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No, 14741
三拜禮號三十月一十英港香 WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 13,
1935.日八十月十
ETHIOPIANS
UNDISTURBED BY THREATS
CALM RECEPTION OF ITALY'S NOTE
BELIEVED ROME ABOUT
TO QUIT LEAGUE
London, Nov. 12.
BINGLE COPY 10 CENTS $30.00 PER ANNUM
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the SECURITY and
DURABILITY
DUNLOP FORT 90
CLAIM VICTORY
ITALIAN
TANKS
TAKEN
INVADERS PUT
TO FLIGHT
WITH HEAVY LOSSES
Addis Ababa, Nov. 12, Ethiopiari infantry, in heavy, fighting near Dagaður, claim to have won a signal success against the Italian mectionised army. having put four tanks and three armoured cars out of action,
The young Australian airman, The Italian note on sanctions, protesting against c. J. Melrose (left) is to-day re-struggle. their application and threatening counter-measures ported to be missing whilst engaged against the embargo against Italian exports, has been a search for Sir Charles Kings- received calmly in London.
The complaint contained in Italy's note that the Italian Government's memorandum to the League of Nations, in connection with the causes of the trouble in Ethiopia, had not been adequately examined, is held to be plainly contrary to facts. Arguments that the Co-Ordinating Committee on sanctions had no locus standi are regarded as displaying a fundamental mis- construction of the relationship of states to the League of Nations.
In Geneva, the opinion is held that in addressing a note to the Powers involved in the sanctions plan Italy) has taken the only line open to her. while she remains a member of the League. But it is generally felt that the question of her continued membership will be raised shortly.
it is suggested, indeed, that the Grand Fasolat Council, which meets an November 16, may take the initiative In this matter Reuter.
SEEK QUID PRO quo
Rome, Nov. 12.
Sir Eric Drummond, the British Ambassador, and Signor Benito Mussolini, the Hallan Prime Minister, held further
tions to-day.
conversa-
It is believed they discussed the question of a further withdrawal of Italian troops from Libya in return for the withdrawal of two British battleships from the Medi-Į terranean.
Further meetings between the two will probably be held justi after the British general election.- Reuter.
CONSERVING RESOURCES
AGGRESSOR FINALLY DEFINED?
ROOSEVELT GIVES PLAIN VERSION
ford Smith.
YOUTHFUL AIRMAN MISSING
LOST ON HUNT FOR KINGSFORD-SMITH
C. J. MELROSE VANISHES.
(Spécial to "Telegraph")
(lly Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic Mine- adges Ordinance. – 2894__ Received November
Sydney, Nov. 13.
1. 10.30.m.)
C. J. Melrose, the young Aus- tralian. who abandoned his Englund-to-Australia solo flight in order to join the search for Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, is now reported missing.
The twenty-year-old aviator, who won the solo heat of the Lon- don to Melbourne race inst year, was attempting to break, the re cord for that fignt when he
CONSIDERED heard of Sir Charkes' and his SIGNIFICANT
(Special to "Telegraph") (lly Telegraph. Copyright. Telegraphic Man agra Ordinance, 181). Recired, November 13, 100 named
Washington, Nov. 12.
companion's disappearance some- where over the Bay of Bengal. He immediately abandoned his own venture and set about searching for the lost filers.
Strangely enough he was prob- ably the last person to see the big
way
The four tanks, according to re- ports, were captured after a fierco Oficial despatches from Anale, near Dagabur, on the southern front, confirm the success. They add that the Ethiopians, armed only with rifles, rushed the tanks In desperate fashion and faced a porfect storm of machine-gun fire from close range..
Three armoured cars were also put out of action, two of them being captured.
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many; Six Italian officers and rank and filo were killed. There! were many wounded on both sides.
From the subsequent wording of
the despatch it would seem that
the mechanisod units mentioned, the captured tanks and armoured cars, were moving in support of Infantry, for the Eliloplan reports. state that the Italiáng have fled in disorder.-Router.
CAPITAL FLYING TO JAPAN
STAMPEDE SEEN IN TIENTSIN
ས
SHANGHAI EXCHANGE
the Labour Party, which it is anti- Mr. Clement Attlee, Leader of cipated, toill have greatly increased representation in the new Parlia ment following to-morrow's election,
JAPANESE ACTIVITY FORESEEN
HURRYING ASIATIC
PROJECTS
AMERICAN OPINION
{Special to "Telegraph">-
(By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphia Bien- gee Ordinance, £395. lisovived. November 13, 1048 nond
BRITAIN AWAITS CALL TO POLLS
PROPHETS FORESEE GOVERNMENT WIN
LEADERS MAKE FINAL APPEAL TO NATION
· London, Nov: 12. - On the eve of the British general election, final appeals to the electors were made by the leaders of the two main parties.
Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, urged the voters to help the Government to continue its work of national restoration with peace and security in the forefront of its programme.
The Prime Minister pledged the Government to work faithfully for security at home and the peace of the world; and he promised to spend not a penny more on Great Britain's defence forces than was absolutely necessary.
