London, Apr. 18.
The giant Cunard-White Star tiner Queen Macy began hor trials off the Isle of Arran to-day, attaining an average speed in two tests of 304 Jand 30 knots, while an unoMelal estimate with a timing apparatus put liber, speed during one of dhe trials 92.44 knots.
The fuel consumption of the now liner and the horsepower of each of her sixteen turbines were also tested.
The Queen Mary threw back a huge wash which broke on the foreshore many miles distant, To-day's trials, it 1s oMciatly stated, were very succossful—Reuter.
Geneva, Apr. 20, most vigorous speech in which me declared that, if aggression paid, the Nations could not exist, by Mr, Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary. at a private meeting held by the League Council at 10.30 o'clock this morning.
Mr. Eden concluded his speech by stating that aggression could not pay.
Colonel Joseph Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister, declared that the Polish Government was prepared to collaborate in seeking a solution which would protect the Covenant and future interest of the League.
'A protest against the failure of the League of Nations to "give that assistance which Abyssinia as a vie~ tim of unjustified aggression was entitled to expect," and an appeal for the full application of Article XVI of the Covenant, which provides for sanctions, was made by M. Woulde Mariam, the Ethiopian delegate at this meeting.
Mf. Mariam made his appeal following a speech by Baron Aloisi, the chief Italian delegate, in which he (Aloisi). blamed Ethiopia for the failure of conciliation efforts, denied that the Committee of Thirteen was competent to enquire into the alleged tuse of poison gas in East Africa and declared that Italy could not cease hostilities until peace preliminaries were concluded and the security of her forces assured, Never before had any government shown such good-will towards the League as that of Italy, declared Baron Aloisé. "Italy had never refused to take. part in discussions under the aegis of the League, but the Italian Government felt bound to affirm its own principles and suggestions.
Referring to the recent negotiations at Geneva, he contended that the
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