THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 11,
BRITISH M.P.S. IN
M.P.S. IN ARMS OVER ABABA "MASSACRES"
ADDIS
Mr. Eden Silent
In
An impressive concentration of the Italian Navy which is to carry out manoeuvres in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast in the next few days.
Mussolini Sails For
Navy War Games
ROME, TO-DAY.
ORGANISING THE CORONATION Special Traffic Routes
Face Of Commons
Questions
· (SPECIAL TO “CHINA MAIL")
London, To-day. The question of whether Brtiain would ap- proach the League of Nations in regard to the re- cent reported events in Addis Ababa, which follow- ed the attempted assassination of Marshal Gra- ziani, was raised in the House of Commons yester- day.
Miss Eleanor Rathbone; Indepen- dent member for the Combined Uni- had versities, stated that Italy violated military law when unarm- ed civilians were slaughtered in the Ethiopian capital.
Would the Foreign Secretary therefore ask the League Council to take up the matter, and had the British Government made re- presentations to Italy on the sub- ject?
MR. EDEN SILENT
Mr. Anthony Eden replied in the negative to both questions, follow- ing which Lt.-Commander R. T. H. Fletcher, Labour member for Nu- neaton, asked whether Ras Desta, the last of the Abyssinian chiefs opposing the Italians, had been brought before a court before be- ing executed..
London, To-day.
Mr. Eden withheld his answer. Lt. Commander Fletcher then Special traffic routes will be or- ganised during Coronation week by asserted that. Ras Desta had had the police and the London Trans-no trial and that his execution was "against all sense of justice and port Council.
Souvenir maps of London indecency." seven colours will be printed show- The Foreign Secretary again de- ing special bus routes.
clined to make any comment. Trans-Ocean.
Underground trains will run day and night for three days, while special buses from other parts of MUSSOLINI the country will be run.-Reuter.
SUN YAT SEN ANNIVERSARY
Canton, To-day.
SIGNOR
THE ITALIAN BOARDED CRUISER "POLA” AT NAPLES YESTERDAY TO ATTEND THE LARGE-SCALE MANOEU-versary of the death of the late Dr. VRES
FLEET.
To-morrow being the 12th anni-
General Election
Sun Yat-sen, party, military and In Ireland
OF THE ITALIAN political officials in Canton have arranged to hold a memorial meet- ing at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall at 9 am Our Own Corres-
He was accompanied, among pondent. others, by Signor Mario Lessona (Colonial Minister), Signor Dino
Nanking, To-day.
Referendum On New Constitution
London, To-day. The new Constitution Bill which
Alfieri (Press Minister) and The German, American, Japan the Irish Free State Premier, Mr. Signor Archille Starace (secre- jese and French Ambassadors and tary-general of the Fascist the Ministers of Denmark and Party).
Chile called on Dr. Wang Chung hui, the new Foreign Minister yes- At the conclusion of the first terday -Our Own Correspondent, phase of the manoeuvres, the first squadron will sail to Tabrak and centre.
Victim Of Addis Ababa Attack
Rome, To-day. General Liotta, chief of the Italian air force in East Africa, who lost a leg as a result of the attempted assassination of Mar- shal Graziani, is returning to Italy.
He will be flown to-day to As- mara, whence he will return home for further medical treat- ment and convalescence.. Trans-Ocean
STRIKE WAR IN US.
MOTOR INDUSTRY Chryslers Apply For Injunction
New York, Today. War on the United States dustrial front continues.
Yesterday officials of the Chrysler Corporation filed suit against the United Automobile Workers Union for an injunction to evacuate the the Cor- sit-down strikers from poration's plants
At present 65,000 men are idle in the plants.
Strikes have also been started in the General Motors plants at St. Louis, where 5,000 men are affect- led.
The men are demanding that the company unions should be disband- ed. Reuter.
Tentative Agreement
Eamonn de Valera, proposes to
Detroit, To-day. place before the people in referen- Officials of the united automo- dum after it is approved by Parlia-bile workers' union announced that ment, was formally introduced in the union the Dail yesterday.
have reachd General Motors
a tentative
It is understood that the referment to establish
the second squadron to Tripoli, "It is more to Italy than an imendum will be taken simultaneously wage. where combined exercises with the perial route, for it is the sole mari colonial air force will be held.- time highway at Italy's disposal.
The naval manoeuvres are caus- ing highly patriotic comments in the Italian newspapers on Italy's "Mediterranean mission.
“NERVE CENTRE»
The Duce's visit to Libya, an Italian colony on the other side of the Mediterranean, shows that Italy must control this stretch of sea for reasons
- of national defence.
a minimum
with the general election in the late This is the final outstanding question in the general negotia- summer or early autumn
The measure provides form of tions, and the conference is being external association with the Em-resumed this morning hopeful of
s provision for a final agreement. Reuter pire and also makes the head of the state and a revival of the second Chamber.
Eater The strike in the General Motors factory has been settled. Reuter
Mr. de Valera has already stated Italy is merely striving to clari that if a Republic is achieved for fy the position in the Mediterran the whole of Ireland, the Constitu- An- umbrella on the line caused a
Signor Gayda, writing in "Gior-lean, and to enter into collabortion will not require alteration.
ranean.
says that the Medi-ation where
Italy's vital
nerve is obtain
such collaboration The Bill will be circulated after Trans-Ocean.
Reuter. the Easter rec
temporary hold-up on the Metropolitan Railway between Aldgate and Moor- testations, the live trail being earthed