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Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUNDED 1881
No. 14734
五拜禮 SALT FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1936.
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DUNLOP
TYRES
make every road
a SAFER road
ETHIOPIANS STRIKE AT
AT MAKALE
ITALIAN LINES DRIVEN BACK
AIR RAIDERS LOSE TWO PLANES
ADDIS ABABA DENIES MURDER OF AIRMAN
Addis Ababa, Jan. 2.
The Italian outposts are reported to have been withdrawn from the south-east, south and south-west of Makale, in face of the threatening advance of Ras Moulou Gheta,
Ras Moulou Gheta has been steadily pressing towards Makale from the south-east, at the head of an army of picked men, including part of the Imperial Guard, the finest troops in Ethiopia.
H
It is understood Ras Moulou Gheta will be re-inforced by another 12,000 warriors, commanded by Firturari Germa, the cousin of the Emperor Haile Selassie and an able strategist, trained in, a more modern school than the majority of the Ethiopian commanders. "
Further mobilisation is occurring in Addis Ababa, and every able-bodied man not under arms is required to show. -cause for this neglect of duty-Reuter,
CONTINUED BOMBINGS
Addis Ababa, Jan. 2.*
The recent activity of the Italian air anm at the front is regarded as anj indication that the invading forces are about to launch a new offensive on the southern Ethiopian Enes.
Dagrahbur WIT again heavily bombed to-day by four machines, but it in minted that there were to casualties-Renter Bulletin Service.
TWO PLANES DOWNED
Desstye, Jan. 2. Two Italian coroplanes were shot down yesterday and to-day, according to oficial despatches.
In the first case Ethiopian marks men, using only their rifles, brought down a machine near Makale. Both socupants of the aircraft were killed in the crash. The riflemen were re- warded with the gift of one
of the plane's machine-guna...
The other Ethiopian success was the village of Kabtla, where two planes, flying low, machine gunned the papulation. Troops and house-holders returned the fire and one of the planes crushed. Its two occupants were killed.-Renter
achieved, at
AN, ODIOUS LIE"
-Addis Ababa, Jan. 2.
REPRISALS AGAINST ITALY?
SWEDISH CLAMOUR FOR ACTION
NEW, RED CROSS UNITS URGED
Rome, Jan. 2. Italian newspapers to-day express ed unticipation of "outside indigna- en" at the bombing of the Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopla
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and his son. Malcolm, are shown talking over their defeat in the General Election at their home in Hampstead. The former is now standing for the Scottish Universitiva, and his son for Ross. ond Cromarty, where the Conservative Association has refused to support his candidature.
SERIOUS FRENCH FLOODS
FIVE KILLED IN LANDSLIDE
VILLAGES ISOLATED
(Special to "Telegraph")
NO TRACE OF LOST STEAMER
PLANES FAIL TO FIND PARINGA
LOST, WITH ALL HANDS
London, Jan.-2---- Lloyds agents at Melbourne state hus that a search by alr and nea failed to find any traco of the 3.5. Paringa, which disappeared in a storm whilst towing the tanker, Vincas, from Adelaide to Japan on December 28.
The Paringa apparently foundered with all hands..
The two ships parted in a fierce storm, the Vincas drifting disabled, but finally came to anchor. It is
(Uy Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphie stea sages Ordinance. 1811. Heceived, January 1. I a.m.)
Paris, Jan. 2. Five
killed, persons have been buried alive, in a big landslide near The fall of land was caused by the Paris. heavy
avy rain of the past few days, They say that this will provide an which have chased serious floods in now reported that the Vincas is lying
well A unprecedented opportunity to the many parts of France, as
reported to enemies of Italy who will redoublo England.
Several villages are. their anti-Italian propaganda.
The papera claim that the Swedish have been isolated by the floods, olcers wounded were not ambulance following the rise of rivers. Many
impassable. men or doctors, but belonged to the roads Swedish military mission which in
fighting forces
ал
Grave anxiety is felt at the steady!
which has overflowed the road at
"An odious fle, designed to cover an actually actively engaged in aiding / rise of the; the river has been i
act of veritable piracy," the Ethiopian Government's description the Ethiopian
of the Italian allegation, made yester day, that Ethiopian soldiers had- decapitated two captured Italian air.
men.
