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Court

Cowl

PAUL RENNET CE

NEW ARRIVALS

AUTUMN HA

ITALIAN TROOPS MARCHING TOWARDS ABYSSINIAN

FRONTIER

ATTACK

2 BRITISH

OFFICERS

KILLED

ASUALTIES

LASHKARS

AUBLE ON THE

AMAND FRONT

Simla. To-day.

* Numbered

Emperor among Haile Selassie's "brain trusters” is a shrewd American, Everett A. Colun, the financial expert who shows the Lion of Judak how to make every dollar work.

wo British officers.were kill ed" and three wounded and 70 or 80 other ranks are among the casualties as the result of fighting on the Mohmand front. according to an official communique. which *explains that certain tribes were allow- BIG SWORD'

BANDITS NOW

ed to return to their own conn-į -try after expressing a desire for peace, and the Government suspended the air operations! over the Sasi country and invit- ed the tribes to send in their Jirgas.

While

Wacha

reconnoitring

from

to the Jawar camp the British troops were heavily en- aged by Lashkars, and it is un- derstood that the enemy suffered very heavy casualties.

It is stated that this flouting of

45

*

SHANGHAI TO

HONG KONG IN

FOUR HOURS

Two Airmen Arrive

3

In Colony

COLONY HAS FINEST AIRPORT IN CHINA

Flying the 800 miles from Shanghai to Hong Kong in a little over four hours, two air- men. a German war veteran. Fritz Bieler, and Howard I Farquahar, formerly Secretary of the Eritish Legation in Mexico City, arrived at Kai Tak early yesterday morning. in coo- tinuance of their leisurely round-the-world flight which beran in Mexico on August 20..

When interviewed by a China Mait representative at the Hong. Kong Hotel where they have been staying since their arrival both men told ar interesting story of their journey thus far.

They have been favoured with good weather since they crossed

ON THE RUN Siberia, and a forced landing-has

Unable To Withstand Government Troops

WEAPONS NO MATCH FOR MODERN RIFLES

(From Our Own Correspondent]

Canton. Today

not yet, been necessary.

“SIBERIAN JOURNEY The Siberian portion of their journey was the most hazardous but they crossed the wide expanse without mishap, making only one stop at Anadir, in the interior, for la rest and to re-fuel

The couple are not intent on: breaking any existing records; their only object in embarking on With the arrival of Govern-he novel expertment being tof ment troops at Lung Shin and

secure, experience. If weatherį

the attempts to establish friendlyNam Po Hui, near Yung Yuen. conditions are favourable they in- the gang of bandits known as

- contact with the upper tribes has

now caused the Government to the "Big Swordsmen" are now reconsider its attitude towards the tribe.

Lieutenant AP. S. Rendall and is not

WORLD NAVAL

AFFAIRS

big

tend to set out for Hanoi to- morrow morning, and if possible. to continue to Bangkok, From

of this month. -

Before leaving for the coastal

to

FLYING FOR 20 YEARS:

Seeking adventure on their vacation, Harold Farquahar (left), British Legation side at Mexico City,, and Fritz Bieler, German world waste, arrived in Hong Kong yesterdayzon z leisurely fight to Pitidon.

BOULDER DAM NOW COMPLETED

STUPENDOUS OUTPUT OF

ELECTRICAL POWER

FRONTIER

AIR SQUADRONS SENT OVER BORDER

REINFORCEMENTS AT DJIBOUTI

CAMPAIGN'S DRASTIC EFFECTS ON ITALIAN FINANCES

CHINA MAIL- SPECIAL

Addis Ababa To-day

The announcement has been made to the people of Abyssinia that the Emperor has sign the general mobilisation order and only awaits a reply from the League of Nations to a teleg despatched by the Negus last Sunday.

Meanwhile the situation is extremely strained an attack being expected next week From Central Abyss certain border provinces the news hs been received that parti mobilisation has already been begun.

One official Abyssinian source declared yesterday. Negus has already received & notification from the Nations, that the circumstances, being as đẹp peror in his telegram, there can be no objection to isation, since natural defence makes this impera

The Italian troops assembled at-Ass

have begun marching towards the Abyssi

to an official announcement here. the Italian vanguard will future At three points been crossing the frontier

Djibouti: The troops the frontier of French So Hand were considerably renfo ed oven, the week-end and greater part the border

protected by barbed wire entery considerable technical- din tanglements. After the arrival calties were revealed. It is of the aircraft mother-ship assumed that further considera- Bearne the whole frontier will tion of the matter will be post be kept regularly under observa-poned until the Committee tion from the air.

