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FOUNDED 1851
No. 18471
六拜雞 號一卅月八英港香
FADING HOPE OF
PEACE
ETHIOPIA HASTENS DEFENCE PLANS
FORMIDABLE SYSTEM OF
TRENCH LINES
(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")
SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1935.
BRITISH DEFENCE SCHEME
GUARDS FAR EAST
OIL INTERESTTS
AIR BASES IN BORNEO?
(Special to "Telegraph") '
By Telepraph, Copyright, Telegraphic Kes gra Ordinance, 1811. „Raceived. August
London, Aug. 30.
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Mr. Stanley Bruce, Australian High Commissioner in London, who Singapore correspondents be has been instructed by the Common-lieve that the British Army will wealth Cabinet to oppose the ap-take special measures to protect (By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messages Ordinance,plication of sanctions against Italy, the Empire's Far Eastern of in- 1894. Received, Aug. 31, 8`,m)
Addis Ababa, Aug. 30.
Gloom is steadily increasing here in official circles. The prospects of a peaceful solution to the Italo- Ethiopian dispute being accomplished are becoming more remote. There is anxiety among the people, too, in consequence of the Emperor's recent orders with respect to precautions to be taken in the event of air attacks.
The only vulnerable points in the capital are the Imperial Palace, the railway depots, the radio stations and the aerodrome. Preparations are going forward for the protection of the palace.
Meanwhile the army in the northern mountainous regions of the country has been considerably strengthened and it is now estimated that there are be- tween 300,000 and 400,000 men in trench systems which are rapidly being perfected. Obstructions are being made with a view to disorganising tank attacks. Preparations in the south
of
the country are loss advanced but in Agaden and Gerlogubi eignteen amali forta have been constructed for the possible concentration of
garrisona troops, while the Jijiga, Gerlogubi and Dagabour have been reinforced.
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The morale of the Ethiopian excellent. They are troopa ia believed, however, to possess only aufficient ammunition for a three days battle on modern enle.
authorities, however, The placing their trust in an eventual guerilla war on the high plateaus which, they believe, can be longed almost indefinitely-Renter Special
BRITISH WARNED
are
pro-
London, Aug. 30.
WARSHIP DAMAGED
IN CRASH
COLLISION WITH GERMAN SHIP
RAMILLIES' MISFORTUNE
Australia
Opposed To Sanctions
terests.
It is believed that the Govern ment intends to build a chain of Royal Air Force aerodromes along the coast of British Borneo, the first being established at Sarawak. Meanwhile, the Third Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean is en route to Haifa, the Palestine terminus of the British oil pipe line.
Ethiopia, too. Britain is CONCERN FELT AT king what precautions seem
CANBERRA
IMPERIAL
POLICY
necessary to protect her interests and her nationals. The British Vice-Consul, Mr. Tropman, has entrained to Djibouti to meet and escort to Addis Ababa 150 Sikh troops sent out from India to act Rs reinforcement to the British Legation guards.
British American and
iniR- sionarles are busily engaged in to-planning hospitals hear expected
battle fronts Ethiopia.
Shum air raids are being carried instruct out at Addis Ababa to the populace in defence tactics.- United Prean,
Canberra, Aug. 30, A Federal Cabluet meeting day decided unanimously that the Australian High Commissioner, Mr. Stanley Bruce, should be instructed to take every possible step to support Great Britain'a efforts to maintain peace between Italy and Ethiopia.
the
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understood that Ministers expressed concern at the possibility of a decision on the part of the Government in Great Britain to attempt to--impose sanctions against Italy. Such a move, it was feared, would only precipitate a graver crisis.
The Cabinet therefore decided to instruel Mr. Bruce to oppose such sanctions.-Reuter.
APPROVES SANCTIONS
Paris, Aug. 30. Senator James 1. Pope, of the Com- Foreign Relations
London, Aug. 30.