Router.
While, the
exceptional at Paris, experts believe that the situation is under control. Reuter Special.
REPRISAL THREAT
Stockholm, Jan. 2.
DARK OUTLOOK The anger aroused by the bombing
London, Jan. 2. Meanwhile the International Red
of the Swedish ambulance unit has the Italian
The forecast of continued heavy :Oro has requested
48 hours,
gives milltary authorities to order Italian led to the Swedish Red Cross Society planes not to attack two Ethiopian being urged not only, to replace the rain for the next machines which are leaving for Ras unit destroyed, but also to despatch cause for fear that the prosent exten- Southern half of England may become Desta's headquarters to-morrow to hundreds of doctors and nurses to sive flooding in many districts of the bring in two wounded Swedish doctors Ethiopia na'a reprisal.
Young Swedes in all parts of the oven more sericus. An increasing Reuter
country have offered their services number of roads are impassable and and it is regarded as certain that the hundreds of square miles of land are unit will be replaced at the earliest inundated. possible moment.
Total rainfall for the last 10 days A Rod Cross
communiquo states is 2.03 inches, while the standard that information shows that the ro- average for the whole
month of ult of the bombings were less serious January is only 2.21. than af first reported, although it does The Increase of rate of low of the
LOSS, CONFIRMED
Dessiye, Jan. 2. It is now officially confirmed that an
·Italian war plana crashed Wolkait and that the four occupants wore burned to death.
noar
A second plane has been shot down near Makale, while it was machine
gunning the inhabitants of the village of Kebbar United Press..
Roads Toll Reduced
BELISHA BEACONS BRING RELIEF
H.K. GOVERNMENT MAKES DENIAL
Rumours in..circulation yesterday to the effect that! Sir Frederick Leith-Ross had cabled Mr. N. E. Young stating that China was un- able to keep its doller down to a low level unless Hong-- kong took steps to bring the Hongkong dollar nearer to the Shanghal, rate, are, emphatically denied by the .It. Hongkong Government,
is officially stated that there is no truth whatever in the reports..
1 mile
an exposed position about not lessen the responsibility of the Thames yesterday was 1,300 million from the shore, and it is feared that perpetratora, Reuter. Bulletin Servo 300 million gallons. Front Mal-sho will be driven ashore and becom vier.
- ANOTHER THREAT.
Geneva, Jan. 2.
to 8,800
total wreck. The crew has been denhead down to Toddington there landed Router. was a general rise of about six inches in the river level and the flooding of
The Ethiopian Government, in a riverside towns has forced many
abandon their homen,
SPANISH CRISIS AT HAND
MOVE TO IMPEACH PRIME MINISTER
RIGHT FEARS COUP D'ETAT
Madrid, Jan. 2. Owing to the serious political irisen which have developments during the past few days, an attempt: being made to force the President re-open the Cortes, which has been suspended until January 31 and to Impeach the Prime Minister, together with his ministers.
to
WORLD SILVER
PARLEY?
PRICE AGREEMENT MAY BE
BE REACHED
REPORTED SALES BY CHINA CAUSE RUMOUR
Washington, January 2,
On the eve of the re-convening of Congress, the silver ques- tion has again come to the fore.
Two of the leading proponents of an increasing usage of. silver in world currencies to-day expressed the belief that a world silver conference is in the making, but the silver cham- pions disagreed as to the manner in which the American Treasury had carried out the Silver Purchasing Act.
Senator King declared that the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Henry Morgenthau had carried out the programme in good faith and, at the same time, he approved the idea of a silver parley between the silver-producing countries.
Senator Thomas, on the other hand, questions the. Treasury's enthusiasm in acquiring silver and expressed the. opinion that the conversation with the Mexican Treasury pos- sibly foreshadow a world meeting. He added: "We should line up Mexico, Canada, the South American silver countries, and later the Far East with a view to combatting the "managed currency bloc."
