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ITALY UNREPENTANT-PREPARING PUBLIC FOR GAS WARFARE?
"Odious Lie To Cover Act Of Piracy
UN
In spite of the appeal of Nahas Pasha, above, leader of the Wafd Nationalist Party in Egypt, for a cessation of their demonstra. tions, the students in the Univer
sity of Cairo have again been riuting, leading to clashes with
the police.
HAUPTMANN'S LAST HOPE Final Arrangements For Execution
WIFE BOOKS. PASSAGE
TO GERMANY.
New York, To-day. Following in the Lindberghs" wake. Mrs. Hauptman has re-
MURDERS DENIED
BY ETHIOPIA
ITALIAN PILOTS KILLED WHEN PLANES CRASH LARGE SCALE OFFENSIVE IMMINENT ON SOUTHERN FRONT
Addis Ababa, To-day.
In zrazy placen, in Italy even the rails for
"REDS" MENACE KWEICHOW
ITALIAN OFFICER KILLED
"An odious lie, designed to cover an act of veritable piracy," is the Ethiopian Government's broken off in order that the steel can be added to the war indm description of the Italian allegation mentioned on Wednesday, that the Abyssinians decapitated two Italian airmen. The International Red Cross has requested the Italian military authorities to order Italian planes not to attack the two Abys- sinian planes which are leaving for Ras Desta's headquarters to-day to bring back the two wounded Swedish doctors.
A Dessie message states that two Italian planes were brought down in the last two days, according to official announcements. In the first case Abyssinian marksmen, using rifles, brought down a machine rear Makalle Both the occupants were killed in the crash. The successful riflemen were rewarded with a gift of one of the plane's machine-guns.
GERMANY AND MINORITIES
Advance Towards Szechnen
50,000 ROAMING ABOUT PROVINCES
0
(From Our Own Carrespondent]
Canton, To-day
Two Nanking divisions in Szechuen are rushing to Kwei chow to defend it against the! The other success was achieved in the village of Kebtia ourush of the Communists from where two planes, fiying low, turned their machine-guas on the western Human, në tregtuveiali population. The fire was returned and one of the planes crashed, ready occupied Tiene un Eastern Kweichow and, are ad- Reuter the four occupants being killed.
Addis Ababa: The recent vancing towards Chin Yum
Following their failure to. aerial activities are regarded as an indication that an Italian capture Changsha, the Reds are offensive on the southern front now hoping to reach Szechuen is imminent. Daggabbur was via Kweichow, where they will A band of lagain yesterday heavily bomb loot the populace. jed by four machines, but it is 30,000 Communists are "roving stated that there were no ca in North-western-Szachten, and some 20,000 from Eunan are sualties.
REPRISALS THREATENED going to join thémic Geneva: The Abyssinian Foreign missionaries scatter- Government, in a note to the ed in Northern Human are re- League, threatens as a reprisal lieved by the westward trend of the seizure of the private pro- the Communists. At one time] Berlin, To-day perty of Italian nationals in there were grave fears that the The paper says that Mrs. The official German reply to Abyssinia if the alleged acts in Reds would capture the Ameri- Hauptmann has apparently the MacDonald memorandum,violation of international law can missionaries, as they diễ given up all hope for her hus-issued by a German news continue by Italy. band, and intends to sail after agency, states that because
served steamship passages to Germany for herself and her three-year old baby, according to the Daily News. The pass- áges are said to have been book- ed in a fictitious name, and the identity of the vessel and the date of sailing have not been revealed. A cash deposit is as serted to have already been paid
Foreign Criticism Resented
LEAGUE OF NATIONS HAS NO AUTHORITY
Mr. R. Boshardt, who is still in the hands of the Reds
Official reports stating that
Mutineers Among Camel -Corps On Border
Rome, To-day. "Six native mutineers, belong- ing to the camel corps stationed onthe Tripoli-Tumikia border, struck down and killed an alisu officer, Lieutenant Biondi, The Italians have taken prompt
essures against the guilty per-
SOTS.
"
Rome, later. It transpires that the murderers of antenant Biondi escaped
attier to Tunisia commanded a band of about 50. camel
US. SILVER POLICY
Conferences With Mexico
FOLLOW PROGRAMME LAID DOWN ORIGINALLY
Washington, To-day. Mr. Henry A Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, yes-
the execution, probably taking Germany is at last endeavour- Hauptmann's body with her toing to straighten out the abuse "RENOWN" FOR ALEXANDRIA the Reds will soon be annihilat terday expressed the belief that
and domination by foreign ele Germany.
