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THE CHINA MAH, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1936
SUDDEN SQUALL AMERICAN LEGATION
AT CANTON Several Small Boats Overturned
NO LIVES LOST
[From Our Owa Correspondent]
་་
Canton, To-day.
BESIEGED
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Rome: The latest advices from: Abyssinia state that the Italian [columns are awaiting the arrival of a deputation from Addis Ababa to surrender the city. Planes are ceaselessly circling over the city
PURITY IN DRESS
CANTON CAMPAIGN
RE-OPENED
REGULATIONS FOR WOMEN
[From Our Own Correspondent] Canton, To-day. Smart ladies have been
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Several small boats in the and its approaches, but have seen dered to-day to discard their harbour were overturned when no signs, of resistance.
Djibouti:
fashionable clothes and to don a sudden strong wind accom- LAST RESISTANCE ENDS panied by a rain storm struck
Ras Nasibou's Tur-only modest garb, on pain of being arrested. The police de- Canton at 5-50 p.m. last even-kish adviser, Wehib Pasha, has ar ling. Fortunately
no deaths rived here from Diredawa, indi-ree banning "queer clothes" were reported.
cating that the last Abyssinian or goes into effect from to-day.
Milady is prohibited from The thunderstorm came almost ganised resistance has collapsed, wearing dresses which show bare without warning and was at its
SIX MILES AWAY worst by 620 p.m. The heavy rain! Rome: A message from As-arms or legs. She must and thunder lasted a little over anmars states that the advance nickers reaching down beyond our. Again the low-lying suburba guard of the mechanised column the knees, and they should be of were flooded by the rain and com- has linked up with the colurn of such a length as may be approved munications were cut off for over Askaris in the hills six miles from by officers of the law. The sleeves must be long enough to cover the lan hour.
Addis Ababa.-Reuter.
elbows. Upper Saikwan, Teng Feng
NEGUS EMBARKS Road in the north, Tien Kwoon Dijbouti:
The Emperor of!
wear
These detailed regulations are! to be enforced again to-day, al-
Lane and Honam suburb were in-Abyssinia, accompanied by the though they were promulgated
p.m.
of
jlast year.
on
The
approaching
hot summer bas made it necessary to re-enforce the sartoria! regula- tions, as smartly dressed women
wearing abbreviated and
at Addis scanty dresses.
The military and police
jundated with two and a half feet Empress and other members of water, which subsided by the Royal family, embarked
Some signboards and neon HMS. Enterprise at 5.30 pm. Fe lights in the shopping districts terday-Reuter's Bulletin Service.
BRITISH AID were blown down by the sudden!
London, Later: The appeal of are gusts of wind.
Farmers welcome the down-the American Legation pour, as so far this early summer Ababa for British help has now! has not been rainy enough. More reached the British Legation via thorities are sponsors of this dress Washington and London. The reform movement for women, and Owing to the blinding storm Foreign Office states that the re-their suggestions have been duly cinema theatres
poorly quest has been transmitted to the adopted by the civilian authori
ties. Eritish Legation, asking the Bri- patronised last night during the
tish Minister to do all he can to first performance.
help-Reuter.
•LAST 4 TIMES TO DAY rain is needed for the crops.
DICK POWELL JOAN BLONDELL.
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Japanese Rejoicings In Shanghai
PAPER "CARPS” HUNG ON POLES
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NO MIXED BATHING Mixed bathing is again declared illegal. The advocate of separate bathing is Rear Admiral Changi
Advance On Capital cri-ving, Senior Naval Officer of
DENSE COLUMNS OF SMOKE VISIBLE
to
the Canton flotilla. The ruling was not enforced last summer, but as the bathing beaches will be thrown open on May 9 bathers. Djibouti, earlier: The latest are warned again that men and news received here about the ad-women should not use the samel vance of the Italian troops on part of the beach or swim in the. Addis Ababa, where they are an- same enclosure. xiously awaited
protect the European population against the infuriated rioters, who in the last; Shanghai, To-day.
few months have been more and Male youngsters in Shanghai's more inflamed by irresponsible "Little Tokyo" had been im-lagitators against the "intruding patiently counting calendar leave foreigners," is that the Italian ad- for some days past in anticipation vance guard, 15,000 strong, have! of to-day, when all Nipponese reached the heights around Addis awaiting households celebrate boys Ababa, where they are
the general body of the Italian Festival.
the
FLIGHT RECORDS
ATTEMPTED
Amy Mollison Sets
Out For Cape
London. To-day. Miss Amy Mollison left. Grave- send Airport yesterday at 9.03 Parents were also
locking to army.