1
They would continue to strive, said Mr. Baldwin, for an international agreement for the reduction of armaments.
STORMY TRIAL SCENES
STAVISKY FRAUD CASE. OPENS
VERBAL WAR
IN COURT
(Special to "Telegraph")
Paris, Nov. 12.
"In a world where collective security has been made a-sure pro- |fection against aggression" such disarmament was possible, he said,
LABOUR'S PLATFORM
Mr. Clement R. Attlee, the Labour leader, also delivered, a message to the public on the eve of the poll.
—He declares that the LaGOUT Party stands for peace, democracy and social justice, and buses its foreign and homo polícies upon? the practical application of the doctrine of the Brotherhood of Man.
"If we all give our best victory will be ours," he concludes.
GOVERNMENT WILL WIN
Election prophets mostly ngres that the Government will have a working majority. Estimates of |that majority vary from 100 to 170. The chairman of Sir John
Washington, Nov. 12. Well-informed quarters are of the opinion that the Japanese military faction is likely to be in- creasingly active in.. China throughout the year's end, in order to excite popular support for heavy military appropriations from the Diet early in 1936..
Meanwhile, the American presa has suggested the possibility of a Shanghai episode, reflected from: competition between the Japanese, The Stavisky trial, in which Simon's Liberal National group, (Special to "Telegraph”) Army and Navy for honoure in twenty persons, including Madame in charge of organisation for that Government advancing Japanese interests in Staviaky, are charged with com-section, forecasts a Tientsin, Nov. 13.
China
pllcity in arch-swindling frauds, majority of 127. The fight of idle capital to the
One source believes the Jugan-pursued its stormy course to-day. The Government, he says, will. Diplomats are said to have Lockheed plane which Kingsford-Yen is assuming stampedo pro- ese programme for consolidation Pandemonium ruled for a long have 371 seats. Of these 325 will Rome, Nov. 12. overlooked a vital portion of Pre-Smith and Capt. John Pethybridge portions, here and in North China, of the military and political posi- time when counsel for the ex-be Conservative, Liberal Nationals
as it fought its Italy is conserving her vital resident Roosevelt's Armistice Day aboard,
The Chosen. Bank, whose de tion in North China is set at Deputy. M. Garat, one of the will have 39, National Labour. 6 sources, and a decree issued to-speech, which may provide the through a storm 150 miles from
posits in Tientsin have increased least a year ahead of schedule. Its accused, came to loggerheads with and one Independent will succoed, day forbids the export of a num world with a new basis for the the coast. Melrose was on his way
by 600 per cent, during the past
Labour, on the other side of the ber of important commodities, in-definition of an aggressor in war. to Singapore at the time and on
year, has reported very heavy buy-ponsors have decided to capi- the President of the Court, M.
House, will have 230 seats and talise upon the world's distrac- Barnaud.. cluding grains, hides and several The phrase was in the declara-his arrival there reported that the ing of its banknotes during the tion, caused by the Italo-Ethiopian Amid an ear-splitting din, M.Liberals, niso in opposition, will chemical products used principal- tion that the United States intend. machine he had sighted was flying past week.-United Presn
dispute and the tension in Europe, Barnaud, purple with anger, rour-have fourteen, he estimates.-Reh- ly in the manufacture of high ex-ad to consider war as occurring very low, probably 200 feet from "when armed invasion and result- the sen. He had watched its
and plan prompt action, it is sug-ed and waved his hands. plosives. Rculer.
Keated. ant killing of human life takes struggle against the gale for some place."
seconds and had seen the flames Under this definition the Japan of its exhaust vanish in Vienna, Nov. 12. esc occupation of Manchuria [storm's horizon. Baron Berger-Waldenegg, the would be constituted as open war-
With the R.A.F. bombers from Prime Minister, has announced fare. Furthermore, the repetition the Singapore base with warships that the Federal Diet of Austria of hostilities in China, at Shang and commercial steamers, Melrose will join the other nations in de hal and in North China, would be joined in the hunt. Io directed claring an embargo upon
war. war regarded materials to Italy-Renter.
Under the existing. neutrality his efforts to a search along the laws the United States would be coast of Slam. Since Saturday required to invoke immediately he had kept reporting himself- the protective features of that and then he was suddenly siteit. There was no distress call from plan, including an embargo of
JOINING EMBARGO
CERMAN ACTION
Berlin, Nov. 12.
the
Butter, bacon, rubber, efl, petro-armaments, prohibition of travel him. He simply vanished with- leum, silk, wool, cotton, raw iron,board the ships of belligerents, out a call of warning to
the various kinds of wrought iron and and so on.