ABANDONS
...
Meanwhile, officials in Mexico City are silent regarding the Washingtoir discussions, but some financial experts predict a price agreement between the United States and Mexico.
HOPE FOR Reports from Shanghai to the effect REPRIEVE
that the Chinese Government had sold to, the American Treasury allver to the value of 7,800,000 ounds have aroused great interest here. It is hold that this is possibly an indication that a price agreement bag been
HAUPTMANN'S WIFE reached between China and America
TO LEAVE U.S.
NEW EVIDENCE AVAILABLE ?
New York, Jan. 2. Following the fight of Colonel and
MORGENTHAU CAUTIOUS
Washington, Jan. 2.4.
Mr. Henry Morgenthau, the Seerat- nry of the Treasury, to-day expressed! the belief that the current conforances: with Mexican officials would be bene ficial to countries using a silver cur reney.
"It is to the interest of silver producing countries to work together
This agitation has grown up on the sound that the Prime Minister's not reopening the Cortes action in andunts to a coup d'etat. The Op- Mrs. Charles Lindbergh to Europe,losely in this matter," he said. position fears a dictatorship.
Mrs. Bruno Hauptmann, wife of
of
the
the move to reopen the Cortes man condemned to die in the electric He went on to explain that the. successful, the President, chair for the murder of the Lindbergh present conferences with Mexico Sonor Niceto y Torres, may also face haby, has reserved steamship pas followed the programme established. a charge of violating the Constitution. anges for herself and three-year-old by President Roosevelt at the time of
The extreme light parties sent according to
are child on
ship bound for Germany, the passage of the Silver Purchase sensational story Act. He recalled that the President. obtain attempting to signatures of deputies to
published by the. Daily News Co-day, then said that the US. Government Cortes,
had taken the initiative in inaugurat- for
the convocation
The passages are sald to have boen ing talks with neighbouring states on but the manoeuvre seems unlikely to
Mexico was the succeed at present strice the Prime booked in lctitious numes and name monetary policies. Minister is prepared, if the required of the vessel and its sailing date have amount of signatures are obtained, not been revealed. But a cash deposit to issue immediately a decree dissolvon the ticketa has already been paid,
the paper asserts. .. ing the Cortos. Thus he would save off the blow, at least temporarily Reuter.
Plane Crash Mystery
· AIR· LINER'S. LOSS NOT EXPLAINED
noto to the League of Nations, has residents to have to approachlannd and a prediction that the long to examined.
first to be called in for discussion.
Mr. Morgenthau indicated that the. Moxloan conferences might be follow- - ed by similar discussions with other
The paper adds that Mrs. Haupt-countries. mann, has apparently given up all hope for her husband and intends to nail after the execution, probably take ing her husband's body with her.
The Daily Mirror states "that in vitations to a privileged fow to wit- ness Hauptman's execution havo al- ready bocn distributed and bear the date of January-14
The New Jorney Court of Pardons meets carly hex wook to decide Kauptmann's fate.
Meanwhile, the defence lawyers In- Alexandria, Jan. 2.
timate that they are producing at this The cause of the wreck of the City session an actual photograph of "the Khartoum has not yet been real murderer." But Hauptmann's PREDICTED TROUBLE
established, and cannot be until the only hope appears to be for commuta Some hint of the trouble to come, wreckage of the machine has been tion of his sentence to one of life in
prisonment in exchange for "a full and threatened as a reprisal against the
While othors
The Journey from Crete to Alexand frank confession naming his accom would prove a difficult ono, is con Italian bombing of the Swedish Red leave by boat. Cross, unit, the seizure of privato
The brides Wiltshire, which was
Western tained in a letter from Mr Stephenris, on which the big flying boat was plicus," which ins been virtually pro over the Great Western
Choeber Southam dated October 23 to bound at the time of her loss, la of mised him by Governor Hoffman of of Italian nationals in main line
New Jamey-Reuter, property
the ordinary way Ethiopia. The saizure will be made déclared dangerous, yesterday, is still Mr. W. E. Kirby, Secretary of the 300 miles and in if the alleged acts of viniation of insteadily subsiding and its collapse is China Coast Officers Guild occupies four hours. bornational law by Italy continue, it now imminent. Both road and rall Mr. Sontham, who was Cidef Officer The machine was one hour and forty
DOLLAR AGAIN is stated.--Reuter Bulletin Service. traffle are affected-British Wireless on the last Parings states In his minutes late when the Alexandria
letter that he has been particularly flying fold received her wireless well cared for by the agents In Aus port tralia, but the tow, he predicted, would provo a difficult and
DENY GAS USED
Home Jan. 2. London, Jan. 2.
