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HARRAR IN FLAMES

SURPRISE ITALIAN ACT

AGAINST MOSLEMS

HOSPITALS AGAIN BOMBED DESPITE BEING CLEARLY MARKED

Addis Ababa, To-day.

Sixty Italian aeroplanes appeared at Harrar early yesterday morning. They did not bomb the town, but 15 returned later and dropped incen- The whole diary bombs from 7.15 till 9.30 a.m. Lown is in flames, The Mosque, French Mission hospital and Gibbi Cathedral have been totally destroyed.

Later: An official communique" from Harrar states that 37 Italian planes bombed the town for an hour. The number of vic- tims is unknown. The buildings destroyed include two churches. the French mission, the French Consulate, the former Italian Cossulate, the wireless station and prison..

Fifteen bombs were dropped on the hospital of the Egyptian Red, Crescent and several on the hospital of the Ethiopian Red, Cross. Two fell near the Swedish Hospital.

Crown Prince Astxo Tafari. Son of Emperor Haile Selassie. will find himself on the throne of Ethiopia if the rumoured abdica- tion of his father comes true. He is reported to favour a peaceful settlement with Italy.

The latest photograph of Eiro Fakai president of the Bank of Japan.

FRANCE MUST AWAIT DEVELOPMENTS GERMAN VAGUENESS

DEPLORED

PACTS OF NO VALUE IF OPEN TO UNILATERAL REPUDIATION

Paris, To-day.

In an important electoral speech M. Flandin, Foreign Minister, yesterday re-affirmed that once respect for international law was re-established France was ready for all negotiations calculated to consolidate peace.

He emphasised that the basis of the negotiations must be precise and serious. He said he hoped Herr Hitler's speeches would correct the vagueness of his original proposition, but be did this only on one important point, namely, he opposed the value of treaties to what he called the vital eternal rights of the German people,

M. Flandin. asked what was the value of a treaty if Germany reserved the right to repudiate it? In the case of a new treaty with Germany who was the independent, impartial judge whom

"All the hospitals GERMAN LUXURY LINER Germany would recognise, and to what decision would she submit?

were clearly marked with Red Crosses. The store of one Mo) hamed Ali is said to have been gutted.

Eye-witnesses say that a warning was given half an hour before the raid and the population fled to the hills, so that the casualties in the town are not thought to be numerous.

ELECTIONS IN GERMANY

Amazing Triumph For Hitler

DECISION AGAINST ANY COMPROMISE

CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Berlin, To-day.

There is considerable surprise

at Addis Ababa at the bombing

The

VISITS COLONY

CAPTAIN'S STATEMENT ON ‘RELIANCE” INCIDENT

of Harrar. which is a great Mos- lem centre. Hitherto the Ita-

Hamburg-Amerika Round-the-World luxury liner lians have spared the Moslems. Reliance, carrying over 250 passengers, arrived in Hong Kong at [hoping to win them over.

7.15 am to-day. She is expected to leave the Colony to-morrow Rome: No confirmation is re-morning for Shanghai and Chingwangtao.... ported of the bombing of Harrar.)

-Reuter

TOWN IN RUINS

It was impossible not to perceive a profound contradiction in the two conceptions of international life, firstly, Germany's con- ception of force, and secondly, the rest of the world's conception of right

The French people were

necessity of organising peace on solid and durable foundations.

2.5

ECHO OF BORDER convinced as Germany of the

CLASH

Bodies Of Soldiers To

Be Handed Over

Moscow, To-day

There is a faint possibility that Bruno Hauptmann, abova, con- victed-killer of the Lindbergh baby in 1932, may escape the electric chair to-morrow' LE the result of the derenth-hour charge against an ex-lawyer of Trenton, New Jeracy.

HAUPTMANN SENSATION

Ex-Lawyer Alleged Tortured

CHARGED WITH MURDER OF LINDBERGH BABY

Trenton, NJ, To-day.

