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LATEST AIR BOMBING
ATROCITY
Major Burgoyne Killed While Retiring.
Addis Ababa, March 8.
Major Burgoyne, the Britisher in charge of the Red Cross unit, has been bombed and led. Major Burgoyne was a bar- rister of the Middle Temple, and was formerly of the Third Dragoon Guards and Royal Irish Rifles. He has been serving un an honorary capacity as transport officer for the Abyssinian Red Cross unit.
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Major Burgoyne was killed by a bomb from an Italian plane Amba while he was retiring with Ras Kabeda's troops from Alami to Quoram. He arrived in Addis Ababa at the beginning of November and offered his services the Emperor in any capacity. He was given command of a train of one hundred Red Cross males and Instructed to proceed to Dessie. Although he was sixty two years old. he covered the entire three hundred miles from Addis Ababa on foot. Reuter.
STORY OF QUORAM INCIDENT
London. March 6
A tribute to the heroism of the British ambulance staff during the bombing at Quoram is paid by Mr. Harrison, Reuter's correspondent Ethiopian Headquarters, who was present at the raid and lost must of his kit and money owing
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firmation has no yet been received. the Lundon number utle British Ambu unee Unit has been bombed at Quoram. Abystania.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY,
MARCH 7, 1936.
ALLEGATION OF SPYING
LONDON NAVAL
Accused Explains His Career
London, Mar. 5.
The German doctor, Hermann Ocertz, who is being' tried at the Old "Bailey for making a plan of a Royal Air Force station at Mans- ton, near Broadstairs, calentated to be useful to an enemy, entered the witness-box this afternoon, and gave an account of his actions which led to the charge.
PARLEYS
Battleship Formula Agreement
London, March 6.
VICTORY CLAIM BEAUTY IN HARMONIOUS
CONTINUITY
Mr. MacDonald Praises
Chinese Art
BY ITALY
Ethiopian Point Of View
Addis Ababa, Mar. 5. The Ethiopian Government ri-- didules the Italian allegation that
all the Ethiopian armies "except
Ras Nassibu's
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"It is to me not as if I were 'walking through galleries but standing still while an unruffled stream of beauty and culture flawed by me, It is the triumphant progress in the pilgrimage from a caveman to civilization and only the Chinese seems never to have been a caveman. He seems to have grasped all truths we were painfully approaching ages ago.
Swift progress is being made in
The Chinese Art Exhibition is closing to-morrow. Mr. Ram- the final stages of the Naval
cannot say MacDonald, Interviewed by Keuter, said: ""I have been routed
say Conference. The French and
as Aghting
which section impressed me most. All have special beauty, but Americans agreed to the battle and rendered useless
inseparable from others in harmonious continuity. ship formula enabling the Draft- units on the northern front.
Government states that Ing Committee to conclude the work forthwith. It provides since the beginning of the war the 35,000-ton battleship with 14-inch Imperial edict against risking a Describing his career, accused guns, but if the treaty is not sign-massed battle has been obeyed and now that Marshal Badoglio has sald he received the Iron Cross ed by all Washington powers by
army corps into the during the Great War. His re-
the end of the year the signatories thrown five putation as a dangerous intelli-will revert to 16-Inch guns. Thus northern front it would be folly for gence officer, mentioned during the gun size depends principally the Ethiopians to stand
on, Japan.
ground. The Emperors forces are the trial yesterday, was due to his
retreating according 10 а Buccess in obtaining, information
arranged plan. owing to his hospitable treatment of prisoners.
Accused said he had always been Interested in flying although re- fused admission to the Force in 1932, on the ground that he was over-age. He never applied for
service employment, secret
al- though he desired to enter the In- telligence Service (which a Crown Witness had explained did not mean spying),
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According to one Addis Abab Prior to accused's evidence, wit- account. three native Kenya boys nesses, including a Group Captain attached to the Un! were killed. of the R.A.F. and a witness who but apparerity the European per-produced secret planes gave evi-
dence in camera.
to the burning of the Reutersonnel was unhurt. lorry.
carriag
He says that the staff, carried out many of the wounded to a place of comparative safety, while the surgeons. in the dim light of
cases
It has been the practice. since the ear ter
of Redcross bombing, of the International Reds cross and of the British Govern- men, to notify the Italian Gor-
thu ambulance unit, but a Rome
electric torches, with an improvisernment or the whereabouts of ed table, carried on amputating the legs of two patients who were wounded a second time during the bombing.
