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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
February 20, 1941.
By Ernie Bushmiller
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No Satisfaction Yet
of Dangila Does Not On The Tangier Issue
KHARTOUM, Feb. 19 (Reu ter),—Dangita, 40 miles south- west of Lake Tana, the full of which was briefly reported yester. day, strategically controls the whole of Gojjam province and the Italians had stationed there a Blackshirt division with other white troops though it is doubtful whether these troops were there when the town fell.
were repulsed with 40 dend, including tent Italian officers.
The abandonment of the twon on Monday was the result of guerilla pressure during the past few weeks by Haile Selassie's patriats, led by a British officer, They on occasions approached
Invite War
LONDON, Feb. 19 (Reuter)-The Anglo-Spanish negotia- tions over Tangier are still hanging fire.
was
The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs told questioners in the House of Commons to-day that he regretted that he still not in a position to make a final statement.
The Labour Member, Mr F.j
asked whether the
Cocks,
MELBOURNE, Feb. 19 (Reu- ter).-Government had taken added precautions against a sudden emergency after review-j ing Australia's defence system, Despite long distances over bad said the Acting Prime Minister, Spanish pledge that the neutra- roads, transport drivers are success-Mr A. W. Fadden, in a speech lity of Tangier carried an as- fully maintaining schedules anti bringing forward the necessary water, here to-day.
|surance that Tangier would not No action would be taken and no be used as a base for operations anmunition and ration supplies.
word spoken, he said, which would shalter peace in the pacifle. "If war comes to our front door, it will not be
within a few feet of the town's RUMANIAN
strong defences.
Five days of close attacks followed. As the final blow was struck, co- operation with the R.A.F. and iness- ages received from the planes enabled the patriots to capture some mem- bers of the garrison as they left dur-
MUNITIONS
been com-
Expropriation By State BUCHAREST, Feb. 1D (Reuter).-—| ing the bombardment. The remain-The important Malaxa Railway and der of the garrison, retreating to the armament works have north-east towards Bahrdar Giorgis, pletely taken over by the state under a town on the southern point of Lake decree issued to-day, providing that Tan, were hurried by n smail
the remaining 50 per cent. Abyssinian force.
shares will become state property, the other half having been taken over on January 20.
to
Edge of Platean Dangila stands on the edge of the northern escarpment of the Abyssini- an plateau, 7,000 feet up, at the junction of the old caravan routes Addis Ababa from Galabal on the Sudon border and from Roscires on the Blue Nile in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The population is small hut since Italian occupation roads have been bullt along the caravan routes, facilitating an exchange of local pro- ducts, wheat, barley and coffee with goods from other centres.
Women Also Fighting LONDON, Feb. 19 (Reuter).- Some Abyssinian women are fighting alongside their menfolk in the ranks of the Abyssinian patriots.
of the
of our choosing. Let nobody think that we are helpless and united for such a supreme_test.";
Knudsen On Strikes
Defence Work Unimpaired
M. Malaxa, the armaments king! SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" and head of the firm. was placed WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. (UP).— under house arrest by General The Director of the Emergency Antonescu last year but his present Management Board, Mr
William whereabouts are unknown.
Knudsen,, testifying before the House Judleiary Committee to-day asserted that strikes had not delayed the de- fence programme.
M. Malaxo is regarded us. General Antonescu's chief opponent.
Japanese Report Of Chungking Defection
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" NANKING, Feb. 10 (Domel).- Adding another 6,000 men to Nun- king's newly-born First Group Arms of 30,000 men under General Li
Wang
He said that events proceeding the colinple of France indicated that "over-aft legislation on wages and working conditions was not desir able."
18 Strikes On Now SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"
against French Morocco.
Mr Butler, on behalf of Mr Eden, refused to accept the implications which appeared in that query.
The Liberal Member, Mr Geoffrey Le
asked: "What is holding; Mander, up a settlement in view of the fact that many weeks, if not months ago, unilateral action was inken in abuse of British rights? Is it not time that we got some satisfaction?"
Japan's Foodstuffs
Govt Urged To Make Deficiencies Good
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"' TOKYO, Feb. 18 (Domel).—Mr Koliet Takada noted to-day that the Government's estimates of expendi- ture for increasing the production of foodstuff were too small. He
algo
of
the
Mr Butler said that Mr Mander's urged the general mobilisation view was shared by the Government rural organisations and technicians and added that the Spanish Foreign and engineers for accelerating | Minister had been away from Madrid } plan.
plan.
and that accounted partly for the The Minister of Agriculture and delay.
