GRAZIANI STILL UNWELL
New Viceroy May Be Appointed
Rome, To-day.
Rumours are circulating in Rome of an impending change in the post of Viceroy of Abyssinia.
CZECHO BORDER FORTHCOMING
TENSION
“Maginot Line
Precautions
Krems (Austria), To-day.
It is stated that the health of the present Viceroy, Marshal Graziani, other spy scare. has not yet shown any marked im- provement, and that he is still suf-
An Austrian forester, who had fering from the effects of the at-crossed the Czech border near Lien- tempt made on his life a few denburg, was arrested by the Czech months ago at Addis Ababa.
police. A slight attack of diabetes is also impeding his recovery.
HONOUR FOR BALBO
MARRIAGES
ANNOUNCED
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 4, 1937.
Naval Officer To Wed Miss M. A. Moir
Austin Moir,
Tension on the Czecho-Slovakian
Mr. Harold Wynn Loughborough, naval officer attached to H.M.S. border has increased during the past few days as the result of an- coming marriage to Miss Maureen Olympus, has announced his forth-
of No. 23, Cornhill West, Quarry Bay, North Point.
Miss Haneefa Peerkan, of No. 183, Wuhu Street, Kowloon, has an- nounced her forthcoming marriage to Mr. Luiz Gonzaga de Sousa, of Chief trouble is the Czech "Ma-No. 181, Wuhu Street, Kowloon.. ginot Line" which is rapidly near- ing completion near the Austrian frontier.
It is stated in military`circles in Containing hundreds of machine- Rome that Signor Mussolini has de- gun nests and 400 concrete, gun em- cided to appoint Air Marshal placements, the new system of de- Balbo, Governor of Libya, to be fence has led to extraordinary- Viceroy at Addis Ababa in place of precautions by the Czech police. Marshal Graziani. If so, Marshal Unauthorised persons are not al- Balbo will be the third Viceroylowed in the fortified zone, and it
since May 9, 1936, when Signor is thought the forester strayed into.
LORD HORDER ON BRITISH HOTELS
Most Censure Of Criticism Justified
Most of the censure of British
Mussolini proclaimed the Abya-the prohibited region. Trans-hotels is entirely justified, in the sinian Empire. Marshal Badoglio, Ocean. the first, was recalled soon after- wards..-
It is reported that Gen. Starace, secretary of the Fascist Party, will replace Marshal Balbo as Governor of Libya.
GRAF ZEPPELIN
New Speed Record
Set Up
Frankfurt-on-Main, To-day.'
to
K.L.M. SERVICE TO MANILA
U.S. Withholding Its Assent
opinion of Lord Horder, the King's physician. He discussed British climate and hotels recently at the annual conference of the British Health Resorts Association, at Bournemouth.
"The old English inn used to be a roaring success," he said. "I do not see why the English hotel should not be every bit as good as the Continental hotel, and it seems Amsterdam. To-day.
to be as good when a Continental The United States in withholding hotel-keeper takes charge of it, its assert to the proposed air line "There is the unnecessary din from Sourabaya, in the Nether-which goes on in the average hotel lands East Indies, to Manila.
dining-room. There is the waiter
The airship Graf Zeppelin creat- This information was given by who has some little physical defect ed a new speed record on her sec-the United States Government to and who tries to get his own back ond regular flight this year
the Dutch Minister in Washington on nature by throwing things South America by completing the yesterday,
down." journey from Frankfurt to Pernam- The service was to have been buco in 62 hours 45 minutes. This is established by the Dutch air lines eight hours under the previous reto connect with the Pan-American Airways Clipper service across the Pacific to Hong Kong.
cord.
The trip from Frankfurt to Rio de Janeiro took 86 hours 30 min- utes, beating the existing record by five hours.-Trans-Ocean.
Brother Of Caliph In Spain
4
2
Salamanca, To-day. The brother of the Caliph of Spanish Morocco arrived here yes- terday and was given a cordial wel-
come:
It is stated he assured General Franco of the fidelity and loyalty of Morocco.-Trans-Ocean.
Shipping Losses
However, the new service be- tween the Netherlands East Indies and Australia, which has already received the consent of the Aus- Federal Government, is rapidly be- ing planned.
The new service, it is stated, will be provisionally operated once a week in connexion with the India
of the Dutch air lines.- Trans-Ocean.
route
STORY OF BRITISH KINGS
West End Store's Book
Wilson off
On April 5, 1887, the year before the Coronation of Queen Victoria, the firm of Marshall and Hamburg, To-day. opened a shop in Vere-street, Shipping losses in January this Cavendish-square, W. Marshall and year amounted to 58 vessels with a Snelgrove, the Oxford-street total tonnage of 44,026 tons.
...
These included 37 steamships, six motorships, four engine-propell ed sailing-ships and eleven sailing vessels. Trans-Ocean.
Paris Strike Threat
Paris, To-day.
suc-
the
STOP PRESS
TEL. 20022 or 33993
BRITON WITHOUT A JOB
Committed To House
Of Detention
With regard to the climate, Lord
Gerald Vaughan Rowlands, aged Horder said that he never had any 45, a Briton, was this morning temptation to say that the winter charged before Mr. K. Keen with in England was better than else being in the Colony without means where, because he did not believe of support.
it was. But there were many ad Detective-Sergeant Loughlin ask- vantages on the South Coast, irres-ed that defendant be committed to pective of whether the sun shone the House of Detention, where he or not.
would be allowed to go out to look Doctors had not much knowledge for work daily or until arrange- to guide them in giving advice to ments were made for him to go to an patients about where to go for con- other port. Defendant arrived in valescence. The sooner doctors the Colony in February and had practising in resorts pooled their since been looking for work. knowledge the better.
.
Lord Horder thought that the therapeutic values of set-water should be more carefully investi- gated.
Plea For Zones Of Ugliness Sir James Marchant, dealing with the development of resorts, sug- wested that they should establish "zones of ugliness, belts of bun- galoid fungus and slabs of flats." Any vandal who wanted to put up a building without the supervision of an artistic architect should be com- pelled to choose a site in the zone of ugliness.
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Sir James suggested that there A cessors of the Vere-street concern, fic inquiry into the running of health should be a comprehensive scienti- celebrate their centenary by publication of a book on the Cor-try might be developed to the ut- resorts, so that this primary indus- onation of George VI. and
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Five Smallpox Deaths
Five smallpox deaths, three from enteric, 53 from tuberculosis, and two from meningitis were reported Health Department last'
There were seven fresh cases of
Of to the
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