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FRANCE CONSIDERS BRITISH APPEAL FOR NAVAL CO-OPERATION
Italian Troops Cross Frontier
WILD EXCITEMENT
AT ADDIS ABABA
CONSTERNATION IN ROME REGARDING SANCTIONS. BRITISH POLICY ATTACKED
~CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Geneva, To-day.
Dismay has been created here through the reports in the British press that Italian troops have crossed the Abyssinian frontier simultane ously at Assab in Eritrea and at points on the] Valle (above) and not Marshal boundary of Italian Somaliland. Whether this!
Squadron General Guiseppe
Italo Balbo, trans-Atlantic armads leader, is expected to be commander-in-chief of the Italian air force being assembled for Ethiopian › service. He has been Under-Secretary for Air.
TROUBLE OVER
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RICE IMPORTS
INTO SWATOW
Japanese Refuse To Pay Usual Tax
PRESENCE OF DESTROYERS MAKES SITUATION-GRAVE
(From Our Own Correspondent]
Canton. To-day.
means that hostilities have definitely begun is uncertain, because the common frontier between! the Italian and Abyssinian territory at these! points is still a matter of dispute.
At all events deliberations have been going on continuously
at the League of Nations Secretariat ever since the report was
MEL
NEAN
SEA
200 400.
SLAŻE OF MILES
BLACK SEA
MINOR
PED
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Our map shows points on and near the Suez Canal to which units of its feet have been stationed in the latest moves of the British Fareign Office to forestal the Italian threat to Britain's Mediterranean supremacy.
received, M. Avenol having immediately approached those repre NO LARGE SURPLUS
sentatives of the Powers that belong to the League of Nations Council who happen to be in Geneva Should the reports in the British press be confirmed, namely, that the Italian forces have
actually crossed the frontier into Abyssinian territory, then the
EXPECTED
IS
League of Nations Council, which had hitherto arranged to meet CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER
on October 9, will be convened to an extraordinary session im- mediately.
4)
Despatches from Addis Ababa received here declare that the capital was thrown into wild excitement by the rumours that the Italian offensive had begun. Orders were given immediately to accelerate mobilisation. The belief in military circles is that the
Asmara. Assab in Eritrea, and Italian Somaliland.
The Negus proposes to takej BLOCKADE PREPARATIONS
MAKES STATEMENT
London, To-day.
COLLECTIVE ACTION REQUIRED
FRENCH PRESS OPINION
UNFAVOURABLE
“ADVENTURE WITH EVERYTHING TO LOSE AND NOT HING TO GAIN”
London, To-day.
The report that Britain has asked France what her attitude would be in the event of a suid- den attack by the Italian fleet on the British fleet is confirmed in London. It is stated that in making this enquiry there is no question of bar- gaming, and the tenour of the recent note to France is in no way dependent upon receiving a favourable answer about the naval situation in the Mediterranean.
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The question arose owing to the gap in Arti cle XVI of the Covenant, sub-clause III of which stipulates that all the members agree to stand to gether in case of isolated attack, once the League has decided on collective action, but no course was laid down for the intermediate period before the decision is taken.
It is believed that France will agree to the British interpre tation, that in any case the League members should stand to | gether* in the event of such aggression. It is stressed that the recent note to France went as far as possible for any British Gov- ernment to go, as it is unlikely that the British public would wel come entering into detailed commitments about hypothetical cases,
Referring to Signor Musso- JAPANESE
A warning that, although the revenue was Italians will attack simultaneously on three fronts, namely, from "buoyant," he did not expect at the end of the lini's allegation that while Bri financial year that large surplus on which some tain knew in January about optimists were counting was uttered by Mr. Nesinia we did not make our atti- Italy's aspirations in Abys ville Chamberlain in a speech at the Bankers tude clear before Mr. Anthony Dinner yesterday in London.
