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Hongkong Telegraph
FOUNDED 1881 No. 14783
PAK SET THURSDAY, JANUARY - 2,
1936.
日八初月二十
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FIERCE RESENTMENT AGAINST ITALY
REPERCUSSIONS INEVITABLE
RED CROSS BOMBING
SHOCKS WORLD.
BRITAIN IMMEDIATELY STARTS INQUIRY
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(By Telegraph. Copyright, Telegraphic garages. Ordinance, 1894. Received, January 1, 1.20pm)
Addis Ababa, Dec. 31.
The Red Cross organisation here intends to protest to the International Red Cross against the reported Italian bombing and wiping out of the Swedish unit near Dolo, resulting in the killing of nine Swedes and twenty-three Ethiopians.
Dr. Fried Hylander, the commander of the unit, is be- lieved to be the only survivor and he is proceeding here by acroplane to receive treatment for the alight wounds which he received. He will also supply evidence in connection with the protest.
The British Legation, which handles Swedish interests in Ethiopia, has immediately commenced an investigation of the incident. International repercussions are believed to be inevitable-United Press.
SWEDISH RESENTMENT..
Stockholm, Dec. 31.
A special police guard is surrounding the Italian Legation here, due to resentment as the result of the bombing of the Swedish Red Cross unit by Italian planes in Ethiopia.
Newspapers throughout the coun-
1ry are issuing extras in connection with the incident.-United Press.....
TEN PLANES PARTICIPATE
Addis Ababa, Dec. 31. Ten Italian. planes are alleged to have participated in the destruction of the Swedish Rod Cross unit.
The total casualties are still un- known, but the latest report says that all the staff were killed with the exception of Commander Hylander, Dr. Smith Holm, male nurse and
at orderly, all of whom are wounded.
Reuter.:
HORROR AND GRIEF
Stockholm Dec. 31 The bonding of Swedish Red Cross hospitals in Ethiopia, fends for which were raised by national sub scription, has created a
a feeling of
horror and grief in Sweden, where
flags are flying at half-mast many.
The nowspaper Fradeplight Alle. handa says the news comes aЯ severe blow to the nation and is n The crime against international law. dropping of bombs on an ambulance is, says the Journal, terrible coldener of the ferocity of the Italian methods
in waging war-Renter
* EMPEROR'S SYMPATHY
Addis Ababa. Dec. 31.
The Emperor of Ethiopia has tele- faphed condolences to the Queen
SEVERE FIGHTING
AT DANANE
ITALIANS CAPTURE
POSITION
Dr. R. Maclean Gibson; who has been awarded the M.B.E. decoration
The New Year Honours.
PATROL SEES TWO TIGERS
ENCOUNTER IN TAIPO AREA
NO CHANCE
TO SHOOT
Two tigers which have been_re- ported prowling about the New Ter ritories recently were seen by ..., a patrol of Indian policemen, shortly after, midnight yesterday, according to a messago from Talpo. Palice. Station.
It is reported that a patrol of four Indians saw the two ligers at a quarter to one o'clock near Sheung Wan Yu-village, Taipo-district
The Indians were within four yards of the beasts, but before they could opan fire-the tigers leapt into same bushes and were soon lost be
Soviet Note Of Protest
HAND-TO-HAND URUGUAY'S ACTION
STRUGGLE
London, Jan, 1. Apart from a major engagement
RESENTED
Moscow, Jan, J. The Soviel has protested to the at Danane on the Somaliland, front League of Nations againest the ac to-day, the New Year brought notion of Uruguay In breaking off marked change in the position of the diplomatic relations because of alleg rival armies at death grips in northern ed plotting by the Russian Embassy and southern Ethiopia. A summary to faster a revolt.
of the situation in contained in It is claimed that Uruguay has violated Clause XII of the League Covenant as in the first place the messages from the various sectors.
A Rome communique claims the
matter should have been submitted capture of the town of Danane, to
for arbitra League Council situated to the west of Gorrahel, and tion and
decision. regarded as an Important position The Russian Government has ban- from the point of view of communica-ned the purchase of goods produced tions.
in Uruguay by all Soviet economic
་
engagement,
Juhlel
The Youjamtorg, the Soviet trading extremely forec
organisation In Uruguay, will be there were disolved. several hand-to-hand clasica, both is stated that the Russian pur- chases in Uruguay for the first sides relying entirely on rifles and
eloven months of 1935 were thred bayonets.
times Uruguay's purchases in Russia-
1
of Sweden on the destruction of the It is reported that Danane was only organisations. Red Cross unit. Representatives of the Ethiopian Red Cross are proceed. occupied after an ing น. Ros Dasta's headquarters to morrow.