ILMS. Ramillies has collided British subjects contemplating with the North German Lloyd Senate enlistment either in the Ethiopian liner Eisenach, nine miles from mittee, who recently concluded an ar Italian armies are reminded by Dover, according to naval wireless informal interview with the British a Foreign Office Communique that reports. The Itamillles has suffer. Foreign Minister, has expressed such a step would be an offence ed minor damage above water for under the Foreign Enlistment Act of 1870, which forbids any sub ward. It is not believed there jects of the United Kingdom or have been any casualties,
the Empire's possessions to servo The collision occurred at 7.40 without His Majesty's lleence in p.m. The Ramillies reported at the fighting forces of any foreign 11.30 pm, that she was still stand- state warring with any othering by the German vessel, upon foreign state at pence with which she had turned her search- Britain.
lights. A gale was blowing.
in
Furthermore, the Ethiopian Order-in-Council of 1934 providen that if any British subject parti-
hostilities cipate in any Abyssinin, either in support of or against Abyssinia, ho will be guilty of a grave offence and liable to two years' imprisonment and/or Aned £500.-Reutor.
CANNOT TAKE RECRUIT'S
London, Aug. 30.
Twenty-five hundred offers to
Lloyds office at Dover states that the Ramilies has reported tho Eisenach requiring immediate, assistance and a tug left Dover at
the opinion
that enforcement of
rigid economic penalties would avert
or curtail the Italo-Ethiopian war threat.-United Press,
CANADA SILENT
stated Mr. K. B.
Ottawa, Aug. 30.
No formal opinion upon the Italo-Ethiopian question will be issued by the Canadian Govern- ment while peace negotiations are progressing, Bennett, the Prime Minister, to- day, commenting upon Australia's reported opposition to sanctions.
Canada's delegates to the League Two tugs were alongside the Council have been told that "the Eisenach at 12,30 a.m.
only war in which wo are intereal- ed is a war for peace."--Reuter,
9 p.m.
TUGS ARRIVE
The German vessel's bows are stove in and she is making water, i but her bulkhoads are holding., fight for Ethiopia have thus far She is proceeding slowly to Dover. boen received at the Ethiopian The Rainillies in keeping close to Legation here which has issued her. statement that the Ethiopian Gov-
The Eisenach was towed inlo
erament much appreciates the Dover at 1 a.m.-Reuter.
European offers of assistance but
na the applicants are not acquaint-
ed with the Ethiopian language, the Government fears that they would not be of any uso;in direct- ing or aiding its soldiers. There- fore it is unable to accept their | offers-Router Special,
MALTA'S
.
DANGER
Malta, Aug. 30. The authorities are alive to the danger of air raids over Malta and in consequence further instruc- tions for cases of such emergencies are being issued. It is announced that model gas-proof rooms are being prepared for demonstration purposes in certain Government schools Reuter.
ADMIRAL BAILEY
PROMOTED
TO COMMAND BATTLE CRUISER SQUADRON
PLANNING FOR WEDDING
BUT NO DATE YET SETTLER
London, Aug. 30.
EMBEZZLING ALLEGED
A.O.F.C. Officers On Grave Charges
(Special to "Telegraph")_
Shanghai, Aug. 31. The United States Dis- trict Attorney, Mr. Felthan Watson, has filed charges of embezzlement on fifteen counts against Mr. Frank J. Raven, Mr. J. Warner Brown and Mr. A. H. Driscoll, officers of the American Oriental Finance Corpora- tion, The total amount involved is US$62,754,
Accused of misappro- priating customers? securi- fies, they have been released on, bail, and the District the Attorney has cabled authorities in Manila to arrest Mr. J. Wamer Brown.
United Press.
BREAKS COBBS' RECORD
SETS
AMERICAN
FAST PACE
CAMPBELL PREPARES
Bonneville, Aug. 30, No date has yet been fixed for:
The long salt flats of Utah to the wedding of the Duke of
day were the scene of anothar speed and Lady Alice Gloucester Douglas Scott, but it is understood triumph when the American racing nce, "Wild Bill' Jenkins broke the that it will take place in about six record set up a few days ago by months' time, almost certainly the British driver, Cobb. London.
