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ADDIS ABABA

ABABA BY AIR

ITALY CONTEMPLATING OCCUPATION OF ADDIS

PASSENGERS LANDED Demoralisation Of Abyssinian Army Would Be Completed

FROM RANPURA

ART TREASURES TO BE

TRANSFERRED

VESSEL AGROUND IN HURRICANE GALE OFF SPANISH SHORE

Gibraltar, To-day.

'It appears that the P. and O. liner Ranpura, carrying the Chinese art treasures back to China, dragged her anchors after the first tender carry- ing passengers ashore had left the ship, ground- ing in a dangerous spot called Puntamala, five miles north-west of Gibraltar, her bows facing the land. The weather has not changed, and the fact that the tenders are unable to approach is inconveniencing the passengers, many of whom The Ran- have been deprived of their luggage. pura is roughly 500 yards from the Spanish shore. Other Gibraltar advices say that Admiralty tugs have not yet been able to move the Ranpura. A naval target-towing tug is now also going to her assistance. A hurricane gale continues,! and a special watch is being kept on all warships lest they preak: their moorings.

The Home Secretary. Sir Jedn has rejected the Simon, above, plea for mercy in the case of Nurse Waddingham, convicted of the murder of a woman patient at a nursing home, and she is to be executed to-morrow, eighth woman to be hanged in Britain in this century.

ROOSEVELT'S

CAMPAIGN “

Revival Of NRA. Principles?

LARGE PLANES CAN LAND IN CAPITAL MASS TRANSPORT NO IMPOSSIBILITY

BOMBING PLANES COULD COVER

LANDING OF TROOPS

CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL ·

Asmara, To-day.

The Gorgora Peninsula in the northern part of Lake Tsana has been occupied by Italian troops. the When, after a 33-miles' march, the Italians ar- rived, the elders of all the villages gathered and took part in the ceremony of hoisting the Italian flag. Italian reports even state that the monks living opposite the Peninsula on an island came over to welcome the Italians

Washington, To-day.

Mr. Cordell Hull, U.S. Secre- tary of State, above, made an eloquent appeal yesterday to the peoples of the American nations to "banish the scourge of war for ever from the hemisphere.”

MINERS DASHED

TO DEATH

TERRIBLE TRAGEDY

IN JAPAN

TACTICS OF

ITALY ·

OBSTRUCTION AND DELAY

ALOIST'S ARRIVAL IN GENEVA

ONLY STATUS AS ENVOY

“CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Paris, To-day. The French delegation to the Franco-British-Belgian General Staff deliberations, which begin in London to-day. left here yes- terday, headed by General Schweisguth, who was presezi at the first meeting between M. Flandin and Mr. Anthony Eden in London.

The Deputy Chief of Staff of Vice Admiral the Admiralty. Abrial, will represent the Ad- miralty, and the Deputy Chief of the General Air Staff, Gen- eral Mouchard, represents the Air Ministry.

MERELY AN ENVOY

1 Through the occupation of this Gorgora Peninsula, which is exceedingly fertile, the Italians command the whole of Lake Tsana jand thus communication between North and South Abyssinia. Rome: Detailed accounts of the Italian air demonstration Political observers regard over Addis Ababa state that the bombers appeared over the capi-

Rome: Baron Aloisi left here The British Consulate at Gibraltar reports that the Banpura

yesterday for Geneva, and the arrived off the harbour shortly after 11 am. yesterday and went President Roosevelt's Baltimore tal at 10.40 am. on Monday, circled around in great curves and

first conversation with Senor de to her anchorage outside. Two hours later she sent a wireless speech as an indication that re-dropped handbills recounting the victories of the Italian troops

Madariago is scheduled for to- message asking for a tug to go to her assistance. The spot at employment by continued social until now, and depicting the extent of the Abyssinian territory

Fukuoka, To-day.

day. It is specially emphasised which the vessel has grounded has a sandy bottom, but the high and economie readjustment will occupied by the Italian army. The text clases with the passage:- be one of the principal issues in "We could have blown Addis Ababa to atoms, but did not wind causes difficulty.

Eighty-two miners were yester that Baron Alcisi goes to Geneva Gibraltar, larer: The dock-his re-election campaign, at the do so this time. We are satisfied to-day with letting the popula

day dashed down a distance of merely as an envoy, not as plení. yard tugs suspended their re- same time lending substance to tion see our might “

In military-circles here great occupy Addis Ababa by air. 1,950 feet when descending a potentiary. He carries.no kind of floating operations on the Ran-the-belief that his re-election pura last night, and will resume may be followed by a renewed importance is attached to this The provisioning of the white shaft of the Sumitomo Co's Tara-positive proposals, but will be at at six o'clock this morning. The effort to revive the principles of experiment, which is believed to Italian divisions has shown that kuma coal-mine.

be the prelude to an attempt to mass transport is no impossibi- the cage snapped. weather is improving slightly. (the N.R.A. — Reuter. The passengers who were stranded in the liner have now

NEAR EASTERN POLITICS

Transjordan And Saudi Arabia

STOLEN DOCUMENT PUBLISHED

· CHINA MAIL ~ SPECIAL

Jerusalem, To-day.

been safely landed with their HOOLIGANISM IN

luggage.

