Evening star., 1935-07-31
SeIassie Summons Chiefs
of Nation to ParIey in
Adds Ababa.
TROOPS ARE DISPATCHED
TO ERITREAN FRONTIER
Aloisi Tells Council He Will Talk
About Nothing Except Arbi.
tration Question.
BULLETIN.

GENEVA, July 81 (P1.-Premier
Pierre Laval of France, Anthony
Eden Of Great Britain and Foreign
Commissar Maxim Lftvinoff of
Russia failed tonight in a private
meeting to reach an accord on the
basis of formula for an Italo-
Ethiopian peace move. They had
been assigned to the task by the
League OF Nations Council.
By the Associated Press.
Adds ABABA, July 3l.-The
Ethiopian foreign ONCE announced to-
DAY that the nation would reject any
proposal for an international League
of Nations mandate over Ethiopia.
The foreign office issued a COM
munique stating that no such pro-
posal had been made to the imperial
government and that, Furthermore, if
any were received it would be turned
down.
mo amount Of prosperity under
foreign domination" declared the for
eign Office would compensate for the
loss of independence.
The announcement was made short
ly after Emperor Halle Selassie had
summoned the great chiefs Of the ma
ton to his presence.
Their closely guarded conference
was in a setting of native splendor.
A tent of state was erected in the
center Of the courtyard Of the palace
Of his majesty, the King of Kings
and Conouering Lion Of Judah.
No Word on Deliberations.
Into this tent filed the great chiefs
and no word came forth as to their
deliberations.
1t was believed in the capital that
Halle Selassie was comforting with his
lieutenants on the situation in Geneva.
where the Council of the League of
Nations met today to discuss the
Italo-Ethiopian crisis.
Meanwhile. reports reached Adds
Ababa that warships with airplanes
had dropped anchor In the harbor OF
Djibouti, French Somaliland. and
Italian munitions had been landed
there (Whether the warships were
supposed to be italian was not indi-
cated.)
Strategic positions along all fronts,
particularly in the North, were being
fortified. meanwhile. under the guild
ance of European specialists whose
identities were guarded closely.
Troops we're being dispatched to the
whole Northern region, including the
Tigre Province adjoining Italy's colony
of Eritrea. where special measures have
been taken.
Full details of the military opera
tions were not available, the govern
ment declining to give out any in
formation on its projects.
Shops Are Reopened.
War supplies, however, were not ar
irving.
Shops reopened today after the gov
ernment decided to consider petition
OF spectators, requesting freedom to
export the silver Maria Theresa tha-
Ter, Ethiopian currency.
Merchants and importers suspended
business yesterday at the instigation
of some exchange spectators. Au-
thoritative sources said, however. that
the request for free export of the cur
rency probably would be rejected.
Cornelius van Engert, American
foreign service specialist on Near East
ern affairs, took over today the post
of charge d'affaires of the United
States Legation.
Engert. former first secretary of the
American Legation at Cairo, arrived
late last night on the train bringing
two Ethiopian graduates of Cornell
and Howard Universities, Fastening to
Join the Ethiopian Army.
Emperor Halle Selassie, meanwhile,
(See ETHIOPIA, Page 81