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FOUNDED 1001 四拜體: 號五月九英港香 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1935. 日八初月八
No. 14478
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ITALY DEAF TO LEAGUE COUNCIL ENTREATIES
WILL PROCEED AS
SHE SEES FIT
BRITAIN AND FRANCE PLEAD FOR PEACE
BUT ROME WON'T ALTER HER DEMANDS
1894.
(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")
(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Messager Ordinance,
Received, Sept. 5, & n,m,}
Geneva, Sept. 4.
The first session of the vitally important League Council meeting, at which the Italo-Abyssinian dispute is being discussed and a solution for crisis sought, closed with Baron Aloisi's utterance of a challenge policy. Later, speaking to the press, without the formality of the Council Chamber, Baron Aloisi bluntly asserted that the Kellogg anti-war pact was not regard- ed by Italy as applicable to Africa.
The League, he reiterated, must choose between ousting Italy or expelling from its ranks the un- civilised Ethiopians."
"Italy," declared the Italian spokesman, "signed the Briand-Kellogg Pact with the same reserve concern- ing Africa as did Great Britain.” Italy would proceed in Africa as she saw fit, regardless of the League, he maintained.
Speaking to the Council, Baron Aloial charged that Ethiopia was an outlaw nation. Italy, he de clared, would retnin complete liberty of action "for the purpose of adopting all measures necessary for the amurance of the safety of her colonies and the safeguarding of her own interests."
He presented a memorandum charging that Ethiopia had openly! and systematically violated all her pledges and treaties with Italy! during the past forty years and had endangered the lives and pro- perty of Italian subjects, refusing to delineate her frontiers and Im- porting war materials.
He recited at length alleged Ethiopian obstructions to Italian friendship efforts.
ITALY'S CASE REVEALED
FOUR PARTICULAR
tory;
CHARGES
ETHIOPIAN AGGRESSION
Rome, Sept. 4.
Picture taken this morning showing crowds assembled outside the Bank of Canton, which closed its doors yesterday. Notices were displayed to-day stating that đẹp ositors may withdraw their valu-
ables from safe deposit hazen at fixul hours. (Photo: Mee Cheung).
Competition For Pacific
Air Contracts
AMERICA HASTENS
SURVEYS
LINK WITH. AUSTRALIA
#Special to "Talagraph")
Mr. Assistant Postmaster-General
LEAGUE DEFENDS
COVENANT
Eden's Plan
To Prevent
Africa War
APPARENTLY UNITED OFFers comproMISE
AGAINST ITALY
WON'T DODGE
ISSUE
Geneva, Sept. - 4.
To-day's speeches in the League Council were taken as indicativo]
SUGGESTION
-MUST PROTECT
ETHIOPIA
DREADFUL LOSS IN HURRICANE
HUNDREDS DEAD IN FLORIDA STORM
EYE-WITNESSES TELL OF TRAGEDY
(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")
(Bu Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphic Mesangen Ordinance, 1894. Received, Sept. 5, 11.30 0.14.)
Miami, Sept. 4.
Property damage has run into millions as a result of the hurricane which swept the Florida coast Tuesday. The death roll climbs hourly, as additional reports come to Miami. Estimates place the loss of life at be- tween 200 and 700.
Five F.E.R.A camps for war veterans were hard hit. No. 1 and No. 5 were demolished and there was a severe loss of lives there. Jack Combs, an undertaker, sends a wireless message that 500 of the population of 600 of Metacombe Key, where many war veterans were working, have been lost.
Many other communities in the keys have been si- lent since the hurricane.
EMPEROR SELASSIE ANGERED
.
An aeroplane which the Const Guard sent to Investigate return- ed with the staggering news that the relief train which was at- tempting to evacuate some 500 war veterans from the danger zone had been caught in the storm. derailed and finally broken up and ita coaches scattered. Bildges were out in every direction.
One of the war veterans, C. Gallagher, reached Miami from the
AMERICAN "ACTION" | key"
BRINGS REBUKE
CONCESSION SQUABBLE
(Special to "Twizgraph")
"I saw a
three-storey hospital building lifted off !ts foundations,” he retuted. “A tidal wave carried it to Ben Only one occupant es- enped. Rocks the size of a human hand flew like hailstones and killed many. I saw humans blown into the ocean.*
Meanwhile the hurricane has continued up the Florida coast and west coast shipping is entirely | suspended.
The Army and Navy, Red Cross and State agencies are rushing re-
of to the keys.-United Press.
