THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,
JUNE 28, 1935.
MOBILISING ITALY'S LEGIONS
RECALLING NAVAL
RATINGS
PREPARING FOR-WHAT?
More Abyssinian threats and Italian counter-measures are 12 ported In Italy today. 23 il Morning Post special despatch from Rome on May 31. Public feeling J8 agitated. Extensive new military and naval preparations Ko hand in hand with news of new incidents in Abyssinia. The foreign Press is being held large- ly responsible for the Abysalnian state of mind, according to Italian opinion.
In reply to "partial mobilisation and. tow War supplica Abyssinia," Signer Mussolini nas ordered the mobiliantion of three divisions. This will m
that something like 40,000 more Italian men will take the feld for the de- fence of Italian East Afrien.
Of the three divisions, two are new Blackshirt : formations. I am told that the Blackshirt divisions consist of six fiataljons plus auxaries as against the aine battalions of the Regular divis ions. Immediate naval preena- tions are also oflleially notified.
Of other movements the papers. report that the converted troop- ahip Tulla eft Naples yesterday for Italian East Africa with 1,076 artillerymen, 93. N.C.0.s and 40 ofcers, and 200 tens +15 WAT material, as well as a group of 40 specialist workmen.
At the same port the Laguna is ready to embark waiting troops; the Antonietta is loaded with Ammunition: the Campidoglio is ready to sail, and the Nazario Snuro, the Celio, and the Ravenna are being landed. The Urania has arrived back from Massawa.
ACTS OF AGGRESSION
There new Rctivities Are ar- companied by 11 report from Asmara telling of nets of aggress- ion against Itallar mall couriers in Abyssinin, A message from Djbout! .eports an asanult against three Czechoslovaks in Abyssinia an example of rising xenophobin.
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The three new divisions are the "Gran Sasso Division," the "It of April Division," and the "Third of Jnuary Division." Gran Sasso is the name of the highest mountain in the Abruzzi range of the Apennines: April 21 is the anniversary of the Birth of Rome; and January 3 is pre- sumably the anniversary of Sig nor Mussolini's Chamber speech denouncing the Aventine op- position and assuming full and sole responsibility of the Fascist Party for the government of Italy,
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The communique which IN- nounces the mobilisation states that strong detachments of dinary and specialist officers and ratings of the Royal Navy have been personally recalled and that the dismissal of the 1913 Royal Navy levy has been suspended,
The caminnnd of all the Italian naval forces detached in the Red Sea has been given to Rear Ad- miral Barone who has alrendy arrived at Massawa, the base in Eritrea. The communique ends. by reporting that mobilisation operations are proceeding in com- plete order and without the least untoward incident.
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COURIERS ATTACKED
Alongside the publication of these mobilisation orders. minence is given to correspon- dence from Asmara and Dibouti. The Asmara message reports that on May 12 the Italian force of couriers who periodically carry the mails to the Italian headquar tern in Gondar, in Abyssinin, were between Gondar and Adua arrest- ed and imprisoned by armed men of the Ran Cussa. As the result of Consular protests the couriers were released and the mails re- turned but opened.
This message continues
by saying that it is not the first time that the Italian mail couriers have been assaulted. Near Madi- Bado last March Italian mail. couriers were attacked by about twelve people. Last February a postal caravan en route from Somaliland to Magdala was halted by armed Ethiopians and only allowed to proceed after Insistent complaints by the Italian Lexa-
tion at Addis Ababa.
At a colourful ceremony held in Drill Hall, Distinguished Conduct Medals were presented to three Chinese members of the Shanghai Municipal Polies, and to the widow of a fourth who was shot to death by a robber. In addition, Long Service Medals were presented to 166 members of the Force-foreigners, Chinese and Sikhs. The presentations were made by Mr. H. £. Arnhold, Chairman of the Shang. hai Municipal Council, in the presence of senior officers of the S.M. P. and a large gathering of men off duty. The Police Band was in attendance and played appropriata aira during the ceremony, which lasted for the better part of one hour. Inset, at left, shows Mr. Arhold conferring a medal upon a Chinese constable. Centro, conferring upon the widow of a detective constable who died in action
posthumous medal for distinguished conduct. At right, conferring a long service medal upon Superintendent R. Conduit.
His Majssty the King with the microphone in front of him, and the Queen and his four sons on either side, is replying in Westminster Hall, to the Silver Jubiles congratulations of Parliament. A notable sentence was: 'In these days when fear and preparation for war are again astir in the world, let us be thankful that quiet government and peace prevail over so large a part of the earth's surface, and that under our flag of freedom so many millions eat their daily bread in far distant lands and climates,
with none to me ke them afraid."
Theims, Viscountess Furness, American-born London society matron, pass with her son, Anthony. The boy' is grandson of the founder of Furness steamship line, His mother went to the United States last winter to aid her sister. Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderblit, in the vain Sight to regain custody of young Gloria, who had been ordered roared apart from her widowed mother.
THE BRITISH PRESS Commenting ол the
The wealthy Mra. Violet Van der Elst, photographed with * "Bobby" outside Wandsworth prison. England, when she led a protest against a recent execution there, Mrs. Van der Elst is leader of groups which oppose capital punishment in England, and leads, numerous demonstrations. Mrs. Vạn đer Elit, in her big automoble, frustrated guards who attempted to stay her Pasanga over roads leading to tha prison gate, when the advanced on the prison while an executive was under way.
evidently encouraged by the lan- once, but it can be taken for The Dibouti message says that shut off his engine, the Abyssinian ; on the 18th of this month a Cze- soldiers savagely beat them off
reasons gunge of a part of the European granted that from 300,000 to 400,- choslovakian mechanic going by the motor-cycle with their rife-given in the Abyssinian commu- Press and above all by the British 000 can be and they have (as
the new divisional Press."
alrendy the Morning Post has motor-cycle along with his two butts, while an Abyssinian oilcer nique for
on without interfering. | mobillantion, the authoritative According to the same paper, pointed out), the inetical advan Bons to work at Ghebl was halted looked by a company of Ethiopian re- The mechanic was taken to hos- Giornale d'Italia says that "the the strength of the Abyssinian tage of a centralised position in gular soldiers. Imagining that pital in a grave condition and his attitude of ever-increasing enml: fighting force can be put down as launching surprise attacks against two separated that white man did, not intend to two sons were also wounded, ono ty and provocation evinced by the a million rifles. That naturally either of the Government at Addis Ababa is cannot be put into action all at Italian colonies. obey the order because he had not of them seriously enough.
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