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二號一卅月三类港香
TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1986.
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BRITAIN CONDEMNS USE OF GAS
NO HELP ITALIAN LAPSE Night Attacks Check Italians
NEAR SINKING
VESSEL
No Response To Call for Aid
OUTBOUND FROM H.K.
Since 4.45 n.m. to-day the Pei Tientsin-registered steamer An, bound from Hongkong to Fort Redon, has been calling for immediate assistance from a post- tion approximately 420 miles from this port. She reports herself in need of immediate ald.
here It is learned
thint Naval uuthorities have been endeavouring t locate vessels in the vicinity of the Pel An in order to check on possible PARERE Jovements. But thus far no ship bas answered the distress signals) and, as lar na local authorities are aware, no vessel is going to her help.
The vessel carries a crew, of Japan-j so, her master boing Captain Yumaski. Her tonnage is 2,000. It is not known how many passengers. she carries, although when she nrrived here from Port Arthur, via Talngtau, who had five travellers aboard. She cleared from Hongkong on March 25, She is under charter to the M.B.K.
Manila Report
Manila, Mar. 31. The Chinese steamer Pei An, ashore on Eaklong Island, 20:08 degrees North and 107.43 degrees East, sent | -out-an-803-morsage thik... morning, stating she was sinking and wanting help immediately.Reuter.
ALLEGED
LORD CECIL ASKS
FOR ACTION
GOVERNMENT WAITS FOR
LEAGUE REPORT
(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")
(By_Telegraph, Copyright, Telegraphic Messager 1804. Received, Mar. 31, 8 a.m.)
Ordinance.
London, March 30.
The allegations that the Italian troops invading Ethiopia were using poison gas in fighting the natives were drawn to the attention of the House of Lords to- day, Lord Cecil asking what steps the Government pro- posed to take if the charges were proved true.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, supporting 'Lord Cecil in a demand for action of some sort, drew atten- tion to the effect the use of poison gas would have upon other races in Africa, who were carefully watching the conduct of both sides in the Italo-Ethiopian war.
Viscount Coeil, who is asking for action to be taken as a result of the report that the Italiane are using pelaan pas în Ethiopia.
DOUBLING SWEDISH AIR FORCE
SWISS VOTE BIG DEFENCE BILL
Lord Halifax, replying for the Government, said he only wished he could give assurance that the reports were unfounded. But he had only meagre information. He agreed with everything that had been said, he declared, with regard to the gravity of the reports, including the viewpoint that there would be inevitable repercussions upon the whole of the relations between rols for the reinforcement white and coloured races if the Italians
were using poison gas in Ethiopia.
Referred To Italy
Lord Halifax pointed out that the Cannot Send Help
Committed of Thirteen of the League of Nations, which was really steering Hongkong is unable to despatch # that body in the matter of the Italo- warship to the aid of the distressed Ethiopian dispute, had referred the complaint Pél An, it is explained, because to Ethiopian Government's reach hier it would be necessary to about the use of poison gas to the run through the dangorous Hainant Italian Government.
If the reports were true it would Strait at night. A destroyer leaving hore this morning could not reach be for the Committes to recommend
action. the Strait until to-night.
The British. Giovernment, he added, The Naval authorities learn that could only act collectively with other the wireless station at Seletor has Goverunicats members of the League, been repealing the Pel An's distrean but if the reports about the use of signals since before & a.m. to-day gas were true it would be the duty without getting a single reply.
No Further Word
and desire of the British Government that the country should be represent- ed on the League body before which the
There matter might come.
The_Pel An's 8.0.8. was repeated. Britain would use her utmost efforts at 6.05 a.m., since when no word bas) to secure practical condemnation of 'been heard from her,
A great an outrage of civilisation.- Renter Special.
VICEROY MAY
- MEET GANDHI
PAPER SAYS "YES?” GOVERNMENT “NO.”
new
New Delhi, March 30.
Public Shocked
London, March 30.
from newspapers
Reports in Abyssinia of bombing of Harrar reputed open and undefended town from Italian neroplanes, and of the Italian use of mustard gas have pro- foundly shocked public opiniou.
1x
BRITAIN LOSES AIR COMMERCE
SUSTAINS BLOW TO PRESTIGE
EMPIRE LINES ATTACKED
London, Mar. 30.
The British Empire's air services were criticised in the House of Com-1 mons to-day on the second reading of the Air Navigation Bill, moved by Sir Philip Sassoon, Under-Secretary for Air. This bill, among other thin provides for increased subsidies t civil air transport.
At present the Government subsidy is £1,000,000 annually. The Bill pro pones that this be Increased to
1,500,000 as from December 31, 1940,
(Special to "Telegraph") ·
Stockholm, Mar. 30. The Government has presented pro-
and modernisation of national defences.
The annual Air Force grant is in- creased, from 11,000,000 crowns to twenty-one millions, and a floot of leht bombers and medium bombers will be established.
HARD FIGHTING
IN SOUTH
ATTACKS IN NORTH UNRESISTED
BADOGLIO PRAISES HIS BADOGLIO
MEN'S ENDURANCE
Addis Ababa, Mar. 30.
