1936-01-14 — Page 9

Negotiations Too Involved

NEW CONDITIONS

IN SAAR

PROBLEMS BEFORE

GOVERNMENT ·

ECONOMIC MATTERS SETTLED

-CHINA MAIL – SPECIAL

(Continued from Page 1)

Situation Still Obscure

ABYSSINIAN PRESSURE

INCREASING

01

the ob-

Dessie: The situation northem front still remains scure. While the reports of the recapture of Makalle appear to be Saarbruecken, To-day. The celebrations in honour of at least premature. the pressure of the exerted by the Abyssinian troops the first anniversary Saar plebiscite culminated yes- seems to be increasing and, ac terday evening in a big paradeording to the news received here. of the various National Socialist the Italian experts consider it pos- formations before the Minister sible that the headquarters will be of the Interior. Dr. Frick, and compelled to withdraw the small the Saar Commissioner, Herr sarrison from Makalle over well Buerckel. who from their tri-aigh impassable roads.

town hall Well-informed quarters believe bune opposite the watched the march past, which it unlikely that the Abyssinians will attempt a frontal attack upon lasted over an hour

The first speaker, Herr Buerckel, Makalle, and the opinion prevails. the that they will apply themselves. after "emphasising result of the plebiscite had been mainly to the task of cutting the a triumph for German blood, gave enemy's communications, whereby a short survey of the problems their efforts will probably be con confronting the Government oncentrated in the first place on the taking over the Saar territory and Tembien region, which is already how they had been tackled. The the scene of continuous embitter-

beened fighting- most difficult problem had

that

of the economic one, since the prices Mobilisation for the whole of all necessities of life were pre-Southern Abyssinia has been or viously lower in the Saar than in dered by Ray Desta, and it is èx-!

aspected that this measure will in the rest of Germany, just

Abyssinian fighting wages had also been lower, while jcrease

Ger- strength by some 200,000 en- with reincorporation - izte many the Saar suddenly lost its Trans-Ocean Service, principal market.

Prompt Measures

Prompt measures had therefore become recessary in order to set- tle these questions simultaneous-i

A further difficult problem

the

Expected Bombing

Addis Ababa

POPULATION WARNED

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1936

This example of the Grecian is becoming more motif which and more popular in this sea- son's evening gowns is worn by

Of Aaya Tarands of the Alms, form-

Addis Ababa, earlier: An official

had been the reorganisation of the municipalities and parishes in announcement warning the in-

ed of the priest blue chiffon and adorned with decorative flowers, a circlet of which is seen on the draped bodice.

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

Colonial

MR Soulange-Teissier, they Dr. D. W. Tratman, CMG_|| former French Consul General in Principal Assistant Hong Kong, who left recently for Secretary, is proceeding on leave France bas successfully under aboard the Empress of Japan-to- gone a serious operation and, is day, accompanied by Mrs Trai- making rapid strides towards (man. complete recovery..

A whist and mah jongy drive in Dr. Lai Po Chuen will give a laid of the Police, Branch of the course of Home Nursing Lessons Ministering League is being held in Chinese at St. John Ambulance at the Police Recreation Club this

$

p.M Headquarters, commencing next afternoon beginning at

Admission is $1. including tea Friday, at 5.15 pm...

asked Mah jonxx players are An unknown Chinese female, bring their own sets. laged about 60 years, was admitted

The "Invicts" Concert Party of! to the Government Civil Hospital yesterday afternoon in an uncon-HMS. Tent are giving a concert acious condition. She had thrown in the Cheero Club to-morrow, herself into the harbour of the beginning at 9pm. All are we Fraya wall near the China Fleet! come.

Club at about 4 pm. She rescued by A. B. Foster of HMS. Phoenix

Bishop R. O. Hall leaves rex: month for Pakhoi, where he will ordain as priest Dr. George Law- rence Russell.

His Honour the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. R.R. Lindsell, is pro- ceeding to Shanghai to-day by the Empress of Japan to sit in a Fall Court of Appeal

Dr. Russell wil A preliminary

rehearsal of

be remembered bere for his talk string players for the forthcoin- Handel's

to the Hong Kong Rotary Club onļing performance of leprosy and for the reports on the "Messiah" by the Hong Kong! excellent work he has been doing Singers next month has been call- at Pakhoi in this connection. Heled for Thursday next, from 5.30 is now to add ministerial duties to 7 pm. in the West Lounge of the YMCA, Salisbury Road, to his medical work there.

