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THE CHINA MAIL
APRIL 15, 1936
LARGE PLANES CAN LAND IN CAPITAL
(Continued from Page 1)
Italy Claims Right To Lake Tsana
:
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS VIEWED WITH SCEPTICISM
SOVIET "AIR TRAINTM MAKES SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT
Plane Town Five Gliders
Moscow. 'An “air train" consisting of an aeroplane towing five gliders, has
ade 2 lorg. successful round
fight from Tula, about 120 miles
NUN MEETS
END IN LAKE
AT CONVENT
Thought To Have Had Seizure At Prayer FOUND DROWNED IN GARDEN (south of Moscow, to Stalinogorski THAT SHE LOVED
and back to Tula, via Orel-a total
London-Death by misadventure Roze: Well-informed quarters distance of about 1.000 miles.
The flight was accomplished at was the verdict at an inquest on here stress that Italy cannot en-
Atla num Sister Mary ter into any negotiations concerna height of about 10.000ft.
con this altitude the gliders detached Primavesi. aged 57, who ink Lake Tsana. which she siders will be henceforth Italian themselves one by one at the end found drowned in a lake in property, and which she will never of the flight and landed safely. accept as being outside the terri
tory conquered by her troops.
Hence so
the same quarters
state Italy will not counten- arce cession of the lake to Great;
Britain, and the only thing
she
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To-day's Complete Short Story.
FRANGIPANNI
FANTASIA*-
THE
By David McNicoll
linting of the sun on Roger's ridi love them for ever.
HE wharf faded slowly, intill had seemed to breathe romance.
all Miriam could see was the and she had thought she would-
But she had culous old hat, and the dull red of seen the romance die in them. the boss-boy's lap-lap beside him just as if they were withering up. Between them stretched a growing Instead of the life she had expect
not turned out} expanse of water, green and golded, things had throwing far and wide the million right: it had been a life of struggle Josephine beams of the blistering sun which against adversity, and she shud- Įdered at some of the memories of was twinkled on its surface.
"That's that!" she whispered those two years. All the time it convent garden which she loved. softly to herself. For one instant had kept parting her from Roger: The inquest was held at Kelve-only she had felt sorry that she Roger, whom once she had loved don Hall Convent. near Ongar,
was going. but the sorrow had more than anything in the world.
now!! Essex, where Sister Primavesi was soon slipped away. She was free How long ago it seemed
the tropic again, free to live, and, if she Their honeymoon. Dr. J. D. Fiddes said that Sis-ked. never to return to Roger, nights, with a night bird flapping ter Primavesi had a small cere-never to see that old copra wharf, his way slowly across the moon, bra hamorrhage which would the native labourers, or the palms.and the air sweet with the scent
a of the frangipanni. have cussed unconsciousness.
The palms. She stopped as
The' thought she might have fallen into sudden thuoght struck her.
How romantic they bad] It had been Roger's suggestion the lake in the convent garden in palms. that state. The haemorrhage oc- seemed two years ago, when they that they should separate for curred before death.
were first married. The palme white.
"For ever, if you really wish it."! he had said. "Only. I'll pray toj D'Alton. New York. To-day. Sister Mary Frances Generally favoured by finest Sister Superior, said that" Sister |
U.S. BASEBALL OPENS
would be prepared to do would be Bud Hafley Hits First
to make a declaration that she is
not intending to modify the exist-
3ng regulation of the waters of
Homer
the Blue Nile in any way suscep- ROOSEVELT THROWS FIRST tible to injuring Anglo-Eryptian
interests.
The coming peace negotiations at Geneva
regarded are
with
BALL AT WASHINGTON
on a visit.
He
SNAKE-VENOM
*
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a
back. You see. Miriam, without! you here life just won't be worth; very much."
utter scepticism by Italian politic opening day weather for many Prima:esi came from St. Joseph BOY'S LIFE SAVED BY heaven that some day you'll come al circles, which point out that the years, over 200.000 spectators Hall. Whalley Raage, Manchester. advance of the Italian troops is invaded the eight major League las her guest about three now proceeding so rapidly that the baseball grounds for the open-ago. She looked quite well. and situation is changing almost daily ing of the season yesterday. after medical advice for a minor
to Italy's advantage,
carters that the Committee
of!
Eighteen should be summoned in
order to decide further sanctions.
unanimous The press re their declaration that Italy refuse to enter into any negati
wil
The biggest crowd assembled ailment was her norinal self.
weeks
Bleeding For 12 Days
So she had left him. She could not endure it a moment longer- the isolation, the loneliness no one but Roger and the housebors to talk to for weeks on end. Now. standing on the deck of the little island steamer, she wondered why bleeding he had never gone mad.
saved.
