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No. 14724
四拜禮 號四十月十英港香
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1935.
6日七廿月九
DENIES SECRET
LLOYD GEORGE'S
SUSPICIONS
IMPERIALIST DEAL FLATLY DENIED
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
REVIEWED
London, Oct, 23.
Intimating his suspicion that something in the manner of a secret diplomatic arrangement had apparently altered the European situation during the past few days, and inquiring as to what this might have been, Mr. David Lloyd George, former Prime Minister, addressed the House of Commons in a continuation of the Foreign Affairs Debate to-day.
Sir Samuel Hoare, the Foreign Secretary, had left some vital things unsaid, said Mr. Lloyd George, and the position was in many ways completely obscure. He asked for specific information regarding the Franco- Italian agreement of January last and of the commit- ments at the Stresa Conference.
He declared that between January and September,
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AGREEMENTS
Italian and Ethiopian troops have concentrated in two fronts and a battle in reportedly raping in the south, along the Webbe Shibeli River valley. Above, left the Italian soldiers are pietured landing in East Africa on their way to the fighting lines, and right, Ethiopians are marching up to the frant," in charge of foreign officers.
BALDWIN EXPECTS VICTORY
FEELS GOVERNMENT PERFECTLY SAFE
MANIFESTOES PREPARING.
London, Oct. 23.
the
On the resumption of foreign affairs.debate in the House of Commons this afternoon, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Prime
HONGKONG DOLLAR SLUMPS
DESPITE STEADY SILVER PRICE
SHANGHAI IN TURMOIL
Despite the fact that silver prices were unchanged in London yesterday, the Hongkong dollar dropped no loss than 3/8ths this morning, the official quotation on opening being 1s. 11.3/8d. There
Monday.
FIRE ON ALTADENA BORDERS
FIERCE FOREST BLAZE
ONE KILLED ALREADY
Los Angeles, Oct. 23. Two thousand men are battling here with one of the most destruc- tive forest fires to have occurred in Southern California for years,
The fire broke out on the slopes
France had sent to Italy 478 tons of distillation coal,Minister, announced that the Gen-/has been a decline of 5/8ths since of Mount Wilson and so far it has
which was practically TNT, and also 697 tons glycerine for great guns, Finally he asserted that un-
doubtedly something had happen REMOVING
ed during the past few days. He asked whether Great Britain had promised to withdraw her fleet from the Mediterrnean.
EDEN MAKES REPLY Mr. Anthony Eden, the Minister for League of Nations Affairs, who been conducting Britain's hus diplomatic campaign at Geneva, re- piled, asserting vigorously:
"I have absolutely nothing to bide. The report of the Geneva Committee under Article XVI (of the Covenant) represents the only negotiations there have been."
With regard to the query as to whether Britain were committed to
LIBYA DIVISION
ITALY ACTS UPON
ASSURANCES
GESTURE of GOOD-WILL
Paris, Oct. 23.
of eral Election would take place on
caused one death, while scores of The fall is largely attributed to people have been overcome by the November 14, the new Parliament weakness of exchange in Shang-smoke and beat. Thirty houses, a would assemble on November 26 hai. to-day's rato being 18 sanatorium and a scenic railway on for the election of a Speaker, and 4,5/16d., which represents a drop the mountain have been destroyed. the-State-opening-of-Parliament
The local authorities have ap of twopence in the past fortnight. would take place on December 3.
The local market is somewhat pealed to San Francisco for ns-
sistance, and a Mr. Baldwin, in defending a demoralised, rates being nominal,
number of fire- Dissolution, thought it would be being quoted at 1s. 11d. and 18. perfectly safe for the Government to have an election soon, but he could not say the same if the elec tion were postponed until next January.
compensation of any other states, Italy will inform M. Pierre Laval, Mr. Eden answered: "We are the French Prime Minister, that committed thereto by the League she la ready to withdraw one of Covenant."
her three divisions from Libya- Reuter.
He proceeded to recite the history of the diplomatic activities since December, with the object of re- butting the charge of dilatoriness.
ALREADY MOVED?
Paris, Oct. 23. He alluded to the representations
The Foreign Affairs Committee between January and March, one of of the Chamber of Deputies has which was made to Signor Musso-announced that Italy has with- 'lin! personally.
drawn one of three divisions of troops which she had stationed in Libya-United Press. -
BRITAIN UNDECIDED
London, Oct. 23.
ITALY'S PROMISE - Towards the end of March, he related, Italy had given assurance that she would proceed with the negotiations for peace as rapidly
It ig understood that the as possible, as she was anxious to British response to the Italian, apply the principles of Geneva in decision to withdraw troops from yet been decided
a spirit of moderation and peace. Libya has not
that
Meanwhile, In London opinion
He reviewed proceedings up to upon. It is pointed out the time of his visit to Rome with Italy will still have two fighting proposals for a settlement, and ex-divisions in Libyn. pressed regret that this occasion, ilko very many others in which is contrary to the suggestion that Britain had made efforts to find the Italian decision solid basis for negotiations, was ditional, unsuccessful,
iu ancon-
Prior to the Commons debate. the Cabinet met this morning and is understood to have discussed the election statement to be made Inter by the Premier in the House.