Thirteen meets next Thursday.

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FINANCIAL POSITION M Milan: The drastic effects upon

the Italian financial reserves of

Leign

ANTI-NANKING

FEELING GROWS

IN THE SOUTH

Separate Government

For South-West?·

DECISION EXPECTED BY- END OF MONTH”

on the rus

Being armed only with The casualties amóng British swords, the bandits are unable to there they will continue to Kan--- officers in the 5th and 12th stand

Boulder City, Nevada, To-day. up to the Government goon, Bombay Karachi, Peshawar, frontier force regiments in the forces and have been forced to Baghdad, Beton, Moscow, Berlin A strong defence of the public works policy Mohmand operation included fee to the mountains. Yung Yuen and London, finally arriving at

their destination towards the end as a means of throwing in the clutch and starting the Abyssinian conflict is revealed endangered by these Captain G. Meynell killed, and ruffians, who have occupied the

the wheels of industry was made by President in the returns of the Banca Major S. B. Good and Lieutenant nearby villages such

d'Italia, dated September 20 and Lung G. J. Hamilton wounded-Reuter. Shin, and Nam Po sul, which fight to Alaska, floats were fitted Roosevelt in the course of a dedicatory speech to just published, which or 20 dad about 85 miles above Canton. the machine but these were mark the completion of the great Boulder Dam since September 10 the gold stock

The county magistrate of Yung removed at Harbin in preparation

The President at the same protecting the Imperial Valley has decreased from 4,562,000,000 Yuen believes that the bandit for the overland flight to Europe. time uttered a warning that from foods and providing water to 423-4000,000 lire, and the for-

private enterprise must now to irrigate vast areas, producing

currency reserves from "I have been flying for 20 bear the main responsibility of an enormous output of electric 432,000,000 to 417,000,000

lire, migrated from Hunan or Niangsi. Years, Bieler told our representa- maintaining increased employ-power, the receipts from which while the note circulation, in-

tive. “I started my career in There are rumours linking the 1915 and was a pilot during the

were expected eventually entire creased from 14,234,000,000 to bandits with the Blue Shirts, war. People call me a famous acement's credit was stronger and vanced by the Government-Reu

He claimed that the Govern-ly to repay the $165,000,000 ad- 14.917,000,000 lire. Chinese Fascist party.

Bills, on the other hand, în-¡ but I am not really. After all safer than at any time for the ter

from creased

4,048,000,000 to only did what hundreds of other past six years, and declared that

4,419,000,000 fire, while s

[From Our Own Correspondent] young men did, and this does not the Dam was one of the big- HEAVY COMMUNIST against collateral

rose from entitle me to the designation of gest achievements in the his-

12,303,000,000 to 2,630,000,000 lire.

Canton, To-day "ace." I brought down five planes tory of engineering.

Debts repayable on demand in-

The South-west Political creased from 374,000,000 10 Council is in receipt of mìmer- 455,000,000 lire

ous telegrams from the Kuo- NEUTRAL OBSERVER QUESTION mintang and other organisa

Geneva: The question of the de- tions in North China indicating

CRYPTIC PREMISE BY JAPAN

Tokyo, To-day

swordsmen are not natives within his jurisdiction, "but must

are

have

now

Six

companies camping, around Yung Yner, probable that seven.

while four companies *are days will elapse beforel replies formally regarding Pursuing the big-sword bandits.

focation of a naval con-

the draft requiring the MIXED MARRIAGES

approval

se naval observers pre- Japan will express her to participate with the

on that there is no

in the fundamental policy as presented to

in August 26, for equality

ommon upper limit, based

IN GERMANY. Applications Of New Aryan Law

“CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Berlin, To-day.