Kowloon, (by kind permission). The General Meeting of the Intending players who have not Hong Kong Teachers' Association received an invitation to attend for January will take place nexare asked to communicate at once Thursday at 5.30 pm in the Hall with Miss L A. Lock, No. 18 Mac- Road, Hong Kong. Telj of St. Joseph's College. Kennedy danniell Road: Dr. G. M. Hargreaves, 26206 Medical Officer of Schools, will

Don Juan de Bourbon and the speak on "The Chief Physical Disorders among Hong Kong Princess Maria Jean de Bourbon School Children, and Methods de Orleans arrived in Hong Kong to-day, from Shanghai, aboard the by Andre Lebon, accompanied their official escort, the Viscount

of Prevention."

the interests of better urban and habitants of Addis Ababa of an! BY-ELECTION IN WHISKY FOR THEjde Rocamora The young prince,

impending aerial bombardment by

many

SCOTLAND

Candidature Mr. M. MacDonald's

parochial development. -

The greatest change in this the Italians was read in all the been carried out churches of the Abyssinian capi connection had by the amalgamation of the Saar-tal on Sunday. The days from Louis with the four surrounding January 20 to 22, when parishes, whereby, as had been thousands will dock to the capital proclaimed by Dr. Frick earlier in from the provinces for the cele-) the day. Saar-Louis had received bration of the Epiphany festival, PREMIER'S STRONG SUPPORT

mentioned as the probable bombard- its former name of Saarlantern,are which was changed in the time of dates of the expected Louis XIV.

Jewish Problem

Referring to the Saar

London, To-day. The Ross and Cromarty Liberal went by the authorities, which have ordered the population of Association has rejected the offer the capital to prepare bomb-proof of Mr. Randolph Church

20, was adopted January

shelters

agree-

before

on Saturday as

2

BAILIFF!

Indian On Serious Charge

* ALLEGATION OF FALSE

PRETENCES

Gajjan Singh, unemployed, of

floor, made his appearance before! at the No 8. Maison Road, ground Mr. E. L Wynne Jones

ment signed by Germany in Rome threatening to fine those who fail candidate in the forthcoming by rowloon Police Court this morn- with the guarantor Powers. Her to ober the Government's instruc-jelection by the local Conservative)ng on a charge of having obtai

Buerckel stated that 95 per cent ions Trans-Ocean Service,

of the Jews there had left the!

Saar territor by March 1, taking

the fullest advantage of the fin

who is the fifth child of the former King and Queen of Spain, is in direct succession should the throne be restored to the House of Bourbon, since his two older! brothers have abdicated in his favour.

בין

SEPARATION OF BURMA

Financial Aspects Considered

-ancial privileges granted them by CITY OF KHARTOUM Dr. Malcolm MacDonald, whotional Boarding House, by falsely Partition of Barma Acts, prescrib

the Rome agreement.

As fort

those who had voted for the

status quo, "nobody," said Herr Buerckel" "could expect us fall on their necks."

Stressing that

DISASTER

to

Failure To Establish Real Cause

London, To-day.

the population!

of the Saar, by their answer in

them-

Pherson.

operation

recom

Association, to stand down if the

ed, on January 9 last, one bottle.

London, To-day. former body would nominate a

of House of Lords whisky from

The India Office announces that! Liberal National candidate in

Dr. L S. Jose and Mrs. Hester

order to give effect to the Place of the Dominions Secretary, Wong, partners of the Interna-Government of India and the

was defeated in the General

pretending that it was to be given ing as from the date provisional Election as the National Labour to the 1st Bailiff, Supreme Court, autonomy comes into candidate, but accepted the with whom he would use his in-that Burma shall cease to be a Liberal invitation to be nominat finence in connection with a disprovince of India, and with a view

the retiring tress warrant issued against the ed in succession to

to defaing the sims payable by Liberal National Member for Ross boarding house."

Bama to India, the Secretary for and Cromarty, Sir Ian Mar

A second charge of obtaining India has adopted, subject to $20 by the same faise pretence, minor modifications, the Mr. MacDonald has received 2 from the complainants, on Janu- mendations of the tribunal presid- An Alexandria message states Germans, Catho that the inquest held there res telegram from the Prime Minis-ary 10, was also preferred against ed over by Mr. L. S. Amery, and has appointed an application com- lies and Protestants frt just Ger-terday on the victims of the "Cityter, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, stating the defendant.

New that he has the Premier's whole In answer to the charge Gajjan mittee to draw up a statement of the assets and abilities of the any hope of internal disunity inYear's Eve has failed to reveal its hearted support, and strongly Singh pleaded not guilty.

