Evening star., 1936-02-06

of Nations said today the statistics
in possession of the committee Of ex-
perts examining the possibility of an
oil embargo against Italy showed that
nation would exhaust its oil supplies
within six or seven months in the
event of an alright embargo.
They said that Italy ordinarily con-
sumes 500, 900 tons of oil annually.
but at the present time is using g.
100000 tons. They believe that sub
stitutes for petroleum had not yet
been developed to stage where they
would prove a serious danger to the
success of an embargo.
Britain Talks of Peace Farley.
The British Parliament was on
record as opposed to war and as hav-
ing grave concern over world wide
preparations for war
Viscount Cranborne, parliamentary
undersecretary for foreign affairs, an
nounced that preliminary examina-
tien of the problem of an international
peace conference had already begun,
"but we cannot FIX the date until cir
cumstances favor further negotiation. "
The general aim, he said, was IAN
international agreement which will
remove from nations the incentive to
pile up armaments and to establish
the peace of the world on a sure foun-
dation."
In Adds Ababa, the Ethiopian gov
eminent announced today that the
Korem region had been attacked for
the sixth time from the air with no
serious damage.
Selassies Route Bombed.
The attack indicated that the Italian
air service apparently has begun
more intensive bombing of Emperor
Halle Selassie's route between Dessye
and Adds Ababa. At present the En-
peror is in Dessye. living in the former
Italian consulate. He spends several
hours each day on inspection tours.
Lieut.. M. Freres. Belgian army Off
Ger and military adviser to the Eth
iopian general, Ras Desta Demtu. is
sued an affidavit denying Italian al
legations that Swedish Red Gross
trucks had been used to transport am
munition for the Ethiopians.
Declared the Belgian lieutenant:
"there never was single cartridge in
the Red Cross trucks. AS matter
of fact, the carburetors and magnetoes
were removed when 1t was seen 1t was
inevitable the machines would fall
into the hands OF the Italians to pre-
vent their being used by the enemy.
Certainly no one would have thought
of loading the trucks with cartridges"
Think Ammunition PLANTED"
A communique charged the Italians
must have put the cartridges in the
truck to thus further damage the
good name of neutral power"
A party of foreign attaches, includ-
ing Maj. Norman Fisk, former United
States military attache in Rome. re-
turned to Asmara, Eritrea, today after
visiting the Makale front Maj. Fisk
said he was pleased by his Makale
observances and would go next to the
Tembein front, just west of Makale,
and to the Askum front, northeast of
Makale.
In New York, Leo v. Chertok, in
dustrial broker made public cable
gram he had sent to the Ethiopian
Legation in London, saying group of
Chicago bankers was prepared to lend
Ethiopia $5000,000 for internal devel-
opment.
He said he received a reply signed
by Emmanuel Abraham. secretary to
the legation, asking for full details
of the offer.
Declining to name the bankers for
whom he acted, Chertok said he would
sail for London February IA to deposit
the full sum of the loan in a London
bank as evidence of good faith.
The bankers, he said, would ask
that Ethiopia's so per cent interest
in the Jibuti-Addis Ababa railroad be
posted as security. The loan would
be in the form of a 25-year bond is
sue at per cent interest, he stated,
and was only "the first installment"
on ultimate loans to Ethiopia of $50,-
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