PRIVILEGED FEW
ments, people in many parts of The Daily Mirror says that the world think they are an the invitations for the privileg thorised to utter derogatory ed few to witness Hauptmann's criticism of Germany and give execution have already been dis- Germany advice, while the same tributed, bearing the date world remained mute about all January 14.
Gibraltar, to-day The British battle-cruiser Benown weighed anchor here yesterday and left for Alexandría Tans-Ocean3– Service.
the persecutions of Germans, AEome message states that The New Jersey Court of beginning with Versailles and the report that the Italians Pardons is meeting early next extending to the recent expulsed poison gas in East Africa week to decide Hauptmann'ssion and expatriation of some is officially denied. Reuter's fate. The defence lawyers in inhabitants of Euper-Malmedy Bulletin Service timate that they are producing from their home country. ---- at the meeting an actual photo The opinion exists in Germany graph of the "real murderer," that the League of Nations has but Hauptmann's only hope ap-every reason, to concern itself. pears to be commutation of firstly, with the treatment of the his sentence to life imprison-minorities, and concessions within ment in exchange for a "full the League States before it claims and frank confession, narning authority to concern itzalf with his accomplices," which has how Germany is carrying out the virtually been promised to him inner reconstraction of the na- by Governor Hoffmann.
tion, following the material ind Reuter
moral experiences of its collapse-
Penter
NO TRACE OF PARINGA
FEARED LOST WITH ALL HANDS
London, To-d
Lloyd's Melbourne pondent says that air and sea has any trace of the was lost
PERSECUTION INTENSIFIED A A message dated December 30) said that the newspapers in Lon- don gave prominence to a letter Macdonald to the
the Lea his office of
UREGIATAN DIPLOMAT
«LEAVES MOSO
(Continued on Page 11) FLOOD ALARM AT HOME
Serious Possibilities Ahead
THAMES AREAS BEING EVACUATED
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London,
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ed in Hunan are not seriously the rent conferences with taken in well-informed quar-Mexican officials would be bene iters here.
ficial to the countries using a suver currency. He added: "It CONGRESS OPENS is to the interest of the silver-
IN USA.
Political Fireworks Begin
producing countries to work] Closely together in this matter." He said that the prese COM- ferences followed the Spro gramme established by Pre- PRESIDENT'S “FIRESIDE CHAT sident Roosevelt.
TO PEOPLE
Washington, To-day,
the passage of chase-Act, recali [dent® Roosev
the US, Governme
- The year's first display, of poli" taking "the itical dreworks greeted Congrese augurating-
men pouring into Washington in neighbouring readiness for the opening of Con-monetary policies,
COMMUNIQUE ON RED CROSS BOMBING
NO REGRET EXPRESSED AT BOMBARDMENT ATTACK ON ENEMY OF HUMANITY SHOULD BE “TERRIFYING
CHINA, MAIL ** SPECIAL
Rome, To-day.
A new Italian version of the bombing of the Swedish Red Cross unit is furnished in the fol lowing official statement issued yesterday. The Italian air force recently made a bomb attack over the enemy lines on the Somah front, as a measure of reprisal after it had become known that Flight-Lieutenant Munniti Tito, who had been made prisoner, had been killed, and his head cut off.
**Simultaneously with the bombs, leaflets with the following text were dropped: "You have killed one of our fliers who was prisoner by eatting off his head, thus disregarding all hur and international laws, according to which prisoners may not injured and must be treated with respect. For this you ceive what you deserve
"In the course of the bombardment one bomb fell among the tents of the Swedish Red Cross. Two Swedish nation to have been injured. The Abyssinian losses irakiled an ed through this bombardment were very heavy
Neither in the foregoing affi-
communique nor in
an press is there my ision of regret at the bemalarda meart of the Red Cross mat. The papers, on the contrary, demand. that the military authorities in Huture make use of all the means. provided by their modern tech nical equipment in order to put
end to the inhuman methods" introduced by thei Abyssinians.
The impression given by these articles is that they are preparing [the public for gas warfare, which i has been urged by the leaders of the expeditimary
mouth The Alrusinians ought
“NOTHING WORTHY OF
MENTION
Rome, to-day- ramique No. 85, published yes terday," states 蛾
worthy of mention has occurred
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grem to day, in which the Bonus Mexico was now the first to be Bill and the neutrality legislation called in for discussions. will shortly be given prominence.”
Mr Morgenthan
The Republican leaders are cut that the Mexican plaining at President Roosevelt's
might be followed by ing the annual es discussions with coup in age to:
serve as a fire
tries?? Asked specific.
tnerican people and Canada? ambas
They are de-
later, he said: "One at oadcast.comAs yet I cannot say
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