POSSIBILITY OF WAR
IN ABYSSINIA
High Commissioners Called
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To London?
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Telegraphic
Special to the "Hong Kong Daily. Press” (Copyright.] (By – Telegraph, Copyright Received, Auguıf 6.1.20 p.)
Ordinance Mezzagus
Cairo August 6.
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The British High Commissioner for Egypt, Sir Miles Lamp- son began this year's leave earlier than scheduled when he sud- denly left by a Yugoslav steamer to London. The British High Commissioner for Palestine and the British diplomatic represen- tative at Iraq are likewise travelling to London,
It is believed that the British Government summoned its re- presentatives from Cairo. Jerusalem and Baghdad'so as to con- sider what steps should be taken in the event of an armed con- flict between Italy and Abyssinia.
A conference will be held in London, it is asserted, at which besides the three representatives named the British Chief of Staff and the British Minister to Arabia will deliberate.
It is expected that advantage will be taken at this meeting to discuss a plan for the unification of the British fighting for- ces in the Near East under the command of Lord Allenby.— Transocean Kuo Min.
are at an end, a high Government official declares.
Every day that passes without such a definite declaration enabled the Italians the better to prepare the way for their much-heralded against Abyssinia, he said.
Paris, Aug 3. Discussing Itallan arrangements for supplies in the African colon- les in the event of war breaking out, the Italian
for Minister Colonies in an interview with "Le Journal" stated that the Italians | offensive In the last six months have ac- complished more work of this na- ture than during the rest of their Afty years of occupation.
As an
instance, he said that three roads had been built from Massawa to Asmara, facilitating the transport of supplies.
Confirming the Italian 'mortal- ity figures, the Minister stated the latest figures to be 113 workmen
PROPOSALS ACCEPTED "Meanwhile." the spokesman went on. "we loyally accept the League's proposals.." But we are beginning to wonder whether the advocacy of the League is so great a benefit as it has been made out to be."
However, the second part of the resolution...which takes the dispute
and soldiers sick and 540 re-out of the arbitrators' hands in patriated.- Reuter
MORE TROOPS
Rome, Aug. &. Orders have been issued to call op 70,000 more troops for service in East Africa, twol divisions of Black Shirts.
Two other divisions have been mobilised to replace the regular · divisions abroad.— Reuter
DEPRESSION DEEPENS
Addis Ababa, August 5. Publication of the League of Nations, compromise resolution, .continuing the session of the Arbitration Commission in an at- tempt to find a solution of the Italo-Abyssinian dispute, has only served to deepen the general de- pression caused here by earlier reports of proceedings.
It is pointed out that during the intervening weeks. between the present moment and the date On which arbitration must be concluded, Italy can press on with her war preparations.
Abyssinia. 15 worried over the
HONG NONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1935.
Mussolini
Signor
whose new portrait appears above, has given -orders to call up seventy thousand more troops for service in East Africa
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WAGE CUTS RESENTED IN FRANCE
Demonstrators Resort To Violent Methods
(Special to "Hong Konz
Dally Press")
Patu
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by the demonstrators who suaded the workers engaged in the task of fitting out the ships to join them when they marched in pro- cession preceded by a red flag in order to protest against the gov | ernment's emergency decrees.
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Paris, Aug. 6. Street fighting occurred in Tou- Ion at the protest demonstration The police and military guards against the emergency decrees stationed at the entrance of the passed by the French Government, arsenal were immediately rein-
the Employees from
arsenal forced in order to be able to in- marched in procession to the Lab- tervene effectively in the event of our Exchange where a group of serious trouble. The meeting, how- demonstrators, forced their way ever, passed without untoward in- Into the building and seized the | cident. Red flag behind which the re- maining workers grouped them- selves.
Stone-throwing began, where- upon the windows of several large cafes were smashed. Numerous revolver, shots were fred.
STREET BATTLE ̧ Clashes between members of the Nationalist "Action Francaise" and the Left Parties "Peoples' : Front" organisations near Mar- seilles developed into a regular street battle according to "Le.]
SILVER MARKET
From Our Own Correspondent)
..London." August 8. 'Londyn silver prices to-day were unchanged as follow:-
Aug. 6. Thirteen persons were injured Temps," which reports that the 30-3/18 | Including six policemen, five cafe | opposing parties fired volleys at
guests and one woman, y
each other from motor cars until The police were powerless be- they were dispersed by the police. cause they were outnumbered by
MANY INJURED the demonstrators.
Spot..