Lady Allco, with her mother, the Duchess of Buccleuch, is visit Queen at Balmoral to-morrow. Ing Their Majesties the King and
·日三初月八
Vico-Admiral. `· R. 5. Bailey, acquitted by a recent Court Martial, icho has been promoted and re- appointed to the command of the Battle Cruiser Squadron,
King Prays
At Queen's
Bier-Side
POPULACE WEEPS AT LAST VIEW
ROYALTY GATHERS
(Special 10 "Telegraph")
(De Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphis Missi Asovet Ordinance. 1881. Rucuívod.
adgea
Brussels, Aug. 30. Queen Astrid of the Belgians Is lying in state in the palace chapel.
This morning King Leopold re- mained kneeling for a long time at the foot of the catafalque, deep In prayer.
Afterwards the principal mem- bors of the Court and the Govern- ment prayed beside the Queen's bier, and in the afternoon the people of Brussels, who had been standing in long lines outside the palace for hours, Bled silently and tearfully past the bier, paying a last tribute to a beloved sovereign.
and Prince Charles
Princess Ingeberg, father and mother of Queen Astrid, and Prince Charles and Princess Marghareta, her brother and sister, are leaving for Brussels from Stockholm to-night
to attend the funeral.
The Crown Prince of Sweden, who la representing the King, is leaving later. The Crown Prince and Princess of Norway are pro- ceeding to Brussels to-night.
An unceasing stream of letters from all parts of the world are reaching Prince Charles of Sweden and all the flags of the nation are at half mast.-Reuter.
SALUTE TO DEAD
Brusseln, Aug. 30. Queen Astrid's body has come back to the capital of the nation she loved best.
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LABOUR ANTI-WAR
CAMPAIGN
PEACE OF WORLD IN GREAT PERIL
SPIRIT OF MILITARISM FOSTERED
London, Aug, 30
No fewer than sixty resolutions, including one dealing with aggressive policies of Japan in the Far East and Italy in Abyssinia, appear on the agenda of the 67th annual Trade Union Congress which is opening in the Winter Gardens Pavilion at Margate on Monday.
An important resolution on Peace and War stands on the agenda in the name of the General Council. It expresses grave apprehension concerning the present international situation and the increasing prepara- tions that are being made for war.
Maintenance of democratic institutions is declared to be an essential factor in the preservation of peace, and the resolution records the conviction that "the existence of Fascist dictatorships, notably in Italy and Germany, has fostered the spirit of militarism and fomented national antagonisms which gravely imperil the peace of the world."
RACING PILOT KILLED
CROSS-COUNTRY CONTEST
CLEVELAND SHOW
(Special to "Telegraph”)
The attitude of those; Govern- monta which have refused to use Jeffectively the machinery of the League of Nations in the settle. ment of disputes is condemned in this resolution, with special ro- |ference to the aggressive action of Japan in the Far East and that of Italy against the Abyssinian people..
COLLECTIVE SYSTEM
The resolution asks Congress to ro-affirm its policy outlined at the Weymouth Congress inst year, and to declare its resolute faith in a collective peace system operating within the League of Nations, and its determination to take all ̄ap-" propriate action to make that system a reality. It calls for practical and adequate measures of disarmament, and for the sup- pression of private manufacturo of arms. It calls upon the British Government "to take the initiative,.
Cleveland, Aug. 30. In the great cross-country air race which is the feature of this through the League of Nations, to year's Cleveland Air Show, Pilot convene a new Conference of all Allen, the lust man to start from nations concerned in order that
this purpose may be achieved." Los Angeles for this point, was killed soon after his take-off. Allen Finally, the General Council are plunged when his plane stalled requested, in conjunction with tho over the suburbs of the coast city National Council of Labour, to to-day before he had gained height watch closely the development of enough to monoeuvre out of his events in order that, should difficulties.
emergency arise, such measures Benny Howard, Chicago, flying a may be taken, in conjunction with plane of his own design, "Mister the affiliated organisations, as may Mulligan, won the race by thir- bo necessary to deal with the teen and a half seconds from such situation. nptable competitors as Capt. Roscoe Five resolutions are submitted [by affiliated Unions on the Genere) Jacqueline Cochrane left the Council'a circular concerning the race at Kingman, Arizona, and disruptive activities of persons Royal Leonard stopped at Wichita connected with Fascist and Com-
munist organisations.
