Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-18
Delegates Hold
CessiOn Idea
Useless.
TO WALK OUT
If THREATENED
"Take 1t or Leave
It. Offer Means
End, They Say.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, September 18.-The Ital-
Ian delegation today labeled as "abso-
lutely unacceptable as a basis for ne
collation." summaries of the League Of
Nations collective assistance plan tor
Ethiopia that are current in League
Hobbies.
There is nothing at all for Italy
In this scheme" an Italian spokesman
told the Associated Press. 1T is like
Offering us S500,000 for house We
think worth sl0,O00,0OO In other
words. the scheme is not reasonable"
Concerning a report that Ethiopia
would cede Ogaden and Danakil to
Italy, in return for grants by England
and France of their Somalilands to
Ethiopia, the spokesman said:
Have you ever been to Ogaden and
Danakil? Ogaden is nothing but a
vast desert, uninhabitable by Italians
AS for Danakil, it has been truly de-
scribed by travellers as the hell hole
of creation"
Al0iSi Called Back to Rome.
Baron Pompeo AloiSi. head Of tn
italian delegation to the League Of
Nations, was expected in informed
quarters to leave tomorrow for Rome
for a conference with Premier Mus
solini
1t was understood that II Duce
wished not only to discuss the
Leagues plan for solution of the
1talo-Ethiopian dispute. but to gain
his representatives. impressions con-
corning the Geneva political atmos-
phere.
The newspaper Journale Des Nations
described the report of the flve-power
committee set up by the League Coun-
Gil to deal with the Italo-Ethloplan
crisis as series of suggestions, rather
than a definite project to be accepted
or rejected. 1t was described as one
for modernization of Ethiopia, pro-
viding for a principal foreign adviser
with great powers, along the lines Of
the adviser which the League sug-
gested for Liberia.
Would Have Assistants.
The chief adviser would have two
assistants, all to be named by the
League Council, but not to be selected
from any of Ethiopia's three neighbor-
ing colonial powers-France, Britain
and Italy.
A spokesman for one of the major
powers. discussing this summary,
warned that the committees work was
really not completed.
I'VE are trying to devise a plan
which will be acceptable to Italy, al
though personally I doubt whether
they will accept it," this delegate said.
The committee of five met again
today and reached an agreement on
the text of the Ethiopian report, which
Chairman Salvador de Madariaga of
Spain will present soon to Italy and
Ethiopia. A British spokesman said
there was no specific mention of Italy
in it.
Baron Aloisi has been informed I'M
officially of the essentials of the re-
port. but has not seen the text.
His indication to the French that
the report was unacceptable in it's
present form, French delegates said,
should be regarded as his first per-
sonal reaction"
Aloisi Threatens Withdrawal.
Baron Aloisi was reported reliably
today to have warned Premier Laval
of France that Italy would withdraw
its delegates from the League of Ma
tions if the League Councils five
power committee submitted a last
word" offer in the Italo-Ethiopian
conflict.
Spokesman for the Italian delega-
ton said the mo compromise" die
tum laid down Saturday in an Italian
cabinet communique did not mean mo
discussions and no negotiations. But
said a reliable source. Baron Aloisi
warned that Italy would recall its
delegates If the committee set forth
an offer which Italy must accept or
reject.