The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-21

| iiotAOAo AdALAOo Oy LlAO ACo6 dO SoAh- ell submitted to Italy and Ethiopia a "finap' peace plan. Ethiopia is reported to have accepted. Italy ] rejects 1t, according to the official announcement. It is still possible for some new move to be made. What faint hope there was. how ever, was not in the talk of lead CTS. They saw war and they did not know where 1t might end.
 Italy, as things stood after the meeting, was pointed toward war.
 The United Press, seeking to find when war might break out in Ethiopia, was informed by military attaches here that 1t might not come until almost mid October, on the high scale envisaged.
 Outbreak Delayed
 Power beyond those of states men they disclosed, already had delayed the outbreak.
 It was said that Mussolini in- tended to start operations early in September, as the League coun- Gil met.
 Delay permitted the outlining of a full legal case before the league, permitted Great Britain to mass a fleet in the Mediterranean, bought increased possibilities-which no one forsaw-that what Italy re- gards as a colonial war might spread into a European war.
 Mussolini said to have been greatly vexed by the delay and 1t was indicated that his plans were seriously thwarted.
 Military attaches said that the rains were not expected to end un- til somewhere around Sept. 27 (that Is the day recently set for the beginning of the Ethiopian Mascal Feast, which marks at least tremendously the end of the sea- sonal rains).
 Another Two Weeks
 It would be another two weeks, they said, before the Terrain dried sufficiently for big scale opera tions. That would put the date for opening of a mass offensive at about Oct. II, if the expert deduc- ations were correct.
 Also every day of delay made it possible for some new develop ment to arise--toward peace as well as toward war.
 But today 1t was war that was in the minds of leaders.
 Three steamships sirened their way out of Naples this morning, one bearing 5000 regulars of the Gran Sasso division, two carrying HOO Colonial department special ized workers and mules and war materials.
 Laval Congratulated
 Premier-Foreign Minister Pierre Laval was so concentrated on the crisis that he refused to attend a luncheon which followed the meet ing at President Albert Lebrun's Rambouillet residence, but went at once to the foreign office to study dispatches. He expects to go to Geneva tomorrow.
 At the meeting, Laval was con- graduated by Lebrun on his "courageous and tenacious efforts to preserve peace.
 It was reported that before the meeting the government had re- fused to promise Italy that 1t would not support Great Britain in the application of military pen- alties in event of an attack on Ethiopia.
 Greece Calls Navy Copyright 1895 by United Press)
 Athens, Sept. 21 (UP) = Greece's navy, paying a friendly visit to Istanbul, Turkey, was or- dered to return at top speed to- day.
 The main fleet will be concen- trated at Salamis naval base, in the gulf of Aegina near Athens.
 Units of the fleet will patrol the Ionian islands off the west coast, which a big British fleet is to visit next week.
 In their new stations the ships will await developments in the Italian Ethiopian crisis.
 It was recalled that the govern