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WHOLESALE DESERTION OF ITALIAN NATIVE TROOPS IN NORTH

GENEVA QUIBBLES

ON SANCTIONS

GERMAN ACCUSATIONS AGAINST FRANCE "ATTEMPT MADE TO PARALYSE LOCARNO TREATY”

Geneva, To-day.

Quibbles regarding the application of sane- tions are already arising. Certain jurists main- tain that the automatic application of Article XVI was abolished by the Assembly by a resolution in 1921 and thus will require the unanimous vote of the Assembly to make the sanctions obligatory on the member States. If the unanimity of the Assembly is indispensable for the requisite appli- cation of the sanctions it becomes more difficult.

Considerable importance is attached to the arrival by air of the Polish Foreign Minister. Colonel Beck, who, it is learned, may make certain reservations regarding the attitude of Poland. Colonel Beck is reported to be coming to Geneva at the earnest solicitation of the Italian Minister at Warsaw.

The attitude of Austria, Hungary and Switzerland is uncer- tain as their participation in any form of sanctions is very dif ficult owing to their dependence upon Italian trade-

According to present arrange, bly meeting at 5 pm, at which ments the Bureau will meet at both M Laval and Mr. Eden 4 pm followed by an Assem- may speak and other members will be afforded an opportunity to voice their views.

MILITARY

ALLIANCE

WITH EGYPT

Pact With Britain In Near Future

GRAVE ANXIETY NOTICEABLE

THROUGHOUT COUNTRY

-CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Cairo, To-day.

Baron Aloisi, Captain Anthony Eden and Sir Samuel Hoare speaking together dating a meeting the League of Nations at Genera.

FRENCH HOPES CHECKED

De Bongs Attack On Aksum Big Disappointment

Paris, To-day. By attacking Aksem, General De Boro has -disappointed the French hopes then Mussolini

It is expected that the co-would be willing to negotiate

ordinating committee will con- sist of certain members of the

Council representatives of

neighbour States of Italy, and two or three other States in the

after capturing Adowa, but a

moderate opinion is hoping that

the olive branch will appear after the fall of Aksum.-—Reuter.

order of the importance of their SON FOR

trade with Italy..

Duce Still Prepared To

Discuss Situation

Rome: Although Italy is pre- pared to leave the League if

The conclusion of the Anglo-sanctions are voted against her,

Signor Mussolini is still prepared Egyptian Military Alliance ap-

to discuss the Ethiopian question pears to be foreshadowed by a series of conferences which the by direct negotiations with Bri- British High Commissioner Sir tain and France on the basis of Miles Lampson, had in the the 1906 treaty. course of the past week with

DUCHESS

OF KENT

Mother And Child Doing Well

ROYAL FATHER'S VIGIL

London, To-day.

STRONG DENUNCIATION OF ITALIAN POLICY

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S APPEAL FOR RED CROSS AID

London, To-day

ITALIAN ADVANCE ON ALL FRONTS

ALLEGED ESPIONAGE IN ADDIS ABABA

ETHIOPIAN

UNEASINESS

CHINA 'MAIL = 'SPECIAL

Addis Ababa, To-day.

A wholesale desertion of Itahan native troops to the Abyssinian Army has now begun on the northern front, according to an official state- ment issued here.

Near Agame, 200 Askaris from Eritrea, un- der the leadership of a native officer, crossed over to the Abyssinian lines bringing with them field guns and machine guns, while in the Makala ter- ritory, 50 Italian native soldiers joined the Abys- sinian forces, also bringing machine guns.

Reports on the military situation confirms that the northern

and southern armies are retiring and that the Italians are grad

nally beginning to advance, having now reached a point about three kilometres south of Adigrat in the direction of Telelea- minot...

The Italian forces in the South are proceeding from their base at Dolo in two directions: towards the Ganale Duria, river and secondly, viz Ual Ual, towards Sassabanch, having already reached and occupied Ado, about 30 miles north of Hal Tal

The Belgian officers who were

A

TO BE REVIEWED

Ascathing denunciation of Italy was utter engaged here in training the BRITISH FORCES led by the Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday, Abyssinian troops have been ar- at the Church Congress at Bournemouth. The corded permission from the Bel speech, which created the deepest impression, is gian Government to remain in regarded as the sequel to the Primate's interview Abyssinia, it is stated in - of an hour with Sir Samuel Hoare yesterday.

AT ALEXANDRIA

10,000 ON PARADE

NEXT FRIDAY

ACCOMMODATION TAXED BY NEW REINFORCEMENTS

Alexandria, To-day

thoritative quarters here, and will now undertake the training of the Abyssinian Police. He said: “We see a great or nurses, being mowed down The French Military Attache European Power treating its by a vast and pitiless war has departed for Diredua in order solemn obligations with cynical machine equipped with all the to make the necessary prepara contempt and launching a powers which science has in-tions for the arrival of the attack upon

a fellow-member vented for the destruction of French troops who are to protect of the League. If there was human life?”

the railway ever an act of unprovoked ag- Defending the Covenant, he m-

A march-past has been arrang- One hundred and thirty Italian gression surely it is this. Abys-nounced that he and others were subjects left Diredua yesterdayed for Friday of 10,000 soldiers sinia may be a backward State, about to issue an appeal for Red evening while 110 other Euro- and sailors concentrated here o HRH the Duchess of Kent but is it possible to think with- Cross ass stance for Abyssinia peans also left the capital yestering to the Ethiopian dispute. The PRESS COMMENT;

has given birth to a son -

out resentment and sickening of He supported Mr. George Lans-day for Djibouti, and many others Fremier, the British High Com

the {missioner, According to “Gayda,” writing

beart of a proud and the British Military Expert and

Reuter.

ancient bury's suggestion of an inter- are leaving to-day-to Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet in the Giornale D'Italia, the the Egyptian Government.

