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AIR OF RESIGNATION PREVAILS IN DOOMED CITY OF ADDIS ABABA

U.S. NAVAL

EXPANSION

NO CHANCES TO BE TAKEN

FLEET SECOND TO NONE

RECORD APPROPRIATION APPROVED

Washington. To-day.

A record peacetime naval ap- propriation bill, designed to make the navy second to none, has been approved by the relevant commit- tee of the House of Representa- tives. The estimates total $531.-|-

Senator Key Pittman, above. who is ciently in touch with the US Treasury, denied any know- ledge of the proposed further devaluation of the dollar, in view of the possibility of the abandon- ment of gold by France.

ITALIAN MOTORISED COLUMNS

ONLY 40 MILES AWAY

FIERCE RESISTANCE EXPECTED FROM RAS NASSIBOU

NEGUS NOT DOWNHEARTED BY REVERSES

"CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Rome, To-day. The story of the fall of Sassabaneh is told vividly in a telegram from Marshal Badoglio, published as War Bulletin No. 199, reading:

"The powerful defence line from Sassabaneh to Bullale, designed and built by Belgian and Turkish officers and defended stubbornly and courageously by the Abyssinian troops under Ras Nasibou, was taken by storm by General Graziani's troops. Sassabaneh and Bullale TO "NORMANDIE” | were both occupied on Wednesday afternoon. The various troop cata- gories and Blackshirts as well as militia contingents, also the native Somali troops, tried to outdo one another in daring and determination in fighting against a foe that had made up his mind to defend himself to the last.

The forces pressing

000.000, to be devoted to con- STRANGE MISHAP tinuing the work on the 84 war- ships at present under construction and the laying down of 12 new destroyers and six submarines, in- creasing the fleet air arm, and building up the reserves of strate- gic war minerals.

28-Ton Screw Lost During Trials

Le Havre, To-day.

"On the northern front the advance to Addis Ababa is continuing. forward from Lake Tsana have occupied Debra Tabor, chief town of the Begemeder region,

Trans-Ocean Service. formerly the headquarters of Ras Kassa."

It also authorises the laying The trials of the Normandie. after six months' refitting, were down of two new battleships if an-suddenly interrupted in the other Power begins capital ship review of the crowds lining the

Rome, To-day. placement. Reuter.

quayside. The vessel was Italian machine-guns mount-

diver abruptly stopped and a

ed on lorries and 30 bombing! sent down reported that one of planes, each carrying a ton of the four propellers was missing.bombs, are taking a heavy toll. The Normandie was removed

of the Abyssinians fleeing up to drydock.

It is hoped to find and reft the Jijica road after the Italian capture of the "Hindenburg the missing 28-ton screw in Line" The planes, after drop- time for the first trip of the ping bombs, return to the base vessel to New York in the new at Gorahai for more. season on May 6. Reuter.

ITALY PLUMPS FOR STERLING

Regarded As "Safer"

Amsterdam, To-day. Well-informed bankers at- tribute the sudden weakness of the Swiss franc to nervousness at the trend of the French elec- Italy is therefore con- tions. verting her balances in Switzer- land into sterling, which is re garded as safer, Reuter.

POLICE RAIDS IN

IRELAND

Prominent People Arrested

STUDENTS ON

STRIKE

Little opposition to the Italian advance is now foreseen until it reaches a line about 10 miles in. front of the Harrar-Jijiga and. Jijiga-Eerbera roads, 85 miles be vond Daggabbur. It is believed:

Unruly Behaviour At that Bas Nessibou has strongly

Fuhtan

Shanghai, To-day.

of

fortified this line, the less which would mean the cutting of the Ethiopian communications The students of Fuhtan Uni-with Berbera, from where he has versity again struck this been receiving supplies of muni- morning, demanding" that the tions and stores.-Reuter. eight students who were held NEGUS IN GOOD SPIRITS by the military authorities last Paris: The mystery of the month on Communist charges whereabouts of the Emperor of "CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

but later released should be al- Ethiopia since the defeat of his Dublin. To-day.

army on, the northern front has. Among those arrested by the lowed to return to school.

The President. Mr. Li Teng-been solved. According to a police in the raids in Cork and

Addis received from message Waterford are numerous pea-hui, who yesterday afternoon

and attempted to break up a stud-Ababa it is reported that he ar- school-teachers

was forcibly rived at the capital yesterday State officials, while several jents' meeting, prominent Republicans sought evicted from the auditorium. by the police escaped. The offi-Reuter.

sants,

cial organ of the Irish Republi-

can Army

was suspended and

all discoverable copies confis- cated... Trans-Ocean Service.