Turner.
with motor trouble.
The body has been placed in a reception room of the Lasken | eight
TRAGIC START
The winner was in Cleveland hours And thirty-three Palace, upon a bed covered with minutes out of Los Angeles, and white linen, and is draped in such Turner came in only a few seconds a way as to hide the terrible head Inter-United Press. Injuries. The Queen is robed in white silk' and the bed is strewn with violets, with T ivory crucifix at the foot. She re- sembles a dainty sleeping doll.
Thousands of grief-stricken sub jects have filed past the catafalque, while outside the guns are boom- ing in deep salute and bells have tolled throughout the day.
The funeral will be held on Tuesday,
Steamboat
Co. Strike
Unchanged
Los Angeles, Aug, 30. Tragedy marked the start of the nir race from Los Angeles to Cleveland for the Bendix Trophy in which two women aces Amelin Earhart and Jacqueline Cochrane HOpe of amiCABLE were competing.
Beckle Allen crashed only a mile from the start and was killed Instantly.
Special.
King Leopold left the funeral
Roscoo Turnor, third in the train at an outlying station,, his London to Melbourne marathon, fate bandaged and his arm in # WAR favoured to win. Reuter sling. He went at once to the palace and spent a few minutes alone with the body of the Queen. The motherless children aro happily playing at Stuyvenberg Castle, and King Leopold has been- left to break the news to them personally later.-United Press.
BUILDING SOCIETIES
SETTLEMENT
UNION NOT AGGRESSIVE
Up till a late hour this morning: thoro had been no how'develop- ment in the dispute between the Kwangtung Seamen's Union and the Hongkong, Canton and Macão Steamboat Co, which resulted yes- London, Aug. 30.
terday in the entire · crew of the Two hundred delegates from Sul An leaving the ship shortly. British Building Societies are before she was due to sail from tering the Englishman's speed for leaving London to-morrow to attend Canton. the whole courae..
Interviewed to day, Mr. H. da the 6th International Congress of Meanwhile, Sir Malcolm Camp Building Societies in Balzburg and Luz, Secretary of the Company, boll and his giant racing machine, Vienna. The Presidential address admitted that he was surprised Bluebird, is hero to attack his own will be delivered by Sir Harold that the Union had allowed the speed record and aot a world Bellman, Chairman of the British Lungshan to sail this morning mark of 300 miles per hour if he National Association of Building from Canton. The Lungshan get- can. He is rondy to attempt a Societies, and the British delegation ting away, means that the Union record immediately, he says: The will also include Sir Josiah Stamp ja not taking further, aggrainiya. run and is in perfect condition. less.
(Continued on Page 14;). Sir Malcolm is confident-Router.
Jenkins, in a four hundred horse- (Special to "Istenraph")
rower machine, started on an at- tempt last night to beat Cobbs London, Aug. 30.
hour record. The Rear Admirai Balloy, who was
twenty-four American, at the 2,000 miles mark, acquitted at Д
had averaged 188.53 miles per hour, court-martial in connection with the collision of A constant flow of messages of which was a slight improvement on the battle cruisers Renown and congratulation arrived. at Lady Cobbs time for that distance. Hood, has been promoted Vico Alice's...home Drumianrig Cobb covered 2,000 miles at an Admiral, as. from August 31. Castle, Dumfriesshire, to-day, and average speed of 187.87 miles per
·····He has -been--resppointed to during-the-morning-her ladyship. hour..... Two Italian submarines tout command of the Battle: Cruiser | had-a-long: talk over the telephone With approximately another Bluebird is being tuned for „the and Sir Enoch Hill--British Wire: steps and the chance, of an
SUBMARINES PASS
Port Said, Aug. 30.
(Continued on Page 14:}
at
Squadron, on promotion-Reuter with the DIES, NAO LA King at 1.800 miles to go Jenkins is con- Special.
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