Auz. 3. .30-3/16
Forward.........30-1/4 30-1/4 London on New York cross rate pared with 4.9605 at closing on at 2 p.m. to-day was 4.9593 com-
Saturday.
Fifteen were seriously injured in BATTLESHIPS BOARDED the shooting affray in Paris when During the protest demonstra - the Communists attacked a meet-
the reduction Vertion against
ofing held by "Jeunesse Patriotique" wages held by the dock workers at in Charonne quarter. Order was the naval arsenal at Brest, the restored only after great difficulty three battleships Dunkirk, Lor- by the police who arrested thirty raine, and Jeannedary now under
persons. construction there were boarded
TAKEN ACROSS
THE BORDER
Conflicting Reports About Mr. Jones
Peiping, August, 3:
AUGUST BANK
HOLIDAY -
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There is an element of mystery Cricket Games Well
the event of fallure and makes the League itself responsible, fully satisfies the "Abyssinian · Govern- ment, Abyssinia, the spokesman now as to the whereabouts of Mr. points out, has not ceased to de-Gareth Jones, the British journalist mand the examination of the who was captured by bandits,
From whole affair by the League during
very reliable foreign sources it appears that Mr. Jones the past eight months.-
has now been taken across the Boiter.
ABYSSINIA'S THANKS
Genera, Aug. 5..
Attended
London, Aug. 5.
Transocean Kuo Min
No sleep last night? TRY "BLACK
WHITE"
BOLE AGENTS:-
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
ANNAMITE POLICEMEN
THRASHED
Rickshaw Coolies Adopt
Rough Methods
The
Shanghai, August 6.
Concession police, about The agitation against the regis eighty strong, proceeded to the
FRESH DEMANDS tration of rickshaw coolles required scene in lorries. They entered
FEARED
Luantung Murder Repercussions
Pelping. Aug 6.
territory and
by the French Concession authori-
rescued ties reached a climax this morning Chinese when 您 band of one hundred three men after using the butts ol pullers entered the Concession and rites and injuring over a dozer smashed the windows of two tram-coolies
cara.
A protest was lodged by the The enraged coolles then dragged French Consul General with the a sergeant and two constables, all | Chinese authorities. Meanwhile. Annamites, into Chinese territory, the Bureau of Public Safety round- After disarming them, the rowdiesed up thirty six agitators caught The presentation of fresh Japan-amashed their rifles and beat them denating the tyres of rickshawa-
Reuter. ese demands is feared as a sequel' } severely. day for the county cricket clubs, which have greatly benefited from to the assassination of Colone) Liu the large attendances at to-day's | Tso-chi, commander of the Peace matches.
Preservation Corps in the Luan-
It has been a real "Bank" holl-
Jehol border and is being held by his captors in the Fengning dis- trict.
The reports add that con- The League of Nations has re-tact between the Chahar Govern- ceived a telegram from the Em-ment representative and the peror of Abyssinia thanking the bandits has been lost and fresh Council for its efforts to maintain contact must now be made from peace in Africa.
the other side... The Emperor adds that Abyssinia
On the other hand one official is firmly resolved to reach a peace-Chinese source declares that connington Oval for the Surrey v. Colonel Liu was murdered at ful solution
and trusts that "the tact has not yet been lost, while efforts of the League for peace
2 semi-official Chinese source de- will continue to be successful.-
clares that not only has contact cans captured the imagination, Renter.
not been lost but yesterday ransom
even the football grandstand being RUMOURS UNTRUE
honey in the neighbourhood of
filled. Only the Australian teams Tokyo, Aug. 6. $10,000 was paid to representatives in 1921 and 1926.drew equal gates. The Foreign Office: declares of the captors who promised to set that the report that Abyssinia has free Mr. Jones on Tuesday evening signed a contract with Japan for or Wednesday morning at the the supply of arms and ammuni- | latest. .. tion is without foundation,
Omcial agúres show that 100,000 attended aine matches, 27. a Japanese gendarme in the course 000 of whom watched the annual of the assault, and the threatening Battle of the Roses at Bradford, of Major · Fukui, commanding a while there were 20,000 at the Ken-Japanese battalion at Tangshan.
