Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-01
FIVE CONSULATES
ORDERED CLOSED
italian Officials in AduWa
and Harar Provinces
Evacuating.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Adds ABABA, October Luigi
Vinci- Gigiiucci, Italian Minister to
Ethiopia, today ordered the five Italian
consulates in Aduwa and Harar Prov
inces to evacuate as quickly as pos
sible.
The Minister'S order was issued as
the result Of the increasing tension
between Italy and Ethiopia.
More than 20 Italian consular
agents are still struggling in the in
terror of the empire to reach Adds
Ababa, the Sudan or the Italian COL
ony Of Eritrea.
Travelling on Mules.
Most Of them are travelling on mule
back or on foot, their progress ham,
pered by heavy rains and mud-sodden
roads.
Because Of floods, four italian con-
sular agents from Debra Markos are
marooned on the right bank Of the
Nile at Dejen,. weeks journey from
Adds Ababa. The torrents prevent
even the ferries propelled by overhead
wires from crossing the river.
Four consular agents from Gondar
are laboring to reach Galabat in the
Sudan. Two of these agents from Des-
sic are now two days from the capital
Two others, evacuating Mogalo, FAC
miles southeast of here, have not beer
heard from.
Mobilization Seen This Week.
Foreigners here believe that Empe-
ror Halle Selassie will order general
mobilization of his forces Friday or
Saturday.
Attaches Of the Italian Legation
were working frantically as though
war was not far away.
The Italian Minister, commenting
on the expected general mobilization
Of the Ethiopian forces, said such &C
ton would be a mere formality be-
cause all Ethiopian electives long
since have been modified.
Alarming reports from Rome say
ing that war was inevitable caused a
mild panic among the foreigners
many of them arranging to leave soon
some moving to legation quarters
and others, including the Americans
arranging for bomb-proof shelters and
tents on the mountain side near
| Adds Ababa.
Departure Uncertain.
It has not yet been determined
when or how the Emperor will leave
for the front, but there was no indi-
cation that this departure would be
in the immediate future.
The more reliable correspondents
and photographers were told they will
be allowed to accompany the Emperor
If he goes to the front.
In this case it may be possible for
the correspondents to send the news
to Adds Ababa by means Of Govern
ment short-wave radio sets, but If the
capital radio station is bombed ever
this method will not be feasible.
Some of the American correspond.
ents have purchased mules, hoping tc
penetrate to the Ogaden front.
Thus far, not a single foreign cor.
respondent or photographer has beer
| allowed to go to either the northern o.
southern border.
All alleged dispatches from ths
Eritrean and Somaliland sectors O.
Ethiopia must be dismissed as inven.
tons except, possibly, the Italian new!
from Asmara.
The Emperor's advisers have re-
peatedly stated that it will be impoSsi.
BILE for any correspondent or photog.
rapher to follow the Ethiopian army
because Of the bad terrain, the lacE
Of accommodations and communica.
ton, and the lightning mobility
of Ethiopian troops which advanc.
afoot and scattered.
These soldiers go at steady do,
trots along mountain paths or no
plains.