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Britain To Uphold Oil Embarge
Paris:
The
British General Staff favours the oil embargo as the best means or hastening the end of the Italo-Abyssinian waz, according to a despatch from Lou- don published by the newspaper L'Oeurre here yesterday.
The despatch asserts that the British General Staff is strongly (convinced of the necessity of bring- ing the war to a clase as soon as {possible, for the following reasons.
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Madrid. To-day. Constitutional rights through- -out-Spain have been restored-by decrees signed by the Eresident of the Republic yesterday. This means the unrestricted right of assembly. and the abolition of the right of search in private dwellings, as well as the abolition of the press censorship-Trans- Ocean Service.
Firstly, if the hostilities should be MARAUDING
HOPEL AND CHAHAR
General Sung's
To People
NEED TO FIGHTT: COMMUNISM
Peiping To-day.
General Sung. Cheb-yuan Jett here for Puoting by the special tril at 8.30 yesterday morning to assume his concurrent post as Chairman of Hopei.
Interviewed prior to his de parture, General Sung said that he will take the oath of office to- day and will leave the Hopei Ca-} pital to return here to-morrow.
In a statement issued to the Hopei people on the eve of his departure, General Sung promis- ed to do his best to relieve the sufferings of the masses Be asserted that he would not toler ate corruption and graft under This administration.
Assuring the people of his sin. cerity, General Sung in the mes- sage urged them to be straight- forward, to observe the public virtues, and to fight against the invasion of Communism.
GENERAL HSIAO'S VISIT General Hsiao Cheng-ying left here for Tientsin on Monday morning. |He was accompanied by Mr. Chen Chung-fu, member of the Foreiga Affairs Committee of the Hope Chahar Political Counci It is learned that the purpose of Gen-
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meet General Tada, to exchange views concerning the East Hopei. and East Chahar questions
Major Doihara, who is expected to return to Tientsin on Friday, may postpone his departure, as the Japanese Kwangtung Army bas decided to send another per-i son to Tientsin, to start negotia-Į tions with the Chinese authorities [concerning the outstanding pro-
blems in-North China.
ANIMALS AT
WHIPSNADE yesterday morning from Tatung,
RAILWAY REVENUE SEIZURE
Shortly after his árvival here.
Crane Falls Victim To For
RATS DISPOSE OF THREE BLACK SWAN CHICKS
where he had conferred with Gen- eral Fu Tso-yi, Governor of Sui- yuan, on Monday, Mz- Chang Chia-ngan, Minister of the Rail-i Tways, left here for Tientsin |5.30 yesterday afternoon.
• M-G-M prolonged the Italians in the
British General Staff's opinion will be liable to suffer a serious defeat; secondly, the victory of al black race over a white wald "en- tail disastrous consequences fori colonial nations, and as far as Bri- tain bersel is concerned, would be calculated to strengthen the nation-
While in Tientsin. Minister alist movements in Egypt; Pales- tine and India; thirdly, in the in-
Chang will confer with Mr. Chen terest of the maintenance of the European-equilibrium Italy's posi- In the early days of Whipsnade Chiao-shang. Managing-Director of the Reiping-Liaoning Railway, tion in Europe ought not to be the foxes in the neighbourhood
tuation which has arisen since greatly weakeyed; fourthly, since found the Zoological, Park an ex-on measures to cope with the si-
Under on cellent hunting-ground the task will be incumbent
Hsinho-Shanhaiwan Section of Britain of restoring Italy by means cover of darkness a lithe form the seizure of revenue of the of a loan, it would be unwise to would creep through the fence, the Bailway by the bogus East
that raid a convenient bird enclosure Hopei Autonomous Government- completely disintegrate
and make off hastily with a Central News Agency. "catch" At length, however, all
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Hence the General Stad is press the fences were made fox-proof. ing the British Government to in-and these disastrous nightly sist on the oil embargo, according visits came to an end. to L'Ocifre
But although the foxes are now safely shut out from the Zoolo-
Ofal Park, they still lark out-
Negus Accused
Usurping Throne
side in the hope of getting a meal, and a young demoiselle crane has been unwise enough to stray into Addis Ababa; Italian planes, aethe clutches of one of them cording to reports received here Tragedy Of Escape from the northern front, are now This crane had full use of his dropping pamphlets charging that wings and was, therefore, in- &
emperor, Lidy Yasu.
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UNIVERSITIES' SEAT
London, To-day, Nomination Day in the Scottish Universities by-election has been fixed for January (11. The Lord President of the Council, Mr.} Ramsay MacDonald, will be
In Ross and :: Cromarty the
the Negus usurped the Abyssinian position to take fights away from nominated, but it is still unknown throne and poisoned the legitimate home Once, however, he was how many opponents he will have incautious enough to stay out all The result of the poll will be de night. He few back to theclared on February 3. Abyssinian official quarters, in commenting on this, pointed out fringe of the Park and settled that the dethronement, of Lidy down there and the following Chairman and Vice-Chairman of Laan, in 1917, was actually mainly morning the keeper found the sad the local Conservative Association due to the pressure exerted by evidence that he had been have resigned in protest against prised by a fox and come to a the Association's decision to ap Italy, France and Britain.
untimely end. 17).
pose the candidature of the The Australian black swans at Dominions Secretary, Mr. Malcolm
Hague Sequel To Red whipsnade have also suffered at MacDonald, who has been invited
Cross Bombing
the hands of an enemy. These to stand by the Liberal National two birds caused something of a members of the local Liberal or- sensation this year, because they ganisation, and who will have the Stockholm: Political quarters here assert that the Swedish established a precedent by neat support of the Conservative Government intends to demand aing three times. The first two officers who have resigned, as well broods of cygnets were reared other leading Conservatives decision from the International] Court of Arbitration at The Hagme successfully, but three of the Mr. MacDonald's Labour oppon- s to whether Italy is obliged to latest chicks-hatched in Novement will be Mr. H. MacNeil, who compensate the families of the ber have been laffed by rats.
Swedish mixtionals who were killed during the bombardment of the Swedish Red Cross unit at Delo.
If the answer is the nitrina. Live the court will be asked to pick the sum to be paid
Since Sweden,
SENTENCED FOR FOURTH TIME
Another Example Of The Law's Delay
was defeated in a very close con- test by the Minister of Agricul ture, Mr Walter Elliot, in th
general election in Glasgow.
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