Mr. Harrison states that the camp was situated in the middle of a circular uninhabited plain. for a five-mile radius without the slightest, cover Inhabited exclu sively by,, the staff and patients. Riso tew foreign Journalists who happened to be present.
Apart from camp police, there was no soldier within two or three miles. The centre of the camp
was marked with a forty-foot Red Cross Lorries weres.clearly mark- ed, and the Union Jack was flying in ali tonta.
REMARKABLE ESCAPES
it
The raiding plane circied half an hour, bombing every time crossed the scamp. AU the sur
escaped. vivors had romarkable Dr. Melly was thrown neck deep In a strean and emerged covered with leeches.
A delegate of the International Red Cross at Addis Ababa hes wired Geneva, giving the facts and saying that for premeditation the Italian design to destroy the cm- bulance was undeniable.-- Reuter.
ETHIOPIAN PROTEST
Geneva, March 6.
The text of the Ethiopian protest to the League in connee- tion with the bombing of the "British Red Cross unit was re- ceived here to-day in which it is stated that the Ethiopian Govern «ment regarded the bombing as de-
Überate and barbarous,
The protest was signed by the Ethiopian Foreign Minister.- - - Reuter's Bulletin Service.
UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT
Romae, Mar. 5.
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The bombing of the British Am- bulance Unit with the Ethiopian army was to-day described as an unfortunate accident by an Italian spokesman,
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He pointed out that the British Embassy had only notified the Italian authorities to-day that the ambulance had been moved To
During the sitting, which lasted an hour and forty minutes, Mr. Croom Johnston, K.C., for the ac- cused, previously examined Keut- Col. Cook, attached to the General Staff Directorate of Military Opera- tions and Intelligence at the War
spokesman is reported as saying Office, on his knowledge of a Ger- the information that the ambul- ance had moved to Quoram. reach- ed the Italian authorities only to- day.-
British Wireless.
ITALIAN PLANE OVER
ADDIS ABABA
Addis Ababa. March 6. A plane from the south circled over Addis Ababa at a height of seven thousand feet. Machine gun and anti-aircraft gun fire opened for seventy five minutes. but no hit was made.
The machine flew off a (ew later at 3 higher moments attitude
No panic was witnessed in the town.--- Bruter's Bulletin Servier.
SWEDISH RED, CROSS
NOTE TO ITALY".
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Stockhalm, Mar. 5. The Swedish Minister to Rome nas presented a further note to the (tallan Government in the matter
man cook who had stated that he was an Interpreter to Mr. Lloyd George, then Prime Minister, and other members of the Cabinet at
he Spa Conferenc in 1920.— Krater.
ESTIMATES FOR R.A.F.
Provision For Expansion
The Royal estimates jor
London, March 6.
Air, Force gros 1930 amount EO
£43,490,000, exceeding the original estimates in 1935 by £19,838,000 and the final estimates €12,488.
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The estimates provide for sub- ́stantial completiori of 1,500 first line aircraft in 123 squadrons of 50 000 officers and men compared with 33,000 at present.
of the bombing of the Swedish Red | Kruter. Cross unit in Ethiopia.
It maintains the bombing of the ambulances on December 30 was a deliberate act and presumes the Italian Government is prepared to pay an indemnity for the damage suffered by Swedish nationals' pro- perty and Swedish nationals them- selves - Truter
ITALY'S REPRISAL FOR OIL SANCTIONS
London, March 6 Mr. Anthony Eden's report to the Cabinet to-day left British Ministers in no doubt regarding Italy's intentions, according to the
SILVER MARKET
London, March 6: London Bliver prices to-day were unchanged as follow:-w
Spot.......... Forward
March 5 March 8 19-1/16 19-1/16 .18-15/16 · 18-15/16
AMERICA AGAIN IN SILVER MARKET
Lord Monsell and Mr. Norman Davis are conferring on the so- called escape clauses of the former suggested treaty to avoid the three ON eventualities. firstly in case war, secondly if the contractant violates the treaty. and thirdly if the non-contractant exceeds treaty Umits.
talks
the
The Anglo-German
are proceeding hopefully. The Anglo- Russian talks are expected to be pin now that Mr. Eden has return- ed from Geneva. — Reuter
DEFENCE PLAN FINANCE
Opposition Ask Questions
London, Mar. 5.
