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GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF ABYSSINIAN DEFEAT AT GORRAHWADI

COMMUNAL

RIOTING

ARABS AND JEWS

CLASH

Serious Position In

Palestine

STATE OF ALARM DECLARED

Jerusalem, To-day.

A serious situation has develop- ed in Jerusalem, where clashes be- tween Arabs and Jews necessitat- ed police baton charges. It is re- ported that some shots were fired, resulting in several deaths. The military were called in.

According to Jewish sources three Jews were killed and a

score injured at Jaffa.

It is

Submerged to a depth of 18 feet and with more than 50 persons reported" dead, this is an air view of the

Note the rising waters in the street. rumoured that there were flood-stricken city of Johnstown, Pasadena, last month. several fatalities among the

Arabs.

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Jewish business

men of Jaffa

are trying to escape to Telaviv.

The telephone lines to Jafa are

CHINA'S SOCCER HOPES

in the hands of the Government LEE WAI-TONG DEPLORES LACK

and all transport

to Jaffa and)

Haifa has ceased. The Government i reports that the situation is well

OF INSIDE FORWARDS

in hand and the military are In an exclusive interview with the China Mail this morning, standing by, but so far there has Lee Wai-tong, the probable captain of the All-China Association been no occasion to call on them football to take part in the Berlin Olympic Games, said that he

deplored the lack of inside forwards, especially among the re CLASHES AT HAIFA

serves, as there were more wingers in the complement than there Paris: It is reported from were inside-men. Cairo that four Jews and Arabs have been killed in clashes! at Haifa, where a British officer was seriously injured. A state of alarm has been declared through-į out Palestine. ·

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NINE KILLED Jerusalem: Jewish sources now! report that nine people have been killed in the disturbances and 39) injured, of whom 11 are serious-] ly hurt.

MR. W. HUGHES INVOLVED

IN CAR ACCIDENT-

Head-On Collision Forces Vehicle Over Embankment

with A curfew was enforced

at Jaffa and Telaviv at 7 p.m. All is now quiet in both towns.

TENSE SITUATION Jerusalem: There is 2 tense situation at Jaffa, following a clash between Arabs and Jews on. the occasion of the funeral of two Arabs, murdered allegedy in re- venge for the murder of a Jew, though the police believe that it was the result of an Arab feud. The police made baton charges and restored order after several people] had been reported killed and all; shops closed. Steel-helmeted police' armed with rifes are patrolling the streets.

BRITISH FAMILY STONED Jerusalem: An Order-in-Council |

Sydney, To-day. Mr. William Hughes, the war- time Prime Minister, motoring his wife, Dame Mary Hughes, was involved in a head- on collision near Albury, yester day. Mr. Hughes was jammed behind the wheel and was unable to steer the car, which went over

an embankment, Both escaped with slight injuries and shock. Peuter.

CHINA FLEET MOVEMENTS

Warships Leaving For North

SUMMER CRUISE

Within the

the

1. He felt sure that if Chís Keng- hock, the Singapore and Malayan Chinese centre-forward, and Lei Giok-sen, of Batavia, had taken part in the trials they would have Both these men been selected. were extraordinarily good and would have fitted in well with the other forwards.

GERMAN MINISTER LOST IN SANDSTORM

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Egyptian Government Institutes Search With Planes

ALL THE ITALIAN RESERVES THROWN INTO BATTLE EPIC LIBYAN ADVANCE IN FACE OF

WITHERING MACHINE-GUN FIRE COMPLETE TRIUMPH IN POURING RAIN

London, To-day.

A graphic account of the battle of Gorrahwadi is given by Reuter's special correspondent with the southern forces. He states that the Ita- lians lost 10 white officers and 600 Libyan and Somali troops.

The forces of Abebedamtu numbered 10,000 armed with modern weapons and a large number of machine-guns. Entrenched in a nar- row gorge, Gorrahwadi used. caves and sheer cliffs as machine-gum nests.

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A battalion of Libyans, flanked by irregulars and Somalis, and supported by tanks and field artillery, charged the gorge on April 15 in pouring rain. They reached a tributary of the Gorrahwadi at nightfall and, reinforced by three Libyan regiments, again advanced in the morning and met the full blast of the Ethiopian machine-guns posted in front of caverns.

The charges and counter-charges and desperate hand-to-hand fighting continued for hours. No quarter was given or asked.Į The Ethiopians at midnight daringly attempted to encircle the Italian line but were repulsed.

Then at dawn a detachment of Debais started a flanking movement, but were trapped and wiped out by Ethiopian machine- gun units.

LAST STAND BY the battle Royal

Cairo, To-day. The German inister, Baron ven Stohrer, bas? been lost in a sandstorm while accompanying the competitors in the Automobile Club annual race from Baharin to the Western Desert The Government has instituted a search, assisted by Air Force planes.---Reuter.

