"ENTIRE ABSENCE OF
THE ENEMY'
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over
WARNING TO FOREIGNERS possession of large sums of Ita- Addis Ababa: All British sub-lian money. These men were im jects, and all foreigners under mediately court-martialled and British protection. have been in-shot. The Italians, it is alleged, structed to leave the Abyssinianjare attempting to smuggle arms capital the women and children to jand ammunition to those tribes leavé immediately, and the men to that are still wavering în allegi- be in readiness to depart at 3ance to the Emperor. moment's notice.
The Abyssinians, on the other This step is said to have been (hand. claim to have won taken at the instigation of the several tribes from Italian Somali- Abyssinian Government, which in-jiand to their side. timated that if foreigners did not leave voluntarily. mcasures
Cairo: Engineers and regiments compulsion would have to be em-of the Egyptian Army, as well as the Ninth Infantry Battalion. ployed..
which were hitherto stationed at DESERTERS IN QUARANTINE Adowa: Measures to accommo-Maadi, have been transferred to date the ever increasing number Mersa Metru on the Libyan fren- of deserters from the Abyssinian tier.
of
EGYPT PREPARES
forces, and prisoners taken in bat- Mersa Metru is a small coastal tle. have been almost completed, town in the harbour of which a states an announcement from Ita-British destroyer is now anchored. lian headquarters here, and all na-j
Trans-Ocean Service.
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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1935.
The charge of criminal libel made against Nelson Rounsevell, above, Panama Canal Zone news- paper publisher,, by Major-Gener- al Harold B. Fiske and Col. James V. Heidt has become a national issue. The charges grew out of published crìticians of conditions in American army posts in the
zone.
ALARMING
SWATOW
To-day's Short Story
Street Of The
Cobblers
By Cecilia Willoughby
THE Street of the Cobblers) bly small white shoes,” and asked,
Tastic changeless Abir Sadir to sole trotti,
Abu Sadir rocked gently to From the depth of his whit and fro Seated on his frayed beard, Abu replied in colloquial mat, he held a shabby shoe to English: Fas
his breast, and waxed a thread
held in his teeth
For more than a score of years
· “I will do all the Sitt wishes. ”
The young man, grinned. "Make a good job of them, Aba. he had sat in the shadow of the I've recommended you to the Lady. old wall, cobbling shoes. There We'll come for them on Friday." were other cobblers in the street"] = "Salamu alekum" wa Bakmab but they came and went, while Abu Allah,” said the old man gratefully. Sadir stayed. The row of worn Peace be on you.. shoes before him was always go
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longer than that of any of the The young max and the girl others He was older and more tumed and strolled off down the skilled than they.
narrow street, and· Abu | Sadir From moming till late after watched them until they were out noon he sat by the wall. Then he of sight. Those two, he thought gathered up his stock-in-trade and, as he resumed his labours, were holding his burmous about his an-made for one another, cient frame, went slowly to the He mended the little white shoes hovel he called home. He was with care. They were lost in the
RUMOURS setting feeble, and the world was palm of his gnaried brown hands. old to him now....he had seen and janii so slim he wondered bow learnt so much, there was little small were her feet to go within
such shoes.
tives will be interned in concentra- London: Following the decision Unfounded Rumours Of that was new to him
tion camps near Adi Kaie, where
of the Co-ordination Committee i they will be kept for a definite per-
jat Geneva, the embargo on the id in quarantine. After this time: has elapsed they will be organised export of arms from Great Bri-
tain to Abyssinia has now been] into work gangs for road-building ised and the Board of Trade has On the other hand. the fighters stated that it is prepared to re- under Ras Haile Selassie Gugsà.
licences the italians ceive applications for who surrendered to voluntarily, will be sent to the from exporters of arms who have
orders to execate for the Abys front Fifteen abbots from the¦
sinian Government. Coptic monasteries near Adowa.
were received by General de Bono.j who afterwards also gave an au- dience to the three Coptic abbos from Aksum and the chief Moham- medan colony in the holy city.
Forced Landing
DISPUTE NEARLY SETTLED
.
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Aba was not peaceful i his mind to-day. Things were not going as he had hoped they would.
A week before two white people had come down the Street of the Canton. To-day. Cobblers; a man, and Alarming reports were cur-with dark eyes and hair, and the
[From Our Own Correspondent[
1 woman
She took to coming down
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "One Word From You?"", by A. P. Garland.
each morning.
week-a week from yesterday- and he had all these shoes to mend before the week was done...also, the lady's shoes were so small they would take more skill, more time to mend than many shoes..
rent over the week-end-that smallest bands and feet Abuf Cobblers Street ASSURANCES DENIED Japanese bluejackets from the Sadir had ever seen and he had with the young man laughing at who are said to have declared London: Most of the Govern-seven warships at Swatow made seen many.