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Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, replying to concerning Opposition questions
the financing of the Government's defence programme, told the House of Commons this afternoon that it would be more appropriate to con- sider the cost of these activities during the budget statement.
He had not yet decided, he said, how the money would be raised and Parliament could not nave this information during the com-
defence pro ing debate on the gramme.
the flexible variable Owing to rate of execution it was impractic able to state even approximately the total cost or the additional cost of upkeep.
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their
"No other national exhibition has so impressed me as the com- preplete revelation of people who
formed it.
The Government has issued a statement with respect to the la- tes, bombing of a Britishyambu- lance unit. It says the British Red Cross section was about a mile and three-quarters from the nearest military camp. when, it was bomb- ed. It asserts the bombing was de- liberate
ment for making it possible for us to have this feast of beauty."
CHINESE ART SHOW EXTENDED
Yesterday there were 19,760 visi lors, 5,000 above any previous re- "Western art is perpetually mak-cord. Bo far there have been over
start, ing a fresh
o.ten.
visibly 402.000,- self-conscious. Chiniese art is al-Reuter ways sure of itself and is rooted la unchanging principles.
Thus the smpic uncoloured shapes o earlier ages are richly „decorated pieces of recent centur- the les and equally alive with same graciousness and dignity.
*All art is expression of religion zore. We ste not the sizivings of but the ternal the individual. working out itself like the beauty view in its entirety at the Victoria of a flower gradually un'o`ding. and Albert Museum within a few "The Chinese seems to have weeks, The fact as announced been the master of his soul, from in a letter to the Times" to-day, HEAVY RAIN
the beginning of things. That is
signed by Mr. Georg Hill and Mr. Harrar, Mar. 5.
the answer to the passing difficul- Eric MacLagan. Heavy rains are falling in this ties of to-day. Whatever superfi- vicinity and throughout Ogadencial changes come there сап be feular.
no breach with the best in the past."
After bombing Quoram, killing ten peasants, including two women and four children, the attacking planes few very low in the direc- tion of the ambulance camp. Taree orderlies in the British unit were
wounded. neuter
GUARDSMAN'S MOUSTACHE
London, Max." 6. In view of the Brest demand for a prolongation of the Chinese Art Exhibition, the Eumorfopoulos col- lection of Chinese art will be on
The "Times", in the course of a leading article, says the exhibition at Burlington House has done so much to awaken and deepen the
Chinese Concluding Mr. MacDona'd said interest in
art that that leaving aesthetic considera- Eumorfopoulos' collection will now tions aside. I wish to assure the be more enjoyed and better under- Chinese people that we feel they stood than it could have been be- is all the reason, have shown us something most fore. There precious and most luminating.therefore, for showing apprecia- We are drawn nearer to them in tion by helping to provide the da-
We sin lance of the purchase money.— cerely thank the Chinese Govern-heuter.
Amusement In The spirit than ever before
Commons
London, Mar. 5. Guardsman Bursell's moustache has cost him 28 days detention, by court-martial.
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Sentence was not for refusing to shave his moustache, said Bir Victor Warrender, informing curious House of Commons of the matter this afternoon, but for re- fusing to "fall in" when ordered to do so by his commanding officer. after he had been sentenced to ten days' confinement to barracks for declining to remove the appendage.
LIFTMEN'S STRIKE TO BE EXTENDED
New York, Mar. 5. The ftmen's strike is sili un- settled, but violence has diminiali- ed and; New Yorkers are no longer seriously inconvenienced, because the substitute liftmen are just as good as the strikers.
made
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MENINGITIS EPIDEMIC IN AMERICA.
