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(Continued from Page 5.) Matheson Lang as Sir Francis While the Abyssinians lost decisive
Queen Drake, Athene Seyler as numerous dead, the Italian losses been achieved.
The Italians succeeded on Satur-Elizabeth and Jane Baxter were comparatively slight.
of the The Sultan of Aussa, Moham-day, after a fierce struggle, in en-Elizabeth Sydenham, one
queer's ladies in waiting, are: med Lajo Anfari, has announced veloping Sassabaneh
sides, but their attack has since the principal actors, but the cast This surrender to the Italians.
been at a standstill, while their includes others
PERSISTENT RUMOURS
IN ROME
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rear
threa
of the!
who
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weil
What Will Duce Do? tank detachment, which had been known on the English stage.
despatched
The in the direction of
Armada and
battle Daggahbur in the
sequences which are the highlight Abyssinian positions at Sassa of the fim are remarkably effeo- bareh, was compelled to retreattive and the famous incidents of! Thus the Italian plan of captur Sir Francis playing bowls on the came into Rome: Persistent rumours ofing Daggahbar and thereby cut Hoe as the Armada impending important decisions to ting-of communications between sight (which many authorities be taken by Signor Mussolini on Sassabaneh and Harrar had failed, aver never took place) was the occasion of the Italian occupa-while at the same time the Abys actually taken at Plymouth Hoe. tion of Addis Ababa-which issinians rigorously counter-attack- The Spanish Court of the day confidently expected here to be a ad the Italian right-wing, where also figures prominently in the film matter of a few days continue an Italian onslaught, led by Gen- with all its pageantry reconstruct Ito circulate.
eral Agostini at the strategically'ed in every detail important town of Bullaleh, was repulsed
a
The Windsor Castle Council The most interesting of these
Chamber is used as a background reports for which, however, no of
ANXIETY IN ROME
for many important sequences in ficial confirmation is as yet ob~!
For the first time during the war the picture and it is in this cham- tainable, is that the Italian Govthe casualties on either side dur ber that Queen Elizabeth first
intend to
announceing the past few days are admitt 24th Mayerament
meets Drake. solemnly the dethronement of the led to be approximately equal, the
Another part of the Castie present dynasty of Abyssinia and Italian Army having been report which was carefully reconstruct- at the same time, proclaim Kinged to have lost some 2,000 men ed was Elizabeth's famous ward- Victor Emmanuel III as Emperor of!
chiefy natives-while the Abys robe in which she kept hundred of New Ethiopia which including ginian losses are estimated, to be beautiful gowas. This picture is Eritrea and Italian Somaliland-
bistorically correct in somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000- in fact would stretch from the Red Sea to:
is manifested here ¡Some anxiety
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many
Such a proclaimation, it is held, would have a certain parallel with] For the first time in the proclamation of Queen Vic-months the Italian Press reports toria as Empress of India.
failed to speak yesterday morning,
It is furthermore claimed that of Italian victories." The pre-
Italian 34
"FRONT PAGE WOMAN”..... MAJESTIC THEATRE
This picture is one of the most! as a final solution to the Aby railing disquiet has been increas-realistic and exciting of news- sinian problem the plan woulded by the fact that the usual daily paper screen dramas, with Bette
standpoint, official communique from the seat. Davis and George Brent in have the additional advantage of of war has not been published stellar roles. eliminating the League of Nations since Monday. from the present conflict and pre- venting it from ever again “inter-| fering with Abyssinia's internal
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