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HINT OF REPRISALS CONTAINED IN ITALIAN
Mr. Gandhi, aborg, attended the meeting of the Congress Party at Lucknow yesterday, at which the President severely criticised the new Indian Con- stitution as "imperial slavery.”
an instrument of
PLANE CRASH IN
W. INDIES
NOSEDIVE INTO HARBOUR
THREE PEOPLE KILLED
- CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL
Port of Spain, To-day.
A tragic accident occurred yes-
rday in Trinidad which claimed
DISTURBANCES IN
DUBLIN
I.R.A. PROCESSION
STONED
POLICE FORCED TO DRAW THEIR BATONS
London, Today.
About 100 peope were injured in disturbances n Dublin yesterday, when a procession of the Irish Republican Army commemorating the vic- tims of the 1916 rebellion clashed with onlookers.
Throughout the route from the centre of the city to Glas- mevin cemetery large crowds, cheered and booed the procession,] consisting of members of the Republican Congress and Commun. ists Stones were thrown and blows were exchanged, and the police at one point drew their batons.
The attack on the Communist section continued throughout Batceros, Spain, streets ring with cheers and take colour from the route and at the entrance to the cemetery shouts were raised: waving Bags as followers hail Luis Companys, shown standing in rear of This is a Catholic cemetery. Don't let the Communists in car, on his release from the prison where he had been placed in 1934 for Those attacked inside the cemetery included the Communist mem-declaring Catalosis a separate republic. Widespread ricts between rival ber of the House of Commoris, Mr. W. Gallacher, member for W. political factions took the lives of 22 persons throughout Spain last month Fife, who was stoned but not injured.-Reuter.
* Premier Azana's Government masuccessfully sought to gain complete
EUROPEANS LOST
Tragedy Feared On Tai-Mo-Shan
ree-lives when a Pan-AmericanSEARCH PARTY ORGANISED
ipper plane flying from North)
to South America nosedived into
the harbour while taking of.
The victims were Mr. E. R. Brough, an American passenger] and the steward of the plane.
The accident occurred when the pilot swerved in order to avoid a fishing boat in semi-darkness in the morning, but 16 other passen- gers and seven of the crew escap- ed with minor injuries.
Mr. Brough was a Londoner, a Professor at the Royal Academy of Music, and he was visiting the West Indies to conduct musical examinations. — Trans-Ocean Ser-
vice.
HUMAN LEAGUE OF NATIONS
This Man Has Four "Nationalities"
A SINGAPORE PROBLEM
- Reports have just been re- ceived of what is feared may turn out to be a holiday tra- gedy in the Colony. Lt. PAR Withers of H.MS. Capetown reported late last night that # party of friends decided climb Tai-Mo-shan yesterday as a holiday “hike."
to
It appears that they set out
· full of spirits and everything went well for a time.
Theo two members of the party be- came detached from the main group, but no particular an- xiety was felt at the time. However, later they failed to make connection with the main group, as arranged, and
transpires that they it xow have been lost, as nothing more has been heard of them up to the time of going to press.
It is understood that 2 search party is being organ- ised.
NEW BRIDGE FOR VANCOUVER
Among The World's Highest
ANBITIOUS PLAN DEVISED
Vancouver.
The Canadian Government is
one of the highest, if not highest, bridges in the world—a
bour.
control.
66
NEW CHARTER
SLAVERY"
OF
REPLY TO LEAGUE
ATROCITIES MUST BE
AVENGED
BILATERAL OBSERVANCE OF LAWS OF WAR
ABYSSINIAN CASE OUTLINED
Geneva, To-day.
Mr. Anthony Eden, British Foreign Minister, will preside at the next meeting of the Council of the League, opening here on May 11 It will be the first time there has been a British President" since January, 1981, when the late Mr. Arthur Henderson occupied the post. The Presidency is filled by the States members in alphabetical order.
A hint of reprisals is contained in the Indian reply to the Committee of Thirteen's appeal, mentioned di 320 plazon Satur- day, published by the Lengue.
and declaring that such observance must be bilateral, the reply
After afirming the army's observance of the bus of war
says that the Italian military anthorities cannot do otherwise than punish every inhuman atrocity committed by the enemy.
The Abyssinian reply declarest that Ethiopia has strictly con formed to the international
agreements and has refrained PROTEST TO THE
from reprisals, despite the s tematic Italian violations, and adds that if in isolated cases, individuals have reacted against;
have been severely punished: Reater.
NEW CONSTITUTION FOR the Italian inhumanity they
INDIA ATTACKED
Lucknow, To-day.
preparing to build what will be The new Indian constitution was described as the a new charter of slavery" designed to strengthen steel span across the Lion's Gate the bonds of imperial domination by the Presi- at the entrance to Vancouver har dent, Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru, when addessing the plenary session of the All-India Congress which The project will be financed by English capitalists, who have in-Was attended by Mr. Gandhi. vested heavily in land development on the north shore of Burrard - Inlet a section of Vancouver that will be brought within few minutes' drive of the centre of the city by the new bridge.
A
TERRITORIAL AND HIS DRILL
HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED Italian Successes Claimed
LEAGUE
rastinálni. In Ethiopian Issue
FROM ABUS ABABA
ARIZAINA MAIL" SPECI
Addie Abaja, To-day.
A telegram protesting neinst the constant · prècristiantion in treatment of the Italo-Aby--inian condict by the League of Nat ons, has been addressed to the League. Secretariat by the Emperor, Haile
“KHér pointing out that the Committee of Thirteen had on
400 DEAD ON BATTLEFIELD
-- CHINA MAIL "" Mr. Nehru advised the mem-į
SPECIAL ¡bers of the Congress to take!