VIPER POISON SENT 200 MILES BY TRAIN"
11-year-old boy suffering
baemophilia
All newspapers publish articles (on the Polo tiround. New York, "She was very pious and very attacking the British policy, where for the clash between the Giants and replied Sister D'Alton. by they especially criticise the and the Dodgers, and President when the coroner asked if Sister Suggestion made by some British Roosevelt threw out the first ball Primavesi had ever suggested An
jat Washington where he was apharming herself.
from plauded by 25,000 fans.
Winifred Mary Short, a boarder disease has had his life The honour of hitting the first
The venom had she at the content, said
spent! by snake-venom. home run of the season fell Bud Hadley who clouted a foursome time with Sister Primavesil to be sent hurriedly 200 miles by earlier in the week. She was train, after urgent telephone calls. bagger for Pittsburgh in the first cheerful and happy, and said she
Haemophilia is, the malady that has killed one member of the was going to the chapel.
P.-c. French stated that the Spanish Royal family and has Count of his recent water at the edge of the lake was afflicted another. the
Covadonga. during E1ft 3in deep.
grave illness. How the boy was! cured of it is told in "The Lancet"
tions under such a threat.-Trans- Crean Service.
Bombing Planes Visit Addis Ababa
their match against
innings of Cincinnati.
Results of the matches were:-- National League:
!Boston
PAMPHLETS DROPPED, BUT Philadelphia
Asmara:
NO BOMBS..
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of the season. first innings.
Pittsburgh
୫ 14 Bud Hafley hit the first homer during the
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Cincinnatti
6 14
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of squadron Italian bombing and pursuit planes!
Addis paid a surprise visit to Ababa on Easter Monday. Al-↓
the city on encircling though several occasions and descending to a relatively low altitude, they remained unharmed as the Abrs- ainian anti-aircraft batteries were! inactive.
Prooklyn [New York
Melvin Ott and Dick Bartell
homered
Chicago
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12 18 Kerman. Chuck Klein Demaree (2) and Hartnett homered.
7 14 4 Louis Morgan homered and J, Dean pitched.
The planes dropped many thousands of pamphlets warning the population of the city that the! Negus army had been annihilated St. and that slavery had been abolish- ed in the territories at present occupied by the Italians. The pamphlets furthermore promised Detroit that "The Italians would bring Cleveland
American League
3 10
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peace and civilisation to the coun- "Schoolboy" Rowe pitched. try." After the large supply of
base-Trans-Ocean Service.
Italian Advance Along Philadelphia
3 crucifix.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's Story will be "The Bookmaker's Exit.” another adventure of Dixon Hawke.
In the water was
But it was not too late to make This. it was stated. was probably by Dr. Geoffrey A. Baker and Dr-good. She was only twenty-four, being carried by the dead muz.
Paul C. Gibson.
and still very pretty. There was The Sister Superior said Sister When he was admitted to Tor-plenty of time to start again. But Primavesi may have been holding bay Hospital. Torquay, the boy Roger... a little gnawing came the crucifix and praying at the was in a state of collapse after again at her heart How awful moment she met with her death bleeding for 10 days.
it would be to hurt Roger
RABBI'S REPROVAL OF WOMEN'S GARB
Evening Dress Worn At Weddings
The doctors ordered snake-venom
*
from a London firm, but when it) "With the sea behind you, and their the blue skies above. I doubt if arrived at mid-night. to
may, the package was found to I've ever seen anything so attrac- contain anti-venin (antidote).
itive."
Miriam
"At 9.15 the following morning."
spun round. Sitting the doctors. state, we telephoned on a deck chair about 2 yard
He see to the pharmacist of St. Bartho away was a young man. lomew's Hospital.
ed tall, and his fair hair flopped
"At 10 am a telegram arrived back slightly to one side. His blue Russell viper face was tanned, and his
This is a place of worship, not saying that some
a ball-room or a swimming-bath" verom was being put on the 10.30 eyes looked sleepily at her with a
Thus Rabbi Dr. J. L Landau train for Torquay.
It arrived at little mockery behind them. He
protested, in a sermon at the Great 2.30 pm, and was applied imme- (Continued on Page 11)
0 Synagogue ix: Johannesburg diately. From that moment
against the practice of women had no further anxiety.”
coming to weddings in the Syna-
Such clothes were out of keep-
ing with the atmosphere of
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we
STOWAWAY NEARLY
ROASTED
house of worship, he said. and Four Days' Torment In
were an "affront to the sanctity
gogue wearing evening frocks with
pamphlets had been exhausted. New York
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low backs and no sleeves.
the planes returned safely to their
Buck Newsom pitched.
