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ABYSSINIA DISPUTE

SETTLEMENT

AY

Plan For A Tripartite

Discussion

Special to the "Hong Kon

Daily Press")

(N) Telegraph. Copyright. Tria aphic Hayes Ordinance, 1895.

Received, July 1. p.m.;

Paris, July 18. The General Secretary of the League, M. Avenol has obtained the British and French Governments' consent for a tripartite discussion on the Abyssinian question by Eng- land. France and Italy, according to the foreign editor of "Le Oeuvre." Madame Tabouls, who de- clares that an agreement which" would have been acceptable to France was not realised owing to the attitude taken up by Britain and Italy.

The British Government DES

again demanded that the conflict be brought before the League of Nations for settlement; asserts Madame Tabouts, adding that the convocation of the League of Nations Council after July 25 has now become inevitable,

AIRCRAFT OVER EGYPT

Cairo, July 18.

In an interview published in the Cairo newspaper "Al Ahram," the Emperor of Abyssinia atates that if Egypt allowed Italian mill- tary aircraft to cross Egyptian territory such an act would be considered as unfriendly.

The Abyssinian ruler added that such facilities would make it easy for Italy to carry out activities against Abyssinia while his country was still desirous of a peaceful settlement and determined to de- fend the independence of Abys- sinia with all its strength.- Reuter.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1935.

YELLOW RIVER

DANGER

Increase In Area Under Flood

Peiping, July 18.

The flood water from the Yel- low River is spreading fairly rapidly, and some Chinese sources estimate that 2,000 square miles are now inundated, covering an area including the townships of

Chuanchen, Chuyen, Yuncheng

Chiahsiang. Tsaochow, and Tsining. The population in this area is estimated at 2.000.000. "At present the water is being excluded from the towns thanks to the substantial city walls.

Much of the Yellow River water is flowing into Welshan Lake and the Grand Canal, giving rise to fears of Gooding in North Klangsu. where the authorities have press- ed into service 100,000 coolies to strengthen and heighten the dykes surrounding the Weishan Lake.

The river at Lokow rose" again Festerday, reaching the 29-foot level- Reuter.

SIX BREAKS

NEUTRAL OBSERVERS

London, July 17. Questioned in the House of Com- mons regarding the request of the Abyssinian Government for the appointment by the League of Nations of neutral observers to be sent to the frontiers between the Italian Colonies and Abyssinia and the attitude of the British Govern- Am-nient, the Foreign Secretary. Sir Samuel Hoare, said the request had been communicated by the Secre- tary-General of the League to His Majesty's Government and other members of the Council who will no doubt be called upon to con- A Pelping message states that | sider it at the Council's next meet-foreign reports from Tsinan con- ing.

Am the seriousness of the Yellow River floods. These state that the

The efforts of the French, bassador in Rome to learn Italy's Intentions have likewise been un- successful since Mussolini has re- fused to add anything to the state- ment that maintenance of Italy's prestige demanded a campaign with Abyssinia and that he did not wish to negotiate any longer, con- tinces "Le Oeuvre's" foreign editor, adding the prediction that Duce would nevertheless prob- ably accept a "compromise" at the last minute.

"It would not be proper for me

Nanking, July 18. 43 precautionary measure, Over a thousand soldiers and policemen are at present engaged in raising the height of sections of the dykes here which have been subjected to considerable pressure as vast quantities of waters reach here from the upper reaches of the Yangtse.

EMERGENCY DECREES

IN FRANCE

Opposition Gathering

Momentum

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mentum as shown by the defiant declaration of the railway men "and Civil Servants Unions who demonstrated in front of the Opera House, in spite of the Gov- ernment prohibition of all open air meetings.

Received, July 18, 7-40 p.m.j

Paris. July 18. Twenty fours hours that have gone by since M. Laval's twenty In Parliamentary circles the eight emergency decrees were feeling "of disconsolation prevails. passed embodying the great

Even the "Echo de Paris" admits tiênchment operations, have given that the sacrifices demanded are the people and Press time for re-extraordinarily hard, pointing out flection,

by way of consolation that nearly Whereas at first the courage of

every Frenchman is directly the present Government in taking affected. If this great National this step whose rigour and magni- effort to restore order in the tude made unpopularity a fore-State Anances were to fall-which gone conclusion was adtatred and the fact that such drastic mea- Jures were inevitable Was phasised; a closer examination of the decrees reveals that the sa- races demanded of the people are greater than had been ex- pected.

