premier MuSso-
lini, who previously had said he
would not permit reference to his
1928 treaty with Emperor Halle
Selassie's government, was attributed
to the force of argument of Capt.
Anthony Eden, British lord privy seal,
and Pierre Laval French foreign
minister.
while the Council delibersted the
Italo- o-Ethiopian dispute at Geneva.
the S s. Gange cast off from Naples
with 1900 Italian soldiers, bound for
the Colony Of Eritrea, adjoining
Ethiopia)
Two Resolutions Adopted.
The League Council adopted two
resolutions designed TO smooth the
road to peace in Africa. after Baron
Pompeo Aloisi, Italy's representative,
had talked by telephone with MuSSo-
lini at Rome.
The resolutions provide for arbi-
tration, and unless the border Incl
dents which caused the trouble and
extensive Italian mobilization are
ironed out by August 26, the recon-
vening of the Council to deal anew
with the problem. This date is well
in advance of the close of the rainy
season. which would permit military
activity on large scale,
Capt. Eden said he interpreted the
agreement to mean that Italy and
Ethiopia will delimit the frontier of
Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia as
soon as the present difficulties are
settled amicably.
The Ethiopian representative said
his nation interpreted the agreement
to mean that Italy will refrain from
sending additional troops to East
Africa and will not employ troops
already there for agression"
Text of Resolutions.
The resolutions follow:
Resolution No. i:
Whereas at a meeting of the
League of Nations Council in January,
1885, the Italian government and the
Ethiopian government agreed to settle
the dispute which has arisen between
them as a result of the Ualual Incl
dent December 5. 1884, in conformity
with Article 5 of the Italo-E Ethiopian
treaty of 1923;
whereas direct negotiations through
diplomatic channels having been ex-
hausted, the two parties have nomi-
mated their arbitrators as pro-
vided .;
Whereas since December S, 1884,
other incidents having taken place
on the talo-Ethiopian frontier and
the two governments are in agree
ment in intrusting settlement of these
incidents to the same arbitrators .;
Whereas the two governments
agree to fix August 26, 1885, as the
date on which the procedure of con-
ciliation and arbitration shall be con-
Quoted,
THE Council requests the secretary
general of the League of Nations to
communicate in the meantime to
members of the Council all informa-
ton which may reach him from the
two parties in particular regarding the
development of the arbitrators' work"
Full Liberty Left Parties.
Resolution two:
The Council is leaving to the two
parties full liberty to settle the dis
pute in question in accordance with
article v of the Italo-Ethiopian
treaty of August 2, 1928.
1T decides to meet if in default of
an agreement between the four arbi-
traitors for settlement of the dispute
and an understanding shall not have
been reached July Is between these
arbitrators as to the selection of
fifth arbitrator Cunless the four arbi-
traitors agree to an extension of this
period.
"The Council also decides to meet
to examine the situation if on August
26 settlement by means of conciliation
and arbitration shall not have taken
place"
Italian government circles at Rome
said they regarded the resolution as
following the normal course of events.
Officials declined to comment other
wise, except to say that the setting
of time limit for the negotiations
and recognition of the treaty clauses
outlawing recourse to arms ft in with
Italian ideas.