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FOUNDED 1881
No. 11805
三拜雞 號八月四英沿香
WEDNESDAY, APRIL
8, 1936.
日七十月三
BINGLE COPY 10 CENTS $59.00 PER ANNUM
DUNLOP 90
MASTER
CARNAGE AMONG ETHIOPIANS
FEAR FOR FATE Philippines
OF EMPEROR
ITALIANS MARCH ON ROAD OF DEATH
CROWN PRINCE HUNTING MISSING FATHER
Rome, April 7.
"Where is the Negus?" is the question observers along the northern front are asking to-day.
It is presumed that he abandoned his motor car, which Italian troops have found, because he feared it would attract the attention of bombing planes, and that he travelled southwards towards Dessiye, after his defeat at Lake Ashangi on mule-back.
The Crown Prince is moving out of Dessiye with 2,000 men to find and protect his father, the Emperor.
It is asserted here that protection is very necessary owing to the danger from armed brigands who are said to be killing and plundering the routed troops of the Negus. The bodies of the proud regiments of Imperial Guards, torn by bombs or smashed by machine-gun fire from the air, strew the route from Quoram south to such an extent that advancing Italian columns have to tell off burial parties to clear the way.
South of Quoram the Italians are advancing in two columns, one along the Imperial Way to Destiye and tho other towards Magdala.
It is claimed that Ethiopian terrl- tory, half the size of Great Britain, is now in Italian hands.-Reuter.
Steady Advance
Rome, Apr. 7. According to communique from Marshal Pietro Badoglio, the Inst Ethioplan rearguards, fighting a pro- longed action against the pursuing Italians after the battle about Lake Ashangi, were dispersed yesterday in series of skirmishes.-Reuter
П
Bulletin Service.
Rallies Nation
Addis Ababa, Apr. 7. The Government has issued a pro. clamation calling to the colours all Ethiopians capable of bearing arms or doing any military service.
The proclamation was issued from the palace here this afternoon.- Reuter Bulletin Service.
British Resentment
Paris, Apr. 7.
Great Britain has advised France that she takes a most serious view of
DEFENCE PLANS SHAPED
HOW GERMAN ATTACK WOULD BE MET
THREE-POWER AIR FORCE
(Special To "Telegraph") rüy Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphie Mrasora Orduance. 1394. · Neretved April
London, Apr. 7. Great Britain, France and Belgium have completed a plan for mutual aid by air, sea and land forces in the event? of an attack by Germany, it was re-
Rumoured
Threats Against Minister
Big Investments
At Stake
FEELING MAY RUN HIGH
Manila, Apr. 8.
It is rumoured from Davao Bay that threats have been made against the life of the ture and Commerce in view of Philippines Secretary of Agricul- his efforts to clear up the ques tion of land leases illegally held by Japanese hemp farmers in that district.
The Secretary of Commerce and Agriculture, accompanied by the Se
cretary of the Interior and the Secrs- tary of Justice left for Davao Bay yesterday to join the President, Seur
Quezon. officers government, together with the Japan ese Consul-Goneral from Manila and Japanese business
attempl nies, will to nettle a complicated situation.
Au order for the ejection of the Japanese homp growers was issued some time ago, but has not been act ed upon.
THREE SOLUTIONS
May Eject
Flood Menace
Now Graver
Rivers Overflow In Three States
Troops Patrol Storm
Centres of South
Atlanta, Apr. 7. Serious floods are now menacing the areas devas- tated by yesterday's terrible tornadoes.
Rivers in Georgia and North and South Carolinas have been dangerously swollen by twenty-four hours of ceaseless rains and have overflowed their banks in many places already.
The bodies of 454 persons, victims of yesterday's tornado have already been discovered and the worst is not yet known. Most of the dead were at Tupelo and Gainsville, Georgia.
It is estimated that 1,800 have been seriously injured and that another 20,000 are homeless.
Damage is estimated at $25,000,000.
