Evening star., 1935-12-11


oreSSion in Ethiopia, Britain and
France also haze submitted SeUer1l
proposals for peace negotiations;
pending one tUOuld giUe Italy land
in region already occupied in re-
turn for seaport to Ethiopia. To
toreStaU serious opposition OF small
nations Of League to policy OF land
concessions. BritiSh-French SpokeS-
men yesterday emphasized proposal
merely basis for negotiation rather
than actual offer.
BULLETIN.
BY the Associated Press.
Senator Borah, Republican, of
Idaho struck out today at the
Franco-British proposal to end the
Italo- Ethiopian War as a plan
which would leave MuSsolini "the
most powerful figure in Europe"
and give him more than he sought
in the beginning.
q; the Associated Press.
The program of Great Britain and
France for peace in East Africa en-
countered an early obstacle today
Ethiopian officials asserting Emperor
Halle Selassie would lose his throne
II he dared to accept the proposal.
The Adds Ababa government au-
thorities said Northern Tigre province
must be kept by Ethiopia lest native
chieftains, ordered to retreat, rise in
revolt on grounds that they could
have defended the province success
fully.
At Geneva 10 nations had notified
the League of Nations today Of their
willingness to extend sanctions against
Italy to include embargoes on oil, coal,
iron and steel.
The 10 nations which approved the
coal, oil, iron and steel sanctions were
Russia, Rumania, Argentina, Irak,
Finland, New Zealand, Holland, Siam,
India and CZechoslovakia.
Ineffectiveness Feared.
officials said they believed that If
coal, iron and steel embargoeS were
applied they might be made partially
ineffective by Germany and Austria.
Commenting on each point of the
peace plan as it was outlined by An
thony Eden, British minister for
League of Nations affairs, to the
House of Commons yesterday, Adds
Ababa officials said:
l. Ethiopia does not want an out
let to the sea unless it is free from
Italian taxation.
2. Not one inch of Northern Tigre
Province can be surrendered because
it is of great political Importance and
uprising Of chiettains is feared.
Willing to Cede Ogaden Area.
8. Ethiopia is willing to exchange
part of Southern Ogaden province
for a port, but refuses to give up the
Fafan Valley or any territory west of
the Fafan River because it contains
oil"
4. Ethiopia will not surrender the
Danakil land to the east because for
ages 1t has proved a bulwark OF ma
tional defense. 4
5. The answer is mo" to grantiI g
italy a zone of colonization in the
southwest because white peasants
have proved unable to compete with
the natives and have become a bur-
den on the government.
The Ethiopian officials contended
also, on this point, that the Italians
already had proved most undesirable
as settlers because annexation in
variably followed colonization.
6. Drawing up of a treaty with the
League of Nations for financial and
administrative assistance to Ethiopia,
however. is acceptable
officials also described the peace
plan and its reported provisions for
Ethiopia as a reward for Italy, for
breaking covenants, and another de-
vice to delay further sanctions.
II Duce's Acceptance Expected.
Halle SelaSsie's Paris minister,
Wolde Marian, conferred with Premier
Pierre Laval on the terms, as did
Premier MuSSolini's Ambassador,
Vittorio Cerruti. II Duce generally
was expected to accept the proposals.
London and Paris left nothing for
Italy to guess at in drafting the pro-
gram to end the hostilities. Agreed
upon a formula for peace, they pre-
pared to postpone a League meeting
scheduled for tomorrow to consider
additional penalties against Italy.
AS a final gesture, they intended
asking the League Committee of Five
to take over the negotiations and
carry them to completion.
The rest was up to II Duce and Halle
EelaSSie.
Rome was silent. Whether Musso-
1ini, whose recent utterances have been
more conciliatory than heretofore,
would discuss the proposed basis for
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