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MARTIAL LAW IN ADDIS ABABA

Timely Arrival Of Askaris At French Legation

AMERICAN NEWSPAPER WOMAN REPORTER

MISSING

Addis Ababa, To-day.

A state of martial law has been proclaimed here and a martial court has been established to deal promptorily with plunderers and to enforce respect for the law.! This is regarded as an essential step towards the restoration normal life and conditions.

of

The last case of mab action was declared to have been an attack) on the French Legation towards midnight on Tuesday, when, just as the defenders of the Legation building were feeling hard press- ed, a section of Askaris appeared from behind the attackers and put the mob to fight with machine- gun fire.

The French Legation informed the Italian command that a company of French Sengalese had been des patched to Addis Ababa from Dji- 'bouti, but on arrival at the capi- tal's railway station they will be sent back again by the next train. Italian Legation Unscathed General Badoglio has taken up Headquarters in the Italian Lega- tion which, strange to say, has not been plundered.

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1936

Charlie Chaplin is in "Modern Times," now being shown at the King's

Theatre.

The

Independence Of Austraia

(Continued from Page 6)

ITALIAN COLONIAL

ACTIVITY ·

CREDIT SAID PROMISED BY U.S. SOURCES

“CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Rome, To-day.

A very rosy future is predicted by the press for Italian colonial activity in the newly con- quered territory, and this has produced general elation amongst the rank and file of the Italian nation. This was increased by the tone adopted by Premier Mussolini in his address to the nation on Tuesday, so that a number of suggestions-are now under discussion and capital only is now needed for carrying them out.

The sum mentioned is gigan-authoritative tic and it is tacitly admitted here.

Italiar quarter

that the means required is not At the same time rumours that at the disposal of Italy, whose negotiations are going on in Lon- finances have been seriously dor for a loan for Italy were diminished by the heavy cost likewise denied. All conjectures of the war. According to of this kind are said to be devoid statements put forward here. of any foundation.—Trans-Ocesu however, the "financing of the Service.

new colonial schemes will not! (cause any embarrassment since credit on the necessary scale

will

has been promised from sources How- in the United States. ever, it is emphasised that it is ja question of credit and not loans, and these will only be placed at the disposal of the the case in Austria. No real Italian government who sense of Austrian nationality undertake their repayment when! When with the revo-the short-term expires. The United States Legation an-

Since then various attempts exists. nounced that the only person be have been made to induce the lution the monarchy disappear- No agreement has actually been Austrian patriotism dis-signed, state those who circulate longing to the American colony

other Central European nations ed.

with it, and the this information, but negotiations that is missing is a newspaper re-

to afford Austria some modest appeared

that the porter. Miss Eleanor Meade, who, facilities for the increased ex-course of political events ever are in full swing. The financiers however, might have boarded the

money must not be used for mili- last train to Djibouti before the port of the products of her few since has been the history of impose the condition

basic industries. Unfortunate-warring factions.

Exasperated by internal dis-tary purposes, but exclusively for plundering began.

lv, however, the Conference of

Austria has productive colonial development. General Graziani occupied Stresa on Danubian affairs of cord. opinion in

It is asserted that the new ad- Jijiga on Wednesday and is has 1932. and other lesser efforts of gradually turned with growing tening un to Harrar, 30 miles this kind, showed that she could favour to the idea of recalling ministration in Abyssinia is busy away, expecting to complete the count on little practical assis- the Habsburg dynasty. distance in two days.--Trans-tance from her neighbours.

Ocean Service.

It is abolishing slavery and other so- felt that the restoration of the cial vices. It is also suggested morarchy is ultimately the only here that the name of the Abys- Growing Despair

means of creating sinian capital should not be chang- In this atmosphere of grow practical

some measure of real national ed, as Addis Ababa, in Amharis, ing despair is it surprising that unity, and offers the only hope means "new flower," so that if a considerable section of Aus of arousing a sufficient sense of this were to be the sense of the trian opinion, in spite of an Austrian patriotism to resist aew name in the Italian language, Royal Tournament For instinctive reluctance toen with success the powerful pro- the capital city would, according

NO MORE MUSICAL DRIVES

vice.