Eden went to Rome in June, it is pointed out that since the Ual Ual incident in November
The Kwangtung Provincial personal command of the troops It is a "disquieting and bitter Government has requested Dr. at Ogaden and the east of fact," writes the Tribuna, "that Kan Chia-hou, Special Delegate Dessie, while on the north front Great Britain, not satisfied with of the Ministry of Foreign opposite Asmara, the next most her won military measures in the Affairs, to discuss with Mr. powerful prince. Ras Kassa. Mediterranean. is now seeking Tatsuo Kawai, Japanese Consul will be in supreme command of (Continued on Page 9 General the question of the iman army of 250,000, including port of Japanese rice into numerous Ambara chiefs. Ras Swatow without payment of the Kassa declares that he is plan- provincial tax on imported agri- ning to keep up resistance for RUMOURS FORMALLY cultural products.
two or three years.
In differ- Dr. Kan was busy and could ent places near headquarters not be reached at his home last subterranean food and munition night. It is understood that he reserves have been provided. has been in consultation with PROBLEM OF BOUNDARIES high provincial and military Reports from Addis Ababa state officials on how to deal with the that the Italian Minister strongly situation
advised all Italian business men still It is reported that the Pre-remaining to leave the country ventive Service at Swatow de-forthwith. When these go
*
The Press
Bureau of the
DENIED
He said it was necessary to are more settled and the dollar set against the surplus revenue and the franc can look one an scarcely a week passed without in the past six months the in- other in the face without a Britain making quite clear her crease in expenditure, which al- squint.” Reuter
ready exceeded his expectations by nearly $10,000,000, without
taking into account the further
sums which were being spent AIR DEFENCE
on the improvement of the country's defences. He was
No French Occupation bound to bear in mind the re- Of Chinese Villages cent developments in foreign
Nanking, To-day. The French Legation has is o sued a statement formally de
country.
QUEZON COMING BACK HERE?
Passage Booked on President Coolidge
even
COMMITTEE'S
NEW CHAIRMAN
Appointed
RETURNING FROM EUROPE TO-MORROW.
[From Our Own Correspondent]
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OFFICERS FOR
ETHIOPIA Shanghai Rumours Supported
SECRET MILITARY MISSION
Addis Ababa. To-day
apprehensions about the Italian policy, especially its effect on the collective system. There
It is rumoured, but without con- is no justification for saying firmation, that over 100 Japanese that the British Government officers have arrived in British allowed Italy any scope for il- Somaliland en route to Ethiopia. lusions
LITTLE REASON FOR HOPE As regards the immediate
is strennously
The Halusan Marn is also re-
Dominons and Colonies.
more disastrous to the high officials of the Canton Air whether a speedy solution is ported to have carried a large
Defence Committee left here
Shanghai: The report from Addis Ababa that Japanese offi affairs, which introduced a new
cers have arrived in British Somaliland supports the Shang- source of doubt and anxiety at Lt. Gen. Tao Yih-Chien future, it is pointed out that hai rumour that a Japanese
there is little reason to hope that a time when progress towards
an outbreak of war may be avert secretly despatched to Ethio- military mission has been tained some Japanese rice. Saturday no Italians will be left uying the French military of the world.
recovery seemed to be making definite headway in a large parti
ed, but Britain will do all within
Ipia which had been shipped there except the Minister himself and pation of several Chinese vil
her power to get the best results without the payment of the the missionaries.
Reuter is informed by a sua – larges outside Kwangchowwall and Mr. Chamberlain pointed Referring to the gold stand-
from the League machine for end-ly reliable source that 15 officers agricultural tax. Details of It is considered significant that as alleged by the Chinese press out that a reversion thereto
ing the war as soon as possible headed by a member of the Japan the dispute are not known ow-foreign pressmen enquired of the throughout the ing to official reticence.