Commander Hylander is still alive, but is wounded in the back. Reuter.
"REVENGE ON ITALY".
Stockholm, Jan. 1. Cries of "Revenge on Italy" and "Down with Mussolini" mingled with the New Year greetings in tha capital of Sweden last night.
Italian air force observers estimate the Ethiopians lost 100 killed and many more wounded, and that the Italian losses were numerically loss,
TROOPS CHEERED
With the issue of an extra ralion The Italian Ioration has beca placed under apk guard, with of wine, and special suppers along an mounted police posted at various eighty milo front, Italian troops spent a cheerful New Year's Eve,-or: asy points.
Many Watch Night services werd circumstances would allow. A con- converted Into memorial services for stant watch had to be maintained the victims of the Italian air raiders
and various organisations are 'plan ning a monster demonstration protest-Reuter Special.
Addis Ababa, Jan. 1.
against
surprise attacks.
In the Temblem rogion, troops spent
ot
the
evening with rifles at their sides,
-Neuter,
ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE
CONGRESS ADDRESS
ON JANUARY 3.
Washington, Dec; 81, President Roosevelt will deliver his
IMPERIAL
AIRWAYS DISASTER
TWELVE PERISH
IN CRASH
ONLY PILOT
RESCUED
af
Jondan, Dec. 31. News has ruined London that the
City Imperial Airways liner,
Dr. W. B. A. Moore, who receiven Khartoum, was wrecked in the the O.B.. decoration in the New Yeur Mediterranean whilst proceeding to
Honours. Alexandria from Crule last evening...
H.M.S. Brilliant found the wreckage. of the flying boat and picked up the pilot, named Wilson.
The whereabouts of the three other members of the crew, Engineer Amer, Wireless Operator Baker and Steward Richardson,
ale.at present unknown.
It is not known. how many passon- cors the liner carried. A destroyer and the Imperial Airways, liner, Hannibal, havo left. Alexandria to search for the missing plane-Reuter.
TWELVE MISSING
London, Jan. 1. The Admiralty, disclosed that nine passengers, whero names are to now not positively known, and three mom», bers of the crow, are missing. Tho
STUDENTS WON'T PASLEY
OPTIMISTIC FORECASTS FOR 1936
BRITISH TRADE ON STEADY RISE
HOME BUSINESS BOOMING
Reject Condralissimo's newspapers draw attention to the
The
Invitation
Peiping, Jan. 1. Pelping Students" Union has decided to rejecct General Chiang Kai-shek's invitation to the student bodies to send delegates for a conference at Nanking.
The Union passed a solution to continue the strike and to organise a mass pilgrimage of students to Nanking, to proceed in three groups? by three routes, stir- ring up all the students en- countered.-Reuter.
•
re:
London," Dea. B1. Optimism is the keynote of mall) forecasts for business in 1936. The
fact that there: aro... now, : 1,000,000 more; insured persons working and 1,034,000 fewer unemployed than three years
sgo.
-Captain Euan Wallace, Secretary of the. Oversens Trade Department, points out that United Kingdom ex- ports for the first eleven months of 1036 were £20,000,000 more than in 1934. This is an increase of over eight per cent compared with an increase for the rest o
of the world of ander two, per vent.
New capital invested in United Kingdom enterprises are 05 per cent. moro than in 1934, snið. Captain Euan Wallace.
Retail sales, rising monthly through-|
BRITISH EMPIRE HONOURS LIST
RECOGNITION GIVEN NATION'S SERVANTS
TWO NEW VISCOUNTS AND FOUR PEERS CREATED
London, Jan, 1.
There are two Viscounts, and four new Peers in the New. Year's honours List. Lord Hanworth, lately Master of Rolls, and Lord Trenchard, who has just retired from being Commis sioner of the Metropolitan Police, become Viscounts, and Sir Arthur Shirley Benn, Sir James Gomer Berry, Sir Thomas Catto and Sir Ian MacPherson receive Baronetcles. The lust- named is Member of Parliament for Ross and Cromarty and had already announced his intention to retire from the House of Commons. The name of the Dominions Secretary, Mr. Mal- colm MacDonald, has been mentioned in connection with the by-election thus necessitated.