There is heavy fighting south of Daggah- bur between General Graziani's advance guards and Ras Nassibou's outposts and casualties have mounted on both sides until they have reached the numbers of a major engagement. Over 1,000 have been killed or wounded on both sides.
Fighting has been in progress for many days. But it was during the last two days that the Italians brought heavy pressure to bear. They pressed forward twenty-five miles to
a
Richard Bruno Hauptmann, who, untose a last-minute reprieve is granted, will be electrocuted at 8 o'clock to-night (New Jersey time) for the murder of the Lindbergh baby.
Clemency
Appeal Refused
point near Warandab, but Ethiopian night Hauptmann
attacks forced them to retreat to their former positions-Reuter.
Badoglio Reports
Reme, Mar. 30.
In the course of an unusually long report Marshal Pietro Badoglio, the Italian Commander-in-Chief in East with Eritrean, yesterday occupied Africa, states that white troops,
The Navy will be maintained at full strength, existing capital ships will be modernised, and now destroyers and submarines will be constructed,
The Army is to be provided with mosh and machine-guns.barcen, capital of Wogura district.
Reuter Special.
SWISS ESTIMATES'.
and an important market town of northern Ethiopia. Berne, Mar. 30.
After negotiating an almost in- The Federal Council has approved Journey accompanied by incredible accesable pass, the Lemalemo, a in principis estimates totaling 23 difficulties, the troops swept down 000,000 Swiss franes, submitteil the Military Department for national defence. Rester Special.
SAYS FRENCH FINANCES IN GOOD STATE
by
NO DEVALUATION AND
the
upon the town.
an
The Third Army Corps moved from Fenaros and marched along the rivers Samre and Tzellare, until it came to Sakota, which it occupied yester day after
extremely difficult march. Sakota, ays the report, will a subsequent advance Into the Wag region, of which is town is the capital, and an important contre of roads leading to, Desiye, Addis Ababa and Lake Tsana.
FAMOUS SINGER PASSES
CONCHITA SUPERVIA DEAD IN LONDON
BLOOMED IN OPERA
London, Mar. 30.
Will Die To-Day
New York, Mar. 80.
.. The Court of Pardons to-day- rejected the appeal of Richard Bruno Hauptmann, condemned as the kidnapper and murderer of the Lindbergh baby. Haupt- mann's last hope of succour from the Courts of the land vanished when this august body refused his plea for clemency after considering the case for six hours.
"
Hauptmann's only remaining hope The death has occurred of the is Governor Harold Hoffman of New not coloratura contralto singor. Jersey. From him, at the last min- Conchito Supervia, in a London ate, may como a reprieve. nursing home, after giving birth to But as far an, the Inw is concerned. a stillborn child. Rester Special. Hauptmann; is doomed. Ho dies to-
Conchita Supervin was born in morrow at 8 pm-Reuter. Spain and when quite a
young girl was distinguished among students of singing by the remarkable range of her voica and the ease with which
да
AWAITS HIS SUMMONS
the
Trenton, Mar. 80.
Praises Troops Marshal Dadoglio specially praises she rendered both notes and rhythm. Bruno Hauptmano, awaiting the NO EMBARGO
the 4,000 soldiers who, besides carry. As she developed, the showed also the Ward's suns to the death cham- ing their arms and equipment, bore gifts of an actress and soon achieved bor to-morrow night, alone in his cell. The feeling which has been aroused
sixty tons of food supplies on their successen in opora. Going to Milan, will not be the only man to die in the apparent in the correspondence
Paris, Mar. 30. shoulders, travelling twenty-five miles she was welcomed by that highly prison here to-morrow. In another cell columns of the newspapers and found the subsidy to remain at this level Finance Minister, besides denying
Mr. Marcel Regnier, the French in the day.
critical musical contro as a most in the same corridor, close to the room expression to-day in both Houses of until December 31, 1953.
promising probationer for the opers them, Charlos Zied, a gangster, also in which the electric, chair awaite An Interview, has been arranged | Pürliament.
rumour that the Government brief reference to thirty aeroplanes of
The Marshal's communique makes tie stage. between the Marquis of Linlithgow,}
In the Lords, a debate on the sub-moving rejection of the Bill, declared now denied the intention of imposing bombed Harrar yesterday.
Lieut. Col. J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, Intends to consider devaluation, has the Somaliland Air Force which wards achieved triumphs, it being de-dimmed; and the condemned men know
In Paris and Brussels abo after walls in dread. the
Viceroy, and Mahatma Ject was raised by Lord Cecil and the Empire civil aviation service was forced conversion of rentes or an
prison lights suddenly clared that her remarkable voice was Gandhi when the former reaches in the Commons questions were "nothing to write homo about," Mrs. embargo on gold exports. india, stated the Hindustan Times in addressed to the Foreign Secretary. Mavis Tate, soconding the rejection,
Ho says these attackere hit mili- almost alone in being able to sing what that meant. The prison officials Its issue of Sunday.
reply, Mr. Eden referred to the pointed out that Australia Intended which Jusufy, the maintenance of In
Enumeraihig "the, comforting facts tary and other well-known objectives some of Rossini's music
with visible effect. Reuter.