Britain does not intend to emese General Staff passed through Italian Reuter.
would mean that Britain would presence of six Japanese des- Foreign Office at Rome whether
bark on isolated action apart from Shanghai aboard the Hakusan be no longer able to adapt her troyers adds gravity to the
Canton, To-day the League. Britain has played Marn en route to Aden on July 30, situation, as the Japanese are entered Abyssinia, they received the Italian forces had actually
policy in regard to price levels
To welcome home Lieut-Gen-League in the present crisis, and denied by the Japanese authorities,
her full part in upholding the although this and cheap money to her own determined not to pay this tax
eral Tao Yih-chien from his re-it depends mainly on the part in Shanghai and Tokyo. domestic requirements, while a The tax is levied on all infinitely where Somaliland ends the answer that nobody knows de
renewed fall in prices would be sent tour of Europe, several played by the other Governments ported cereals. If the Japanese Abyssinia begins. refuse to pay the tax, rice ex- porters in Bangkok and Saigon will likewise oppose the pay ment of the levy, which yields over $1,000,000 a month. The object of the tax is to protect the native farmers from for- Rome: The fact that it is no has reserved a passage by the national skies clear and events September 8 for Canton, being chinery for the pacific solution eign competition.
longer a question of whether s.3 President Coolidge and is sanctions, but of what sanctions, returning to Hong Kong to-day. WORLD SUPPLIES will be applied against Italy. He gives no reason except that
which is
being dis he declares that he needs a OF TIN
cussed between England and rest. which was interrupted France, as shown by the British during his recent trip to Hong Government's official enquiry from Kong. Special Meeting of the the Quai d'Orsay, is provoking It is not certain whether Mr. An area of moderately high Before he went to Europe Genauential country must be brought visitor was a storks from Germany
Committee
widespread consternation here. Quezon will actually depart or pressure Covers North-west eral Tao was the Assistant
and the Central Yangtze Superintendent of the Kwangtung rendered futile by the action of the eg from the famous bird in; secondly, they must not be the bind was caught on Saturday
Last found to bear a ring Londen, To-day.which had been attached to the tell until the President Coolidge Va The northern depression M1 ary Academy, This post is
non-member States. This will be observatory at Rositten, with the
particularly for the
number: 58,078 Trams Ocean Ser vice.
What Sanctions Now The Question
now
After the exaggerated importance
According to a message from declaration made by the executive. Amsterdam to
Financial committee of the National Union Tímea, the chairman of the Inter-of French Ez-officers, which was national Tin Committee has broadcast by all stations here, Convened special meeting at the realisation that sanctions London to-morrow, to consider eventually enforced by the Franch
and British naval forces increased the subject
deman
de-Ltions
France bas
"It seems to me," he said this morning for Hong Kong in reached. If the League proves quantity of munitions Benter "that the time has not yet come order to meet the Italian liner ineffective, it is inevitable that Manila, To-day. when we can venture to tie our Conte Verde, which is due to the British public will lose in STORK VISITOR TO
terest in it. It is therefore Mr. Manuel Quezon, the Pre-hands. We must wait patient arrive to-morrow morning, m
essential for all the Governments sident-Elect of the Philippines, ly a little longer till the inter- General Tao left Berlin on to play an active part if the ma
not One will not be able to
Jeaves
"DANISH GENERAL ELECTION STARTS ON OCTOBER 22
WEATHER REPORT
recalled earlier than
expected. of international disputes is to re- He will become the Chairman of main intact the Canton Air Defence Commit tee, having made a study of this The anticyclone is moving into Germany and Italy.
subject while in-England, France, the Pacific to the east of Japans pot
is situated about 200 miles to the
of Shanghai, mov
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The enter
General Lin
went with General but retumedi
TWO PRINCIPLES Should the League decide on sanctions they must conform to two principles: firstly, every 1-
of economic
CAPITAL
From Famous Bird Observatory
Addis Ababa Today Among the many
arriving at the prospective eatre of war, one
expected
“BIG MONET": NOTES ISSUED
Shanghat Today
Central Bank of China has be- gan issuing big mone
denimmination of 25 cents