London, Feb. 13.
The Minister of State for Transport, Mr, Leslie Here-Belisha, in the House of Commons, to-day, announced his willingness to give favourable consieration to any application from tocal authorities for experimental exten: slon of silence zones during the whole 24 hours.
The ban on sounding of motor hors after 11.30 pin, after a -brief rial period in London, has only been In. operation for several months throughout Britain and newspapers} state that to-day's Parliamentary question "in reply to which Mr. Here-Belisha made the above statement, is based on demands from cer tain seaside resorts and inland spas. Wireless through Reuter.
Somaliland troops, was the subject a statement in the House of Commons to-day by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir John Simon.
'The British Ambassador at Rome, said, had been informed that, following' incidents involving Tialian casualties in the frontier zone between Italian Somaliland and Bthiopia, where substantial Abyssinian forces were stated to have been concentrated, the Italian Government had, as a' precautionary and defensive measure, mobilized in Ialy two divi sions aggregating some 30,000 men.
The British Ambassador had bee. further informed that these measures way implied an intention on the part of the Italian Government to abandon their endeavours towards an amicable settlement with Abyssinia by direct negotiation, as foreshadowed by the communica:
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