'A protest made now would be too late to save the lives of the thousands who have been brutally but-_ chored but it was not too late to save the lives of perhaps hundreds} of thousands in coming months, Mr. Lloyd George continued.
The kdllling of the Abyssinian chiettain, Ras Desta, was without comparison of modern history. "He Aights for his country end ig shot lke} a dog for doing so without word of protest from the leading countries of the League of Nations. Shame! Mr. Lloyd George exclaimed.
The Mallans were very angry with the British, but he would rather have Uallan anger than Italian contempt We hoped the time would come when they would talk to the Tlallans in 8 straightforward and fearless man: ner, Rome, Mar, 23.
'A. strong polemical speech was made by Signor Benito Mussolini in the Plaza Venezia to-day on th occasion of the celebration of the eighteenth anniversary of Fascism, Duce sharply rebuked news popers which sought to make a mys Tory out of his return from Libya 9 day earlier than expected and also answered his church orities in Great Britain In some trenchant phrases.
"This inundation of turgid ink," he declared, "can be logically connected with the hysteria! and hypocritical oratory of certain preachers who are always ready to see the mote In other people's eyes while their own eyes fre crushed by centuries of old heavy beams"
Signor Mussolini referred economic sanctions which he said, revealed pacifists as the real, danerous enemies of peace.
"He who says the Ttalian people are ready to forget makes a. mistake," he added. "The Iallans waited for forty. years to avenge Adowa.
"Black Shitts!" Ti Duce thundered In conclusion, "Remember and pro" pare yourselves! This Is the warning, to-day's colebrations."—Reuler.
London, Mar. 24.
British authorities to-day sought to. restrain British newspapers and news agencies from publishing information Ukely to arouse Sig. Mussolini because of the seriousness. of current Ttalo-British relations—United Press, Lord Cranborne, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, reply-Ing to the Opposition attacks, said the anxieties of large sections of the British nation about the very tragic events in "Addis Ababa had been abundantly expressed by Mr. Hender-fon and Mr. Lloyd George, and by; the Archbishop, of Canterbury, in humorous "public "speeches and other wai
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