TO-DAY'S WEDDING

Footballer To Marry Shanghai Girl

MISSION'S VISIT TO NANKING

Greeted By Official Delegations

Nanking, To-day.

afternoon. It is said that the Negus was in good spirits, and de- clared that the Italian advance was far from entailing a decisive |victory for Italy.-Reuter's Bul-

letin Service.

Was

OFFICER'S BODY FOUND

Shanghai, To-day-The body of Mr. Thomas Norman, aged The Chinese Overseas Mis-32, Chief Officer of the B. and sion from Manila arrived to-day S. ss. Wantung, who had been The wedding between Eileen from Shanghai and was greeted missing since April 24,

found in the Whangpoo this Eardley, the second daughter of at the station by representa. Mr. and Mrs. P. F. J. Eardley, tives of the Kuomintang, the morning. — Reuter. of Shanghai, China, and Mr. S. Overseas Affairs Commission H. (Sydney) Strange, the popu-and other Government organs. lar left-back and former cap-The Mission is scheduled tain of the Hong Kong Football stay in the capital for a week 1 has been 9.02 inches, against Club, and fourth son of Mr. and Reuter. Mrs. H. Strange, of

London, will take place at 4.30 p.m. to- -day at St. Joseph's Church, Gar-

den Road.

The bride's mother will be present at the wedding, having arrived in the Colony last Tues-

hours ending at 10 am. to-day was

to

0.48 inch.

Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 The total since January average of 11.46 inches.

Local German Community

迎新

Celebrate Labour Day

Mr. Justice RE above, left the Colony leave to-day by the Empress of Japan.

Lindwell,

on long RMS.

COMMUNISM IN AMERICA Alleged Menace Stressed

SECURITY OF THE FLEET THREATENED

Washington, To-day. The alleged Red menace of Communism was stressed by distinguished United States na- val authorities before the Ap- propriations sub-committee of the House of Representa- tives, according to a report now published.

Captam Puleston, chief of naval intelligence, declared that "subversive activities are threatening the security of the fleet." Rear-Admiral Taussig, assistant chief of mival opera- tions, declared that the mem-

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Mr. Cordell Hall, U.S. Secre- tary of State, above, stated, yes- terday in a speech at Washington- that economic diffifficulties were the most important factors to be feared as fuel for a world war, He appealed for greater en-opera- -tion between the nations.

TARIFF WAR OPENS

Rome: The news of the cap- Japan And Australia

ture of Sassabaneh and the oc- cupation of Debra Tabor re- sulted in numbers of immense spontaneous demonstrations

taking place, to give evidence of

Engaged

Tokyo, To-day.

BARRIERS TO TRADE

MAJOR FACTOR IN PRESENT UNREST

Economic Distress Must Be Eradicated

CORDELL HULL'S PLEA

London. To-day. Significance is attached to the concidence of official British and American advocacy of the remov al of trading restrictions. Mr. Cor dell Hull, United States Secretary. (of State, addressing the Chamber of Commerce at Washington, de- clared that excessive trade bar- riers were the major factor in the growing danger of a world war. He exhorted business men to give close attention to the world's economic distress.

Mr. Walter Runciman: President of the Board of Trade, speaking. to the British Chambers of Com- merce in London, said that the American Ambassador, Mr. Bing- ham, (who was present) repre- isented a Government which wish- ed to see a much freer flow of in-

Japanese business men fore-temational trade, and insofar as

the joy of the population. The cast that the summary impost it followed that ambition Britai chole city muddenly converted tion of a retaliatory import would be ready to co-operate. itself mis a sea of coloura daty of 12 per cent, ad palore Reuters There was singing and dancing on Australian raw wool will be on the street, and flags were recommended by the Tariff In- flown on every private house.vestigation Commission, which The papers were torn excitedly meets in an extraordinary ses- from the vendor's hands and sion to-day to consider the in- voking of the law for the safe. leagerly devoured on the spot.

guarding of commerce to pen- Traffic To Be Opened Shortly alise Australian wool and

ITALIAN ROAD-BUILDING

¡sentative.

CALAIS TO HONG KONG

BY TRAIN-

London, To-day. Travel by train all the way from Calais to Hong Kong is now The last rail of the "possible.

Canton-Hankow Railway was laid. on Wednesday, and its opening expected in the middle of this month--Renter.

to

Dessie: Large numbers of skill-wheat, in retaliation for Aus- ed Italian workmen have arrived tralia's recent imposition of an in Sarde, every important trade increase in the import duty on and handicraft having its repre- Japanese rayon tissue and cot-

jton tissue. A road is being built from Port

traffic is Japan imported from Austra- Assab to Dessie. This will have lia in 1935 some 235,000,000 the greatest economic significance, yen worth of goods, mostly raw because it is the shortest-road wool, and her export amounted between the Red Sea and the to 75,000,000 yen. --- Reuter. beart of Abyssinia. The whole journey can be made, when the road is completed, by car in two days, and there will be good con- nections with Addis Ababa Makale

are

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at

FUTURE OF US. DOLLAR

Further Devaluation Coming?