NEW JAPANESE AMBASSADOR

Lee Wai-tong said that he was Objections To Proposed

sure that the “A” team, on yes- terday's display, was the best [available, although one or two changes would possibly be made is the intermediate and forward lines before the All-China team lined up for their first match in Berlin.

Candidate

OPPOSITION FROM OFFICIAL CANTON CIRCLES

[From Our Own Correspondent] Canton, To-day.

ETHIOPIANS.

Meanwhile three Libyan regiments engaged the Ethiopians, who furiously attacked the Italian left flank. The Italian Gen-, eral Nasi threw in all his reserves and the Ethiopians, dis- heartened by the death of their leader, retreated and fled.

Rome: The official account of the southern 03 front between General Nasi's Libyan division and the forces of Abebedantu says that several thousands of Ethiopians, including *some important chiefs, were killed. The Ita- liaus lost 10 officers killed and wounded and three airmen wounded, Two planes came down in their own lines, and there wert several hundred Addis Ababa, To-day.

casualties among other ranks. Two and a half days' fierce With the invaders reported to fighting resulted in the com- be only 80 miles from the capi-plete defeat of the enemy. tal, the Ethiopians are prepar- OFFENSIVE CONFIRMEDD ing to make a last desperate

Italians 80 Miles From Capital

WARRIORS WILL FIGHT TO THE END

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under Detained guard by Venezuelax authorities, Talcott Powell, “above, an‘Ameri- can-writer, and a party of frienda who sailed to search for the ancient site of the first Spanisk settlement in Amerïes, were held Dis- patches indicated that the papers. of their schoomer were not order.

at Palamar, Venezuela. Roffie: The opening of the

stand to defend the city. The Italian offensive against Harrar patriotism of the citizens re-is confirmed in a communique mains undaunted. Yesterday a from Marshal Badoglio, which, great crowd assembled at the states that on the Somali front frace course to hear a proclama- the Italian troops under the com- Eighteen players-Chua Boon Because he made an unlawful tion ordering every able-bodied mand of General Graziani began Lay, Teui Ah-fai, Wong Wing and arrest of a Korean in Canton, male to collect armas, ammuni- an offensive movement at dawn on! Mak Shui-hong are not travelling Mr. Shigeru Kawagoe, prospection and food and be ready to April 14. A battle followed on the |North-together with the mana-tive Japanese Ambassador to take marching orders under left wing of the Italian front.

TROOPS FOR E. AFRICA ger and coach, will leave the China, is deemed non persona penalty of flogging and a fine.

Naples: Six troopships left Colony on Wednesday for Shang-grata in the opinion of official

Five thousand people declared for East Africa on Saturday, car hai, where they will play a series circles here. Mr. Kawagoe was their intention of fighting to the ring 175 officers and nearly 5,000 of exhibition games before leav-formerly Consul-General in death. The luckiest among them

ing the Northern port for Saigon Canton. by the French mail steamer May 2

has been published empowering harbour will next few days of LONG-DISTANCE the High Commissioner to imple warships as the majority of the ment emergency regulations. A China Fleet will be leaving to British engineer and his wife and

morrow for Shanghai, Wei-hai-

child were stoned at Jaffa. Allwei and Japanese ports. three were slightly injured.-Reu- ter.

SMUGGLING INTO

H.MS. Kent, flying the flag of His Excellency the Commander-i

in-Chief, Vice Admiral Sir Charles J. Little, KC.B., will leave for

Amoy to-morrow, where His Ex- cellency will probably transferį his fag to the Falmouth. The |C.-in-C. will visit several Chinese ports before arriving at the sum-

RUNNING

NURMI'S RECORD

BEATEN

JUAN ZABALA'S FINE FEAT

-CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL.

Munich, To-day.

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With the intention of treating

men-Reuter,

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NEW ITALIAN

PROTEST

Staff Officer Hit By Dum Dum Bullet

-CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Rome, To-day,

AUTONOMY IN FUKIEN

Important Military Conference

PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES TO BE TAKEN

were waving rifles, but many were The Korean was naturalised flourishing swords. spears and

¡From Our Own Correspondent] as a Chinese citizen and was staves.

Canton, To-day. engaged in selling medicine.

