The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-20
Great Britain WiH Not Agree To Demand
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T
 A series of telephone messages | to key points on the frontiers re- suited in information that at many
 points Italians, apparently most
 of them Slovene or German des- cent, were slipping across the frontiers, singly and in groups, to avoid conscription for war against Ethiopia.
 Over 300 Crossed Reliable sources on the Jugo- slavian side of the northeastern frontier of Italy estimated that more than 900 Italians had crossed were of Slovene origin. In the Fiume-Susak region at the top of the Adriatic Sea, six or sev- en men a day cross the border, it was asserted.
 More than 50 men were reported to have crossed in the last few days to Arbanasi, Jugoslavia, from the Meara district. There have been number of crossings, informants said, all along the -35 mile stretch between Plume and Postumia. The United Press correspondent at Innsbruck, Austria, learned that 104 Italian of German origin from the southern Tyrol crossed the frontier illegally within the last three weeks. They were ar- rested, he said, and then after ex-
 on to Germany.
 As for reports of trench con-
 struction, refugee reported that
 the building was being done in the
 Susak-Triglav area. Benito Musso- lini Is known to have strengthened
 his army notably in the north. Half Million Youths Rome, July 20-UP)-Half a million youths of IS, 19 and 20 years were ordered today to pre- pare for military instruction on the new Fascist Saturdays" between September 20 and February 21, 1936.
 They are of the military classes
 of 1915, 1916 and 1917. The classes take their number from the birth years of men liable to military service.
 The new Fascist Saturday was inaugurated on July 5. Under the governments plan, work ends at l p. m. each Saturday throughout the country and all men, employ CTS and workers must consult des- ignated headquarters for orders
 as to their activities during the afternoon-mass discipline that af- fleets all the nation. In the army now are the class
 es of 1911, 1913, and 1914, and the class of 1912 is ready for a call.
 Training Three Classes Thus by his new order, Benito Mussolini is starting preliminary training of the three classes next subject to call under the annual conscription system.
 For the youths affected by to- days order, program of military education preliminary ito routine conscription has been combined with athletic training that will fit them for service. They will not be incorporated in the army un- til the time comes for their call to the colors.
 An indication of the determin- ation with which Mussolini is pur- suing ambitions as regards Ethio- pia was given by a first page edi- torial in his newspaper, the Pop olo D'Italia of Milan. Ethiopia represents a vast zone which for a thousand years has been uncultivated and wild." said the article. This zone will be broken by Italian pick axes, and
 if necessary, by Italian cannon" Italy Protests Speech Rome, July 20-(UP)-The Ital- ian government has instructed its minister at Addis Ababa. capital of Ethiopia, to protest strongly against the speech made on July IS by Emperor Halle Selassie I. Foreign office officials declared the speech created serious situation in Italo- Ethiopian relations. Before deciding on the protest, Premier Benito Mussolini consid- cred the text of the emperor's speech as transmitted by the Ital- ian minister to Ethiopia and com pared it with newspaper versions. He found the minister's text more provocative in nature than the press reports, 1t was understood.
 The foreign office did not reveal
 what satisfaction if any Italy was demanding in it's protest. It de- nied emphatically the emperor's charge that Italy had had designse on Ethiopia for 70 years and pointed out the heavy troop move ments to East Africa were not even considered until after the Ualual and other frontier incidents In which Philippians allegedly at- tackled Italian settlements. In Q fighting. vigorous speech on Thursday, the Ethiopian emperor urged his fellow countrymen to fight with him to the death # Italy attacked the East African king dom.
 Halle soiassle directly accused Mussolini ef responsibility for fo- menting war. "fge is innaming his soldiers with q vision of writing a glorious pags in history" the emperor aRid.
 Hs charged that 'ytaIy for <o ysaEs hos desired war"
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