Rome, To-day. According to official commun advantage of the new constitn- tion to capture the Legislatures que No. 182, Marshal Badogko-re and use them as platforms to ports that while the home Army.
economic further their
pro-and Eritrean troops are conting gramme, to create political ing their operations as per sche-Marh B appealed to the be lig deadlocks and stop the Unions dule, the warriors of the Areboenfato open immediate nego ia- clearance for the bridge, and that "Engaged" Plea Fails or its interest by the decision of ficted heavy losses upon the tions for an armistice, the tle-
The speech was robbed of much Galla tribe again attacked and in- will enable the passare of the tallest ahins afloat with ample ac- commodation. The length of the bridge will be more ¡feet
1500 FEET LONG
Present plans call for a 200-foot-
1500
the Congress Subjects' Committee Abyssinian rear guard, south of Bam Ever on to We take yesterday to postpone the deci- Cormat River,
{note that for five weeks the The energy left Sapper George Church, of sion on the acceptance of office by 400 dead on the battlefield. Ameliminary site the the Com- negotiations=sțined in the pre- |Grantchester, a member of the members of the Congress under and ammunition and a whole Considerable impetus has been 250th Company, Royal Engi-cialist group's proposal to pledge captured.
Laittee has taken, nq, « derisious, the new constitution. The Solumn of draft animal were and that the question of add tion-
given to the bridge enterprise by
wreck the new
Further
issued
the progress made with the Golden neers (T.A.), who was fined 55. the members of the Congress
al sanctions has been dieregarded Gate Bridge and Oakland Bridge with 4s. costs at Cambridge against acceptance of responsibi-
despatches fram since-March. Singapore WILFUL MURDER in Vancouver's rival Pacific sea- recently for not attending lity and to tactics designed to Asmara state that Marshal Bado
"During all this time Italy has, glo port, San Francisco.
constitution was
a proclamation] drills, told the court that he had defeated by 42 votes to 23-Ben-abolishing slavery in all terri-gressive war in a frightful man- with impunity, ebotinued her ag- been working overtime, and did ter.
tories occupied by the Italian
fner, chiefly by means of daily gas troops-Trans-Ocean, Service.
bombardments, a sv
man with four "nationalities” uzzling the Singapore authori
8 born to a Straits Settle- hinese couple, who were vetling from Singapore to Batavia aboard a German" äbip zoon after the ship had entered
CHARGE
..
Alleged Killing Of Son By Father
1
week at Newcastle last monthịnot want to give up his remain- on a charge of wilfully murdering evenings to drills. He said ing his 3-months-old son John at he was engaged to be married. Newcastle on January 28. Pre-Inspr. Donahoe said he arrested Mr. A. H. Wild (prosecuting Dutch territorial waters of Java toria-street, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Hadson when he was at work for the Cambridge and Isle of So it now seems that he is: ** (was, remanded" in custody for a When charged he made no reply
British, because his parents were
born in Singapore; •
Chinese, because he
Chinese blood;
is .pare
German, berzuse he was born
in a German ship;."
Dutch, because he was born in Dutch waters.
It would seem this gue-man "eague of Nations could obtain zi
asport from any one of his four Fatherlands or from all four, .
ONLY ONE PUZZLE, AZ, This is one of the nationality! uzzles brought to light during he controversy at Singapore over be invitation to four Straits Chin- se, who are British subjects, to lay for China in the Olympic
As football competition.
Is contended that if they play dr China they will lose their Bri- Fish citizenship, but there is no legal provision to prevent thera Traveling to Berlin on British sport... and etill playing "for
John Hudson, aged 20, of
This remarkabské photograph was snapped in the Pierra Ve- nezia, Rome, as King Victor-Bas angel and Dictator Mussolini, in uniform and belmet, foined in a special mass honouring Italiam „officers - and men who lost, their lives in the first battle of Ado-
-32, 10. JERIS: agm.
Elý Territorial Association): Does it amount to this: You have either got to leave your drills or leave your girl? Church: It does not.
STOP PRESS
We have been informed by the Naval Authorities that the two members of the hiking party to Tai-mo- than who were reported as missing yesterday have re ported that they are safe. They are Pay. Comdr. Field and Pay. Lt. Osborne.
In the present tenma altustiɔn in Europe, observers see the warm friendship between Austria and Italy, as 'iga. muthudastic “ greeting is socorded Princs Ernst Rudiger Von Starbenberg, left, Vice Chancellor of Austria. Pulvio Ružick, tight. Italy's Foreign Secreters, is shown with Azistria's “strong man" when: the fat- ter arrived in Rome last month for a talk with Dictator: Mucwo- fini.
"We protest rigorously against the cantinaed procrastination (and demand that measures-be takes to jent.thie state of affairs.”----Trans- ¡Ocean Service.
ONLY 3 PLANES LEFT
Ethiopian Air Force Denuded
Addis Abalos To-day.
The Ethiopian AfriForce, which is not a fighting,balt but used for conveying meámages --from-- the vis, now extimists of only three phones iu When-hostilities started the Ethopiane porested. 12 {planga, “but” nifa, have been either. destroyed, "Zrsibel.geʻ mndéred mechanically matt, for service.
In addition to the Abyssiniang, there are two Geeses, on Eye- jalan, one Cabin, and love French-
men employed in the Air Force. *Renter's Balletin Servien