There has been a startling de-

"If Herr Hitlerr is prepared |

general discussion without for reserve or reticence let him reply to all our questions not with velopment in the Hauptmanu The Cruise Director was very

vague speeches with the object case. A warrant charging_the reticent regarding the incident

of misleading and pasting pub formes, Tranton lawyer, Paul prior to the ship's arrival in

Following the request of the lic opinion to sleep, but by Wendel with the murder of the Addis Ababa At & o'clock yes- SHANGHAI ELECTION SCANDAL Manila and about the subsequent

Japanese Ambassador, Mr. categorical and precise declare Lindbergh baby has been sword terday morning an Italian bomb-

press reports, following a state-Ohta, the local Soviet authori- tion." ment by an American passer-ties in the Far East have been ger, Mr. A. Simonds, în the

instructed to hand over the M. Flandin asked why Germany the Mercer County detectives. "Malaya Tribune" in Singapore-bodies of the two Japanese sol- was fortifying the demilitarised The Attorney-General of New The Captain of the Reliance, diers who were killed during the zone. Did Herr Hitler intend to Jersey, Mr. Wilentz, stated that Commodore Fritz Kruse, issued Manchukuo frontier incident arrange the question of the Wendel 'denied the crime. He the following statement, which near Hung Ching last Thurs statute of Danzig? When be pro-declared he had been tortured the released on Saturday last: day. Beuter.

ing squadron, coming from the south, bombed the important city of Harrar, which has since De- cember 2, 1935, been declared an open, unfortified city.

The attack lasted three

tours

One of the first results known] in the German Reichstag elec tion was that for the district of and the town is stated to be eu- "Rheinpfalz-Saar," which return-tirely destroyed, the French and voles Coptic Churches and the French 1,038,000 affirmative against 1,422 negative, represent-Red Cross hospital being in ruins. ing 99.7 per cent. in favour of Unconfirmed HHitler.

ed

ofi

rumours state that

the Abyssinian anti-aircraft gunners brought down one Italian plane.-Trans-Ocean Service.

NEARING LAKE TSANA Asmara: The Italians, con- ad- tinuing their northern vance, have occupied Dacua, eight miles to the south of De- barech, without resistance.

The interim count for the whole Reich, published at 10.20 gives 21,638,198 votes cast, which 201,488 are against the list or unvalid, while 21,436,910 are cast in favour of the list, repre-] senting 99 per cent. for and 1 per cent, against Herr Hitler.-Trans-They are now barely 50 miles Octan Service.

INTEREST IN PARIS

Paris: The evening papers de-j vote columns to the German elec

ons, the long reports by their pecial correspondents even being illustrated by many telegraphed photos

from Lake Tsana. Aeroplanes are active along the whole front. Reuter.

ITALIAN PLANE CRASHES

Committee Of Investigation Appointed

Shanghai, To-day.

The Shanghai Municipal Coun- cil has appointed a committee of three, consisting of an American, Japanese and a Chinese, to investigate the elections scandal. -Reater.

JACK KASLEY AGAIN

Another Swimming Record Gone!

at Marila:

**In the Malaya Tribune of March 17, Mr. A. Simonds, 忽 passenger

the sa Reliance, which I command, made the fol lowing statement:

on

will not

I

of the passengers day when he beat Jean Carton-made a one-minute speech of his net's time of 2 mins. 426/10 seca own free will, all the Germans de-| for the 200 Metres Breast-Stroke, the new time being 2 mins. 37 2/10 in present.

SOVIET-AFGHAN TREATY

Renewed For Ten Years

AIRSHIP TOUR ENDED

WHY FORTIFICATIONS?

out by Mr. Kirkham, chief of

[posed a pact of non-aggression with a view to making him con-

with Lithuania did he definitely fess. Reuter. accept the statute of Memel, or Hauptmann is to die in the was it only in order to prepare electric chair to-morrow, but he for a new fait accompli in viola is still calmly convinced that tion of the treaties?

"something will happen to

was

AND EGYPT

be Military Agreement

Reached?

If Germany meant to claim her save him. Governor Hoffman's Maybe other nations may think

(colonies did Herr Hitler demand personal appeal to re-enter the otherwise, but America

the return of all Germany's pre-Lindbergh case has been reject agree with anyone on anything.

or only certain ofjed by the Department of Jus-, do pot think anybody should agree

war colonies Moscow, To-day. with Germany

them?

tice, so that Huptmann's last or anything, be

The Soviet-Afghan treaty of cause she regards agreements as

to escape the electric He asserted that Nazi propa-chance scraps of paper."

mutual non-aggression and neu- "Naturally such an uncalled-for trality, concluded in 1931, has ganda had been redoubled in Aus- chair would appear to rest with jand provocative remark annoyed been renewed for 10 years up tria, Danish Schleswig, Polish Si-the Court of Pardons, which is New Haven, To-day.

this lesia, Czechoslovakia and Switzer-meeting at 11 am. to-day. the German passengers very much to 1946. A protocol to indeed

effect has been signed by the land. He asked: Did Herr Hitler Jack Kasley, the University of

"During a lecture given to the Afghan and Soviet Foreign renounce the absorption of these GREAT BRITAIN Michigan star, set up another new German passengers by a staff Ministers. - Reuter.

populations and territories into world's swimming record yester-member, one

the Reich?