In the general lionours list, 34 Knighthoods are conferred. New Knights include four Members of Parliament and also a number of distinguished workers in academic and cultural fields. Among the latter are the Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool University, Dr. Hetherington: Professor Harden, Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the London University; Professor Percy Buck, Professor of Music in the London University, who has been Musical Advisor to the London Counter Cornel Humphrey Milford, of the fak fessor Alfred Zimma Director General of C
HONGKO
DOCTO HONOU
out the year, showed seven per cent. DR. R. MCL. Increase in November, justifying the
AND DR. W
hopes
that saturation point in the home.market is still far from being
the record of the war
year, 1917. SHIPPING OUTLOOK
MOOR
LONG SER,
IN COLONY
PERSONALSCHENKGUYANESE Jusinovics | reached.
engineer,
All reports agree that steel. Band: Amar the telo booming. The Daily Telegraph graplist, Baker, and the steward, forecasts that 1936 production will Richardson, and all among the mins reach 2,850,000 tons, exceeding even
The City of Khartoum-was on her way to
to India when tho crashed in the sea and sank at 7.16 p.m. yesterday a
Lloyd's roview anys shipping for mile and a half from the entrance of the year ends on a note of optimism ure in the Now Year Honour King Edward Two well-known, local resident Order is adm harbour. Destroyers, tugs and ships boats not discernible for many year The List Dr. W. B. A. Moore, Deputy ferred only on eperin, searched all night long and aircraft prime factor was the British Shipping Director of Medical and Sanitary in held only by persons or Joined the hunt at daylight, but the Assistance Act, which demonstrated Services, being sindo an Oficer of tinction, the holders, including pilot, Captain Wilson, was the only that Britain was still supremo the Order of the British Empire Archbishop of Canterbury : and, the
when dealing with maritime (Civil Division), and Dr. R. McLean Earl of Derby,
Alexandria
person found.
Tho pilot's report, together with the fact that no wreckage can be found, (Continued on Page 7.)
DOLLAR MAY BE LOWERED
H.K. RATE SLUMPS SUDDENLY
오
CHINA GIVES ADVICE
Rumours persist in the Colony that representations have been made on behalf of the Chinese Government with a view to
while powerful searchlights on hill-annual mesango to Congress person take some action Hongkong to |
The unusual hour has cathik.
EUROPEANS ENRAGED
Reuter,
...
European realdents at the chief hotel here were so inceared at hear
́BERIOUS LOSSES
Addis Ababa, Jan. 1. It is reported here that 23 Italian not at present
Tho
NIGSBRZO
bestow
The tonnage of new ships Gibson, formerly Superintendent of In 1936, not including naval the Alice Memorial and Affiliated orders, is expected to reach 750,000 Hospitals, a Member of the same motions in the various Orders of Many appointments to and pro- tons, compared with 500,000 10718 in order.
Chivalry - are numoutcod. In the Both honours are richly deserved. Royal Victorian Onker, the Duke of Buccleuch, brothor of the Duchess of Gloucester, boconde a Knight Grand Cross.
expresses The Manchester Guardian moderate hopefulness regarding cot
'DR. MOORE, D.B.E. ton, but anys there are still too many
Dr. William Brownlow Ashe Moore, uncertain factors; also, spinners are LILC.P.I., L.R.G.S.I., L.M. (Rot.). alow to agree to regulate production D.T.M. and H. (Laindon) was born on
In the Onler of Michael and and pries levels. Lancashire engineer- August 8, 1879, at Nayan, Co. Meath, St. George, Sir Robert Clive, British ing prospects, however, appear to be Ireland, the Gan of J. H. Moore, Ambassador at Tokyo, becomes in bright-Router.
MA. A.L.M., of Dublin University, Knight Grand Crom, and Mr. Ronald Past President of the Institute of Campbell, Minister at Belgrade, and Civil Engineers, Ireland.
Hugh Hugeason,
Hauptmann Sleeps
AS NEGRO GOES TO "CHAIR"
(Special to "Telegraph");
Trenton, Jan. 1.
Dr. Sloose first arrived in Hongkong
In February, 1904, under agrement with, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and
Minister at Teheran, become engels
Commander.
