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Geneva, April II (AP)—A new and more serious crisis developed in the Italo-Ethiopian conflict today when the League of Nations Committee of 13 decided that efforts at conciliation had failed. Ethiopia flatly refused to accept Premier Mussolini's peace program, even with its modifications, and the committee agreed it was impossible at present to bridge the chasm dividing the two belligerents. The situation was regarded as so critical that the Council was ordered convoked Monday to examine it in its entirety. The British were represented as hoping that a strong resolution would be adopted at the meeting showing the League is ready even to go ahead in the fulfillment of its duty as peacemaker. Geneva, April II (AP)—The Ethiopian delegation today rejected the modified peace proposals submitted by Premier Mussolini of Italy to the League of Nations. The rejection was described as "complete." The Ethiopian action followed an Italian offer to let the League have the right to keep constantly in touch with direct negotiations between the Italian high command and the Ethiopian government for a settlement of the war in East Africa. Early in the day France had appealed to the Italian government to consent to a cessation of hostilities in order to permit peace negotiations. Collapse Realized. Several members of the committee of 13, arriving for that body's meeting, said that, in view of Ethiopia's rejection, there seemed nothing to do except to declare that conciliation efforts had failed.