Evening star., 1935-11-16
|DE BONO REMOVED
by DUCE AS CHIEF
OF |TALy'S FORCES
Marshal Pietro Badog|io
New High Commissioner
for East Africa.
SHAKE.UP IS SEQUEL
TO INSPECTION TOUR
Mussolini Hurls New Def at
League, Calling Midnight
Session of Council.
BY the Associated Press.


II Duce effected a general shake-ur
today in the high military command
conducting his campaign in Ethiopia
Marshal Pietro Badoglio, chief oi
the general army staff, became high
commissioner for Eritrea and Italian
Somaliland, replacing Gen. Emilio De
Bono in the office that carries leader
ship of the Fascist forces in Eas
Africa.
Virtual retirement in honor seemed
the lot of the 69-year-old white
bearded De Bono.
This development came as Ameri'
can business digested the renewed
warning from Secretary of State Hull
yesterday against trading with the bel
ligerents in the Ethiopian War. He
declared the sharp increase in exports
of war materials is being noted and
declared this class of trade is directly
contrary to the policy of this Govern
ment.
A quadrumvir of the Fascist party
one of the four who led the famous
march on Rome-and an old friend
Of Premier MuSsolini, De Bono was
called back to Italy to be created q
marshal of the highest military rank
Follows BadOgIio's Inspection.
Although Mussolini had expressed
satisfaction with the Ethiopian cam.
paign, which has given Italy Ethiopia's
northern Tigre Province and has
driven a wide wedge into the southern
empire. the turnover followed by only
a week Marshal Badoglio's return
from an East African tour of inspec-
ton.
Officially, the changes-which also
brought appointment of Gen. Guzzoni
a corps commander in Italy. as vice
governor of Eritrea-went unex-
planned.
Some suggested that De Bono, after
a year of arduous labor in organizing
the campaign and leading the actua
warfare for more than a month, was
yielding to younger men.
Marshal Badoglio, who made a
sentiment" mission to the United
States in 1921, has seen active colonial
service in Libya. He was appointed
chief of the general staff May 13, 1925
Confers With Generals.
At the very moment of the shake-ur
Gen. de Bono was at the front with
his men, staying over at Makale tc
confer with his generals after an in
spection 10 miles beyond the northern
front toward Amba Alaji, immediate
objective of the Eritrean army.
With his flair for the dramatic. I
Duce accompanied this military move
with final gesture of defiance against
League of Nations economic penalties
He summoned the Fascist Grand
Council into session at midnight-just
"a hours before economic sanctions &c
into effect to set Italy's course
against the boycott and key products
embargo.
The grand council, a Mussolini
organism which thrust all other gov
erning bodies of Italy into secondary
places, is the nearest thing the nation
has to unit which could assume ex-
ecutive power in the event of II
Dute'S death or disability.
1t was called to meet in the his
toric Piazza Di Venezia.
Sanctions to Be Reviewed.
The entire sanctions situation
would be reviewed, an informed
source said, with some dramatic an
nouncement to come in the early
hours Of Sunday, or at least ratifica-
tion of all measures II Duce has taken
to defeat the purpose of sanctions.
Food economies, shorter working
hours to save Office light and heat,
strict government control of foreign
trade and foreign exchange, domestic
price regulation and new taxes are
some of the precautions Mussolini
has taken in advance against League
measures.
To make those orders effective, he