Gibralter, later: It is most re- liably stated that the P. and 0. liner Barrapool has been

in-!

The publication here a few structed by wireless to change days ago of what purports to her course and proceed imme- be the original text of the mem-diately to Gibraltar, for the pur- orandum sent by Emir Abdulah pose of taking the Chinese trea- of Transjordan to the British sures to Shanghai. Government has created the greatest sensation here, and has prompted pressmen to ask the Transjordan Premier. Torahim! Pasha Hashem im Anman, whe- ther the version published was the exact tex: or not.

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NEW SYNTHETIC FIBRE

The Premier stated that the Third Thinner Than The document had been stolen from! Finest Natural Silk

the Emir's Chancellery and pub-

lished against Abdullah's will

No statement would be made as

Kansas City, Today.

A new synthetic fibre which

to the accuracy of the published is one-third thinner than the

text.

the thrones.

ад an-

SPAIN

1

CRACKERS LET OFF AT PARADE AND POPULACE FEAR COUP

- CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL,

Madrid, To-day.

lity.

The cable of the disposal of the Committee of Thirteen, to receive communica- The bodies of 49 men who were tions and transmit them to Rome.

Am aerodrome

20 seriously injured where large killed and

MEEING DELAYED far been brought planes can land exists in Addis people have so

Geneva: The communication Ababa, and the opinion prevails up to the surface.--Renter.

of Baron Aloisi, Italian League that a large number of men could

delegate, that he would only ar rive this evening to confer with Senor de Madariaga, laves doubt whether the session of the Com- mittee of Thirteen will be able to take place even to-morrow. Senor de Madariaga meanwhile annonn- ced that he would confer with the Abyssinian delegate; M. Wolde Maria-Trans-Ocean Service.

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IN CANADA

Frantic Efforts At Rescue

be landed, while a squadron of MINERS ENTOMBED fighter planes could effectivelyį protect them from an attack from the ground. If such plans should succeed, it is considered certain At a military parade yesterday, to celebrate the fifth anni-that the demoralisation of the versary of the Spanish republic panic broke out opposite the re-Abyssinian army would be sident's tribune and alongside the grandstand occupied by the plete. Trans-Ocean Service. Diplomatic Corps.

The cause was a sudden series of detonations following one an- other rapidly, due to the explo sion of fireworks let off by un- known persons, and giving rise

to the erroneous assumption! had pe- that the Communists

overthrow an attempt to gun the Government.

Very soon, the fireworks hav-i ing all exploded, the detonations

WOMAN MURDERER TO DIE

Recommendation For Mercy Disregarded

London, To-day- The Home Secretary, Sir Jolm Simon, has declined to act upon the jury's recommendation for mercy in the case of Nurse Waddingham, who was convicted of the murder patient in a nursing home. She will be hanged at Birmingham She will be the eighth woman to be hanged in Britain in this century.

WOMIRM

Nurse Waddingham has five children, the youngest being six months old-Reuter.

Nor could any informa finest natural silk has been pro stopped and the real cause was tion be furnished about the in-duced from woodpalp by a firm Idiscovered. The parade thea dividual points of the docu-of American manufacturers of continued.

to-morrow. One officer, however, had fired ments, or about the alleged en-rayon, according to deavour of the Emir to obtain nouncement at the annual meet-ja few revolver shots to frighten Palestine ing of the American Chemical the crowd, and was roughly Syrian and

Society.

manhandled when it was found As to the assertion published The new rayon is so delicate that it all had been a false at the same time as the docu-that a woman's undergarment alarm. This treatment of the ment, to the effect that an Iraq-composed of it can be hid in the officer, however, caused the Transjordan friendship agree palm of the hand. The inven-military to fire into the crowd, ment was about to be signed. tion is largely the result of new one person being killed and the Premier denied emphatical studies of the molecular char-several seriously wounded. ly that there was any truth in acter of fibre. --- Beuter. this allegation, since as a re-

sult of the treaty signed in

1931 between the two countries their relations had been excel-

lent, while the blood relation STOP PRESS

ship between the Emir Abdul- lah and his nephew, King:

Ghazi, made' new treaties super- finous.

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The Premier also denied that Transjordan had any intention of becoming a party to the Iraq-Saudi Arabia Treaty. — Trans-Ocean Service.