Olympia

RELIABLE PRINTING

no order

too small

THE NEWSPAPER-ENTERPRISE LTO.

CHURA BAIL. ILING.

JA, ETRONAS SY.

trust Austria's destinies to a

Berlin, Government in readily attracted by the Pan- German idea?

faith.

No Sense Of Nationality

far

resentment.

re-

paganda from Germany.

to the present proposal, be known in future as "Nuova Floreza."

Mirage Disappears Rome, later: The mirage

immense constructive

Abyssinia to

the

ac- be

We

concessions

we

Clear Conditions

Royal Exile Waiting Meanwhile the youthful head London, To-day. The Duke of York, accompanied With the advent of National of the House of Habsburg, with by the Duchess and the Princess Socialism to power in Germany, the dignity and modesty which of

in the very Hear future Elizabeth and her sister, opened the threat to Austrian indepen-befits a royal exile, is waiting tivity in

Whilst in the mediaeval Flemish castle gin the Royal Tournament at Olympia dence became acute.

OR Thursday yesterday afternoon. It is possi-high military circles in Berlin. of Steenockerzeel for his coun- with the aid of American capital, ble, owing to the 'progress of me for strategic and political rea-try's call. Day by day he disappeared again

each of any prospects of financial aid mind to the study of chanisation, that this will be the sons, view this policy with mix-applies his essentially modern morning when an emphatic denial last year the famous musical driveled feelings, the German Dict changing phase of the Euro-of this kind was issued from an by a battery of the Royal Horsetor, himself an Austrian,

self to pro-gards the union of all Germans pean situation, preparing him- .assume the great Artillery will figure in the

to insist that they, too, shall the Wireless Ser-within the frontiers of gramme-British

Reich as a cardinal article of responsibilities which at any make their contribution to Cen-

time may be his.

tral European stability? In recent months the Aus- trian Government began more should ask them to offer sub- In most countries economic and more openly to support the /stantial economic considerations are

-out-movement for

a restoration to Austria, in which connection weighed by political ones, and This led to the inevitable re- we should no doubt be prepared The Little Entente to waive our advantages under any proposal to sacrifice the sult.

most favoured nation national identity for the sake powers, whose territories, either

clause. Likewise

should of commercial advantage would all or in part, had belonged to;

jask them to withdraw their be met by a storm of patriotic the old Austro-Hungarian em-

objections to the restoration of But this is not pire, grew alarmed at the pros the Austrian monarchy.

pect of a Habsburg once again reigning in Vienna

They made frantic protests, i Those should be the clear continued and even accompanied them (conditions for our with threats of invasion. The support of Austrian indepen- Austrian Government hastily dence. And it can be confi- offered some ambiguous re-dently assumed that our influ- assurances and the whole issue ence, together with has once again become shroud-France, if vigorously exercised,

ensure iis sufficient to

their ed in dangerous uncertainty.

Easy Prey

acceptance. Thus it is the Austria to-day, The Austrian question has Let exhausted by her economic got to be decided now. worries and deprived of any the statesmen of Europe learn rallying point for local patrio-from their own mistakes the tism, lies an easy prey to a fatal results of putting off Germany that wishes to engulf decisions. her.

Germany has taken the law hands in the In repeated declarations the into her own British Government have ex-Rhinelarid, and no amount of pressed British interest in Aus-searching for gestures will undo trian independence. But un-the damage to confidence. The less the countries of the Little past can bury itself. It is the Entente play their part, any future that calls for our atten- efforts to resist German, ambition. The Rhineland crisis of tions in that quarter will in the 1936 will be succeeded by the Austrian crisis of 1937 unless long run be fruitless.

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