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swooped down on the lucklesS town
and, after fierce fighting, wireless
report went to Rome to the effect that
Adowa had been taken-the blot OF
defeat washed away from her
escutcheon. Fortytwo million Ital-
ians went wild with fanatical enthus-
iasm and celebrated in grand style
the heroic deed which consisted of
having shot to pieces with modern
war equipment a town of less than
1000 inhabitants-a town which had
no Notifications of any kind. and
which was defended by unorganized
tribesmen rather than by regular
soldiers of the Ethiopian army.
Confusion I'm Geneva.
After the Italian victory at Adowa
the invaders continued and intensi-
fed their penetration of Ethiopia,
and it was admitted that for short
time they may find further victories
easy. But soon they will encounter
difficulties which may cause them
lot of disappointment, for the coun-
try is wild, mountainous and without
roads, and while the Ethiopians are
familiar with all places of ambush
from which they may bother the enc
my, the Italians are on strange
ground; soon the period of drought
starts which means that there will
be a possibility of water shortage;
epidemics are almost certain to make
their inroads among the Italians, and,
finally, they will some day face the
regular Ethiopian army which for the
time being seems to be held in re-
serve
At Geneva, seat of the League of
Nations, confusion has been apparent.
The League had proved itself unable
to prevent the war, now the task was
to stop it or, if that could not be done,
to localize it.
short time ago the League coun-
Gil constituted itself a committee
which was to proceed under the
League covenants Article Is in order
to find out who was the aggressor.
The work of the committee shortly
proved futile for while negotiations
were still in progress the italian guns
New meetings were called, and then
it was decided to leave the changed
situation in the hands of committee
consisting of Great Britain, France,
Denmark, Chile, Portugal and Rou-
mania.
Problem of Sanctions.
This committee of six decided after
a brief study to brand Italy as the
aggressor, and early this week the
entire council adopted the committee
report which is couched in words not
too singing to Italian pride. Accord
ing to the report, now forming the
basis of further action, Italy was in
dicted for having violated Article IL
of the League covenant which stfp-
ulates that inter-member conflicts
must be settled by arbitration. AS
Italy, a party to the case in dispute,
does not participate in the council
deliberations, only thirteen members
of that body voted. but-they voted
unanimously against Italy. These
nations which are now in a techni-
cal state of war with Italy since a
war against Ethiopia is considered a
war against them all-are France,
Great Britain. Russia, Denmark, Ar
gentina, Australia, Chile, Czecho-
Slovakia. Mexico, Spain, Turkey, Po-
land and Portugal.
Next is the problem of penalties to
be applied-socalled sanctions. That
was to be taken up Wednesday-yes-
terday-by the entire League council
and assembly. The covenant leaves
no choice. for it says expressly that
if member unprovokedly attacks an
other member, it becomes subject to
sanctions in accordance with Arti-
Gle 16.
At the present moment it seems
almost certain that the League will
vote sanctions against Italy. But then
the further question arises: How are
they to be applied, and to what ex-
tent?
1t is widely accepted opinion that
whatever sanctions may be agreed
upon will be quite gentle; the League
nations dare not irritate Italy toe
much. for that might mean more war
There are possibilities OF diplo-
matte, financial and economic boy
colt. If these measures are used and
fail. there is still the extreme resort
to military sanctions.
When considering this, one must
recall a French statement to the ef-
feet that the only real penalties are
military sanctions-and Mussolini's
threat: Sanctions against Italy NEAR
war
Attitude of Nations.
A boycott of a country can be ef
fective only il undertaken by prac
tically all nations. In this particular
case il seems impossible to enforce
this kind of sanctions. for there are
too many countries which feel the,
cannot take part in such move: ii
the first place. they invite the danger
of war: in the second place, they ar,
likely to lose lot of profitable trade
Great Britain is in favor of sterr
and immediate sanctions; Portu ga
shares that view. France. on TIT
other hand. believes that her friend
ship with Italy would be je0pardize'