Ways and means to deal with Mr. Kawagoe forcibly took him

auto in Shaneen on the capital as an open town and

the "autonomists" in Southern Fukien are to be discussed to- suspicion that he was engaged thus avoiding Italian bombing, the anti-Japanese activities. Abyssiniana, together with fur-

day at an important military conference at Changchow, Through the good" offices of the ther recruits, are hurrying from French Consular authorities the the western provinces and will

¡Southern Fukien. Crown prisoner was eventually releas-join the Emperor and

General Chang Fa-kuei, Com The report from General Gra- Prince in a final stand in the jed.

ziani, that Lieutenant-Colonel Li-mander-in-Chief of Nanking cles in Shanghai also oppose the

Cultural and publishing cir-mountains south of Dessie

berati has been seriously wounded troops in Fukien, Chekiang, Kiangsi and Anhui, will pre- Though the Emperor's where by an-Abyssinian dum-dum bullet, side over this meeting.

Gen- appointment of Mr. Kawagoe abouts are still unknown he is de as he Was instrumental inclared to be determined to fight to has provoked a sharp protest toleral Chiang Ting-wen, in comm bringing about the conviction of the end and is still accompanied the League Secretary by Italy, the mand of the Nanking forces in The world record for long-dis-Weekly for having published his army.

the editor of the "New Life by the most important section of Italian telegram stating that kaly Fukien, and General Chen Yi, Chairman of the Fukien Provin- reserves the right to submit a do-cial Government, arrived at flat racing. established an article deriding the Japanesej tance mer training station, Wei-hai-wei, by Paavlo Nurmi in 1930 at Emperor.

cument proving Abyssinian atroci-Changchow last evening to on May 27.

Stockholm, was beaten yester-i

here Well-informed, circles

take part in the military parley. With the exception of HMS day by the Argentine Olympic believe that should Mr. Kawa-

The agenda includes (1). Italy desires that the attention

strengthening the military de of goods have been smuggled Grimsby, which will be in port Games victor Juan Zabala, goe be appointed Ambassador Fparently moving in two co into China in the 15 months until May 20, and several destroy-whose remarkable performance to China, Sino-Japanese rela-lumns one making towards Awash of all League members be drawn fence of Southern Fukien, (2) ended on March 31, according ers for piracy patrol, the majority was all the more extraordinary tions will become more difficult on the railway. The other ia al-to this fact in order that it might mopping up the Communists, to an investigation by a promin- of the Fleet will be away until because exceptional cold and a Considerable interest is aroused ready near Akober, approaching be evident that the Abyssinian and (3) precautionary measures "ent Chinese news agency. This October or November.

snowstorm prevailed at the here as

to whether the Nan-the mountains in Northern Shoa, includes $100,000,000 worth of The following is a complete pro- time.

king Government will

to where, under cover of the rain-troops are breaking all roles of to prevent a declaration of in accept

Trans-dependence by the antonomists. Mr. Kawagoe as successor, the first three months of 1986. xramme of the Fleet movements.

cloud covered heights, the Crown humanitarian warfare.

The convocation of this con- to Normi ran 20 kilometers in 1 Mr. Hachiro Arita, now Japan-Prince is known to have made an Ocean Service.

ference was ordered by the Cen- -Reuter.

hour 4 minutes 38.4 seconds, ese Foreign Minister.

{orderly retreat from Dessie.

tral authorities, who are anxi- while Zabala covered the same

ous to prevent untoward hap- distance in 1 hour 41 minutes,

penings in Fukien.

CHINA

Enormous Figures Quoted

Shanghai, To-day.

More than $310,000,000 worth

DEFENCE APPROPRIATIONS

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PROGRAMME of MOVEMENTS.

Place

Depart. HMS. Kent

Fong, Kong April 21

Amoy

20

Arrive

10.2 seconds....

April 22

Putu Island May 5

Zabala failed, however, to break Nurmi's record for the distance!

NEW CHINESE EMBASSY IN PARIS

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6

Woosung Walding

6

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IN GREECE Athens, To-day. The Greek May Government has decided to spend another 6.3 milliards on defences, this programme to be spread over four years--Treas-Ocean Service.

Shanghai

27 Weihajwei

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TWO COLUMNS

From Dessie the Italians are tits,

Even should the Italians ocenpy;

GOVERNOR ENTERTAINED ¡Addis Ababa it is beliebed that His Excellency the Governor,

The headquarters. of the the Emperor will retreat to the Sir Andrew Caldecott, was the bogus autonomists is located in mountains still further west, from official guest of honour at a Knlangan, a residential suburb covered in 1 hour, namely 19,210 Paris, To-day. -The Chinese where he will harass the long line luncheon party at the Sports opposite Amoy. Some of the dung 18.605 Legation here will officially be of Italian communications, occa- Club to-day. Forty-six per-Chinese adherents are former as kilometres, only

kilometres. Trans-Ocean Ser-raised to the status of an Embassy sioned by their rapid- advance. — sons, 15 of whom were visitors, officers under Li Hou-chi, one- vice

Reuter ito-day--Trans-Ocean Service.

were in attendance.

time Fukien war-lord.