DUM-DUM BULLETS.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19888, 18 May 1936, Page 7

DUM-DUM BULLETS.

ALLEGATIONB WITHDRAWN. ETHIOPIAN MINISTER TRICKED. . DOCUMEN'I‘ TO BE EXPOSED. limited Press Assn—Elec. Tel. Copyright. i LONDON, May to. ‘ According to the Daily llerald Slgv nor Suvlch, Foreign Under—Secretary ‘for Italy. has telegraphed to Geneva [withdrawing the 80~page illustrated idocument containing the Italian silegations or British sales of dumdum bullets to Abyssinia. ‘, This is a sequel to a revelation imade by Colonel Gustave .\lezler. iVVrlting from an address in London he stated 'thut, posing as a symipathiser, he tricked the Ethiopian ‘Minister in London, Mr Aza) Martin, yinto signing an authorisation to obtain various weapons and ammunition. iincluding 3,000,000 “soft-nosed" bul~ ilets. ‘ Mr Martin admitted signing the :document. saying he did not know ‘that ”sort-nosed" bullets were dum dums. lie had heard no more from ‘Golonel )lezler. and the bullets were not delivered. Mr Martin‘s authorisation was reprinted in the document containing the Italian allegations. occompanied by a photograph or a bullet which Colonel )lezler obtained from a reitailer in Birmingham on the pretext ithat he wanted a sample 01‘ bullets ‘tor shooting leopards. ‘ The News Chronicle describes ’Colonel Mezler as an Italian agent—provocateur. The Daily Telegraph says Britain probably will publish an exposure of ‘the Italian document, which already ‘has reached the dclegations to the iLcague of Nations. L DENIALS BY BRITAIN. ALLEGA’I‘IOXS BY ITALIANS. QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT. (Crucial Wireless) (Received May 18. 11.0 am.) RUGBY, May 17. According to press messages from Geneva it would appear that the Italian Government has decided to withdraw the communication it deposiatßd with the Secretaria making further allegations as to the supply or dumdum bullets of British manufacture to the Abyssinian military forces. it is understood that as a conse—quence of the Italian decision the British Government will not be called upon to reply through the League to the new charges brought in support of the allegations. “hirh already have been Several times the subject or oilirinl and categorical British denials, both in Geneva and in London. lint whether, in \‘ii‘\\‘ of the conSlill‘l‘llillt‘ pilliiicily which has already been given to the reported Million“; of the Italian mvnmrnntiuni. these nl« lemiliniis will l‘t‘tlllll'i' nn answer in sum:- other i'urln is :i malty-r which is still unvlor t‘tbllSilll'l'lllilHl in r.l)litltlll_ Mvnnlinn- lwu llil‘lillit‘l'~: ni‘ l'nriin. ment have trim-n nnlirl' that they will ask Hit‘ l-‘nreian Svrrt-Ini'y in the “llllfii‘ ul‘ I'uninmns on Monday if he Im.- un) slalvmeni In mnlm on "the .||||‘,L'.llitlllh i'l‘in‘ull‘tl li)‘ Hll' llfllittn nirll‘galiun .ll tiviicm inst neck that, t‘lllll'llllli .llililllliliilnll 'IH.‘ hrr‘n supinllwi In tlir .\li}ssiniiin lll‘lll) ivy lint. |~h iirms."

OHANGE OF NATIONALITY. REASON FOR DOCTOR’S ACTION. EMPEROR FAILS HIS PEOPLE. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received May 18, 11.0 a.m.) ADDIS ABABA, May 17. Dr. A. Lambie (an American), Field Director of the Sudan and Ethiopian Missions, who made himself a naturalised Abyssinian in order to extend his contact with the natives has become an Italian subject, explaining that Emperor Haili Selassie had failed his people by listening to Armenian adventurers. GUILTY OF EBPIONAGE. FOUR JOURNALISTS EXPELLED. SEVERAL NATIVES SHOT United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received May 18, 11 a.in.) ADDIS ABABA, May 17 Mr George Steer, the special correspondent of the Times, who early In the month married a girl correspondent of a Paris Journal, Neben Zahl, of the Havas Agency, and two other Journalists, all accused of anti-Italian propaganda and espionage, have been expelled and entrained for Jibouti, among a score of Europeans who were -ordered from the city. Galahu Giant, formerly umbrella carrier to the Emperor and later DrumMajor of the Imperial Band, was convlcted by an Italian military tribunal of espionage and brigandage, and was shot. A number of other natives accused of murder, pillage and traffic in Unarms were executed. The executed bandits include four who were charged with looting and murder in connection with an aLiack on German and Swiss agriculturists’ farms at Mulu. 7'hr wife of one rushed lo the nearer Italian camp and brought Askarie to the rescue.