Notts, match, and 17,000 gathered Luanchow, in the demilitarised at Swansea, where the South Afri-zone, on Sunday, when four Chlk- ese gunmen, three of whom are re- ported to have been arrested sub-{ sequently, fired upon him from close range.
over tung area, the fatal wounding of
It also denies that Japan is
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absence of an Italian declaration sending Military Mission that she won't resort to force Abyssinia. before the arbitration proceedings | Reuter,
JAPAN LODGES
PROTEST
Slight On The Emperor
RICH FOLKS TO
BE TAXED
Will The Senate Approve?
to
Washington. Aug. 5... The House of Representatives to-day passed, by a vote of 282 to 96, President Roosevelt's Tax-the- Rich Bu
The measure increases the taxi- tion on incomes or over $50.000 annually.
This is the tenth day since the capture of Mr. Jones on which they' threatened to harm him if the terms had not been met, but it is generally thought that the threats are not likely to be carried out.-
Reuter.
PILOT KILLED
Stratosphere Plane Crash
Paris, Aug. 5. France's only stratosphere plane. crashed in flames near Bonnieres to-day, the pilot. M. Cogno, be. ing incinerated,
At Eastbourne, Harvard and Yale defeated Oxford and Cam- bridge at lawn tennis by 11 mat- ches to nine, the remaining match not being played.
COWES WEEK Glorious weather favoured the opening of Cowes Week, at which Their Majesties the King and Queen, with the cream of the arts-
tocracy, were present. Endeavour won the Gayley Memorial Cup the first big "J" Class event, hold ing the lead throughout and cover- ing the 30-mile course in 4 hours. 57 minutes.23 seconds. The will ner had a corrected time 01 4 hours. 56 minutes, 44 seconds, bu- ing followed by Astra, Velskeda, Yankee, Shamrock and Canadia in the order named. Britannia, with the King on board, gave us.—;
Reuter.
The machine had only recently HOME CRICKET
quarter
Washington, Aug. 5. The Japanese Ambassador, Mr. salto, has made representations to the State Department regarding the cartoon which appeared in a
been completed, being tested" at recent issue of Vanity Fair, de-
33,000 feet. It had only been in picting the Japanese Emperor pull-
the air an hour and a ing a gun-carriage on which was
when it burst into flames. mounted a scroll of the Nobel The Bill now goes to the Senate It is believed that the pilot was Peace Prize under the caption, where it is expected it will have over-come in the rarefied atmos- "Unlikely Historical Situations."! a very stormy session, for there isphere encountered in the
The Ambassador declared that strong opposition to it there. the cartoon was derogatory to the It is estimated that when pass Emperor and to the Japanese peo-ed the Bill will make possible the ple, and the Japanese people felt addition of between $250,000,000 the insult keenly."
and $270.000.000 to the federal re-
Replying to the Japanese pro- test, Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secre- tary of State, said he regretted the incident but pointed out, that the Government exercised no cen- sorship upon the press and was In no way responsible for anything published
ARTIST'S COMMENTS "The Emperor ought to see some of the others I have done and am doing," said "Willam Cropper, the originator cartoon.
venue.
Reuter..
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MR. WANG IMPROVED IN HEALTH
D height attained
Reuter.
Nanking, August 6. Mr. Wang Chin Wei has sum- clently improved in health and is expected to return to Nanking be- tween August 16 and 20, stated Mr. of the Chu Ming Xi In an interview this
morning. Beuter
"Several 'countries, « lacluding Germany, have outlawed publica tions using my work. I am grate
great
Good Bowling By Bruce Mitchell
The Japanese gendarme gave chase when the gunmen had suc- ceeded in shooting Colonel! Liu to death, and was wounded when the assassins turned and fired at him. He died yesterday.
MARRIAGE BAN REMOVED
Women Teachers" Triumph
(Special Air Mail Service)
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THE CROMWELLS HELD UP
1
Mix-up Over Aviation Field Rules
Shanghai, Aug. Z... Mr. and Mrs. "James H. R. Crom-; well, who flew to Hangchow yes- . terday morning in a specially char- London, July 22. tered C. N. A. C. aeroplane, were Removal of the narriage ban on detained by the Chinese military wonien teachers and doctors was authorities. on their arrival there yesterday approved by the London because of a misunderstanding at County Council by seventy-six | military :anding-feld rules., * Ther votes to thirty-seven.
Cromwelis, who had hoped to
Colonel Sakai, Chief of Staf of the Japanese forces in North" To a good teacher marriage is „avoid dust, excessive heat, and the
Wang Keb-min, the acting Chair- China, significantly: Informed Mr. a fresh experience which gives her peering eyes of fellow-kravellers by a better human understanding," | chartering the plane, were released man of the Peiping Political Coun-declared Miss Dawson, chairman after a short time and allowed to cil to-day, that "nothing could be, of the General Purposes Commit visit the temples, shrines, and achieved until the administration tee, in moving the resolution that of the ave provinces of North the bar should be lifted from China had been completely organ. ised."
