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THE CHINA HAIE, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1935
The China Mail
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"THE ÀCCIDÈNTAL MP."
ITALY'S CAMPAIGN IN ABYSSINIA
PLAN BASED ON SHORT
HOSTILITIES
SOME OPTIMISTIC CALCULATIONS BY HIGHER COMMAND
(By A Military Correspondent)
the Empire. It is the only Dominion that has never failed to pay interest on its war debt, and the only Government any- Mr. AJ. Flint who will not: Notice To Contributors.
where that has paid off the seek re-election for the Ilkeston All communications intended for whole of the principal
Division of Derbyshire at the publication should be addressed to
One of the unforeseen effects general election, has been re- the Editor, and be accompanied by of the change was that the ferred to as "the accidental M.P the Writer's Name and Address capitalist interests that owed He is a barrister and a member not necessarily for insertion, but their origin to Kimberley and of the National Labour group
London larger force of, perhaps, 180,- their establishment to the Rand His election by majority of as a guarantee of good faith.“
were deposed from the control two was a surprise, and he THE position of the Italian 000 is in the north an objective army of East Africa is for it will be to send a flank that they had been able to subsequently stated that he maintain over the separate would not have stood had he analogous to that of our own force towards the railway line when operating in and form a centre which would Colomes. Even in combination thought there was any fear of country
which has never been com-being elected."
South Africa in the Boer War, connect with troops sent from plete, owing to the Labour The Socialist candidate looked The Italian plan is based on a the south, and so make a link opposition the big towns only like being mopposed. Mr. J. Hshort campaign ending before up. Troops of this northern fank force are already moving Hong Kong, Saturday, Nov. 9, 1935 elect a third of the legislators, Thomas rang up Mr. Flint, whose the next rains begin.
and the uitlander industries father is an old friend of his, and Supplies have been accumu-through Aussa along the Frenc have ame to be considered as asked him to stand, adding ac-lated in the two Italian East frontier South African Jubilee what they always have been, cording to Mr. Flint, that he had African colonies sufficient to
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uthern Link make the force at least semi- The southern connecting link, independent over a period of moving near the British border, any large shipments through has not been reported, but this the Suez Canal The strategy is natural, as the distance is
ext
as people can spare from their consequent premium on gold. Saxophones were heard at the of the campaign evolves from greater and movement slower, own domestic affairs to be both the mining industry and Promenade Concert at the Queen's this condition. Decisive results and determined by the advance centred entirely upon England. the Treasury have been rich as Hall last month in a composition must be obtained within a time of the southern force as a pro- There is insufficient recognition they never had been before and by Germaine Tailleferre, and limit whose ultimate end is the tection. of the fact that within our very have actually been paying off some of the musically "unco fall of the rains in the early The formation of a central
part of 1936.
force may, therefore, be multifarious communities we debt, as no other State is doing guid" were shocked.
It is idle to assume any close pected to come from the north Actually the saxophone, now the have a concrete and very effec-at the present moment tive answer to the question
The explanation of all this is indispensable adjunct of jazz and knowledge of the plans framed at first, and the force may get whether the league of Nations that South Africa was very crooning, has a fairly long and by the Italian Commander-in astride the railway line which Chief, a most able strategist connects Addis Ababa with the system is one that can be work-fortunate in being led by states quite a respectable history. ed. Our Empire, or Common-men of sound judgment, ready was invented, nearly a century with a tactical reputation still French seaport of Djibouti. But his intentions The railway line is important, wealth of Nations as some to wait for opportunities and ago, by Adolphe Sax for French to make
bean are revealed by progressive if it can be secured undamaged, people call it, is a League that take them as they arose. The military bands, and has includes a quarter of the world's Jubilee is to be commemorated used, though not extensively, by action, and the little we have for transport for a central population, and it is actually by an Exhibition at Johannes-such serious composers as Saint seen to date indicates a broad attack on the capital
There is assumption in this, outline. working- Success
depends burg of which we are bound to Saens and Bizet, Richard StrauSA
Main Northern Attack as the French have railway really on an attitude of mind, hear a good deal soon, for itses four saxophones in his and not on material force, for has been planned on a big scale-Domestic Symphony
Briefly, the assumption is rights, and the two halves of there are no Imperial troops in It is to be hoped that the oppor
Germaine Tailleferre is a mid- that his main attack is in the the army might operate with- the Dominions, there is no veto,tunity of showing the orientale-aged Frenchwoman, very popu-north from Eritrea, with a hold out a centre, as independent
will be
icentre must be cleared. even by way of a legal fiction, produce
adequately lar in Paris, where she originally ing movement in the south on bodies. This is unlikely, as the The current operations in the vested in any Whitehall Office taken, and visitors will be sur-belonged to "Les Six" She com Italian Somaliland. and the Imperial Government prised to find that
The slower movement in the a town!
posed a ballet for the Camargo has officially stated that the scarcely fifty years old is one of Society of London.
south has the effect of tying north have taken the form of a reconnaissance in force and a down a large part of the Abystimental thrust at Adowa future rests entirely in their the best equipped and pros- lown hands.