Herlan, Kentucky, Mar. 8. Fighting to check the rampant spread of cerebro-spinal meningi tls which has caused thirty two deaths out of ninety cases in the State, the County health authort- ties have clamped down rigid quarantine in Harlan County, the Up to now police have ninety arresta for assault and Medical Association of which voted and other offences.
to close churches, theatres Mr. Bambrick leader of the other amusement centres and pro- Union of Building Employees, hibit public meetings. has ordered preparations for fur-
The disease 15-very deadly in extension of the strike to
Cumberland, where seventeen are Middle. Town, and Grand Central dead out of twenty one cases.—
district, where there
Reuter The are numerous skyscrapers. boroughs of Queen's and Brooklyn will shortly be without liftmen, too, if the plans of the union bear the fruit expected.- Renter.
The House chuckled when Sir Victor added that it was obviously within the discretion of the com- manding officer to order the re moval of a moustache of unsoldier-Terminus
After Mr. Clement Attlee, the Labour leader, and Mr. Herbert Morrison, Labour, had strongly urged that Parliament and the country should not be asked to ap-ly appearance. He had been pre- prove a programme before know-viously ordered to remove ing Its cost, Mr. Stanley Baldwin. grow it property. ine Prime Minister. oromised to consider the matter- Reuter
ESTIMATION DIFFICULTY
Londen. Mar. 5. When at question time, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain 'n the House, of Commons of to-day, was asked a to the method of meeting the cast of the Defence Paper pro- gramme, he raid he considered It would be more appropriate to give such information in his budget
statement.
It or
Labour members appeared spec-
Mr. Tom Williams tally amused. asked Sir Victor to illustrate how * soldier's moustache should be grown and another member want- ed to know whether “Old Bill's”. walrus moustache was strictly in
accordance with the King's Re- gulations. Another member sug- gested that the moustache ques- tion might be included as an ad- dendür
White
to the defence
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NATIONAL COMPLEXION
New York, Mar. 6. * Nine arrests for assault and vio- lence have so far been made in connection with the strike of lift- men and others. The strike has now apparently developed in the nature of an endurance test be- tween the employers and em-
cut of ftmen and doormen in 278
buildings in Harlem now gives the dispute a national complexion Reuter.
Paper.
A questioner who was not identa-ployees. fled brought down the House by The extension of the strike to asking what was the colour of the other districts and boroughs and Guardsmen's moustache. It is support of the League of Women Mr. Chamberlain added thal understood this was the crux of Shoppers together with the calling Times" political correspondent.
London, Mar. 6. owing to the Dexible and variable the question. The recent fa", of Loadon säver character of the proposals, as well ¦ Keuter Signor Mussolini had indicated has brought a revival on American as the dimeulty of estimating as- that the application of an off em-trade buying after an absence of curately beforehand the possible Quoram. The Italians believed it bargo would be met, fistly, by several months. It is pointed out rate of execution, it was not prac- withdrawal from the League; that it the American Governmentticable to say at this stage even absorbs all the New World output | approximately what would be the No representations have been secondly, by refusal of further participation in the treaty of made to the Italian Government Locarno: and thirdly.
by concluding agreements with total cost of the programme. by the
For same reason, it would be ing, out Ethiopian sources: state
to that recently, made with Canada agreement for the remanning of there is no doubt but that the at-
for purchase of the Dominion's premature at the present to franie the Italo-French frontier. tack was deliberate and that three orderlles attached to the unit were wounded.-
was all at ́ Dessiye.
to now with regard to the bombdenunciation of the Franco-Italian South American countries similar
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Reuter's Bul'stin Service,
ITALIAN VERSION
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Ministers agreed the Committee of Thirteen acted wisely in sug- gesting the" new peace plan, on -the understanding that work on the oil embargo should not be in- terrupted.-
Rome, Mar. D. The Italian version of the bomb-der. ing of the British ambulance station at Quoram states that ane day before, when an Italian bomb- ing plane swooped down to Inspect the tents, it was fired at; and the plane returned next day and bomb- ed the tente.
Large quantities of black, smoke rising from the ground after the
bombing give rise to the belief
that the tents contained muni- "tions.--
Heuter, Bulletin Serence
EMPEROR'S REPLY TO THE LEAGUE
Addis Ababa, Mar.