Election manifestoes are being. issued this week-end, by Mr. Bald- win for the National Conserva- tives, by Sir John Simon for the National Liberals, and by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald for the Na- tional Labourites.
To-day's meeting of the Cabinet lasted two hours. It will probably be the last under the present Parliament, though the Cabinet will be responsible for the govern- ment of the country until the
Parliament is elected.- Reuter.
new
Confidence In America
..
(1271248606CTATESMUNANDITA
BUBONIC PLAGUE
RAVAGES
Thousands Perish In Hotien
Nanking, Oct, 24. .. Thousands of people are reported to have perished as the result of an outbreak of bubonic plague in the Hotien area of Southern Sinkiang.
The Government has ordered the despatch of a medical unit to Sinkiang, while the medical assistance which has been arranged by the Soviet will be withdrawn- as soon as the Chinese medi- cal party arrives,--Reuter,
cur-
fighting experts have been rushed to the spot to combat the flames, mile an hour gale and are steadily which are being fanned by a 50- eating into the fashionable district of Altadena.Reuter.
HEAVY FIGHTING IN PROGRESS
PITCHED BATTLE IN PROSPECT
GORAHAI MUST BE HELD ETHIOPIANS TOLD
Addis Ababa, Oct. 23.
A heavy engagement between troops commanded by Ras Desta, on the right wing of the Webbs Shibeli River front, and a strong Italian force, has commenced, according to unconfirmable reports reaching here.
Gorahai must be held at all costs, is the order sent to Ras. Desta, who will in all probability throw his army into the first pitched battle of the campaign.
Ras Desta must defend a line from Gorahai to Jijiga, in which he has 300,000 men, lacking modern arms and equipment. With these he must contend with a force of some 140,000 Italians, who are supported by heavy. artillery, tanks and aircraft. The Italians are native troops for the most part.
SANCTIONS possession will remove most of
EFFECTS DELAYED
NO REACTION FOR WHOLE YEAR ?.
DISCLOSURE IN LORDS
London, Oct. 23.-
250 HOSPITAL CASES
Los Angeles, Oct. 23. Fires which are licking through the foothills on 75-miles surrounding Los Angeles are still It will likely be some months not under control after destroying before the effect of the League's 100 houses and causing 250 people economic sanctions begin to be felt, to be sent to hospital.
said Lord Stanhope, speaking at the A 57-mile-an-hour wind has resumption of the foreign affairs snapped numerous power lines debate in the House of Lords to- starting elght separate blazes and day. sending the flames rouring through the grass like tinder, due But, he continued, if it takes to the recent heat wave.
some months it will come almost Rescuers are fighting through simultaneously with the disillusion- the blackened area attempting to ment of Italy, when she realises
reach 47 convicts who are cut off what she has undertaken. in a corral at a canyon road camp. MOVIE STARS IN DANGER
Famous Jockey Arrested
"Probably by this time next year we may have found proposals for a settlement, though I hope they will (come earlier," he said.
TAKE TOO LONG
Goraha is strategically im- portant. It is essential that the Italiana capture the place, for its the horrors of the long-drawn cam- paign through thu waterless Ogaden plain:
ENGAGEMENT PENDING
All-reports, according to Intest information, indicate that a major battle is impending, though still there is no confirmation of action.
It is more certain, now, how ever, that Ras Desta's right wing has been heavily engaged in the Webbe Shiboli country with General Graziani's left wing.
Many military observors here believe that General Graziani will make a further thrust northwards next week, secking to penetrate the into a rout-Router. Ethiopian lines and turn the battle
U. S. Delegate Selected
ADMIRAL STANDLEY GOES TO LONDON
Washington, Oct. 23, Admiral William H. Standley, United States Chief of Naval Operations, will represent his country at the projected Naval Conference in London, according to an announcement made by Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State.
Mr. Hull expressed the opinion that the Conference should be confined solely to a consideration. of naval problems, and not in- clude economie questions.
Questioned with regard to the Japanese desire for naval expan Blon, Mr. Hull reiterated his be of in the provisions of the Lon- don naval agreement, and declared that personally, he thought the 5-5-3 ratio quito right.Router.
Lord Lothian said he hoped that economic sanctions against Italy would-suffice, but confessed he was. horrified at the lightness with which Lord Stanhope said that the Government did not contemplate nny appreciable effect from the League penalties until next year.