-WID

is however unlikely-France would face bankruptcy, inflation, politi- cal chaos and the collapse of 80- clal order.

"Le Journal" describes the re- crees as the most daring attempt ever made to effect at one stroke the recovery of economic sound- ness

The crucial question at present being asked is whether the salary. The semi-official "Petit Pari- and pension cuts will be accom-sten": says that M. Laval will carry panied by any compensatory re- duction in the cost of living.

The Socialist and Communistic Press, condemns the decrees un- animously. urging resistance by the State officials and employees. Popular opposition to the Govern- ment seems to be gathering mo-

to disclose beforehand the attitude water is flowing from six breaks STRENGTHENING

which the British representative will take or to attempt to prejudge the decision which, after taking into consideration all information before it the Council may see fit to take."

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SUBSTITUTES

In order to induce Italy to use instead of combating the League of Nations, Madame Tubouls 're- commends that the Italian Gov- | British Wireless. ernment should submit to the League of Nations Council data proving the truth of the various charges "brought forward against Abyssinia" such as the breaking of treaties and the violation of fron- tlers by the latter country, as well as material on slave trame alleged- ly going on in Abyssinia.— Transocean so Fin

LEAGUE INTERVENTION

Paris, July 17.

The prospects of the League of Nations being convened for July 25 to deal with the Italo-Abys- sintan issue the possibility Al- ready foreshadowed by the British Press on Wednesday morning--- appear to be 'growing stronger.

The Secretary General of the League of Nations, M, Avenol con- ferred with M. Laval on Wednes- day afternoon and it is stated by well-informed quarters that the Abyssinian question was discussed in connection with the eventual convocation of the League Council for July 25.

The opinion is gaining ground. that the best way out of the pre- sent dilemma, would be to let the procédure initiated by the League of Nations tri May Jast take 1ts course, even if it should lead to public condemnation of the Italian policy with all its possible conse. quences.

Pranaren Kio Min

SOVIET PROTEST TO MANCHUKUO

Closing Of Consulates

Harbin, July 18.

The Soviet Consul Genera has

London, July 17." The United Kingdom delegation to the 16th Assembly of the League of Nations in September will be led by the Foreign Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare.

Other delegates will be the Minister for League of Nations Afairs, Mr. Eden, and the Parlia mentary Secretary of the Board of Trade, Dr. Leslie Burgin,,

Lord de la Warr, Lord Cran- borne, Miss Graves, M.P., and Bir William Malkin, legal adviser to the Foreign Office, will attend as substitute delegates.-- British Wirele

AN IMPROVEMENT

Paris, July 17.

A marked change for the better in the 'Abyssinian dispute is hoped for during the next few days. Reuter learns that there may be a softening of Italy's opposition to League of "Nations Intervention.

The French Government seems to have taken a definite stand, favouring recourse to Geneva in an attempt to prevent an outbreak of

war.

This is what Great Britain has been urging, and M. Laval, the French Prime Minister: appears to have been won to the British view. Confidential diplomatic reports from Rome state that the auguries are favourable.-- Reuter.

CATHOLIC CLERGY AND THE STATE

handed over a protest to the For- graphic Massager Ordinance.

eign Ministry in connection with

the article in the Harbin "Times" which stated that Manchukuo has decided to close four of the six Soviet Consulates within its bord-

ers as a reprisal against Russia for

Vladivostok and Harborovsk

that

paper added that four

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in the south bank, the flood water forming three, wide streams How- ing between the East, southeast and central, one threatening to overflow the Welshan Lake' and inundate Klangsu.

Danger is also threatened from the swollen state of the Grand Canal which is full of flood water from the Yellow and Wai Rivers. and is proving unequal to the task of carrying this water. The river has now broken the first line of dykes on the north bank in north- east Honan, only the outermost dyke remaining. Reuter,

THE LEAGUE

Action Against Lawbreakers

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Geneva, Juy 18. The economic sub-committee which has been entrusted by the League Council with the task of examining the economic and finan- cial measures which might be ap- plied against á state guilty of uni- lateral repudiation of its inter- national obligations, has ended its labours and drawn up a report to be submitted to the Committee of 30-3/16 Thirteen which has been set up for the purpose of considering mea- aures for rendering the covenant more effective in the organisation of collective security.

SILVER MARKET

(From Our Own Correspondeat›

London July 18. London Silver prices to-day were unchanged on “Spot" and up 1/18 on Forward as follow:-

July 17

July 18

Spot.......30-3/16 Forward .......30-5/16 30-3/8 London on New York cross rate at 2 p.m. to-day was 4.9575 com- pared with 4.9600 at closing yester- day.

