Italy and Abyssinia The actual facts about the Italo-Abyssinian dispute
have still to be established, and there should be no great difficulty about that if both sides are ready to agree to an impartial investigation. A British-Abyssinian frontier commission, including an experienced British officer among its members, was at work close to the scene of the fighting between Italian and Abyssinian troops, and its testimony is no doubt available if desired. But the Abyssinian Government, though it has addressed two Notes to Geneva, has apparently not asked that the League shall take the matter up. That may be due to unfamiliarity with the formalities of League procedure, The matter is eminently suitable for submission to the League Council, and though Italy has refused to accept arbitration it cannot be supposed that she would desire for a moment.to question the competence of the League,. to which her delegate has lately rendered such signal service in the matter of the Saar mines agreement. The whole episode, like the Bolivia-Paraguay dispute over the Chaco, shows the danger of undelimited frontiers. It appears that some Italian maps portray the disputed territory as Abyssinian.
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