Detective-Inspector Whant, whe Central Government of India at arging Unionists, in the interests Germany in the future would be cause. The pilot and sole

vivor, Captain Wilson, repeated of the National Government, to was in charge of the case for the the date of separation and to as- said that be had sign a value thereto, and to advise doomed to disappointment.

his earlier statement, that within one minute of dispatching the support Mr. MacDonald as they prosecution,

com-the Secretary of State as to thej did Sir Ian MacPherson-British given permission last wireless call all the engines Wireless Service.

plainants not to attend court, as assessment of the sums to be paid there Was a distress warrant by Burma. "We do not want the French to failed simultaneously, and sug-

against the Boarding House and "The committee will be guided by of the have internal disorders or Eng-1

recommendations they were trying to put maker's (the land to be faced with revolts,"gested that the cause might have been an obstruction or break in

British Wireless Sex-l right the petrol feed.

-the plebiscite, had shown

selves to be not Prussians. Ba- varians, South

mans, the speaker declared that Khartoum" disaster on

Cannons And Tanks

sur-

concluded Herr Buerckel nobody can impress us either any

The Inspector of the Air Minis- longer with cannons and tanks. Only one thing can impress as: try told the coroner that it would that others regard it as a matter be a month before evidence on of honour not to encroach on our the expert detailed investigation honour, so that, at peace with all, on the wreckage could be made we can work for our children's available.-British Wireless Ser-

Price future. Our greatest inward joy is that we are Germans and have Herr Hitler”.

The Minister of the Interior, Dr. Frick, also stressed the historical significance of the Saar plebis- cite, which had been a memor- able start for the year 1935, the year in which Herr Hitler, with political foresight, had made the German nation a present of military independence.

Problems Ahead

LONDON NAVAL PARLEY

(Continued from Page 11

STILL CAUSE FOR OPTIMISM

to the

Substantial Bail

The hearing was then fixed for

the afternoon of Monday next of the London Naval Conference bail, the officer for the prosecu London: The First Committee and when defendant asked for meets this morning after an in-tion asked that a substantial, sum terval of several days necessitated be fixed, adding that the defendant

ROAD SAFETY IN by the discussions between the was unemployed and that there

LONDON Experiment In East End District

London, To-day.

delegations arising out of the Ja-were two rather serious charges panese delegater' desire to secure against him. Bail in the sum of a rediscussion of their proposal $250 was fired for a "common upper limit."

tribunal: vice.

FINNISH FERRY DISASTER Seventeen People Drowned

· CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Helsingfors, To-day. Seventeen persons

were

-Addressing the defendant, MA The Japanese Cabinet met on Wynne-Jones said: "I have put Sunday and the newspapers be this ease of fill Monday. You've lieve that the effect of the instruc got six days, and if you are going drowned when the ferry plying trance to the Gulf of Finland, tions sent to the delegates in Lon- to get a solicitor, for goodness between Langoe, at the en- dow from Tokyo will be that, folsake do it at once.

It is no use

In continuation of the cam- lowing further elucidation of the your instructing a solicitor at 12 and the island of Bussarie cap paign for road safety plans are in. Japanese proposal, which has not o'clock on Monday and then he sized Only seven passengers

Dr. Frick designated the trans-east-end London Borough Connegations, the Conference, will re-} adjournment, saying that be 125 The latter owe their lives to

were

able to save themselves. Describing the problems still consideration between the Minis-

one of the won the support of the other de- comes up here and asks for and the crew of the ferry were awaiting fulfilment in the Saar, try of Transport and

sume consideration of the -sug had no time to go into the ease. ference of the Saar output from clls for an experiment on a larger gestions for the exchange of in-If you're going to get a solicitor, the fact that they were on deck

not going to stand any nonsense. the French to the German market scale then hitherto, with guard formation and for qualitative you've got to get one in time, Pm at the moment when the catas as the principal event, while the rails between the footway and disarmament. adjustment of wages and prices carriage way.

The suggestion is to place to the average obtaming in the rest of Germany and the revival along about six miles of pe of economic life in the Saxt by in one of the roads means of ambitions employment-worst record, for street accidents, creating projects came next in th openings at marked

kaian crossings. At order of importance..

The guilding principle had ing signa been and still was to find work

Hghts lestrians destró

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The fears that the dapa zails might leave the Conference if

their proposal were not

the which had been expressi

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lised the attitude

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