The laws promulgated on Sep

ment.

during the years. I waS at the It created the largest artificial front

"The plane we use belongs to Mr. Farquahar, and is one of the finest I have ever piloted. I have a school and two ships back in Mexico City which I use for in- structing potential flyers and tak- ing people for joy rides," "

(Continued on Page 3)

ciency for defence and in-tember 15 last by the Nuremberg HOME-GROWN BEET

ency for attack,, with the

session of the Reichstag, relating,

onal cryptic premise: "that to marriages between Jews and eaty Powers return a clean Aryans, having been interpreted to Japan" Renter.

in many quarters to mean that jexisting marriages of this kind will be declared null and void, an official denial of such an inten- tion was issued last night, stat ing unequivocally that such mit-

U.S. DESTROYERS

ARRIVE

aving Next Week Oned marriages, as solemnised be

Southern Cruise

destroyers of the 8th the USS Pope, Ford, Edwards, Smith Pillsbury ved here from sterday. The

SUGAR

Appointment Of New Committee

FOR CONSIDERATION OF COMPANY MERGERS

fore September 15, remain în

London, To-day. Herce, unaffected by the new le

cellor of the Exche quer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, gislation-Trans Ocean Service.

and the Minister of Agriculture, SCOTLAND'S MARRIAGE LAWS Mr. Walter Elliott, have appoint

TO BE INVESTIGATED

ed Sir Francis Humphreys, late British Ambassador in Baghdad, Sir Thomas Barlow, cotton'manu- London, To-day-The Secretaryfacturer, and Mr. William Mor also arrived of State for Scotland. Sir Godfrey timer, solicitor, as a tribunal to Collins, announced in Edinburgh advise on any scheme for amal- estroyers to yesterday his intention to set up gamating companies producing others the committee to inquire into the sugar from home-grown beet Stewart, marriage laws of Scotland and as which the Beet, Sugar Factories

to the changes, if any.

mittes may submit under the announced in Paršiai fly British Wireless

ford

Wireless

LOSSES

lake in the world, 115 miles long Successful Campaign

STOP PRESS

GRUESOME MURDER

Londen, To-day.

A gruesome discovery pointing to a double mur der by a madman is baffing the police at Moffat, Dum- friesshire, where a number of parcels containing hu- man remains have been re- covered from the bottom of an 80-foot ravine, two miles from Moffat on the main Carlisle - Edinburgh Boad Doctors have ascer tained that the remains are those of an adult man and woman but the bodies appear to have been deli- berately mutilated in view of the removing of all trace of identity, almost the only cine at present being the newspapers in which the remains were wrapped

The police believe that the victims were murdere and that the bodies cut up and taken t spot-by

thrown into the from the bridge.

In Kansu

Shanghai, To-day.

The Reds have suffered heavy MONARCHY IN

losses in Kansa, according to the latest reports locally, which con- firm the recent evacuation of British and American mission- aries to Sian, in the State of | Lanchow, out of immediate dan-

ger-Reuter.

BRIDESMAIDS FOR ROYAL WEDDING

Seven Of Eight Under 17 Years Of Age

GREECE

AIR THICK WITH RUMOURS:

· CHINA' MAIL" SPECIAL

their support of the circular

telegram issued by the South

west leaders on September 163 which czîls for the punishment of traitors, a positive policy to- | warda-Japan and a constructive.

internal policy.

All such telegrams were pub lished this morning by the Gov- ernment newspapers and com- mercial dailies. One

Athens, To-day- The air is thick with rumours went so far as to urge which have arisen as the result tablishment of a central of an announcement that the Na-mintang authority in tional Assembly is to meet on in view of the fact October 10, the fear being that South-west proposals are the Royalist Deputies intend to likely to be accepted by move the restoration of the manar. king. London, To-day. chy without a plebiscite, owing! If this suggestion Seven of the eight bridesmaids to the tense home and interna- taken it means who will attend Lady Alice Stott tional situation Trans-Ocean will establish at her wedding to HR the Service. Duke of Gloucest

on November

|6 "will be under 17, as the brides-

malds will be, the Frincesses | Elizabeta and Margaret Bose, Cambridge, the,,bride's

Angel Scott, a cousi

and

NEW GOVERNOR FOR NEWFOUNDLAND

London, #To- His Majesty the King has approved the of Vice Admiral umphrey Thomas Walwyn

emment here sever all pol with Nanking. unable to

Newfoundland in Admiral Sir David

bese the Spring of

ervice mON!

itisha Wireless

efore the

Obe