Washington
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of the Ark."
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He suggested that women at- tending wedding receptions in
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-Reuter.
Northern Front
Beston
St. Louis
Rome: Italian Headquarters* Bell and Coleman pitched. official communique No. 184 states Chicago
that the Italian advance is CON- Piet homered.
tinuing along the entire northern
front and that 22 Italian
Lero-
planes encircled Addis Ababa' for DOG RESCUED FROM SOFT. PIT
a considerable time on Monday.
The communique adds that the
George Carlow, aged 18, was planes contented themselves with dropping pamphlets and refrained lowered into a 50ft dene-hole near Orpington, Kent, and rescued a from bombardment.
Nevertheless, the
Boiler-Room
A native of Nigeria who stow-
evening frocks should wear cloaks ed away in the boiler-room of the
for wraps during the service in the British steamer King
Synagogue.
OPIUM SMUGGLING IN BURMA
■
Frederick
at Dakar. French West Africa, was sentenced at Bristol to seve days' imprisonment.
He was Emanuel Quashie Otoo,
(30, and his address was given as Kwatey Kojo-street, Accra, Gold) Coset. The ship in which be stowed away was bound from Aus
small dog which was apparently Drug Hidden In Books tralia for Avonmouth. communique
adds, the inhabitants fled panic trapped there while chasing rab-
stricken from the city and sought refuge in the surrounding county side. Trans-Ocean Service.
MR. EDEN'S POLICY
DISCLAIMER FROM
ENGLAND
NOTHING PERSONAL
London, To-day.
In the attacks directed against
bits.
Mr. John Inskip (for the Opium smuggling has become a owners) said that too endured serious menace in Burma. The the torment of four days hiding as well as by other Ministerk latest proof of this is the confisca in the boiler-room, came out half-
Recent events have in no way tion by the police of 2,985lb. of roasted, and worked as
a sailor lines of that refined opium at a railway station for the rest of the voyage. changed the main
Otoo asked if he could
have policy and in regard to collective in Mandalay. action against an agressor State This opium-worth some £4,450. some money for the work done.: Britain has been and is prepared was discovered hidden in packing He had friends in Liverpool and to pursue financial and economic cases containing Chinese books. wanted to go there. He was told measures while hostilities, con-The men who control the illicit that the Court had nothing to do tinue, as far as the League as a trafic, it is officially stated. bring with that.. whole agrees upon such action-the opium in from China by way British Wireless Service.
lof the Shan States.
Mr. Anthony Eden in the Haliae Miss Dorothy Dickson
newspapers the attempt is made
to represent as personal the polier
which the Foreign, Secretary has
consistently followed in regard to
Italo-Abyssinian the
Granted Decree Nisi
They COME
in
POISON GAS ATTACKS
· BY ITALIANS
Continued from Page 1).
in
sufferers
USE OF GAS CONFIRMED dispute. Dorothy Schofield Heisen, Gros- Their only child was born London: The newspapers give Such attitude is, of course, entire venor-place, S.W., known on the December, 1915. In America Mr. prominence. to appeals received
The
authoritative quarters ly unjustified.
Foreign stage as Miss Dorothy Dickson, and Mrs. Heisen acted and danced from Secretary has throughout main-was granted a decree nisi by Mr. together.
to this Abyssinia for anti-gas medicants tained the closest contact with his Justice Langton in the Divorce country in June, 1921, with the suitable for treating Cabinet, colleagues and has had Court last month.
idea of settling here. About April, from gas burns caused during the their fullest confidence in every
Con- 1923, they separated, and had not recent bombing by Italian afrmen. Carl since lived together.
It is now established that for over Mrs. Helsen's case was that, in one month the intensive use of gas,
the suit.
ed at a London hotel with another has been resorted to by the Mr. and Mrs. Helsen were mar-woman. Evidence" was given by Italians, involving the victims in Under-Secretary, Lord Cranborne, ried in Michigan, USA, in June. Mrs. Heisen and by witnesses from terrible suffering-British Wire-
less Service. (Continued in next Column) 1914, both being American born the hotel.
step taken. The House of Com-
Her husband, Mr. Carl mons has also time after time stantin Heisen, known
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associated itself with, the Govern-Hyson, a dancer, did not contest January, 1938, her husband stay-lin defiance of the 1925 Protocal
ment's policy as expressed in speeches by Mr. Eden and
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