her side. They would pause be themselves loyal to the Italians. ments whose diplomatic or con- a forced landing to bring pres- She had paused beside each side Abu's mat and
say, "Are sular representatives at Addis sure to bear on the municipal cobbler's place, smiling at the they finished yet?--- Ababa joined in sending identical authorities for the release of halting English or stream of Ara-
With profuse apologies Abu telegrams to their respective Gorice to Japanese merchants, but bic addressed to her. But the would explain that they had said ernments on October 6 asking such reports have turned out toman had taken her am and led them to obtain assurances from be entirely unfounded.
her on, past the voluble cobblers, From the same Italian source it
Other fantastic stories were the Italian Government that is asserted that yesterday morning either Addis Ababa nor Diredawa
until they reached Abu Sadir, also circulated on Sunday, ap-
seated in dignified silence and sx fendal chiefs from the Tigre
from the air Parently by speculators in Hong Province, together with their fol would be attacked
have now made representations in
Kong banknotes, and none could hoary age on his mat, stitching a
{merchant's shoe lowers, went over, to the Italians.
be, confirmed. Rome in that sense. Signor
The young man paused before but in a week they would be It is now learned that the Swa- bringing with them their weapons. These six chiefs each held the Suvich, the Italian
"A pack of lies." grinned the rank of major in the Abyssinians understood, taken note of the it that Rear-Admiral S. Shimo-
5000 One Swatow dispatch has girl with him:
This is the one. Joan. He does ung man. "They're all lazy army. Trans-OceanService.
You'll have to representations.-British Wireless mara, who is in command of the fall our repairs. and he's not such beggars, Joan.
squadron in Swatow harbour, has a shark as the rest. Leave them wait a week for them"
The girl smiled at Abu Sadir, left for Shanghai. The dispute is with him." in the hands of the local Chinese
The girl produced two incredi-and that patriarch bowed and ex- plained all over again in a mixture authorities and Mr. Chichiro
of Arabic and English the reasons Harada, the Japanese Conscl.
"Big Push" Expected On Southern Front
HARRAR PREPARES FOR
Under-Secre tow incident is likely to be settled Abu Sadir and said to the white reddy.... tary for Foreign Affairs. has, it
Service..
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
deaths from diphtheria, three from typhoid, and 56 from Addis Ababa, earlier: Now that tuberculosis were reported during the operations in the north have the week ended on Saturday last
AIR RAIDS
come to a comparative standstill, while the Italians are consolidat-
Two
Among the
ᎬᏩᏟ
President
The Consul is demanding that the rice imported by Japanese merchants should be exempted from the agricultural tax on the strength of treaty stipulations The object is that these mer-
U. S. S. ASHVILLE LEAVES FOR SWATOW
CLARK GABLE why the shoes could not be done
MOBBED
inside a week
The girl laughed and nodded. and Abu Sadir thought the only
Attacked By Adoring thing one never wearied of in the
Women
world was a girl's face. Those whoi passengers.
two....they were in love Long ing the positions. they have won arrived back here from Shanghai chants should be able to sell rice
at a lower price than that of FACE COVERED WITH LIPSTICK since Abu had loved....had been and are organising administra-yesterday by the ss.
young as they were young....had tion in the conquered territory, an Taft was Miss Alison Mackenzie, Chinese importers.
loved as they loved now. Abu attack on a large scale is daily ex- the KCC lawn tennis player.
Santiago, Chile, Oct. 7- The women of Santiago have looked kindly on lovers. pected to be launched by thei
The next day they came, stroll- southern Italian army in Ogaden The engine of Bus No: 576,
long admired Clark Gable, Metro- driven by Ko Lam, suddenly caught
Goldwyn-Mayer's personality ing along together, hand in hand. paused by Aba's mat and talked The activity of the Italian aero fire. when near the Royal Naval The U.S.S. Ashville, a river planes in this region has been in-Yard yesterday afternoon. The gunboat, arrived in the Colony to creasing in the last few days, 12 fire was put out by the chemical day and left this acternoon for machines having carried out a re-extinguishers on the bus and by Swatow on a scheduled visit newed bombardment of Gerlo-the aid of some Dockyard Police. gubi, where 40 Abyssinian sol- No one was injured diers were killed by direct hits o their dug-out.
Province..
Thomas
Smith Thorne, Large detachments of Abys-American seamen, did not put in sinian troops are being despatch-an
appearance at the Central ed from Harrar to the southern Police Court this morning, when front in preparation for the Ita (charged with being drunk and dis- lian offensive, while in Harrar it-orderly in Connaught Road yes- self precautions are being taken terday. His Worship, Mr. Q. A. A actively against the air-raids that Macfadyen ordered his bail of $10 are hourly awaited.
to be estreated.
ALL AUSTRALIA TO BE MAPPED
Gigantic Task
ESTIMATED TO REQUIRE THIRTY YEARS
star.
Clark's arrival here to-day a while with him, and then passed Proved too much for the women of with careless disregard for
time Santiago to bear.
