Evening star., 1936-01-03

ACT TO SUPPRESS
internal. TROUBLE
Both Nations Disturbed by
SpeCter of Domestic
Disorders.
FASCISTS CALL RALLIES
TO PROMOTE LOYALTY
Adds Ababa Dispatches Troops
to Lake Tana Area to Quell
Incipient Revolt.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Benito Mussolini's poSt-1Dar &C.
cession to dictatorship OF Italy
was accomplished oy force. MAIN
tatned by same method. Econom-
icalIy poor and not easily able to
finance long Udr, Italy last year
began attempt to conquer Ethio-
ptd; three months of fighting hare
brought SlotO progress and increaS-
ingly effective opposition from de-
tense.
Most spectacular successes" Of
tnDdders tOere air bombing of DeS-
Se in November, OF Dolo early this
week. In former case, American
hospital tDGs damaged; in latter,
SDedtsh Red Cross uorkers Uere
killed.
Early Ethiopian defense weak
ened BY action of Seuerdl tribal
leaders in selling out to inuaders.
BY the Associated Press.
Officials of two nations at war with
each other moved today, informed
sources reported, to strangle any in
ternal diSsension in their countries.
In Italy Fascist party leaders called
countrywide meetings to repeat to
their followers Premier Mussolini's
declaration 10 years ago that oppoSi-
ton to his regime would be removed
by force.
Five thousand troops were sent from
Adds Ababa to Gojjam Province, near
Lake Tana, to quell disorders all
legedly melted by Italy. Thousands
of copies Of an appeal for loyalty
to Emperor Halle SelaSsie also were
dispatched to the province to combat
attempts to stir a revolt against i'm.
perial taxes.
Nephew of Prisoner Blamed.
A nephew Of the imprisoned Ras
Hailu, erstwhile governor of Gojjan,
was blamed directly for the trouble.
Mussolini today summoned four
Fascist bodies whose responsibilities
cover Italian political, economic, mill
tary and defense needs.
The Defense Council was called into
thirteenth annual meeting for Febru-
ary 4. the cabinet on January 80
and the Central Corporation Com
mittee and the Fascist Grand Coun.
Gil both on January 18.
He also received his Ambassador to
Berlin, Bernardo D. Attohco. In
formed observers believed he wanted
a through report of the probable
German attitude in the event of new
sanctions.
Duce Believes in Force.
Domestic dissension in Italy-if any
has not been officially recognized.
Premier Mussolini was represented in
informed quarters, however, as main
tanning the same position he did a
decade ago when he said: When
two elements conflict and are ire
concilable, the solution Is force"
ANY criticism of Fascist leadership.
it was believed, might come from de-
lay in the campaign of conquest on
the Ethiopian fronts, together with
results from League of Nations sane
tions.
In Paris today, the Leftist news
paper Oeuvre, hostile to Fascism,
carried reports of a mutiny Of Italian
soldiers in Italy in which a Fascist
niilitiaman was said to have been
killed and several soldiers injured.
Civilians Reported Aroused.
The mutiny, the newspaper stated,
took place as a group of infantrymen
was preparing to leave for Ethiopia.
Civilians were reported to have Joined
in an anti-war demonstration.
Oeuvre also reported mutiny
aboard an Italian oil tanker, of Ru-
| mania.
Tunis dispatches said eight mutt
nous native soldiers who killed their
Italian lieutenant in Tripoli had been
captured after crossing the Tunisian
frontier. The mutiny was announced
yesterday in Rome as a criminal
rather than political" one.
Heading the Ethiopian loyalty
campaign was the abuna (bishop) of
the Coptic Christian Church, who
signed the appeals.
The Swedish government agreed to
assist the Swedish Red Cross in rails.
ing funds to finance an investigation
into the bombing of Red Cross unit
by Italian aviators.
The decision followed special Red