Tadantsu Ishiguro, Forestry, Mr. Mr Eden had already said that pointed out that the Government is negotiations had been proceeding
considering both urgent and lasting satisfactorily.
measures to attain the objective. Government was preparing to spend another Y33,000,000 to accelerate the foodstuffs plan.
India's Railways Yield Big Profit
The Finance Minister, Mr Isao Kawada, also promised to take steps to realise the plan prepared promptly by Ministry of Agriculture Forestry.
and
Mr, Kohei Takada in this connec-
NEW DELHI, Feb. 19 (Reuter). An unprecedented large surplus of nearly £11,000,000 (exceeding by tion suggested Increased manufacture over £74 millions the previous of fertilisers. conversion of other year's surplus) is revealed in
in the agricultural cultivation to that of railway budget for 1940-41. In
-41. In pre- foodstuffs, and grant of monetary senting the budget the Government spokesman said that traffe connected Prizes for the production of key food- with the war effort was the prepon- miles of railway had been dismantled derant factor and, furthermore, 305
In central Kiungsu Province/ effecting 22,000 workers and Govern during the year for the purposes of
of
NEW YORK, Feb. 20 (UP), There This was revealed to-night by Chang-klang, a group of deserters throughout the nation at present are 18 strikes in defence industries Princess Tahal, daughter of Falle
from the Chungking forces arrived in Selassie, in a broadcast speech. Talhsien
Princess Tahal, who appealed for
this morning,
ment orders valued at $85,000,000 the largest of which is Allis Chalmers The group of new adherents to the plant in Milwaukee where the pro- gifts of clothing for the Abyssinian fighters, has lived in Britain for five
Ching-wel camp consists of
duation of $40,000,000 worth years in extic. She announced that former effectives of the seventh she hoped shortly to join an ambu-column of Chungking's Shantung since February 2.
trucks and tanks has been delayed lance unit which is leaving for Klangsu-Anhwet guerillas under Tal Abyssinia under the leadership of an King-lin and other sympathisers of Austration surgeon.
peace and anti-Communist move- In Somaliland
ment of the Nanking Government,
Kung-lin's
forces NAIROBI, Feb. 19 (Beuter).-In- -creasing British-pressure-on-the-lines formerly stationed north of Kaoyu LISBON. Feb_20_(UP).—Mr_R‚_C.
of the river Juba in Somaliland is Lake as part of the Chungking forces announced in a coinmunique here to-deployed against the Communist New night. The communique says that Fourth Army oulfawed by Chiang the
counter-attacked enemy
and Kai-shek on January 17.
Tai
were
Mr Menzies
Menzies, the Australian Premier, ac- companied by his aldes, arrived here to-day from North Africa, en route to London.
Support the Bomber Fund
and provide more of these
;
economy.
material and machine tools required All available skilled labour,
tions, and many workshops were now for war work, particularly muni-
entirely employed in war work.
FOR WAR AREA
stuffs.
Enemy Shipping Losses
LONDON, Feb. 10 (Router). Enemy-merchant shipping losses have
Overseas Chinese To Visit been increased by 257,000 tons since
Chungking
January 7, according to authorita- tive sources in London. CHUNGKING, Feb. 20 (Central These losses included ships sunk or News) Mr Aw Boon-haw, Chinese captured at Derna Tobruk and magnate of Singapore, Mr. El Sing- Benghazi.
and
kiu, well-known Chinese lender in British and Allied losses between Hongkong
several
other oversens January 5 and February 10 totalled Chinese leaders are coming to Chung- 248.403 tons.
king shortly to investigate industrial conditions in the interior.
HANOI, Feb. 19 (Reuter).—Air- The Commission on Overseas men from the French air force, who Affairs, the Ministry of Social Wel-arrived in Salgon on February 8 from face, the Chungking Municipal Gov-France, have been assigned to several erniment and other government or- | Indo-China bases, Salgon and strate- Kanisations concerned are makinggle points in Cambodia and Laos, preparations to welcome them.
says a Japanese report.
Foreign Idle Shipping May Be Taken Over By Americas
Special to the "Telegraph"
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (UP).—Maritime circles under- stand that a deal has been nearly consummated whereby about 60 idle Danish and other vessels will come under the jurisdiction of the American flag as an Important aid to British shipping.
They will be used largely in the Pacific thereby releasing British tonnage for service in the Atlantic. The deni affects 40 Danish ships in America and 20 others in Latin American ports.
The owners of American Lines
Argentine Intercat previously opposed the dent alleging
that it would constitute dangerous BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 20 (UP),- competition but it is understood routes It is reported that the Ministries of could be worked out 'under which Foreign Affairs and Agriculture are there would be no important conflet studying the possible expropriation with the existing American Line of neutral ships now taking refuge
In Argentine ports.
routes.
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