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ITALIANS CAPTURE KEY

PRO

AGAINST

SANCTIONS

Complaints From All

Over France

SERIOUS DAMAGE TO

BUSINESS

Paris, To-day.

Govern-

While the French mentis wholeheartedly sup- porting sanctions French busi- ness men are not quite so en- thusiastic, and the Government is 'receiving a number of com- plaints from all over the coun- try alleging serious damage to business in certain sections.

The merchants of Lyons have sent in a vigorous protest against sanctions, requesting the Govern- ment to take steps to make up the business deficiencies caused there- by and to take appropriate action for the protection of French busi-1 Bess interests in Italy, which are seriously jeopardised due to the imposition of sanctions and, the consequent will of the Italians.

NOVEMBER 18 FIXED

London, to-day.The Board of Trade has appointed November 18 for the applention of sane- tions against Italy affecting mer- chandise.-Reuter.

ITALY'S £8,000,000 BENEFTT Geneva: It is estimated that Italy will benefit to the extent of £8.000.000 through the suspension of debt payments to the sanctions Out of this imposing countries.

total Britain and France between

them will suffer to the extent of

over £2,000,000.-Reuter..

CATHOLIC CHURCH

IN GERMANY

"National Movement Meeting Held

– CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Essen, To-day.

The "Catholic National Church Movement," founded last year,

of

Donald Leach, the Shanghai skipper, snapped going out for a 10-minute hack in the "middle" at the H.K.CC. yesterday (““China Mail" photo.)

NAVAL AFFAIRS

NO ANGLO-ITALIAN PACT PENDING

PROTECT YOUR

AIR CONDITIONING

"Carrier" SYSTEM

ANDERSEN, BEYER & COMPANY, LTD.

67 & 69, Des Voeux Rd. C.

Sole

Agents

POSITION WITH FALL OF GORAHAI

STILL NO RESISTANCE

OFFERED

DAGGABUR SERIOUSLY

BOMBARDED

COMMANDER OF GARRISON KILLED

· CHINA MAIL “. SPECIAL

Addis Ababa, Today.

Some skirmishing is still taking place in the vicinity, of Makalle, according to reports received here, which add that Ras Kassa's army is now executing a major tactical movement and is ex- pected to be thrown into the Makalle zone in about five days, while on the Abyssinian left flank formations under Ras Ajelu will join in the opera- tions.

That the Abyssinian tactics. have now draw the Italian forces far enough into the country to warrant counter-attacks be- ing made with a fair prospect of success, is the feeling prevalent in military circles here.

A swedish Red Cross detachment, consisting of five mobile units with the requisite personnel, under the command of Major} Hylander, has also reached the capital. One of the lorries is equipped with an electric generating plant, and they have brought enough dressings for approximately six months

LARGE ORDERS

FOR ARMS

Emperor Digs Into War Chest

British units are also due to: arrive in a fortnight, while Dutch and Norwegian detach- ments have been promised for December, when there will be!

10 Red Cross motor units in Abyssinia

| The Emperor And Crown Prince took part in a Crown Council yesterday, which lasted the whole morning.

t

Mrs. Hayward, wife of Hong Kong's captain, G. R. H. Rien ketts, A. H. Madar and Teddy Fincher were interested spectators: st the Shanghai practice game at the HKCC. yesterday.

skippet, watching the cricketers

HK.CC. yesterday photos.)

London. To-day. The report of an Angio Italian naval pact is officially Istated in London to be baseless.. The report was due to a mis understanding of the talk be

London, To-day? tween British and Italian naval

It is learned that large orders experts in London and the talk between Sir Eric Drummond for ammunition, rifles and ma-l and Signor Mussolini in Rome.chine-guns have been placed Asmara: Abriest simultaneous- It is emphasised that the with a well-known British arm-iy with the fall of Makalle in the naval experts merely exchang ament firm by the Ethiopian north; one of the Abyssinian key-HONG KONG'S ed views concerning the forth-Government for cash from the positions in the south has also coming *naval conference Emperor's fortune, the ex-been captured by the Italians, ac- BAD START Reuter

Emperor Menelik's war chest, cording to reports reaching here IN INTERPORT

Bargaining Power Strengthened

INCORPORATION OF CRUISERS NOT YET COMPLETED

"CHINA MAILTM SPECIAL

Rome, To-day.....