1: Thờ_report_ that the Italian troops Belisha Beacons round about one-have used poison gas in East Africa way streets the thirty-milo-an-hour spood limit in built-up areas, and have been denied by official sources other road trafic regulations bore here-Router Bulletin Service. fruit in a reduced cr
casualty rollin
OFFICIAL LOSSES
named. Swedish national,
Following the bombing, the aviators repeatedly returned and machine- gunned the unit-United Press.
PRECAUTIONS TAKEN
bafore
accident..
since the Im two year Always
suffered nuch a serious
DECLINES
DOWN A FARTHING TO-DAY
Asked specifically whether Peru: and Canada would be invited to con- fer at a later date, Mr. Morgenthau answered: "One at a time. I cannot any more now."-- Router.
FREEDOM FOR MME. STAVISKY
LONG TRIAL NEAR ITS END
Special to
Telegraph")
The protracted Stavisky trial) coming to a close.
To-day, the Pubilo Prodcutor asked Potent The last bad crash was in
the Court to pass sentence of from The Vincas, according to the letter,
twelve to fifteen months preventive detention in the case of Madame was badly covered with shell and wood Belgium, when ten people lost their and, having been a petrol stare for lives. On that cocasion the plane
Staviaky. The sentando would be three years, was gas filed. Only Mr. was flying through a sovero storm
purely nominal, as she has already Stockholm, Jan. 2. Twenty-five policomen aru patroli fence, with tankers,
Southam had had any previous exper Router Bulletin Service,
The Hongkong dollar again declined undergone this serm, pending trial/a:/a together, 0,521 wore killed and
Addis Ababa, Jan. 2.
Ing the Italian Logatioh..
this morning, the Bank's official rate Madame Stavleky hid her Yasin The Vincas was overhauled and
AUSTRALIAN LOAN AGA
being 1. 3d, which is a drop of s her hand as the Prosscutor said she 210,000 Injured laat year, compared It is officially announced that, the “A crowd angrily greeted the Italian cleaned before she left Western: Port
farthing on yesterday's rate. Wykshould understand that, having riar. with 2,340 and 232,000 respectively bombing by Italian war plands of the Minister, Marchese Paterno Dinishichi state the Far East Shipping, Com
·Lothlon, Jan. 2.
Brook intodern ried the Biggost Swedish Red Cross melon, in Ethio- with ender of "Down with Mult
patty, however.
The Chancellor of the Bioquor The interbank rates were is and inse she should lapse intoller The inber of killed is the lowest is rosulted in the death of thirty Wa damalsatisfection since 1928, aut the number of injured | Ethiopian patients, orderlies and male Kir
Gustav has telegraphed Aboard the Parings were three hun agroad to the immediate sue of nollers and le, 8.7/13d, buyers. The and oblivion. She was a good man In 80,000 kap. Lendongures show nurses and the wounding of fity: the Prince Charice regarding the bomb British Officers and a Chinese, while stock by the Commonwealth of Aus market is very quiet, but steadied up and necessary to her two chikha
on the Vindas, the 4,006 ton tanker tralia for refunding purgisnomewhat after being, easy on open, therefore should not return-
Reuter Special" that 862% fewer were killed in 1935 wounding of the unit's commander, ing, saying: "I am deeply shocked.
(Continued on Page 7.) British Wiréless. then, in 1994, Router" Spéolat.- Dr. Frind Hylator and another un- United Press,