SURVIVORS' TALES
Geneva, Sept. 4. White delegates to the League thy Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphic Mra engra Ordinare, 1891 Received. September of that body's general determina- Council and the tense and expec
tion to uphold the Covenant should tant press gallery listened with Washington, Sept. 1.
clusent attention, Mr. Anthony Italy Bout It. Harlee Branch, Second On this point the Little Entente, Eden, British Minister for League of Scandinavian countries, and Tur-Affairs and chief of the British the United States, in an exclusive key are equally determined, re-delegation to the League, outlined, interview to-day, told the United garding this issue as a test of the to-day a plan of reforms for
(Bly Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphis Hea. Press that an American-Antipodean whole post-War settlement.
Abyssinin to be reached with the
sages Ordinance, 1991. Brontvad, Keptember of the Abyssinian.30 p.m.) A memorandum issued here to-lait link was the next stage of . M. Pierre Laval, the French full consent
Addis Ababa, Sept. 4. day indicates four special Pacific flying development, WORLD CALAMITY
Prime Minister, and Baron Aloisi, Government and with the full colla- charges in the Italian case, pre- "After the Honolulu-San Fran- the Italian spokesman, both main-boration of the nations of the
Emperor Selassie is infuriated Earlier, Mr. Anthony, Eden, the pared for submission to the cisco air line is in operation the tain a very cheerful exterior. The League, that the unsettled condition British spokesman, warned that League. These are:
logical step would be the establish- latter, interviewed to-night, said of affairs in that area might be at what he considers an invasion
Miami, Sept. 4. the League's failure to solve the (1) That Abyssinia had rement of a service to New Zealand," he did not propose to ask for corrected and the present crisis of Ethiopian sovereignty by the present problem arising out of the fused to delimit the frontier and he said.
United States. Ethiopia's expulsion from the Len-jovercome.
Haggard survivors tell heart- Italo-Ethiopian dispute, would be a illegally occupied Italian terri-
gue: but if others liked to propose
the League He proposed that
rending stories of the desolation Commerce The Department of
To-day he summoned world calamity.
to the and destruction throughout the recently completed a survey of flow. the expulsion of Ethiopia, that appoint experts to assist in the
complete reorganisation of the palace the American Consul here, Florida keys where the hurricane The tri-power conferees reported (2) Dally attacks had been land, Jarvis and Baker Islands and would be a logical conclusion.
If Ethiopia's company was pre-country, together with special Mr. Engert, and severely tongue- has
swept with sudden and on the failure of the Puris parley made on Italian diplomatic repre- found that suitable landing places ferred to Italy's then the decision measures for the protection of lashed the State Department for tremendous force leaving a dread- and the Arbitration Commission sentatives;
were available there,
of action did not lie with Italy, Italian interests, and that the four causing the cancellation of the ful wake of death. reported upon its impotence in (3) ContinuOUR attacks had! Mr. Branch pointed out that he added.
powers most concerned, Britain, Standard-Vacuum Oll Company Houses are flattened and there dealing with the Unlual incident. been made on Italian lives and number of other nations, Including
ITALY'S RIGHTS
France, Italy and Ethiopin, should
is no siga of life of man or beast. property In Abyssinia;
Great Britain, Holland and France, i
negotiate a new treaty to replace concession.
The birds have vanished. It is In speaking of her liberty of (4) Similar attacks had been were interested in establishing lines
Mr. Engert left tight-lipped and impossible yet to tell whether the made on Italians in Italian Somali-connecting their possessions with action and her determination to the out-grown accord of 1906.
uncommunicativo.
| inhabitants of the hundreds of M. Pierre Laval, speaking for land.
China, and therefore the United frotain it, Italy meant that she
scattered farms have escaped or the French Government, said they In support of the Italians good States was pushing her surveys as would not surtender the right to
leave the League or to declare war Eden declared that Great Britain veal that the Emperor considers ruins of their homes.
Speaking in solemn tones, Mr.
However, Ethiopian officials re- whether they are buried in the had definitely decided to support intentions, the memorandum saya rapidly as possible.
He said bids for a San Francisco when and where she saw fit, Baron would exert herself to reach a that Mr. Cordell Hull, the Ameri- the Langue, and that he was con- Italy has supplied Abyssinia with
One survivor, Mr. peaceful settlement. They had can Secretary of State, displayed Reuter how he escaped from fident that a peaceful solution 4,000 rifles and a million rounda Honolulu-Manila-Ching line would Alolai said.
Lowe, told League delegates feel that the l! tried to create a new interna gross misjudgment.. could be found. He believed such of ammunition. The first batch be opened October 21 and a contract a.settlement would assuto Italy of was sold for 1,900,000 lire, of wo. He said that all the mail to day's session is the fact that the the scourge of war, he said. The
would be awarded shortly after-most important.
totional order to save mankind from satisfaction without disregarding which
He is onld to have informed Mr. his belt and a three months' old the Emperor still owes Ethiopia's rights.- United Press.
the Far East would pass out of the Council has now full, cognisance machinery of the new order which Engert that Ethiopia wishes to baby in his arms. Italy 78,800 lire.Reuter.