The Red Cross headquarters at Washington has appealed on behalf of the victims of the disaster to the whole nation.
Troops are patrolling the streets of j the stricken towns and militiamen, convicts and relief workers aro labouring aide-by-side removing debris and restoring the water and electric
services.-Router.
Meanwhile, three solutions are bo ing discussed in official circles. The first is that the Government shouldlight purchase the lands held by the The second is Japanese.
that they allow the Japanese time to wind up their affairs and leave the Govern
Will Exceed 500
Washington, Apr. 7.
It is estimated that the death roll
ment to take control of their lands. in the tornado areas will exceed 500. The third, a denstle plan, is that the-Router Bulletin Sørvice. Japanese be ejected forthwith.
Japanese Investment in Davao Bay
Looting Breaks Out
Washington, Apr. 7.
have
are estimated at 30,000 pesos, but. the third sofation of the problem, in- It is learned that 206 lives modinte ejection, is the most likely been lost at Tupelo alone and that procedure. Japanese would be Gainesville suffered 162 deaths from allowed to cultivato the land until the tornadoes yesterday. their illegal leases expire, it is aug
Disease and looting has broken out gested, whereafter the Government in the storm-stricken communities. would assunto control and dispose of It is possibla eremation of all bodies their property as it thinks t
may be necessary as a health precau- During the interim, it is believed, tion-United Press. the Government will require part of the Income derived from the lands.
Reuter.
the bombing of the undefended towns vealed to-day in well-informed circles. SERVICES PLAN
of Ethiopin by Italian war planes, a reliable authority stated to-day. The bombing of Addis Ababa and Diredawn had aroused resentment in Britain, it was felt.
It was indicated that in the event of any German attack on France or Bel glum the three allied nations would send a gigantic air fleet over Germany) M. Pierre Flandin, the French to bomb railways and railway ter- Foreign Minister, is belleved to have minals, Industrial and military cen notified Italy of the effect of the Bri- tres, and most important airports. fish communication immediately. The idea would be to cripple Gor- It is feared here that the British | many's offensive strength and destroy attitude may make it more difeult to her air forces.
effect a settlement of the Italo-Ethio-
as France desires.--United Press.
This reported agreement came to
MANOEUVRES
то
MILFORD-ON-SEA
BE LOCATION
London, Apr. 7. Combined manoeuvres by the Army
plan diapate by negotiation at Geneva, light as members of the three Powers and Navy are being arranged to take General Staffs prepared to meet hero place at Mord-en-Sea, according to next week. Ostensibly they are to an announcement made to-day in the start from the beginning: but actually, House of Commons by Mr. A. Duff- the staff officers will probably only Cooper, Secretary for. War. modernise a completed plan to take in the exercises between July and Air Force unita will also co-operato (Continued on Pago 4):
October.-Router,
Promise Renewed
London, Apr.
7.
The British Ambassador in Rome who yesterday saw the Italian Under- Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Signor Suvich, received an assurance that the Italian Government was mindful of undertakings previously given that the Italian Air Force would not bomb Addis Ababa and Diredawa.-British Wireless.
JAPANESE BOND CONVERSION
373,000,000 YEN IN MATURE SECURITIES
Tokyo, Apr. 8.
HAUPTMANN'S DEATH
ROUSES STORM
(SPECIAL TO “TELEGRAPH")
Trenton, Apr. 7. ̈
Declaring that he doubted whether Bruno Hauptmann, ex- ecuted for the murder of the Lindbergh baby, was oven, con- pected with the crime, Governor Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey to-day fired the first gun in a political war which has been expected over the world-famous case.
AUSTRIA
FEARS
ATTACK
Italy Promises Assistance
(Special to "Telegraph”) (Dy Telegraph, Copyright. Telegraphte
Atnanagan Ordinanon, 1494. Reocivad, Apeli
Vienna, April 7.