held its first large-scale meeting The two Italian 1935 cruisers

and here under the slogan "The Listoria,

Vittorio Veneto. Church and the people-Catholic which are still under construction and

German" yesterday. The land will probably not be completed meeting was attended by numer-before the end of next year, have ous "Old Catholic" and Roman been formally incorporated into Catholic clergymen and laymen. the Italian fleet, by a decree pub-

A demand for a “Catholic Na-lished here yesterday. tional German Church, free The measure has obviously been the Papal influence" found ex-taken in order to strengthen Italy's pression in several speeches, bargaining power at the forth- while racial and liturgical organ-coming naval conference in Lon- isatory questions were likewise don - Trans-Ocean Service. dealt with At the conclusion of a the three-day

meeting Bishop Kreuzer of the "Old Catholic Church" celebrated “German High Mass."--Trans-Ocean Service.

COURT DECISION IN BELGIUM German Government's Protest

·CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Berlin, Today”

GORAHAS CAPTURED

voluntary.contributions of which state that the town of some 500,000 Maria Theresa Gorahai, which for some weeks thalers from the Ethiopian past has been the goal of the Rases, and £500 in voluntary Italian operations on the southern donations, mostly anonymous, front, was at last occupied by the received at the Ethiopian Lega- troops of General Graziani yester

day morning.

tion in London,

NEW GO.C. FOR CHINA COMMAND

Major-General Bartholomew Sails From Landen

London, To-day. Major-General W. G. S. Dobbie sailed by the P. mad" "O. Ener Carthage yesterday to take up his appointment as General Offer Commanding the Troops, Malays.

Major-General Bartholomer, the newly appointed · General Officer Commanding the Troops, China Command,” also sailed by the Carthage for Hong Kong Beater

Tam Pearce Caught

-In First Over

FINCHER SHAPES WELL

LOST AUSTRALIAN

AIRMAN

SEARCH FOR SIR C. KINGSFORD-SMITH

MELROSE ABANDONS RECORD

BREAKING FLIGHT":

Singapore, To-day.

BALDWIN'S

APPEAL FOR

CONFIDENCE

FINAL ELECTION BROADCAST.

DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL

London, To-day.

"If you give me this confidence now, I will give you all that is in me during the few years that now can only remain to me at my pre- sent age.” declared Mr. Stanley Bakchwin in his final election broadcast from The Chequers last evening, in which he urged that a strong and stable Great Bri tain was the surest guarantee of the happiness and prosperity of its own people and the greatest bulwark of peace in the world.

The whole world was watching the election because therein de- nocracy was on trial. It was our duty to show the world, he con finned, that democracy could

pursue a constant course and be The young Australian airman as resclate in will as any cicta- Melrose has abandoned his at-

tempt on the England to Ansorship-Rester. tralia solo record to participa

in the searche

Air Force for Sir Clas ford-Smith, scholew

between Rangoon Point. It is feared: fallen into the sent

Some Hard Fights Coming

TAGE - OF FLECTION

London-""" With the end of the"

A squadron of Singapore HI series of political broadcast” “ad- flying boats is likely to range dresses last night when the Prime over the Bay of Bengal and a Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, torpedo bombers squadron will spoke for the National Govern- scour the coastal regions. Reuter

CAPE TO ENGLAND FLIGHT

Flying

ment, the General Election cam- |paign - entered on its last stage. [At present the public interest ¦centres on oma ar tas contests in |which leading ~ ~ perionalities are engaged." The Prime Minister

London, „To-day. Officer David Llewllyn and Mrs was returned mappened, but his Jill Wyndham, who are attempt colleague and predecessor at the ing to set up a new record for the head of the National Government, Since the reports do not men-

flight from the Cape to England, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald," "is" in- tion any fighting it may be assum- ed that the Abyssinians followed Losing the toss at 10.50 am, landed at Cairo at 1.45 pan. yesvolved in what in generally agreed will be a hard fight at the. Sea- their

Harbour mining constie their usual practice by evacuating D. W. Leach led Shanghai out terday. They resumed the town in the face of the deter-to field at 11 am sharp before fight at dawn this morning. mined Italian advance.Trans-a smallish crowd

As was anticipated, Tam Pearce Ocean Service.

accompanied Teddy Fincher to the

DAGGABUR BOMBED Harrar Daggabur was serious-crease, facing the first ball of the ly bombarded yesterday by planes match, from Elliott, from the which dropped thousands of Naval Yard end. He left the first, bombs. The victims included the which was wide on the off stuurp, commader of the garrison, who lackly anicked the second over the |died of his wounds. Benter.