The motorised columns, with am. on another attempt to break wards the day, not with as much
Marshal Badoglio, and his staff at the England to the Cape record, glee, however, as the day means a
the head, are about 45 miles dis-using the same plane as she crash- new drain on the pocketbook. Many a mother sacrificed the purThe advance on the city kept up
tant from the Abyssinian capital, ed in on her recent attempt. She reached Oran at 4.05 pm local chase of a spring kimono, as did all Sunday night, but at
re time. fathers forego a drink of sake seduced pace as the roads around H. L. Brook, holder of the Aus- that huge paper carps might be Addis Ababa are in a deplorable tralian-England solo fight record. bought.
also set out yesterday on a flight condition, partly owing to the
to demon- The carp. because of its vitally, destruction done by
the Abys to the Cape, intended
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is the traditional symbol of boyssinians and partly to the havoc strate the capabilities of the light| in Japan and paper models of the wrought by the tropical rains, and aeroplane he is flying a Hillson fish are flown from poles atop the hence are in no state to permit Fraga for long-distance flights. blessed with male off-a rapid passage of 3,000 heavy He left Leeming Aerodrome just after 230 p.m.-British Wireless motor-lorries.
From their position on the Service. heights the Italian advance guard:
homes spring.
Models of Armour
Indoors, models of armour on jean actually see and hear the DAME CLARA BUTT'S
see
ESTATE
Scholarship To Royal College Of Music
London, To-day.
dolls, representing famous war-tumult in Addis Ababa can riors of old in their full battle dense columns of smoke rising from regalia, take the pace of honour the ruins and hear the constartį in the family living room.
rattle of rifle-fire, that went on The 1,200 These ornaments cost money, all Sunday night. the Shanghai Nippe remarked re- Europeans who have taken refuge cently, and many couples were late in the Legations and whose posi- ly seen on shopping expeditions tion is precarious have, however, The estate of the famous singer, along Woosung Road, it continu-been informed that Signor Musso Dame Clara Butt, has been proved lini himself has given the order at £39.517. She left £3,000 to theị Prices for one set range from that the advance on Addis Ababa Royal College of Music, the in- $28 to $100, with extraordinary be accelerated as far as humanly come to be used for an
The expectation was grant to the most successful and possible. ones costing much more, the paper that the Italian troops would en deserving male or female local
led.
said,
In Tokyo, the occasion is coubly ter the city yesterday.-Trans- student, who significant as it is the first festival Ocean Service.
to be observed by Prince Masakito; Yoshinomiya, second son of Their Majesties the. Emperor and the Empress.
A "Happy" Fish
ΟΙ
ITALY LONE ARBITER
(Continued from Page 1)
great Political circles attach importance to the long conversa-
The chief outward feature tion yesterday between the British
annual
shall previously
have won a scholarship there, ta assist him or her in starting 2| career-British Wireless Service.
WEATHER REPORT
A weak anti-cyclone area lies over the Yangtse Valley, and another is situated to the east! Ambassador and the Under of Japan. East winds, moder- fish from flagpoles erected over Secretary of State, Signor Savich, ate: fair, was the forecast for
the day is the dying of large paper
Japanese residences. Familjes to whom boys have been born
fly
in the course of which the entire to-day, as issued by the Royal position of Abyssinia was dis- Observatory this morning. these paper fish according to the: cussed. It is understood
thet
was
Jancient custom. These fish re Signor Suvich informed the Am Wong Lai-king, a 10-year-old present carp, which species was bassador that the occupation of girl, was knocked down by an un- chosen as it is a fighting fish and Addis Ababa by the Italian sol-known car in Queen's Road West, will battle its way upstream andj diers had not yet taken place, but yesterday and was admitted to the Civil Hospital; and through rapids to gain its goal.
was expected hourly, and it is also Government This makes it a happy fish, believed that the result of the Lam Hin, a boy, aged 7, cording to Japanese thought, and
immediately knocked down by car No. 2301 in conversation Was
to Nathan Road yesterday and taken a particularly good example for transmitted to London, so as young and growing boys.
enable Mr. Anthony Eden to know to the Kowloon Hospital In addition to this outward it before the debate on the Abys- feature, every household with sinian question opens in the Com boys will have erected a terraced mons. dais full of “samurai” or warrior
GERMANS SAFE'
GRAVE SITUATION the ancient Addis Ababa: No loss of life dolls, dressed in
Berlin: The latest reports from armour of Japanese soldiers, to has occurred among the Germant gether with tiny specimens of colony at Addis Ababa, thanks to Addis Ababa seem to indicate that Herr that the foreign Legations have so Printed and Published for the Proprietors, The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd, their old battle-flags. There will the excellent measures taken by the situation is still grave, but
by DAVID CHRISTIAN WILSOM. Manager, at 3A Wyndham Street, be feasting during the day, with the Charge d'Affaires,
for the oc Strohm, for its protection, in view far successfully defended them-
selves-Trans-Ocean Service. Victoria, Hong Kong
of the grave disorders after the
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