United States jurisdiction at Can- of the very wido privileges offered had been established by the Coven- extend the privilege of developing Lowe and six relatives of ble UNFIT MEMBER
ton, whereupon China would Italy at the Paris conference. it ant was in Geneva, and if the spirit her vast resources to any foreign were forced to leave their homes for its distribution to is believed that hitherto italy has was there they could not fall. company willing to co-operate, and and sook shelter in some stronger Goneva, Sept. 4.
Japan and other Asiatic nations. under-estimated both the value In the course of his speech
The British Government was who should be free from official building. Their houses simply A careful check reveals that no of this offer and the feeling elaborating the Italian attitude) other company besides that Ethopia is unßt for member-American Airways will seek a con Reuter,
Pan- which its rejection must arouse acutely conscious of its responsi- interference by their governments.fall to piocas, for they were close ta water and the waves engulfed bilities
a member of the United Press.
them. The building in which they ship of the League, Baron Alosi tract for the trans-Pacific maila.
League, Mr. Eden continued, for
had pinned their highest hopes declared that the Ethopinn Gov- The company will establish a ter-
the world was watching them all.
they found was not sufficiently. ernment had done nothing to de-minal at Macao and thence will die-
The. Lenguo was facing Rome, Sept. 4.
strong to hold against the con- serve admission to the community tribute mail to Canton for dis-
tinual buffets of the waves. They of civilised nations, and had not tribution.-United Press. carried out its undertakings under
were forced to flee again.
the Covenant. Italy now regret-
due to an unfortunate chain of cir- cumstanoca. The Arbitrators could blame neither party.
DEFENDS ABYSSINIA
Genova, Sept. 4.
At the evening session of the League Council, Professor Jeze spokesman for Ethiopia, contended that the Arbitration Commission had exculpated Abyssinia's res ponsibility for the Ualual Incident Ho affirmed that Ethiopia de sired to reach an agreement with Italy and strongly repudiated Baron Alolal's accusations. Heted her
promised a detailed refutation inter. Ethopia's admission.
error In voting for
arrange
MAIL IN SEPTEMBER
Francisco, Sept. 4. The Post Office is accepting air Meanwhile, he drew attention to Italy's indictment against mail for the Pan-American Air the formidable League precedent Ethopia is contained in volumin ways Clipper shipe for a flight to which Italy, was attempting to ous documenta alleging misde- Guam in mid-September-United create by proposing to condemn a meanoura and concluding by say-Press. nation which was acting within the ing that it is contrary to right scope of its sovereignty... ----and juztico-that-a-League member After Benor Olivan, the Spanish should be bound to observe the spokesman, had vigorously upheld rules of the Covenant in relation
Hayama, Sept. 4. the principles of the Covenant, the with a member which had put General Kawashima was invested Council adjourned without firing itself outalde the pact by vioint with the portfolio of the War a time for resumption.-Reuter, [ } }ng its obligations--Router. Ministry of Japan to-day.-—Reuter,
NEW MINISTER-
J
feature of
BUILDING DESTROYERS
SOLEMN ADDRESS
wu
#
vital An announcement that Italy has test which, if it did not pass decided to build twelve more successfully, would gravely im- destroyera is believed to be Im-pair its Influence. minent, and it is reported that A collapse of the League and the keels of some of these vessels of the now international order in have already been laid down.
(Continued on Page 5.) Mobilisation of another Army
Division and U Black Shirt
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Division composed of men wound embracing firat-ald ́and ed in the last war, students and wirk, any decontamination of per Italian residents living abroad is sons and buildings from the effect to-be-ordered.-Reuter-Special.
for ̃gas 'attackus
MALTA'S DEFENCE -
Malta, Sept. 4. volunteer for the defence service, The Government is calling for
The volunteers will undergo a
fortnight's course. They will be sary-Reuter Special. paid and called up when neces
FLORIDA CANAL
ATLANTIC-GULF
LINK
Washington, Sept. 4. President Roosevelt has allotted $8,000,000 to start construction of a 30-foot channel across Florida inking the Atlantic with the Gulf of Mexico at a cost which will ultimately exceed $146,000,000 United Press.
Tavernier with a woman tied to
Each man of the party tied a woman to him with a sheet wound |about the waist of each. They fought their way against the suck. | ing under-tow of receding waves in thla way. Repeatedly they were flung down, clutched at trees when they wore neck dap in water, until miraculously they were able to scramble upon a small building floating past.
There they rode put the storm, precariously, crouched in: the (Continued on Page 5.)