THE CHINA MAH.
BANK ROBBERY& CHARGES
Bail Refused By Magistrate
ALIBI DEFENCE RAISED
Edinburgh
Two Scottish bank robberies and a series of thefts of motor cars containing furs were men- tioned at the Edinburgh Sheri Court recently, when four London were committed to prison pending further inquiries.
The prisoners
were Charles William Harris, commission agent. address, George. John
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Sherif MacDonald refused bail.
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STORY OF SHOP STRUGGLE
Theatre Manager For Trial
George Anthony Smith, aged 37, a theatre manager, with an hotel jaddress in Guilford-street, W.C
lane jeweller's shop..
UARY 12, 1936
Here is demonstrated a 10- cessful treatment în trimming wool with black satin. which is the set in diagonal bands on
The upper part of the frock.
caracıl tarn-down collar is of Bette Davis, the screen actress, is the model.
MAN'S FRAUD ON BAKERS
Rabbit Pelt In Loaf
A HUNDRED DAYS OF THE WAR
(Continued from Page 6)
concealed from the sir, crossed the Talkaze river, now, reported fordable, under cover of darkness, and penetrated far into the Italian lines. On each occasion the Italian troops had to give grand.
cess.
Whether the Abyssinians are still holding their farthest points of penetration at the Dembeguina pass and Abi Addi is less impar tant than the fact that they; have been able to deliver these vigorous and well-timed thrusts, which mark an importanz strategicil, suc-
Losses Admitted The Italians admit the loss of Dearly 600 killed in the three Eghts, with a high proportion of officers, and practicaly no. wound- led—an ominous record.
The most striking features of the ` fighting have tonishing high morale of the Abyssinians and the impunity with which considerable - forces can penetrate Car within the ter- ritory which the Italians claim to have öccupied. Difficulties of supply force the latter to hold their flank with small posts pre- cariously supported by mobile co- Jamus, while lateral comununica- tion behind the line seems to be jalmost non-existent.
been the S-
to
The Abyssinian tactics seem to have successfully countered Ita- lian superiority in armament. The heavier calibres of artillery, brought to the front with such la- {bour, seem to be useless; the coun-! try is hardly suitable for tanks; and aeroplanes have ceased have either moral or material ef- fect except against Red Cross hos- pitals. For the time being the initiative on this front has passed to the Abyssinians, and ary Ità- lian advance seems to be still further postponed
On Southern Front
If we turn to the southern front, the present situation is equally depressing for the Italians,
was at Bow-street recently commit-
Since their reconnoitring de ited for trial The charge was that, armed with an imitation pistal, hej A man who tried to obtain com-tachment was caught napping on assulted three men in a Maiden-pensation by representing to aNovember 11 at Anale, 12 miles firm of bread manufacturers that south of Sasa Banch, and was William George Drate, 20 assis he had eaten a portion of a loaf compelled to retreat with the loss tant in the shop, said that when which contained a dead rat, was of four tanks, there has been no Smith entered be placed a wash-sentenced to three months impri-news of any serious fighting." The leather bag on the counter and sorment, at Glasgow recently, for Italian line runs, as it did two
months ago, from Hal Ual through! while he (Drane) was examining attempted frand. the contents Smith suddenly jump The prosecutor said the man, Gerlogubi, Gabredare (15 miles called at a north of Gorahai), Danan (60) ed back, produced a revolver, and Thomas Mitchell, Singapore, Penang. Rangoon and said, "Stick 'em up! This is a grocer's shop at Bridgeton and miles west of Gorahai on a tribu genuine hold-up. I have two men produced a loaf which he said his tary of the Webbe Shebeli), and joutside.”*
wife had bought the previous day, then bends back to Dolo at Two police officers then entered He complained that there had been junction of the three frontiers. the shop, and after a violent strug-la rat in the bread and ultimately Gen Graziani has now gle, during which the pistol went signed a form and accepted pay-up his white division to the Dolo off, seized Smith
ment for 33 10s for compensation area, leaving only the native divi- "I thought it was a loaded gun Later he called at another firm sion and some irregulars to hold
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suffered from shock, and had to gow and produced a portion of a Ual. If Ras Desta's force was sent go to bed. I was away from work loaf which he declared had a rat to the valley of the Juba to create.
a week."
MILLIONAIRE'S DEATH
Managed Affairs Of
Indian State
Bombay.
or a mouse in it. The firm had the a diversion and draw off Italian loaf examined by a City analyst, troops from their true objective, and it was discovered that the sub- the strategy has been astonishing- stance was a singed portion of the lys ccessful, for nearly half their forces in the Ogaden are tacked ipelt of a rabbit.
away on the extreme left flank
Two Months Inertia The Tevere (Blackshirt) Divi- sion is reported to have arrived at from Mogadishn. A division Libya is also on its way through
AGED COUPLE'S DEATH
Mr. F. E. Dinshaw, a Bombay Man Of 80 Who Was the Canal and may be sent to this
millionaire-financier, was riding
on the beach at Juhu recently when be said that he felt unwell, slipped from his horse, and died from heart failure.
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je 50 BUILDING, CONNAUGHT POAD CENTRAL HONGKQUI
Found In Lake
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front. But neither of these two divisions is likely to be available for some little time. One- would have thought that some of the The police are investigating the mechanised troops in the north deaths of Albert Keen, aged 80, could more suitably be employed He is said to have left 3,000-and his wife, Elizabeth, aged 81, here. Something definitely seems of Whielden-street, Amersham to have gone Wrong" on Mr. Dinshaw began his career
The man had always expressed the Italian side in the Ogaden, as a solicitor in a fim of which a desire to die first. One day he as it is difficult to account for the he eventually became partner. He found his wife, dead, apparently complete inertia of the last two was a director of the India Re from a heart attack He ran to months. serve Bank and other Bombay a doctor and införmed a neigh- The Abyssinian forces remain banks, of the Tata Steel Company.bour.
me intact, and; while not seriously and of 70 other companies.
A little later Miss W. Mansfield, disputing the desert, may be ex- He managed the financial at- who lives near Shardeles lake, pected to fight at Jijiga and Sass fairs of the State of Gwalior, deal- saw the man fall into the water. ing with millions of pounds.
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at the Windsor in
INJURED MAN DISAPPEARS
Before Police. Could Investigate
Baneh. There seem to be months of "severe" fighting shead before the Thalisus reach Hazar and cut the railway.
Looking at the situation as 3 whole, it has definitely deteriarst ed from the Italian point of view. There is no need to dissent from Signor Mussolini's observation as ito, the nece
Last month a man walked into But St. Thomas's Hospital during the bent might with his face covered with to, blood
his rig
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of this character. On the Abyssinian side, the are extremely inconveni-monstration of their ability to at
has been led tack and the cohesion shown
their leaders on the north completely changed the sita
quick
It should arrest
her defecti
the other side The fact that the Lalians are nearer to the railway than they
tap months ago should the previona KZİSİYY ions, which ought now to be ning in freely, Lack of
and possible early
ways, in my
two great dan have now receded into
The events of the last few weeks it even more certain that "April will confront Signor intowith some diffen't de
There is fittia
ree months' campaigning wea-
and judging by the pre
portant results