1936-04-24 — Page 10

ITALIANS STILL ADVANCE

Stubborn Resistance By Abyssinians

CAVE-MOUTH BLOCKED

WITH CORPSES

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Asmara, To-day. General Graziani's victorious? advance along the Ogaden frost is depicted in glowing colours In the reports now reaching here. Having by means of a boldly-conceived ad- vance of motorised troops succeed- ed in breaking the stubborn resis- tance of the advance guards of) Ras Nasibu's army and having! to the penetrated

immediate vicinity of the chief Abyssinian defences at Sassabaneh and Daga- modo, the main body of General! Graziani's army. consisting of white troops and Somali natives, has reached Fasan Valley by way of Warandab.

The Italians are now at Gabre- nor, about 40 miles north of War- andab, that is about half way to Sassabaneh. The Italian advance) is, bowever, not inconsiderably. impeded by the heavy rainfall of the last few days, especially as the Abyssinian vanguard still con-

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Olivia de Havilland, Errol Flynn and Henry Stephenson are in the Warner Bro' production, "Captain Blood," which will be shown at the Queen's Theatre today.

COMMUNISM IN BULGARIA

Plotters Sentenced To Imprisonment

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Sofia, To-day

After proceedings lasting several weeks another mass trial of Bul- garian communists charged with seditions activities came to an end in the town of Philipolis with the 24 accused being sentenced to terms of penal servitude varying between four and 12 years, while 22 other defendants were acquitted. Those found guilty include several leading functionaries of the illegal |Communist Party and of the Com-

munist Youth Organisation.

Two further trials of communist plotters in the towns of Buschuk and Ichtiman resulted in nine persons being sentenced to Jony terms of imprisonment. Trans- Ocean Service.

BRITAIN'S PRIDE IN into being because, for the first

"QUEEN MARY"

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time in shipping history, it was

to found possible, thanks the phenomenal progress of naval architecture and engineering, to Įmaintain a regular weekly service between Southampton and New

by Her Majesty the Queen, who ever, were not enough. If the York with two ships instead of thei

Interviewed in Hong Kong, where they were recently vaca- tioning. Charlie Chaplin, foremost film comedian, and his leading lady, Paulette Goddard, admitted that they plan marriage, but "they don't know when.” The two are shown with the actresK'IN mother, Mrs. Goddard, as they visited Honolulu en route to the Orient.

MAY DAY IN BERLIN

Big Celebrations Planned

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Berlin, To-day. Although the Tempelhof Field will not be available for the mass demonstrations on May 1 this year because the extensive building operations now in progress on the field in connection with the ent largement of Berlin's aerodrome would hamper freedom of move- ment there, the May Day celebra tions will lose none of the im pressiveness of former years. The principal feature of the day's jevents will be an address delivered by the Chancellor and heard by the overwhelming majority of the "workers of brain and hand” throughout the Reich.

This year the Chancellor intends to speak from the grandstand in the Lustgarten, the square front- ing the former Imperial Palace at the eastern end of the Under den' Linden. A Maypole is to be erect- ed in the centre of the square. Since the Lustgarten will accomo-

titues to offer resistance, which was accompanied by the late King Queen Mary is to maintain a four-three which have hitherto been GREEK BALKAN THE SOVIET AND date but a fraction of the masses

The speed of the though weak proves very irritat George and our present Sovereign, day service between Southampton necessary.

and New York she must travel Queen Mary has, therefore, been Since then thousands of work- continuously at a speed well over dictated not by any ambition to

ing.

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Everything suggests that the to make 2 Abyssinians intend stubborn resistance. along 3; branch of the. Dagamode, line, so

King Edward VIIL

men have laboured day and night 30 land miles an hour. Hence her break records, but by the time

POLICY TURKEY'S STAND

SUPPORTED

A "QUID PRO QUO”

to prepare this mighty vessel for stupendous steam turbine propell-necessary to make the Atlantic sea. No one who has not inspecting plant, which at full power is crossing at all geasons of the year as to hold this key position to the ed the ship at successive stages of expected to develop 200,000 hp and in both directions, taking into her construction Can conceive There are four sets of, engines, consideration the number of ho is Harrar-Jijiga route. Many tons.

