The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-19
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but about 1000 good machine guns, six little trench mortars, 13 slow commercial airplanes and 200 cannon to augment them, accord ing to an expert estimate today by Jean Perrigault, correspondent of the newspaper Matin of Paris.
 Guns Are Obsolete
 Of these 200 cannon, Perrigault asserted, 80 date back to the battle of Sadowa in 1866 and 72 in the Ethiopian victory over the Italians at Adowa in 1896. That leaves the entire army 4S guns of later than Victorian days.
 It has no hand grenades.
 The little regular army is we'll disciplined and it's morale is high, as it that of all the tribesmen. For six years it has been trained well by Belgian officers.
 The ill-traired hordes of war riors are going to try to fight, with their inadequate, often outdated weapons, the most efficient mili- tary machine ever assembled. Hun dreds of airplanes, tanks, armored cars, machine guns, death spit ting field guns, hand grenades un- der the highly disciplined force of perhaps 100000 Italians.
 Triumvirate Plan Fails
 London, July 19.-(UP).-A plan to convoke an immediate French-British-Italian meeting at Paris in hope of averting war be- tween Italy and Ethiopia was un- derstood to have been abandoned today because no basis for agree ment could be found.
 France insisted that if the meet ing were held there must be an advance agreement in general terms, in fear lest the meeting fur ther anger Benito Mussolini in- stead of leading to a peaceable set clement.
 The remaining hope for peace seemed to lie in hotel room nego- tiations when the League of Ma tions council meets at Geneva, probably next week.
 League Council To Meet
 Geneva, July 19.-CUP) The League of Nations council will meet to consider the Italo- Ethio- plan dispute about July 29, the league secretariat indicated today The league issued a communique saying that the council would be obliged to meet after July 25 if the four arbitrators on the East African conciliation commission were unable to choose a fifth and neutral chairman or failed to ex- tend the arbitration period beyond that date.
 State Dept. In Quandry
 Washington, July 19.-(UP)- Recent Italian Ethiopian develop ments threatening pact of Paris commitments placed the staet de- pertinent to-day in one of the most difficult positions since the Japan csc invasion of China.
 The lessons learned in that ex- perience, when then Secretary of State Henry l.. Stimson was obliged to retreat from an insistent at- titude, is believed to have tenn pered Secretary of State, Cordell Hulls attitude.
 Hull has indicated a desire for observance of the Kellogg -Briand pact solely in the interest of world peace. While there has been some discussion of the possibility of the United States invoking the pact, observers see little likelihood of it.
 Doubt About the Pact
 For one thing, they point out, the pact could not be invoked be- fore the beginning of hostilities. Some doubt that 1t could be in- voked in the absence of a formal declaration of war.
 So far the pact has been but little discussed in formad diplo- matic conversations. When Hull wrote the Ethiopian government in response to the plea of Emperor States was loath to believe any powers would seek any settlement inconsistent with the past of Paris.
 This note provoked such a re. action in Italy that Hull subse- quently explained to Italian Am- bassador Augusto Rosso that the governments position was esscn- tially one of seeing peace pre- served.
 Since then, however. the govern ments attitude has been one Of increasing vigilance. All diploma tic representative have been ad- yised to keep in intimate touch with the sItuateln and arc being kept informed of developments here.
 Increasing interest In the situa. ton was indicated in AetinG Sec. retaFy Of etaet William Phillips bringing Of the official explanation up to date,
 CONSUL GENERAL NAMED
 Washinsten, July iD,-fupl-- The Ethiopian government was re- p0Fted to-day Co have decided e