In the Order of the British Empire." Ceripany Ltd., for one year as Sir Sydney Batton, British Minister ship's surgeon. In Mareli ofthe
following year, Dr. Moore joined the Addis Ababa, becomes a Knight Government service Az Assistant Grand Cross, and Mr. A. W. Keown Modical Officer of Health, super Boyd, Director-General of the Euro, of the Egyptian
six months was transferred from the Ministry
Sanitary to the Medical Department. Kniglit
confer A
[numerary for plerus duties,
and after
poan TIDA | Mósopotamia, during tlle second beecipients, including:
He was accondled the army in women March, 1917-and-pent two years in
Pankhurst, for ami political work for women,
potamian Expeditionary Force, bangs My
BUSTA,
Stating Cicial now.
vinjawaiting his fate in the death cells Hospita), doing duty later in Kowloon Dirtetor of the DIEN VASQUE CAR?
electric
which he held the appointment of who becomes Dame Commander af Another condemned man was draie Special Plaguó Officer to the Moso¬ the Order of the British Empire, and lower the rate god past Bruno Hauptman of the locni
Commander in the same Order for topa constantly swopt the countryally on Friday at 0.80 p.m. a wide. It is atnted. that Sir Froderick day on the way to the electric chaly attached to, the Central Laboratory, the Hess, who is madan Kia korvico to muster PhilipTM Chetwode" Ha was Romalno Johnson а повто epread anticipation that the message Leith-Ross, on the advice of Chiness murderer. Ho dio to-day in The After his return to Hongkong in
Field Marshal will contain something of major im-
cabled Mr. NE. Young, State Prison, where Hauptmann is 1918, Dr. Moore was for some time is appointed to the Order of Merit,in theroof can- portance, but the
Treasury
cells in charge of the Government Civil Mr.JF Marshal}, " Jonorary ing of the bombing of the Swedish Red officers have been slain in heavy fight
that China was broadcasted Crear unit by Italian piance that they ing on the northern front during the throughout the nation and one of the low level uniors Hongkong took stops chair during Hauptmann's incarcera is profound, knowledge of local the British Empire, while in Ethes
to keep its dollar down to was the eixth murder and at the Victoria."
#tho, Inst #walk
Inst mile to the
trol Institute atlayling Island, la Hospital. His wide
and made a Commander of the Oriter of demonstrated by broniding bottles of
reasons for the lateness of 18 do to bring the Hongkong dollar down tion. Hauptmann, however, paid ho Chianti and vermouth and other past several days.
The forces of Ras Kassa, Ras Soy livery is believed to be an ination nearer to the Shanghal rate: Reports hood and Johnson passed. Els deer, be editions made him pre-eminently Green, Tady Sonaritchfoirt off Italian winen and liquors, and even
are also current that local bankers ing either asicopr pretending roatened to wreck the proprietor's cum and as plu Gusga are stated of reaching as large an audit ons
for appointment. to
Alxandra's Military Nursing. Srvice to be converging on
on Mukalo,
possible.-Reuter,
have conferred with Mr. Young and also the first four condemnet opremented the Hongkong, Govern Grose in recognlion of kentonal
on vacation Dr. Moore for India, receive the Roy Italian-made motor car. Router) *** -In their
the Colonial Treasurer on the advance they have been
the sub Special
CONGRESS AGREES opposed by stubborn defence and both OFFICIAL IGNORANCES aldes have affered heary casualties.
Washington, Doc. 31:
at 1s to them to pray to God. But heddine hold in Calcatta,
Eastern Association of.. Tropical A Rome communique, unusually
this morning, decline of 1/8th paid no attention to the last two
AiAimbly uniounce Rome, Jan. 1. brist, states that nothing of import tativo leading have agreed to rodalve over the last rate. The business Hauptmann plan for merey will
Dr. Moore has held several lapork that the Dass or York Omcials to day professed complete ance has occurred on the Eritrean, President Roosevelt annual racssage raid, however, alumped during the be considered at a dossion of the art medical posts and has acted as promoted Vier Adráival in ignorance of the bombing of the Somaliland de Makale fronts. Reuter, at a joint sessiya pinting at 9 pm. course of the morning, as low a rate Court of Pardons this week or early. Director of Medical and Bankary. The Disks if Le promot
(Continued on Page 7.)
(Continued on Pago 7.)- Ovlon Filday---United PresA,:
:::, as 18. 3d., being recorded.
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Mies (continued on
When
The Senate and House of Represented sougkong dollar opened mon pabaod his cell, Hauptraann criod munt at the 7th Congress of the. Far devolve Pequenin, mursing
host, work-Reuter Special.