what this work has involved. jand their total length of 220ft, ex- in port on both sides of the Atlan- of explosive material were drop-

It has been my privilege to visit ceeds the overall length of the tic. ped on the Abyssinian positions

her many times, frat when she first Cunard steamer Britannia by Fully to implement this policy. between Sannabaneh

was a mere skeletor of steel nearly 13ft. Twenty-seven boilers a second ship of a speed at least frames and girders, then as of the largest type ever installed equal to that of the Queen Mary will support the Turkish demands

and Daga- modo, whereby numerous benzine) and munitions depotsi

reserves

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Athens, To-day- The Greek delegation to Geneva

POLAND

expected to attend the celebrations, other participants will assemble in z straight line several kilometres

way of the Unter den Einden and its prolongation as

the far as Municipal Opera House in the eastern suburb of Charlottenburg. relations between

Lond-speakers will be set up all Polish and Soviet Russian press along this route to enable the par- have been re-established, the meticipants to hear the Chancellor's correspandent of a semi-official address distinctly. news agency having already taken

Among other features of the

Good Press Relations long south and north of the drive-

Re-Established

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Warsaw, To-day. The

the

were exploded. Despite the Abyz-Plated-up shell with cavernous en-afoat supply high-pressure steam must be built, and there is, in in the question of the fortification up his duties here, while the relday's programme will be a session sinian anti-aircraft fire the Ita-gine and boiler rooms, whose unto the turbines, and to feed the fact, every hose that she will be of the Dardanelles, declares presentative of a Polish semi-of-jof the Reich Chamber of Culture,

the Abyssinian gunners

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THE MISSING MINISTER

at

the

Moscow

army,

the

3+

vice..

take part-Trans-Ocean Service.

CURRENCY IN POLAND

of these

NEW ELECTIONS

are laid down well before the end of paper Kathimerini in an article. ficial news agency will leave for when Dr. Goebbels will announce lian airmen went down very low finished decks were propped by a furnaces, 6,000 tons of oil

this year. Until the second vessel which adds that the proposed Tur Moscow within the next few days the names of the winners of this in order to pepper the Abyssinian forest of fir-trees, and later as she carried.

assumed more and more the grace- It is impossible in a short artis completed the Queen Mary is kish step is welcomed by Greece forces with machine-gun fire.

It will be recalled that the re- year's prizes for meritorious per ful outline which will soon bejele to attempt more than the brief-to maintain a weekly shuttle ser-in view of her own security.

lations were interrupted in the formances in film production and After four days' fighting

est description of, this mammoth vice with the French liner Nor demands, so the paper points out,

The acceptance of the Turkish summer of last year when the book writing. Gianogobe 4,000 Abyssinian dead familiar to the world.

A monster demon- Bail Like Cruiser ship. She has 12 decks and will mandie on a basis as little com- will give Greece the right to for Polish news agency was expelled fans will be held early in the were found on the battlefield. The

corrrespondent of

stration of the youth organisa- mouths of the caves from which The outstanding impression left provide accommodation for about petitive as possible.

tify the islands of Samothrake and the Abyssinians kept up their ma-by each visit was the incompar-12,000 passengers: first-class, tour-

Owners Confident

by the Soviet authorities, when morning and a torchlight proces- Lemos. The Greek Government, the Polish Government retaliated sion in the evening, when chine-gun fire were literally block-jable ingenuity with which massive ist and third. The crew numbers

Unofficially the builders and however, according to the paper. i ed with corpses. In many places strength had been wedded to 1.050 and there are two captams, owners of the Queen Mary are has decided not to demand an "correspondent at Warsaw to leavelpresentatives of the various Na- by 'requesting the Soviet Russian navy and air force units and re- were beauty of form. I do not believe one-Commodore Sir Edgar Brit quite confident that she will estab-nulment of Article XIII of found chained to their weapons that any other ship in the world ten-in supreme command. and fish a new ocean speed record and Lausanne Treaty, which aims the country-Trans-Ocean Ser-tional Socialist organisations wil

presents this combination in the the other for star duties.