R.A.F. radio station with which 'fin are among the hundreds of
Although the President did not he had been communienting. Like commanditles export of which will mention the word "ggressor" Kingsford-Smith his position was be prohibited from November 10, experts point out that the nation unknown. exccpt by special licence,
instigating the invasion would nu- R.A.F. machines and steamers
It is officially explained that the tomatically be regarded as an are now on the lookout for this prohibition la introduced entirely aggressor-United Press.
out of consideration for Germany's internal and economic needs, byt | in view of the fact that the pro-. hibition la being enforced two days before the general economie sane- tions against Italy are applied, It can hardly be without effect upon Italy-Reuter
DOLLAR AGAIN UNCHANGED
MARKET QUIET ON OPENING
There was no change in the off-
STILL STEADY
Shanghai, Nov. 13. The foreign exchange market is steudy and quiet this morning. U.S. dollars are 20%, Sterling, 1/27/16, Gold Bar, $1,162.00. United Press.
U.S. CONTROL OF BANKS
WEEDING OUT WEAK INSTITUTIONS
New Orleans, Nov. 12 The Chairman of the Federal De-
Lea
posit Insurance Corporation, Mr. gallant young flier's machine,
Crowley, addressing the fearing that he has shared the fate-American Bankers Association con- of liis more famous countryman, and is down somewhere in the Bay of Bengal.-United Press.
NEW JUDGE'
London, Nov. 12. The following forthcoming wed- einl rate of the Hongsong dollar The Kitis has approved Walrae, King the ap-. dings are Stanley Goorge Smith, police officer, Central this morning. Police Station, and Miss Freda Ray The busines8-
s-rate on opening Procureur and Advocate General of wood, of Wembley House, Wembley was 1o. 4d. sellers and 18. 448.Mauritius, to be Chief Judge of London; Mr. Oscar Guttinger, en- buyers. Lator, business was done that Colony in succession to Mr. gineer, 20 Ashley Road, Kowloon, and at 18, 4.11/16d. Spoculators av P. B. Petrides, recently appointed Miss Margaret Amanda Drysdale, of peared to be holding off, and the Chief Justice of the Gold Const. 12 Prince Edward Road.
British Wiroless. market was quiet.
vention, to-day predicted that the Federal Laws would weed the unfit banks out of the nation's financial structure.
Also he said that the unsound bank will not be permitted to in faure their deposits with the Fedoral Deposit Corporation. Those who
ter.
..:
ANNOUNCING RESULTS"
The defending counsel replied 'CONTINUING SILENCE
with cqually wild gesticulations,
London, Nov. 12. while his fellow-barristers tried to
The General Election campałyn, The continuing official allence drag him down to his sent.
la nearing its close. The Prime and inaction has impressed obser- vero as indicating that the Gov shouting when the President made his final speech at Now-
The whole Court joined
Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, ernment feels that adjustment of claimed, "Sit down, or you will castle to-night and nearly every the Far Eastern crisis must await force me into prejudice," an in other Minister, including the the pacifcation of the African discretion which was greeted with Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr.
disturbance.
It is indicated that officially the United States is to continuo to adhere to the Nine Power Treaty principles and this belief tends to support the view that the Govern- ment anticipates a Far East readjustment In the future.- United Press..
GERMANY. MAKES NO PROTEST
DR. THOST BANISHED FROM BRITAIN
:
the Foreign Searotary, Sir Samuel Hoare, epoke at one or more moot. lugs to-day. The effcial Labour
onerai clamour.-Kehter Special. Neville Chamberlain, and
Anti-Royalist Opposition, lender, Major Atties.
Plotting?
FAMOUS RUMANIANS UNDER ARREST
Bucharest, Nov. 12.
spoke at Nottingham.
Rosults from 300 odd constituens elos, where counting will tako placo immediately after the close- of poll on Thursday, will begin to be received about ten o'clock, and. the British Broadcasting Corpora tion is arranging to announce them- In their programmes as they; fro published. Glubs, hotels and
A sensation has been created resturants in London and pro-
vincial contres are arranging. throughout the country by the ar rest of the famous surgeon Dr. Special entertainments late mot
the night, at which the resulti Gerota, General Radescu, and a pro will be announced to the assembl minent lawyer, who are charged London, Nov. 12....with preparing to publish a booklated guests-British Wireless. The German Ambassador, en call-attacking the King.
Dr. Gerota is one of the most insure and later follow practices Ing at the Foreign Office for an ex-
The Young Australia League party which aro cansidered to be un-planation with regard to Dr. H. W. respected citizens of Bucharest, sur. Accuntain invitation to Inspect Thost, Nazi newspaper correspon-is internationally known as a sur Mountain Lodge, the Poak residence sound will be dismissed.
Mr. Crowloy said: "I ovon dent, was given the reasons for the geen. He was performing a serl of H.E. the Offer Admininistering visualise the day when the dis- request that he should leave the ous operation on a woman when the Government this morning.The
girls drove up about 11; o'clock and; Other arrests are expected.--
were conducted round the hour and missal from the Insurance Fund country. Na protest was made, the pollco-arrived.
Dr. Thost, flow to Gormany this
grounds by Capt/AWLERIE CA —United Pro88.. will be tantamount to liquidation."
morning-Reuter Special. A Router Special..
A.D.C. to Hi ThExcellenou.