Further developments, are ex- pected when the Japanese authorl- ties comples their investigations into the affair.— Reuter
RAILWAY MATERIAL FOR CHINA
London, Aug. 6.
August 1 next.
pagodas of the famous city ande have luncheon a the Lakeview Hotel, although they were forced' to return to Shanghal later last night by train.
The marriageable age occurred when a teacher was often at her best. To deny women teachers Mr. Hewitt F. Mitchell, pilot for the right to serve after marriage, the C. N. A. C., did not fare so well, was to do a dis-service to educa- however, and he and the Binson tion, and girls required just the plane which he flew to Hangchow same consideration as boys at are still detained at the military school.
field, according to reports late last The committee held the view night, that the teaching and medical side. would benefit by the move, with certain exceptions, so far as ze-rangements sidential posts were concerned,
....
According to an employee of the C. N. A C Shanghai office, ar
were carried out in accordance with Chinese military The Chinese Government Pur-PINSTER'S UNDERSTANDING" rules, and, when the Cromwells chasing Commission has ordered
expressed their desire to charter a from British Arms thirty five Dr. Barrie Lambert sald she plane, the Shanghal office of the defend the spinster's C. N. A. C. Immediately got in touch passenger coaches and eight heavy wished to locomotives, all for the Canton- "human understanding”
with the Hangchow field and made, Hanko Railway.
It was a matter for a married as they thought, adequate arrange woman's conscience it she worked.ments, telling the Hangchow al While it was not their duty to thorities that a plane with foreign Interfere with a Woman as a passengers would land at a spect- mother. It was their duty to see fed time. The Hangchowau- that she gave proper service in thorities, however, contended they her work.
were not advised that the passen gers were foreigners and, as a re- sult, there was a certain amount of confusion.
London, August 6." The total value of this mater- Bruce Mitchell. one of Southlal is £265,000.— Africa's outstanding "representa- | Beuter. tives in the Test matches, was in great form at; Swansea (when he
CENTRAL LUZON took four wickets for 13 runs be-
FLOODED
Philippines Struck By Typhoon
fore an immense holiday crowd who saw the South Africans beat Glamorgan by, 80 ́rung.-
South Africa scored 809 and 168 (Ciny 6 for 63): Glamorgan and 164 (Mitchell 4 for 13)--
Read In Form
Essex beat Worcestershire at Chelmsford by 251 runs. Essex 372 Manila, Aug. 6.
and 252 for 8 wickets declared: Beventeen person are reported Worcester 188 (Read 8 for 835 and North and Central Luzon, following to nave been killed in a food in 188 (Read 4 for 49).
Century By Hammond the typhoon which struck the is Kent heat Gloucestershire at land. Twenty are missing, to Canterbury by 60 runs. Kent 338 Thousands of persons are home- and 135 (Bindeld 6 for 10, Goddard less and enormous property dam5tor 48); Gloucester 316 (Ham-
ful to Japan for giving 'class', to leader, several capitaliste and one age has been done, and heavy mond 183) and 94 (Freeman 4 for my Hat of objectors to my work Emperor he smiled. which now consists of one Labour Router.
rain are continuing- Reuter.
Reuter.
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THE HIGHWAY CODE-
Special Air Mail Service)
Edinburgh, July 22.
Local C. N. A. C. officials are a more detailed report
Domestic crisis might arise such as the household staff "walking out," or she might be kept awake at night by her baby.
What are going to be a awaiting The Ministry of Transport's pro- woman's feelings when she goes to from Mr. Mitchell at 8 am to mise to have a copy of the High-work on the morning in such cix-day, and, according to latest re way Code delivered to every home elmstances?" she asked,
parts, the plane is due back at the Lunghus aerodroma this after noon-
will be fulfilled in the West of The Daily Mirror" understands Scotland shortly. Glasgow Post that teachers who in the past have fice authorities have completed left the service to be married wiLL arrangements for the delivery to be eligible for vacancies on teach- begin on Monday. The delivery ing staffs in open compétition. will be spread over several days.
that they have
and 334,000 copies will be sent out
in Glasgow. Once the public have their copies before them to shor be easy to tell from the week turns of road casualties fully the regula Estudied:sis
SIX KILLED
CRETE