"Are we going to walt three, six,
even twelve months doing nothing but inflicting on the Italian the doors are not closed. Therefore people.economic sanctions?
there is ground for optimism.
But optimism should. bo tem- "Peace must be restored by the pered by the fact that the con- year's end to prevent a worse vormations have not come down to catastrophe. The League must face concrete facts, as far as the Ethip- the present conditions and produce plan dispute fa concerned, stated declared Lord an authoritative spokesman to-day,
-Reuter
or
In Altadena, the blaze has been got under control, but the flames have swept the Latigo, Decker, Lord Stanhope argued from this Sequeit and Tujunga canyons and the desirability of an immediate devastated a bench at one spot, election in Great Britain to ensure (destroying the resort homes at the that the country would have a
Pacife edge.
strong and established Government 11.5/8d, but practically no, busi- At Malibu Beach, the fashion- to deal with the problem to be ness is doing. The tone is very able movie colony awaits an order settled. unecrtain.
to ovacuate. The rusidants in- The opinion prevails in banking clude Constance and Joan Bennett, ROOSEVELT GIVES
circles that-If the dollar deelines Raquel Torres, Edmund · Lowej further, some action will be Louise Fazenda, Corrine Griffith, WORD OF HOPE.
necessary, in the way of an em- Nell Humilton and Richard bargo on export of dollars, or Bartholméss.-United Press. Bi Charleston, Oct. 23.
otherwise, since there would be a distinct danger of the Colony bo Confidence in America's re-ing denuded of its allver -Reuter has learned from an "au-covery was expressed by President rency, In detail, Mr. Eden went through thoritative apokesman" in Rome Roosevelt, speaking in this South In London yesterday, with silver the month-by-month negotiations, that if the report that Britain Carolina town to-day. "Each time the negotiations failed has ordered the withdrawal of
prices unaltered, America bought, through the Italian refusal to te two battleships from the Mediter-
while India and China sold, the He was given an enthusiastic market being quietly steady. cept even a basis of discussion," he ranean is confirmed Italy might reception on landing at the con-
withdraw part of her forces from aboard the US.S. Houston..
clusion of his holiday cruise
FACING Charge of Libya.
MURDER As to the application of the It is understood there was no He delivered short speech about Hague' Convention regarding request for a reciprocal gesture conditions in the United States.
Louisville, Ky., Oct. 28. Italian warships and auxiliaries in from Britain, however, and that British ports, Mr. Eden declared the Italian order for the with just by pure chance, but just by bar
United States turf circles were "We are on the way back, not that to do less would be to treat a drawal of a division from Libya the turn of the cycle. We are rumours that the Government was star
There was n pante on the gold in the grip of a sensation to-day
market on unconfirmed following the arrest of America's The possibility of a League of breaker of the League Covenant as was due to Improved Anglo- coming back sounder than ever be-nationalising silver.
jockey, Willie Smokey Nations administration in Ethlo Italian relations, resulting from
Saunders, winner of the Kentucky pla-was envisaged by Baron Nooi- Answering the Government's Sir Samuel Hoare's speech in the fore, because we have planned U.S. dollars were 38%, Sterling Derby this year, and the charging Buxton: We shall have to face critics, he said that the Sino- House of Commons yesterday and that way. Don't let anyone tell 1/4-5/10, Gold Bars 31,028.00. of the young rider with murder, the establishment of o vague Japanese episode in Manchuria Sir Erle Drummond's assurances
you differently,
The foreign exchange market Ile is charged in connection colonial service if Italy's annexa- was a false analogy with the to Signor Mussolini-Router" |___ "Eliore are many problems still was chaotic at 8.45 nm. Thero is with the death of Mra. Evelyn tion of Ethiopia ls to be avoided, present situation. In Ethiopia.
ahead," he added. "I shall make a considerable spread between Sliwinski, wiese body, badly he said. Reuter. it my great and earnest effort toj dollar..and-sterling rates on suc-benten and apparently run ovor * London, Oct. 29. - : keep the country free and un- cossive transactions..
'DOOR. NOT CLOSEDTM by a motor car, was found on the The Foreign Offico announces entangled with any grant war U.S. dollars are 83%, Storling road near here on Sunday after a
Rome Oct, 23. sult in a resort to war by either that the Italian Government has that may occur in countries across 1/4-5/16, and Gold Bars $1,007.00. party at which she was present. The fact that diplomatic conve
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(Continued on Page 7); the sea." Reuter.
-United Press,
Reuter,
sations are proceeding shows
Raid.
HAGUE CONVENTION
If no brench had occurred.
Japan had not been declared
an aggressor by the League: the
dispute did not at any stage re-
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SHANGHAI PANIC
Shanglial, Oct. 24. Rates, on the foreign, exchange markot, are purely nominal this morning at the opening.
real disarmament," Lothian.
JOINING EMBARGO
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