PEACE INDIVISIBLE For France peace divisible and could not covered by bilateral pacts of non-j aggression, some of which could! be rejected at the chosen moment, The correspondents are unanim-. ous in the opinion that never be.

while others could cover an ag fore has an election been carried

gressor against the proposed, col- France through with such magnificent

lective security action. CHINA MAIL " SPECIAL A three-engined military plane

Friedrichshafen, To-day. held that mutual assistance. was] organisation. The correspondent. of Intransigeant says the elec-from Bologns crashed. yesterday In an earlier cable, Kasley's time were of the same opinion. Even

After having been in the air for obligatory and-immediate, at least tion is like a national holiday, at Castigione del Lage, Central was given as 2 mins. 24 1/10 secs many of the American

The preliminary Anglo-EzTV- Herr Hitler having swept the Italy. One officer and three but a correction has since beer gers expressed the opinion, freely 25 hours uninterruptedly, cover in defined regions and in the other ranks were killed, while received to the effect that the new and frankly, that Mr. Simondsing 6,576 kilometres during an event of unprovoiced aggression.

election propaganda trip, the new The surest preventive of warian negotiations regarding the utterly unwar-Zeppelin Field Marshal von Hin- and peace rested on the strict ob

future strength of the British Reviewing the course of the the wireless operator escaped un-record is 2 mina. 22 5/10 secs.statement was

Iranted. election campaign in general, the hurt-Reuter.

denburg arrived safely here yes servance of treaties, which could garrisons in Egypt are declared ¡Continued on Page 12)

terday evening, while the sister-be revised by conciliation and arby well-informed circles ship, the Graf Zeppelin, circled bitration. Once security was ob-making good progress

A decision is expected overhead before landing at the tained the European nationa ought|

very shortly. The basis of the agree neighbouring flying-feld. - Trans to disarm on a large scale.

ment is said to be: Ocean Service.

whole of Germany,

Petit Parisien: writes: “Our poɛl-} tion as an impartial observer com- pels us to any that Herr Hitler, on the 11 occasions he spoke in the dificerent parts of Germany to audiences, always re- ceived the greatest applause when he spoke of his desire for peace.” -Trans-Ocean Service.

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REUTER'S REPORT

Berlin: The fast election result broadcast at 8.20 p.m. yesterday showed a 98 per cent. vote for Herr Hitler,

Berlin, 11 pm; So far 34,315,- 000 votes have been counted, of which 33,927,000 are for Herr Hitler and 288,000 against, repre- senting a percentage of 989 for the Fuehrer.

(Continued on Page 12)

Officer And Three. Ranks Killed

Rome, To-day.

secs.

"He said that in view of the very

Insulting remarks made by Mr. It will be remembered that last Simmonds and as published in the Wednesday Kasley shattered Car-press, it probably would be better ionnet's record of 2 mins. 25 secs. to leave Mr. Simonds to his own

Al those for the 200 yards Breast-Stroke.] company.

present

Reuter.-

The Hamburg-Amerika Iner Reliance, which arrived in part this morning" on which will leave again to-morrow morning. The Reliance is a sister-ship of the Resoluta, ed Hong Kong on several occasioni "when making sladilar world-erzines with "Captain) captain of the Reliance, in command

passed-

Successful Cruise By German Dirigibles

PLANES COLLIDE

IN MID-AIR

Pilot And Lady Doctor Killed

Versailles, To-day?

Two people were killed and two seriously injured in a colli- sion in mid-air between two civil aeroplanes over Toussus Noble aerodrome.

Reuter

DECISION EXPECTED VERY SHORTLY

~CHINA MAIL - SPECIALI

Cairo, To-day-

to be..

(1). The stationing of consider- able British forces in the Suez Caral zone;

STOP PRESS (2) The development of Alexan-

A telegram received from Home states that the opera/ tion on Lady Caldecott for apprendicitis has been en- tirely successful, and that she is making excellent lef progress. If this continues. The people it is probable that she will killed were the pilot and a lady sail for the East by the P. | doctor, who was a passenger. and 0. ss: Corfa, due in

Hong Kong on June 10.

Beuter.

dria into a British air, military and naval base,

to

'(8) The establishment of Bri- tish garrisons along the raûway line leading from Alexandría the Loyan frontier. Y

In return the British troops are to be finally withdrawn from the other Egyptian towns. In Khar- toam in the Sudan a kubstantial increase of the British garrisom is contemplated. *** Trans-Ocean Service