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More Abyssinian threats and Italian counter-mesures are ported in Italy to-lay, says Morning Poal spéchil despatch from Rome on May 31. Public feeling in agitated. Extensive ΠΟΥ military and naval preporations. go hand in hand with news new incidents in Abyssinia. The foreign regs is being held large- ly responsible for the Abyssinian state of mind, according to Italian opinion.
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In reply to "partial mobilisation and new WAT supplies 14: Abyssinia." Signor Mussolini bas ordered the mobilisation of three divisions. This will menn that something like 40,006 more Italian men will take the field for the de- fence of italian East Africn.
Of the three divisions, two are new Blackshirt formations. 1 am told that the Binckshirt divisions.
consist of six battalions plus aine auxiliaries as against the battalions of the Regular divis fona. Immediate' naval precau- tions are also officially notified.
Of other movements the papers. report that the converted troop- ship Italia left Naples yesterday for Italian Enst Afrien with 1,076 artillerymen, 93 N.C.0.4 and 40 tans of WHAT officers, and 309 material, as well as a group of 40 specialist workmen.
At the same norl, the Laguna is ready to embark waiting troops: the Antonietta is loaded with Is Ammunition: the Campidoglio rendy to sail, and the Nazario Sauro, the Cello, and the Ravenna nre being loaded. The Urania has arrived back from Massawa.
ACTS OF AGGRESSION There new activities. companied hy
are ac-
report from Asmara telling of acts of aggress ion against Italiar mail couriers from
in Abyssinia. A message
Dibouti reports an assault against three Czechoslovaks in Abyssinia of rising example an
xenophobia.
The three new divisions are the "Gran Sasso Division," the "21st Divizion, rind the of April "Third
Division." of Jawnary 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 Janilary 3 is pre- sumably the anniversary of Sle nor Mussolini's Chamber sporch denouncing
Aventine op- position and assuming full and sole responsibility of the Faselat Party for the government of Italy.
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Tho communique which nounces the mobilisation states that strony 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 command of all the Italian naval forces detached in the Red Sea has been given to Rear Ad- miral Barone who has alremly arrived at Massawa, the base in Eritrea. The communique ends by reporting that mobilsation operations are proceeding in cont- plete order and without the least untoward incident.
COURIERS ATTACKED Alongside the publication of these mobilisation orders pro- minence is given to correspon- dence from Asmara and Dibouti. The Asmara message reports that i on May 12 the Italian force of courlers who periodically carry the mails to the Italian headquar ters in Gondar, In Abyssinia, were between Gondar and 'Adua arrest- ed and Imprisoned by armed men of the Ras Cussa. As the result of Consular protests the couriers wore 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 niall couriers were attacked by about twelve people. Last February à portal caravan en route from Somaliland to Magdala was halted by armed Ethiopians and only allowed to proceed after insistent complaints by the Italian Loga-
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AL colourful ceremony held in Drill Hail, Distinguished Conduct Medals were presented to three Chinese members of the Shanghai Municipal Police, and to the widow of a fourth who was shot to death by a robbor. In addition, Long Sarvice Medals were presented to 160 members of the Force-foreigners, Chinese and Sikha, The presentations were made by Mr. H. E. Arnhold, Chairman of the Shang- hai Municipal Council, in the presence of senior officers of the S.M. P. and a large gathering of man off duty. The Police Band was in attendance and played appropriate airs during the ceremony, which lasted for the better part of one hour. Iniot, at left, shows Mr. Arhold conferring a medal upon a Chinese constable. Centre, conferring upon the widow of a detective constable who died in action
At right, conferring a long service medal upon Superintendent R. Conduit. posthumous medal for distinguished conduct.
His Majesty the King with the microphone in front of him, and the Queen and his four sons on either side, in replying in A notable sentence was in those days when fear and Westminster Hall, to the Silver Jubilee congratulations of Parliament. preparation for war are again astir in the world, let us be thankful that quiet government and peace prevail over to large a part of the earth's surface, and that under our flag of freedom so many millions eat their daily broad in far distant lands and climates, with none to ma ke them afraid."
Thelma, Viscountess Furnass, American-born London anciety matram, poses with her son, Anthony.. The boy is grandson of the founder of Furouss steamship line. His mother want to. the United States last winter to aid her sister. Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, in the vain fight to regain custody of young Gloria, who had been ordered reared apart from her widowad mother.
The wealthy Mrs. 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. Van der Elst, in her bir automoble, frustrated guards who attempted to stay her passzgo over roads leading to the prison rate, when she advanced on the prison while an executive was under way.
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be taken THE BRITISH PRESS ovidently encouraged by the lan- once, but it can The Dibouti message says that shut off his engine, the Abyssiniant
Commenting on the reasons gunge of a part of the European granted that from 300,000 to 100,- (as on the 18th of this month a Cze- Boldlera savagely beat them off
tha Morning Post has already choslovakian mechanic going by the motor-cycle with their rifle- given in the Abyssinian commu- Press and above all by the British 000 can be-and they havo motor-cycle along with his two butts, while an Abyssinian officer nique for the new divisional Prees."
the without interfering. mobilisation,
authoritativė According to the same paper, pointed out) the tactical advan- sons to work at Ghebi was halted looked
anys that "thofthe strongth of the Abyssinian tago of a centralised position in by a company of Ethiopian te The mechanie was taken to hos-Giornale d'Italia
of the two separated Rular soldiers, Imagining that pital in a grave condition and his attitude of ever-increasing enmi-fighting force can be put down as launching surprise attacks against that white man did not intend to two sons were also wounded, one ty and provocation evinced by the a million ris. That naturally either
Government at Addis Ababa is cannot be put into action all at Italian colonies. obey the order because he had not of them seriously onough.
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