It is reliably learned that the Government has strengthened the Austrian frontier guards, giving as its reason the necessity for provention of the smuggling of arms from Germany across the border, which is increasing.
It is officially learned that Signor Benito Mussolini has proffered mill- lary, ald to Austria in the event of a Nazi Invasion.
11 KILLED IN AIR CRASH
(Special To "Telegraph")
Uniontown, Apr. 7. Nino passengerk and two pilots were killed near this Pennsylvania town in an aeroplane disaster to- day.
They were aboard a trans-con- tinental Western Airlines machine which plunged without warning. No reason for the disaster has yet been ascertained.
There were three survivora Reuter Special.
FLIERS "GRAVEYARD”
Japanese
JAPAN RESENTS TREATY
Soviet Absorbing Outer Mongolia?
CHINA URGED TO. ASSERT RIGHTS
Shanghai, Apr. 8.
The late Rear-Admiral A. J. B. The Soviet-Outer Mongolia kong, those death occurred yesterday Stirling, former Commodore in Hong- Pact, to which China has taken |strong exception, is deeply exercising the Japanese Govern- ment and Manchukuo.
A spokesman of the Foreign Office at Hsinking, the capital of Manchu kuo, describes the mutual assistance
paci, allegedly signed on March 12, as an act of brigandage, tantamount to the absorption of Oater Mongolia by the Soviet.
Meanwhile, the Japanese Cansul- General at Nanking, according to
Death Of
Admiral
Stirling
Japanese report, na urged upon FORMER COMMODORE General Chang Chun the necessity of
AT HONGKONG
fully asserting China's rights.
The Consul General declares that
Japan is closely watching the "altua-
tion.
NO SECRET PACT
London, Apr. 8. The death is announced of Admiral Ansalan J. B. Stirling, C.B., RN, formerly of the Naval Establishment, longkong-Reuter,
Admiral Ansalan John Buchanan
Stirling was born on June 27, 1876, re-
It is said that General Chang Chun assured the Japanese authorities that no secret Sino-Russian agreement existed, as is suspected in Tokyo.
This assertion, combined with the the son of Colonel J. S. Stirling, of Chinese protest to Russia over the Gragunnock, Stirlingshire, I reported treaty with Outer Mongolia, tirement took place on April 4, 1931.
Admiral Stirling had been in the is expected to mollify Japanese opin ion which had interpreted Nanking's silence hitherto as evidence of understanding.-Reuter.
TURKEY TO SCRAP TREATY
REPUDIATION OF LAUSANNE HINT
FOLLOWING GERMANY
Istanbul, Apr. 7. Bints that Turkey may repudiato! clauses of the Treaty of Lausanne the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, with regard to the demilitarisation of if it cannot achieve the same end by negotiation, are contained messago from Ankara,
This despatch
curity conditions of Europe, and
Navy since 1989, when he joined the Britannia as a cadet from the old Royal Naval School at Newcross. As a lieutenant of the Barfour, he was novorely wounded-in China-dur Ing the Boxer war.
In the Great War, he was in-command of Grand Fleet des troyers in the Shark, Faulknor, and Saumarez, and was commended for his service in action at Jutland and 'made C.B.
In 1918 he became Flag Captain and Chief of Staff in the Portsmouth Command, and in 1024-20 ho was Commodore in Charge at Hongkong, His last appointment was as Admiral- Superintendent at Chatham Dock- yard, fram December, 1927, which ha held until 1931,
HONGKONG "LIDO" POPULAR
Uniontown, Penn., Apr. 7. Eleven persons were instantly kill ed when a Western Airlino crashed into a hillside at Dalaney's Cave in a district mown to flying men sa "the Graveyard of the Alleg honics" owing to the many crushes in the deep ravines of this locality of the recent changes in the general BUT NO EXTENSION
1. There were three survivore, ono of
In
states that fa vlaw
them the wife of the Mayor of Bay in view of Germany's
Newark, Mr. Moyer Ellenstein. She and then Austria's repudiation of was injured.
the
military stipulations of the poaco The plane caught fire after it treaties, responsible Turkish circles crashed and rescuers who rushed to maintain that the remilitarisation of vital the spot fought with only the light the Dardanelles is of most from the flames to aid them extricate importance in Turkey's future the bodies from the wreckage. A existence.
raging blizzard added to their dilicul. It is added that despito Turkey's tics.