restore the blue riband to Bri-the fortification of the islands of same degree. As a Clydebank, The decorative scheme adopted tain. It is safe to say that her Mytilene, Samos, Chias and caris: foreman observed to me: "She is for the public rooms etrikes a maiden voyage to New York on since the fortification built like a battle-cruiser."

entirely new note in ship embel-May 27 will be followed with islands is not considered necessary But the strength with which the Hishment. The themes chosen are keener and more universal inter-in view of the friendly relations Queen Mary has been endowed is modern without being fantastic est than that of any previous existing between Turkey and to make her secure aginst the and have been executed by nearly liner, not excepting the Great Greece; and another reason why peace-time hazards of the sea. No 30 artists, many of whose works Eastern, the Mauretania, the Greece will not demand a revision strain or stress ever likely to be are represented in the galleries of Bremes, Rex or Normandie, to jof the Lausanne Treaty, says the encountered when the ocean is in Europe and the United States name but a few of the historiç paper, is that she does not wish its wildest `or most treacherous Those who are fortunate enough ships on the Western Ocean ferry to encourage certain other States

ito voyage in the Queen Mary. In another sense the Queer to put forward demands for treaty The rumours which have been, ~ CHINA MAIL » SPECIA). usprovided for. So far as human whether as Srst-class, tourist or Mary has aiready establish a revisions which might jeopardise circulated concerning the alleged

Brussels, To-day, art and labour can achieve it, the third-class passengers, will find world's record by employing in the peace in the Balkans.

modification of Poland's currency! A Royal decree appeared in the Queen Mary attains the ideal stan- comfort and service on Cairo, To-day.

a scale her construction and equipment a

In a statement which will be policy and the impending devalua- official Gazette yesterday morning Although the missing German dard of invulnerability.

Her gross tonnage is 80,773, her never before approached. For re- vaster army. of workpeople than made by the Premier, General Me- tion of the zloty are emphatically declaring the Chamber and Senate Minister, Baron von Stohrer, has

creation purposes alone two acres had ever previously contributed to taxas, at the forthcoming, meeting denied and are said to be devoid dissolved and the date for the new not yet been found by any of the length over all 1,018ft., the beam

of deck have been reserved.

the building of a ship. It is of the Balkan League at Belgrade, of any foundation, according to elections as being definitely fixed various search parties sent out by 1181L, and the height from keel to

Weekly Service

estimated that no fewer than 250,-asserts the paper, the above stand-an official statement issued by the for May 24 The new Parliament the Egyptian Government, there masthead 234ft The Normandie

in gross ton- I have have already mentioned 000 men and women in almost point will be made definitely clear. Ministry of Finance. - Trans will assemble at Brussels on June appear to be certain indications also approximates

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Ocean Service. that the missing diplomat wasinage to 80,000, and it seems un-that. officially, the Queen Mary every part of the United Kingdom can claim has not been built to compete for have helped to build and fit out Thus one of Certain which vessel

the blue riband. She was brought this wonder-vessel

SOME HOPES

RESCUE

OF

POSITION MORE CLOSELY DEFINED

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seen but recently.

mood has been overlooked or left)

the participants in the interna-the higher figure. tional automobile race at Bahari-1 It is necessary to point out that ja, whose ear returned to the start-gross tonnage is not a reliable in- ing point on Wednesday owing to dex to size. Displacement tonnage is a more reliable test, and when that he saw Baron von Stohrer on that is applied the Queen Mary, it Saturday morning at a point apis anticipated, will be found to be proximately 75 kilometres from considerably larger than the Nor- the Baharija oasis.

¡mandie.

serious motor

defect,

asserts

Since Baron von Stobrer's car! The British ship is longer on carried a fuel supply for hardly the waterline than her French more than 500 kilometres, it is be- rival, though the overhanging lieved that he could not have pro- stem and counter of the Norman-- ceeded much further than the die convey impression of point where he was seen by the superior length. participant in the Baharija race.! Huge Turbine Plant -Trans-Ocean Service. $

Mere size and strength, bow-1

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Devaluation Rumours

Denied

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Warsaw, To-day.

IN BELGIUM

Senate And Chamber Dissolved

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