Washington, To-day.

GERMANY FEELS

THE PINCH Levy On Industrial Production

Berlin, To-day.

A victory for the Schacht school and the defeat of the

pro-deflationists is implied in the decision taken to-day to continue to subsidise exports by

AIR OF RESIGNATION Addis Ababa: An air of re-j įsignation to the inevitable fate

that must overtake the city, within FRANCE MAY ABANDON GOLD a very few days, if not hours, now that the resistance that was Srst planned has proved utterly

a levy on industrial production. Senator Key Pittman, who is The decision was taken in the useless, prevails in the doomed city, most people wishing that in close touch with the Trea face of industrialists who are

come were what must

already sury on money matters, said bitterly inveighing against the lover.

yesterday that he had not been unbearable burden imposed by The Italian motorised columns informed by the Treasury re-the levy. -Reuter.

de- from Dessie.

Dow only 40 garding another further

The Abys-valuation of the dollar, in view ARTIFICIAL miles from the city.

Government proposed to of the possibility of the aban- leave the city yesterday and re-donment of gold by France.

He said he did not want to

OF RADIUM ? the tire to the western part of

discuss the legislation suggest- Empire.

London To-day, Remnants of the Abyssinian ed by Senator Thomas, to give sharpshooters of the Swedish Cap the President power to reduce Austin's gift of £250,000 for re- tain Tamm, formerly 6,000 strong, the dollar to 40 per cent of its search to Cambridge is expected Thomas also proposes to make of a 1,000,000-volt laboratory to the stabilisation find perman- ent, with a view to protecting conduct atom-bombarding experi- ments. Lord Rutherford declares the dollar should the franc and that the efforts will thereby be other gold currencies devalue

sintien

PRODUCTION

--Sir Herbert

bers of the Third International struggled into Addis Ababa yes-original gold content. Senator to result in the early construction

were very active in the United States furthering the plan of the world revolution, inclad- ing the overthrow of the pre- sent form of the United States Government-Reuter,

day by the s.s.. President Cleve-gathering was present at the cellency the Governor, Sir An- NEW JAPANESE GO.C. FOR

land.

A large and distinguished many guests, including His Ex-

¡German

NORTH CHINA

terday only 330 having survived- Trans-Ocean Service

SOUTH AFRICA'S DEFENCE

Minister To Visit England

Reuter.

facilitated on the transmutation

(of matter.

Sir Ambrose Fleming expressed MORE VISITORS TO BRITISH the opinion that such a laboratory

ISLES

would present supreme oppor- Įtunities ́ ́and might result, inter London. To-day. The num-laliz, in the artificial production Club this morning.drew Caldecott.

In a well-worded speech, Herr

Capetown Town, To-day. Iber of visitors to the British of radium-Beuter. The bridegroom is an Inter-when "Labour Day" was' cele

O. Pirow, Minister of Isles, both on holiday and on Tokyo, To-day. The Em- Mr. port footballer, having captain-brated locally by Herr H. Gip- Gipperich made reference to

LOCAL AIR PASSENGERS ed the Colony side and. accom-perich, Consul General for Ger- how the German Republic was peror has appointed Lieutenant-Defence, is leaving for, England business, from foreign countries panied last year's victorious many, and Mrs. Gipperich, Herr solving its unemployment pro- General Kanchiro Tashiro, com- en May 22 on the invitation of during the first three months of

The Impérial Airway's plane team to Shanghai in the capa-A. Golerosky, Chancellor of the blem, and also to the friendly mander of the 11th division, to the British Government to dis-this year showed a substantial

the General Officer Com-cuss matters affecting the com-jincrease of 9,819, over the total Dorado left for Penang at 11 city of coach. The bride is an German Consulate, Mr. M. Hess, relations prevailing between the be elder sister of Miss Decima the Chief Nazi representative German and British Govern-manding the Japanese garrison munications and defence of jof 42.122 for the same period am to day carrying two pas- Reuter's Bulle of 1935. British Wireless sengers, Messrs. See Seang-huat in North China, in succession to South Africa. Eardley, the Shanghai Inter-in the Colony, members of the ments.

Service.

and Lin Beng-hong.”“ Major-General Tada. Reuter. Itin Service. part lady hockey player.

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German community and their " (Continued on Page 2)