The birth of a son to the people defending their own land national conference to consider the Special significance is attached arbitrary forecast that Italy would Duchess of Kent does not make with scanty military resources, more equitable distribution of the COUNTER ATTACK REPULSED and other eminent persons will be

confine ber action prin- to the fact that Sir Miles Lampson

Rome: The official communique accommodated in a grandstand in

Mehemet Ali Square: has been formally received by cipally to the diplomatic sphere any difference to the order of scarcely any hospitals, surgeons economic resources in the un

developed parts of the world-issued here yesterday states that Last night practice gunfire was King Fand, and it is generally an after the capture of Adowa did succession, the Duke of Kent

during the course of Monday the lumbling across the water appar troops in East Africa consolidatedently from the British ships over their position beyond Adows, or the horizon and the glare of Verey ganised rear communications and fights sparkled as seroplanes few transport of supplies.

overhead"The influx of 20,000

being junior to the Duke of LANSBURY ticipated that the Anglo-Egyptian not take into consideration the York The order of succession

PERSISTS IN

RESIGNATION

Of Labour Party

Renter

CHINESE COAL FOR CAMPAIGN

Purchased By Italy

Pact will be published at the elementary reason for the Italian is: the Prince of Wales, the forthcoming anniversary of the action. which was not merely 3 Duke of York and, after him. King's accession.

question of prestige and national his daughter, Princess Eliza- The atmosphere is filled with a pride but to end continual unbeth grave anxiety, which has been no-provoked Ethiopian' aggression. Doctors were summoned to the Major Attlee Chairman Huge Quantities Being ticeable throughout the country The capture of Adowa and other Duchess of Kent's London home since the aggravation of the Ita-strategic points, he says, is of lin Belgrave Square late last lian-Abyssinian conflict and

has purely local

importance and evening and her son was born at been further intensified by the Italian military action will con- 2.15 this morning. It is under- outbreak of hostilities, since it is tinue on all fronts according to stood that the mother and child expected that the momentous de the objective and the necessity are both doing well cisions to be taken by the League imposed by the Abyssinian of Nations will be of the greatest menace. concern to Egypt.

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MILITARY SERVICE

EVADED

A. Mussolini Seeks Czech Citizenship

“CHINA" MAIL" SPECIAL

* Prague, To-day- The request of the Italian cifi- zen, A. Mussolini, for citizenship | at Cunin, in Bohemia, came up for consideration before the Town Council a short time ago.

The request was granted since

ORDER OF SUCCESSION: News of the birth of the new

SPEE

SPEEDY REASSEMBLING OF PARLIAMENT - URGED

Shanghai, To-day.

Commander-in-

Numerous detachments of en-British cervicemen is taxing local

of accommodation-Reuter.

gineers and great numbers [labourers have succeeded in im

proving the roads so that columns JAPAN UNLIKELY of motor lorries are now regular- The Chinese press reports ly reaching the front-lines. TO PARTICIPATE that Italy is purchasing large quantities of coal from The Abyssinian counter-attack London, To-day the Chinese mines in North on Orager-an important Italian Mr. George Lansbury has per-China.

trading centre just across, the Prince who ranks seventh insisted in his resignation, which German Suspicions

It is estimated that "several north-western Abyssinian border succession to the throne, was in the Parliamentary Labour Party hundred thousand tons" will be and close to the Sudanese frontier Aroused

mediately telephoned to Sand has accepted with profound re

purchased shortly.

has been repulsed by Askaris, Berlin: The French reply to the ringham, where Their Majesties gret Major Attlee, who has been British note has surprised politi-are, in residence. Other members unanimously elected Chairman of It also states that 10,000 tons who are natives of Tessenei, a

the Labour Party, has decided to had been purchased from the district north of Omager.. |cal circles, which opined that the

ask the Government for a speedy Tongshan nines and will be reply was an attempt to explait

sent direct to Italy from Chin- reassembling of Parliament for a tensions DUTCH DEFENCE debate on the international situs- international

political

wangtao-Reuter

for France's own political pur- poses and to entangle Britain in & network of France's policy of col- lective alliances.

(Continued on Page 7)

WEATHER REPORT:

Moderate anticyclones

this Mussolini, a labourer by Japan and the adjacent seas trade, has been a resident of Cun-the upper Yangtze Valley. in for years.

|pression appears to be formi New Mussolini has made an ur- the south of Hankow. gent appliéztion for Czech na- is relatively – low-

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FORCES

Reorganisation On Extensive Scale

CHINA:MAIL" SPECIAL: Amsterdam, To-da

The Dutch defence

sed on

tion on the opening day,

The request will be considered

at a Cabinet meeting to day and it is expected that the Inbour Party will receive an immediate assurance that the Government will summon Parliament, as, HOGU

ecinternational situation

AKSUM RUMOURS DENIED

Addis Ababa: The report that Aksum, the sacred city of kings,

IN SANCTIONS

Opinion In Well Informed Circles

IMPERIAL RESCRIPT

ADHERENCE

Tokyo, To-day. Well-informed circles predict

KAILAN COAL FOR has been captured by the Italians, that Japan will decline to parti

is now vigorously denied here cipate in the sanctions, the co- where is stated that the part of ordinating committee stressing [80,000 "Abyssinian troops. concen-

to re Akauntander.

aloof from the

ide and, watch

eless it is pointed

ITALY

Purchase Of 10,000. Tons Reported

An Itaban

Tientsin, To-day

agent

been

and

unswervingly

Ocern Nezr

The typhoon has

north of Haiphong

Lomcast for

the Royal