The difference is perous cities of our day.
sinian army against the threst from that quarter and keeping (which town is off the true the defeat in what would appear to those
it well away from the chance of route) to avenge
sustained in 1896. For some who had not observed what a
A camera that takes in 760 square any quick junction to aid the difference legal conceptions can
miles at one' shot has been built.
of their mechanised equipment, make, to be rather abstract
Until now, Hollywood could photo-defence in the north when time the Italians can make use it is a new interpretation of the
graph only an acre of dancing girls heavily pressed.
There are alternative use but as the advance goes on into
the
hil region more dependence doctrine of "sovereignty." The
for the force in the south f
will fall to infantry afoot and word is not pressed to its ex-
the northern advance on Addis
mule carried light artillery. treme force in the direction of fexclusion of common action and conference. The members of the Commonwealth are content with the substance of indepen-| dence without insisting on the
There is one other condition naturally will have been closely shadow of separation And
in the strategical field. The studied in relation to the phase there is a marked tendency, alli
"A war to end war.”
Italian army is divided into where motor power declines in question of interference having cannot forget the inspiring part
halves by the neutral territories value and the queen arm of the been removed, to lay stress on this slogan played in the minds
of British and French Somali-old battles, infantry, comes into the opportunities of co-opera-and hearts of our people position 20 years.
throughout those tragic years,
"I can beat that, I've been married land, and as a whole has no its own
ceatre
Assuming that the (Continued on Page 4)
tion
ITALY'S ACTION IN ABYSSINIA
Bare Facts Of The Case
BREACHES OF OBLIGATIONS
(By ARTHUR DAVIES)
We
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The work, in short, will re paper here.
Has anything been force would press forward to
afford relief by a new thrust serable operations on the Indian which heard of it? I offerod a reward.””
North-West-Frontier, Office Boy: "Sorry, all the editors towards the capital and reporters are out looking for the dog."
*
Outranked
"I have worked in my"
In England there has always1914-1918. And with the 29 years.” been a great deal of doubt about thought of our millions dead, the motives that led to the
did we not all make that solemn grant of responsible government
new
Only One Way
in South Africa, and the subvow, "Never again ?""
Yet here we are, little more sequent invention of a constitutional system under the than 15 years from the Treaty of title of Dominion Status." In Versailles staring once more into South Africa there has always the face of the demon we believed been great reverence paid to to be dead and buried.-- the name of Campbell-Banner- Let us try to examine the situa man who, although he was tion calmly, or any rate the Prime Minister of England, is obvious surface facts that should almost forgotten there. It was be common knowledge to all. said in 1906 that it was too
In the old world there was only soon after the Boer War, and that Crown Colony administra-lone way in which sovereign na- tion was the only course opentions could settle their disputes That argument ignored the with one another, and that was by main justification of the war war or the threat of war. Obvious- that had only been finished ly, therefore, if war was to be three years before that the effectively eliminated from inter- majority of residents in the national relationships it was neces- Transvaal were of Englishsary to find some substitute for descent or sympathies, and that war in the settlement of disputes. it was that section that paid The Covenant of the League of five sixths of the taxes. At Nations provides that substitute. any rate, although the Liberal Out of its 26 articles, it is sufficient Government had a majority in for present purposes to quote the House of Commons, it would Article XII: The members of the not have been possible to pass Lague agree that, if there should the necessary legislation, and arise between them any dispute it would, if passed, only have key to lead to rupture, they will been rejected in the Lords. The salmit the matter either to arbi- Prime Minister: therefore took tration or judicial settlement or to his courage in both hands, and enquiry by the Commeil (Le. of the granted self-government to the League) and they agree Inno Transvaal and the Orange
case to
ar until three State by Order in Cot
by the very good example of the ticity of our Constitut
There ere they governing
ade 80
or the re
decision.
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT
BUFFALON
BILL
by Robert L. Ripley
TOMMY KAEO Hawasan Swmmer
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