AT PRESENT.
COMPANY
MEETING
genuine desire to respect her engage That the Lido at Repulse Bay has Oficials of the line state that rements, so must use all the means at enjoyed considerable popularity and ports indicate the plane's radio was her disposal to achieve modification of has succeeded in filling a long-felt not functioning properly and this, the clauses governing the fortification want was stated by Mr. J. H. Taggart added to
the weather conditions of the straits from the Aegean Sea, when presiding at the annual meeting probably confused the pilots hope into the Son of Marmora and of other of the Hongkong Realty and Trust lessly-Router.
vital points in Gallipoll,-Router.
BRITISH BISHOP FLIES
ABOARD ZEPPELIN
(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")
17
London, Apr. 7.
Company, Lid., at Exchange Building this morning. Others present were Six Shou-son Chow, Messrs. E, M. Raymond, John Fleming. P. K. Kwok, (Director), F. C. Barry (Secretary),
Suckling, Kitchell and A. M. d'Eca (shara- holders).
The Chairman, after reading the auditors' report, said:The profit for the year 1935 amounted to $25,708.62, which together with the sum of $22,-. 310.02 brought forward from the preceding year, makes available for allocation the total of $40,107.54,
Aboard the giant airship, Marshal von Hindenburg, now which amount your Bourd recom homeward-bound from South America, is the Bishop of the mende. be carried forward to the However, according to well-inform-
Falkland Islands, the first Anglican Bishop to travel by air- next account. The Pront
Loss and ed circles, the Government believes The Finance Ministry announces
Account would appear to call for At the same time both Governor,Į It is the contention of some that that even with Italian ald Austria ship, says Router's special correspondent aboard the new Zop-
no particular comment other than fa that 878,000,000 yen of five per cent. Hoffman's friends and his enemies Hauptmann's life was sacrificed to would be unable to hold out against
pelin.
point out that the decrease in profit, national bonds, due for repayment in wero preparing resolutions for pr the political ambitions of a certain the invasion was attempted in six athletic padres der service in
Germany for more than a few weeks,
amounting to some $16,000 us com-:-: the 1000-37 fiscal year, will be conver-sentation to the stato legislature
magulioent,pared with the previous year, is co- tible into a new issue of 3.5 per cent. to-night asking for governmental section of officialdom, and that he was earnest. 12 year bands from May 1, the amount investigation of the prosecution and convicted on trumped up evidence, as The Government is anxious to the huge, bleak parishes of Patagonia but a head wind has reduced the air counted for, as you will observe, by ship's apeed to sixty miles an hour. the increase in respect of bankr imuable totalling 881,000,000 and the defence of Hauptma
he himself doclarod. It is recalled learn, therefore, the attitude of the and Tierra del Fuego.
The airship at 10 am. today passed) As" the airship passed the equator at interest charges resultar's upon pays" isano price boing 08 yon.
Both sides declare, "the lid will be that Hauptmann's last words before Western Fowers in the event of an over the Brazilian convict Island of 3 p.m. it ascended to 1,050 foot in ments effected in connection with the The bonds are underwritten by the blown off" at to-night's meeting of he died were a protestation at his invasion from Gormany-Unitled
Fernando Noronha at a height of only | order, to escape the tropical hont... financing of the development con Bank of Japan-leuter,
tho. Legislature,
InnocenooUnited Press.
six hundred foot above the prison, thel Router Special
· (Continued on Page 4).
Press,
He is going to England to engago | wiroloss station being clearly visible,
Tho weather