| originally intended it to be sung. Sho power utile electric chair. The.
he were testing This report however, has been official protests addressed by the to take over the aor ice from Singa- French credit" M. Regnier said the
pass the necessary officially denied, it being stated that Ethiopian Government to the League pore to Sydney, at present operated budget had been rendered
was first heard in England in March, current through it dims the lighte 1030, when she sang with sensational in prison
and tow no interview has been arranged on and to the British Government, as a by British planes,
with American healthy by substantial economics.
success at a concert, the Instructions of Lord Halifax, with signatory of Hague Convention No. 4. machines. Pan-American
chiefly of Arrangements have been made with Airways The
Spanish music, broadenat from the an undertaker to remove the gangs or without the consent of the Prime of October 18, 1907, and of the was going to run a service to Aus-francs expenditure had not disturbed recent vota of 200,000,000
Queen's Hall, London. Geneva Protocol of July 17, 1923, and traila, ska declared.
ter's body. But no-one has been asked Minister. Reuter's Bulletin Service.
sinted that he understood, in con
the balance,
to attend to Hauptmann's. His wife, He went on enumerating, praising Leamie Committee of Thirteen on that we run a service from Singapore, most formidable gold reserves in the In China and the Far East generally March 23, with which the British to Hongkong and to Shanghai.. But world and pointing to the fact that complaints had been passed on to the junction with the Doutncho-Lufthansa, to recovery, particularly in the Italian Government with a reminder are capturing the trade there." nt the provisions of the. Geneva
direction of transportation. There Protocol.
EXPECTANCY OF LIFE
ONLY 23 YEARS IN
INDIA
+
more
farmity with the decision at the "It is imporative for our interests afin punctual treasury, one of the
S.S. Queen Mary
representative was associated, the the Pan-American Airways, in con economie netivity was on the road Logs 29 Knots
Against Humanity
It is believo, said Mrs. Tate, that had been an increased business AND STILL HAS MUCH the latter, a German line, intends to turn-over and a rise in price and extend its servies from China to India, volume of agricultural products. Wanata quce, and thence to Reuter. Europe-Router,
SOFIA COUP. SEQUEL
Sofia, Mar. 30.
RESERVE POWER
-- HUGE SUCCESS
In her rendering of the Rondo from Anna, is expected to make a last vinit Rossini's "La Cenerentola", in "Una to him this afternoon. Vono poco fn" and in the cavatins been notified that two tasks await The executioner, Robert Elliot, han. from the "Barber of Seville", 'a third or so lower than
him to-night-United Press. usual, she Dave her British audience something del'ghtfully now,
London, giving a recital at the Albert In April, 1931, she re-appeare-l In Hall with great success. Always ons of the best dressed singers, she wore a sucression of Spanish costumes. In kean'ne with various regional airs
Nov.
DRILL FOR OIL IN ENGLAND
WELL WILL BE MILE DEEP
In the House of Lords this evening, London, Mar. 30. Viscount Cecll called attention; to the Dr. Somerskill, public health ex-allegations of the use of poison gas
WOULD END PACT pert, addressing the India League in by the Italian forces in Abyssinia. London, said that the expectancy of and asked whether the Government fo in India was 20 years, compared had information if these charger of
Now Del Mar. 80. with 55 In England.
the breach by the Italian Government
The Legislative Assembly has pass of *He added that 80 per cent of the wall founded, and. If so, what steps Interior. and M. Kalenderoll have aging the Government to the Ottawa
Colonel Koler, former Minister of ed a resolution, by 70 votes to yet another. treaty obligation were
Adrenard, whillohettant they proposed to lako.sk - hann gantanovel to death for compleite of its desira to tórminate the Ottawa had plenty of power in reserve," and whəyin.. In March.: 1991;"' aha mund town, near Portimositík
population were under-nourished or mortality rate le 280 per thousaid, the method used in Abyssinian war been recommanded to meray-Reuter reduced the art
The Archbishop of Canterbury said in the coup d'ernt last April, but have agreement. The emotion was
(Continued, on Pops 5) Special
'Reuter a Bulletin Services
commoth ag fn. Britain'-- Bouter.a. Bullatín Service.
Southampton, March 30, It is officially revealed that the new which he rendered charmingly. Her FIRST Cunard-White Star liner Queen traditional Spanish costumes, spécial Mary, on her voyage from the Clyde v designed for her, were insured for to. Southampton, attained a speed of many thousand pounds. In 23 knots
1000 she was chosen be the director This speed was
London, March 30,
ition of the engines, but the liner The winter was married to a Ansnierd machinery on the slopes of Port- a short timp, owing to the new colt annening under now management of the Secretary for Mines started of Opera Comique, Paris, to take Drilling for all in England opened only
maintained for
the role of Carmen at the theatre's today, when Mrs. Crookshank, wife
much reater speed when fully ex Rubenstein, a wealthy Londen timber peetod to be int is expected that she will attein Littlehampton, England Pon
tended Reuters, Bulletin Service
merchant.
The feat hole to be rilled in ex