They came every day for a week. One hundred of them, ranging from vivacious senoritas to not- Abu knew why they came. The excuse for So-vivacious donnas, invaded, his shoes were a good
them to come together....the hotel rooms here, overpowering a handful of guards in so doing.
Street of the Cobblers was quiet Clarke finally escaped, but not and few white people walked there, unscatched. But ere-witnesses preferring to send their servants said he looked in more rumpled with their shoes for repairs. K condition than he ever did as a these two were seen out together, hard-boiled sea captain of they could say that they had come “China Seas”.
to get her shoes. Abu Sadiz was A score of different shades of witness to the truth of that Australia is shortly to take lipstick left marks of a varied as-sitting on his mat with a little preliminary steps for the task of sortment of hues.
white shoe in his hands, stitching|| Chan Hing, a coolie at the Dogs' accurately surveying and mapping structed and the houses and sup Home, was yesterday bitten on itself. Its area
With the field clear "sabotage" on a minute sole with a care he ply depots camouflaged to render the right hand. He was cleaning million square miles, about 25
is nearly three started in earnest.
had not bestowed on his work for their detection more difficult from the animal when it was attacked times as large as the British Isles. form of pyjamas, carried away
Souvenirs were collected in the years. the air. Machine-guns are being
Abu knew all about the white set up on the surrounding heights by three other dogs. The coolie
A detailed geodetic and topo- from the hotel, underwear, hand girl News in Morocco travels an where it is hoped that they will was treated at the Kowloon Hos-praphical survey will cost, it is kerchiefs and socks.
fast as in any English village be able to bring down any low pital and the dog, which had been estimated. about £4,000,000 and Gable arrived by air. He is Gossip flourishes the world over. | innoculated was ordered to be de- take more than 30 years of con- en route to Buenes Aires, Argen- The white girl was married and A regular spy fever is prevail-tained at the Home ing in Ogaden after the discovETY
ELABORATE PRECAUTIONS Bomb-proof shelters are being con-
flying machines.
of several frontier chiefs in the
HELPING THE POOR
St. Vincent de Paul Society's Report
tinuous work to complete.
Useful work has already been
tina.
her husband was the big red-faced man who had kicked Abu Sadir) Tse Kin-man, aged 24, a carpen done by the North Australia SHANGHAPS NEW MARKET
because the sole had come, off his ter, was to-day sentenced to six aerial survey and privately by
shoe after Aba' had repaired it. weeks hard labour by Mr. W-such organisations as the Mackey Schofield at the Central Magistracy serial expedition which has just struction work on the new Fish to stand up to such treatment as Shanghai. To-day The con-But even Abu did not repair boots.
for the theft of $30 and *returned to Sydney after having Market in Shanghai is reported to that pair had had No sole ever fountain pen from Miss Robert-covered 180,000 square miles of be nearing completion. The in- sewn would have remained intact
of No. 106, The Peak, on the interior and mapped a large auguration of the Market will be through it. The white girl's hus different dates between October 9 number of watercones not pre- held some time next month.--Cen-band was a big man in Morocco and 11. The defendant, who had viously recorded or even known. Itral News Agency.
800
to
Notwithstanding that it has suf-already spent $22.50 of the money fered a considerable decrease in when arrested, was ordered revenue during the past year, the make good this sum or serve an- Local Society of St. Vincent de other two weeks' imprisonment Paal shows, by its annual report.
that it was still able to continue
Information has been received
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he belonged to the army, and occupied a big white house on the verge of the city, with many ser- vants. ⠀⠀⠀ He had sought out the
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"damned devil of a cobbler Y
had soled his boots and shoes, and
London, to-day. The report for culosis was also the lowest ever told him what he thought of him. with its charitable work of as-from England that Joy Booker, 1934 of the Chief Medical Officer recorded.
Abu had listened patiently, with- sisting the poor people of this who went home on leave from
The Chief Officer states that out betraying a sign, and that had Colony.
this Colony in February of last to the Ministry of Health records
the evidence at his disposal incensed the man" further to stir The Society's income for 1934 year, has passed her Cambridge death rate of 11.8 per thousand "shows that even in the most dis-up the old scoundrel with his foot. was $12,673.71. Of this total School certificate examination population, as against 123 in tressed areas of the country the Abu $8,675.15 was collected from the with distinctions in English and 1933.
measures taken by the public su-
59 trusted, largely held in chec
Al Fresco Fete, $500 from the History, credits in Mathematics, The birth rate rose slightly thorities and the generous" efforts Government grant (this was in Geography, and Biology, and from 144 per thousand in 1933 to of individuals have, so far as the creased to $1,000 from January 1 pass in French. Joy received 14.8 and the infant mortality rate usual indices of health can be 1996), and $1,122.50 from in most of her education in the Cen- was the lowest erer) dividual contributions. Sultral British School and the high deaths of children
TheAl Fresco Fete" will be standard in this school has been per thousa beld this year on November 3 favourably commented upon.
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