K
EMPIRE CONFERENCE SUGGESTION
London, Mar. 5. Commander. Robert Bower, Gov-
SOMALILAND CAPITAL
ACTIVITY.
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NEW DISCOVERY IN SPINNING
London, Mar. '5; The production of "fibro’"(radon staple fibre which can be apum to yarns resembling cotton or wool)' Is a new and most important ven- ture of Courtauld's, Mr. Bamber Courtauld told the annual meeting of the Company to-day.
Mr. Courtauld announced that a new factcry which would "produce 20,000,000 Ibe, annually was just coming into operation.
"Fibro” là, undoubtedly exciting interest in Lancashire and York-
shire, since it can be used on the spindles of existing machinery, en- cbling the employment of spindles ́ ́ which could hardly hope, to "find profitable business on cotton alone..
Mr. Courtauld said the only con- siderable disappointment during the past year was in regard to weaving." He added that the dye- ing industry was in a precarious state. Regarding Japanese com
whole newly-mined silver producany estimates of the additional ernment supporter, inquired in the (Snecia to the "Hong Kong Bally petition, he believed that the dan-
tion, American trade buyers must annual cost for the upkeep of the satisfy their requirements in forces resulting therefrom.→→→
British Wireless. Europe, and the Orient, thus tend- ing to widen the demand here.-- Keuter
MR. EDEN BACK
London, Mar..5. The Foreign Secretary Mr.
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CONFIDENCE VOTE
London, Mar. 5. The Government will regard its defence policy motion "asking the House to approve propenmar's out- lined in the White Paper, as one of confidence. It is expected to be carried by a very large majority,
Press (copyright.}} .
Mogadishu, Mar. 5.
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House of Commons to-day whether, In view of the Clovernment's pro-
ger to the whole textile industry of gramme of imperial defence, Mr.
Europe, and possibly America wa Stanley Baldwin would call a con-
This town, the capital of Boman-as great as ever. ference of Dominions and Indian land, presents a picture of feverish | Itester representatives; including the In- actitivity, preparations Lor dian Princes, with a view to hav-" what may be the decisive engage- ing the Dominions and India con-ment in the campaign are going tribute more materially to the de- on.
General Graziani is preparing ! fence of their common interests.
Mr. Baldwin replied that the for a great offensive against Rasi closest touch was being maintain-Nasibu; and is expecting, definite ed between the United Kingdom victory.
BRITISH CABINET
MEETING
London, Mar, b.
A special meeting of the British
The importance of the occasion į Government and the Governments Ras Nasibu has not only got the It is learned in excellent semi-thony Eden returned to official quarters that Emperor this afternoon, and a special meet-will be marked according to tradi- or the Dominions, and India on all task of protecting the Jibuti-Addis | Cabinet was held this afternoon, to Halle 'Selassie's reply to the league ing of the Cabinet was held this tion with the issue of a three line major questions of imperial de Ababa Railway, but also the Cara- hear the report of Mr. Anthony of Nations appeal for a cessation evening, at which he reported to whip to Government supporters to fence, through the Imperial Com-van Route from Harar to Jifiga Eden's work at Geneva. Members of hostilities in Ethiopia will pro- his colleagues on the proceedings be present Tuesday night. Everymittee of Defence and normal and to British Somaliland, where ure anxious to hear about the com bably stipulate that the possibility at Geneva, and on the conversa-effort will be made to escure that means of communication. of Italy claiming possession of tons he had there with the dele-the majority for the proposals wilt. Ethiopian territory occupied by gates of other countries, with re-represent as nearly as possible the London, Mar. 5.
force must be excluded from the gard to the international situation full strength of the Government
.supporters. and its present problems, According to several newspaper peace negotiations →→
Reuter reports of which to official con- Reuter
PRESS REPORTS
British Wireless...
He did not think, said the Prime Minister, that the suggestion of a conference could be usefully adopt ed at the present stage- Heuter,
all Abyssinian provisions come versations between Mr. Eden and from, so that in event of his army M. Pierre Flandin, the French being defeated, the Abyssinians Foreign Minister, and the decisions would be, cut off from supplies in reached regarding the application provisions and war material. of oil anctions against Italy. --
Reuter's Bulletin Service, Transocean News Service