FINANCES OF LEAGUE

Some Improvement Shown

London, To-day. The League Secretariat pu- blishes the regularly monthly ac-

ships' heads to the boundary, left the third, played the fourth back to the bowler, and was then caught, off his glove by Pat Madar. 4-1-4 after only five minutes play!

British Wireless Service..

tuency.

Mr. MacDonald refused to con- sider a safer seat. He is oppos-

WORLD'S FILM by Mr. P. Shitwell, Secretary

TRADE

Closer Co-operation Decided

INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER - MEETS IN PARÍS:

· CHINA. MAIL" "SPECIAL

Paris, To-day.

· Leach” entrusted the Supreme Court end to Pat Madar, and Fin- cher got his second ball away to

The first Infernational Film: the leg boundary and scored a Chamber, whose foundation in single off the fourth. Alec Pearce the interests of closer interna

for Mines for the last. Labour Govtimment. As a National La- [bour -candidate Mr. MacDonald is

Continued on Page 12)

UTILITY ACT IN US.

Baltimore Decision

Questioned

Manila, To-day. then played the remaining twotional co-operation was decided Senator Burton K. Wheeler balls.

TALKS CONCLUDED

London, Yesterday. The conversations between Brî- tigh and Italian naval experts on technical problema preliminary to the meeting of the Naval Confer-

Orders of equivalent value ence arranged for December 5 have been placed, in Belgium concluded on Thursday after three and Czechoslovakia, the latter meetings, which were sufficient to including field artillery.

Fincher hit his second boundary upon by the International Film (Montana), co-author of the complete the business. The Italian. It is understood that some count of the financial situation when he got Elliott away to leg Congress at Berlin last March Wheeler-Hayburn Utility Hold- and in subsequent conferences ing Company Act, who arrived experts will return to Italy almost supplies of arms from Belgium In October, it appears, there the Shanghai bowler appeared held at Munich and Venice, has here yesterday with the Con immediately.

have already arrived at Djibon-ceipts since the beginning of the to be coming of the pitch ver been inaugurated here and has greasional party, stated last The United States Government ti Reuter.

year, including current and over fast and was getting up once or held its first meeting, attended night that he was sure that the has sent official acceptance of the

due contributions, amounted to twice Fincher, however, regis- invitation to the conference. The

32,000,000 Swiss francs. The extered another boundary on the by delegates from all the im Baltimore decision declaring other signatories of the Washing-

penditure in the same period was leg side in the same over.

portant European countries ex-the Act unconstitutional would |22,000,000. The total credits vot

cept Holland, Soviet Russia and

sed in the higher courts. England, which latter, how

I have not ever, was represented by

text of the decisión, what has been report- ere it seems plain that the Baltimore judge simply does not know the law. It looks like a purely political decisio Reuter

The German Legation at Bruston and London Naval Treaties sels has been instructed to make who have accepted are Japan, representations to the Belgian Gov France, Australia, New Zealand, ernment regarding a verdict of the South Africa and India Court of Appeal at Liege, by which four German-speaking inhabitants of the former German district of

Eupen-Malmedy have been deprived. of their Belgian Trans-Ocean Service.

WEATHER FORECASE.

SISTER OF NIETZSCHE

DES AT 89

Weimar, To

LOCAL DOLLAR

STEADY

[ed for 1935 were 80,000,000, and

Forward" Silver Up the Bank halance on October ST

was 10,000,000.

shows considerable improvement previous year British Treless Service.

local dolar is steady, open-on

demand this morning at 1/5

TREASURY BILLS IN LONDON

STOP PRESS

(Continued or Page 12)

TURKISH SOVIET TREATIES PROLONGED

signed here on prolongs for anot

LING WEDDING

Turkish Soviet

Total for 2 w kt

amity and |1925, as well

Russian nava Trans Ocen