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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 6, 1941.

ABYSSINIANS PUSH ON

FROM FORT

BURYE

TOWARDS ADDIS ABABA

.CAPTAIN WIEDEM ANN, GERMAN CON-

SUL-GENERAL IN SAN FRANCISCO, IS AL- SKY BLITZ

LEGED TO HAVE RECEIVED OVER $5,000,- 000 FROM GERMANY FOR ESPIONAGE IN THE UNITED STATES AND ELSEWHERE IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.

The allegation is made in a complaint filed in the Federal Court yesterday by Mrs. Alice Crockett, a San Francisco woman.

Webi Shibeli, which had been dummed and an irrigation system installed, the area under cultiva-

tion has been steadily expanded and five years ago had reached over 10 000 acres.

She claims Wiedemann sent her to Germany on a confidential mis- 10 and when she returned he refused to pay the $8.000 which She demanded for her expenses.

She also

Wiedemann declares fold her the German Government Like all soil of the river system planned to promote strife and and coastal belt it is immensely Class hatred for the purpose of productive when irrigated. Cane destroying the unity and under-sugar is produced in quantity as mining the strength of the United well as bananas, fruit and veget-

was

of

Stites.

Mrs. Crockett also alleged that Wiedemann

"active in recuring large quantities ammunition to be used by the in Bund fighting against the United States."

German-American

Ford And Lindbergh!

She also

says Wiedema directed the activities of the Bund in the United States, and he told her he "worked together with" CJ. Lindbergh and Mr. Henry

• Ford

Another allegation is that the German Government employed Princess

Hohenlohe-Walden- burg, whose duty it was to con

ables.

FOR TWO

An aerial blitzkrieg on two men is being waged in the mountainous dis- near Middles - |trict

borough, Kentucky.

Sheriffs are pouring hand gren- borib from their hiding place kil- ades from four 'planes, hoping to

Clyde Buchanan and his 19- year-old son.

The

the

Buchanans

in fed mountains after killing a sheriff. wounding another, and critically Wounding Middlesborough's police chief, who had tried to arrest them for alleged theft,

Ringing the district where the Another crop recently exploitedfather and son are believed to be along the coastal belt of Somali- hiding is an army of 1,200 in- and women who land is groundnuts, used for the furiated men manufacture of vegetable oil, and swear they will string them up in cattlecake

Middlesborough which.

main apart from

they are caught alive. what she obtained from this co- lony, Italy has to purchase from abroad. British Wireless.

WARNED

HE WOULD ESCAPE

After writing home

tace and pay people employed from a prison camp that

in espionage for Germany. The Immigration Service

Ap-

he intended to escape, a peals Board at Washington yes-nineteen-year-old North terday rejected an appeal by the

Princess against a deportation or-

ter made against her last January

Itouter.

Mankusa Falls

Shields boy put his plans into practice ceeded.

and suc-

Jimmy Barnes, son of Sergeant. Major and Mrs. W. H. Barnes, of

was care of the crew of a coaster

Ethopian patriots have occupied ¦ Bedford Street. North Shield. The village of Matikusa, eight miles Cast of Debra Markos, in the Goj-captured in the River Seine when Jutla area, 120 males north-west

the Nuzis took Paris. Addis Ababa, according to latest Tews received in Khartoum, The Italian forces

which evacuated Burye Tuesday morning, after prolonged gueril. la pressure by the patriot army, are now in full retreat towards Debra Markos, continually har. assed by the advancing Abys- sinians.

on

Now he has reached British ter- ritory after a 600-mile hike across France, during which he

spent nine weeks in different prisons three times out ef and escaped enemy hands..

Yet, after hardship and semi- starvation, all he wants to do is to get back to sea,

His mother told a reporter:

"I

knew they would not keep Jimmy a prisoner for long. He is a devil such an adventure. of a lad, and would just glory in

An Ethiopian battalion trained in the Sudan took a prominent *part in these guerilla tacties. The Patriots are being joined by large Lumbers of

"When his ship was captured by deserters from the

the enemy.

Germans, he was taken to The R.A.F. recently has given reached

Paris. He escaped from there and Cherbourg. Once more much attention to making Burye he escaped and got to St. Nazaire. untenable by the enemy. The latter put up

"Then he was captured and sent a desperate resis fance for several days but were

to a military prison camp from which he and a Scottish soldier unable to hold out against com-made their final bined action from the

escape and got air and across the Spanish frontier." ground-Reuter.

*Jimmy told us in his letters that he intended attempting escape," said his father, who is a local recruiting officer. "I cannot understand how his letters passed the censor."

Important Area

Captured

an

The Villagio Duca Degli Abruz- From what he described as "a zi agricultural colony, comprising sort of prison camp," Jimmy had some 6,000 acres with an experi- written: "I am not staying here mental farm, which was captured much longer, because if I do I some days ago, will prove a valu~ | shall go mad. This inactivity able acquisition for the supply of would inake the best of men go food to the British Imperial forces | loony. operating in Italian Somaliland. "The authorities treat us like

Situated on the banks of the dirt."

COMING EVENTS

street if

County Attorney Walter Smith. who from Middlesborough head- quarters is directing operations like a general said:

"This is the biggest man hunt in the history of our State. The Buchanans will soon be captured, dead or alive."