GERMANY AND FRANCE

Berlin,,To-day. Germany's right to the most-favoured-nation treatment in the. French mandated territories: which expires on April. 29, has been prolonged until July 20 by agreement of the German and French Governments-Trans- Ocean Service.

Manila, To-day.

Two American-navy des- troyers came into collision yesterday during night exercises

off・・ "Olongopo which Naval Station, to both are reported to be pro- ceeding. It is understood

one

STA

.badly

that damaged.

There is a rumour that one was abandoned as lost, but that it still found to be above water this morning. This report, however, has not yet been confirmed. Reuter.

After the parade was over. Communists and their political opponents had a real fight with firearms, when one Communist was killed and four other per- Sons were wounded - Trans- Ocean Service.

FIRST SHIP IN

MONTREAL

British Freighter Breaks Record

Montreal, To-day,

"BANISH ALL WAR”

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com-

POISON GAS ATTACKS BY ITALIANS

Nineteen Cases Cited

By Abyssinians

QUORAM LITERALLY

DRENCHED

Geneva, To-day.

Nineteen cases of poison gas at tacks by the Italians are cited by an Abyssinian note published by the League, the dates of the at- tacks ranging from December 22

the last four bombardments of

at:

Halifax, To-day.

Three miners have been tombed Sim a gold mine Moose River, Nova Scotia, and miners were digging ย shaft the whole of Monday night! in an attempt to reach the three men, who on Monday morning had|

down

to inspect a mine! working 150 feet below the sur- face. The hopes of rescuing the men have not yet been abandon- ed-Reuter's Bulletin Service.

gone

GENERAL STRIKE IN FRANCE?

Lens Coal Workers Dissatisfied

FORGED NOTES IN CANTON

Three Foreigners Arrested

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SIMPLE PROCESS OF MANUFACTURE

[From Our Own Correspondent] Canton, To-day. Three foreigners were arrest- ed in the Oriental Hotel in Fat- shan on Monday night for hav- ing in their possession counter-. feit notes of the 10-dollar de- * CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

nomination bearing the name of Paris, To-day. to April 7. It states that during

A general strike on May 1 has the Hong Kong and Shanghai Queram from April 4 to 7 the been decided on by all the trade Banking Corporation. The ap Appeal To American

Lawn was literally drenched with unions in Northern France, in paratus used for forging the

notes was also seized. poison gas, mostly mustard gas or the coal basin of Lens. The Nations

yprite.

The process was a very sim- reason given is that the workers Washington, To-day. Cairo: The doctor in charre consider the concessions made Pie one. A blank paper smeared with certain ink was pressed An eloquent appeal to the peo of the Egyptian Red Cross unit in to them insufficient. On receipt against a genuine note and was nations Abyssinia returned to Cairo yes of this decision, the National then imprinted with all the ples of the 21 American

Commenting on the Ita Association of Underground Fit marks and water colour of a to support the efforts of the Gov-terday. ernments to banish the scourge of lian charges of atrocities by Abys Workers convened an war for ever from the hemisphere sinians, in which the testimony of ordinary meeting yesterday, in was made by Mr. Cordell Hall three members of the Egyptian order to decide whether this

extra-

real note.

Folice officers who made the arrest declared that the false

Secretary of State, in a speech Red Cross is cited, he said the strike is to be extended over all note looks very much like a

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Trans-

Ocean Service. yesterday, commemorating Pan- the testimonies of the three men French coal mines.

must be cccepted with reserve, as American Day.

they were men diamissd from the

CHAIRMAN OF SEC. TÓ RETIRE?

Be described the coming Pan-junit for insubordination. The first steamer to reach Mon-American peace conference at

He had only seen a single case treal after the winter frost was Buenos Aires as an opportunity

genuine one, and money-chang- ers in Fatshan, 25.miles west of Canton, could not tell the differ- fence.*

The three foreigners have [been detained at the Nam Hoi Washington, Today - Mr. County Administration and will the British tramp steamer West to set an example to the world in of an atrocity-that of the pilot Wales, from Argentina. She ar-friendly co-operation and enlight-of a.plane which crashed at Dag-James Landis, Chairman of the be sent here to-day for trial.

jzahbuz last December. However, Securities Exchange Commis. Ten minutes are required for rived on April 15, which is one ened nationalism-Reuter.

the men responsible for the out-sion, said yesterday that there imprinting each false note. The rage were immediately arrested is a possibility of his retiring ink is said to be very expensive from the Chairmanship. Ren-and was manufactured in

Europe. 'ter. (Continued on Page 7)

day ahead of the existing record

-

(for reaching: Montreal after the

breakup of the ice on the river. with the traditional goid-beaded and executed.

The Captain has been presented c

-Beuter's Bulletin Service.