UNITED STATES SYMPATHY

The Committee will meet on July 24 to consider the proposals con- tained in the report. The pro- posals make distinction between preventive measures. and actual

sanctions Embargo on war ma-

terial and raw materials employed In the manufacture of arms and munitions is recommended as pre- ventive measure, while actual sanc- tions may comprise the general

President's Message blocking of all trade with the

To China

Nanking, July 18. President Roosevelt through Ambasador Johnson, sent a mes- sage to the Chinese people sym- pathizing with them in the auf- fering caused by the floods.

The message addressed

gulity state, this general embargo, however, not applying to commodi- tles needed for the nourishment of the civil population.

The report stresses that some State might not participate in such sanctions and that measures would therefore have to be taken to pre-

out the operation with iricom- parable orderliness, tenacity of purpose and self-confidence.

July 18 will be the decisive day in the defence of French cur- rency and economic revitalisation of the country. Transocean Kua. Min

TRADE IN THE EAST

Looking Ahead

of

London, Juý 17. A deputation of the Manchester Chamber

Commerce, which waited upon Sir Frederick Leith Ross and the Board of Trade here to-day, mainly discussed the future: of British trade in the. Far East, paying particular attention to China.

GORDONS DRY GIN

DISTILLE

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if it's

Gordon's

GINW

you know what you're drinking

NO COLOURING MATTER

NO INJURIOUS INGREDIENTS

WHITEST

PUREST

&BEST

The Largest Gin Distillers in the World

BRITAIN'S WORK

In Suppressing Slavery

London, July 17.

MORE BELFAST DISORDERS

Military Action Necessary

Belfast, July 17. Troops were forced to fire over the heads of the crowds during & further outbreak erloting here to-day.

Fighting occurred during the progress through the streets of the funeral of a young Orangeman killed in the disturbances follow- ing the commemoration of the Battle of the Boyne.

The subject of slavery was dis- cussed in he» House of Lords to- night in connection with the, re-. cent report of the Slavery Com- mittee of the League of Nations. Lord Cecil and the Archbishop of Canterbury paid a tribute to the work of British Governments for the last hundred years, and strice the war, at Geneva in support of the movement for the suppression of slavery.

The Archbishop complained of Shots were fired on the proces This strong deputation, repre- the need for more information s'on from the roofs of houses, as senting the textile, chemical and from certain areas and advocated was the case in yesterday's colli engineering Industries, was led by a special agreement "regarding | sion of factions, ̈* the Manchester Chamber of Com-traffic in alaves in territories round merce President, Mr. C. Lucas, and the Red Sea and other places. other members Included Sir Ken-With regard to Abyssinia, he said

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It was only fair to recognise that

neth Stewart, chairman of the China Section, the chairman of the the Emperor was trying to sup- Engineering Section and Mr. For press slavery there in spite of dif- rest Hewit, chairman of the Chemi-culties.

cal Section.

.,

The following members of the China Section executive also at- tended the meeting between the two bodies:-Sir Ernest Themp- son. Mr. Franc's Lauder and Mr. Maxwell Reekie.

“

Lord Noel Buxton and Lord Pol- worth spoke to the same effect in referring to their personal ex- periences in Abyssinia

LONG DISCUSSION" The conference last, for well over Influence and an hour

An official statement says the Lancastrians gave a full expose of the difficulties confronting La- cashire trade in China, and ex- plained their viewpoints..

Bir Frederick Lelth-Ross, who is shortly to leave for the Far East to study conditions, took careful note or their statements and opin-- lons, which he promised to keep under consideration,-- Reuter.

vent the guilty state from obtato- MR. JAMES LIN

to Mr. ing raw materials and other pro- Lin Sen says: "T"note with deep bibitive materials from neutral regret the reports of loss of Brecountries. and property caused by the floods

the priesthood of the obligations pathy through you to the people they assumed under oath so that in the Yangtze valley and the instead of restricting themselves valley of the Yellow River at this to religious service, the lower time of terrible disaster. clergy have been coming lato con

The sub-committee itself appears

entrusted...

Marries American Girl

:

Replying to the debate, Lord Stanhope, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. said the Govern- ment was anxious to increase the

of power:

the League's Slavery Committee and would give to its work their full- est possible support. With regard to the Red Sea trafic, he claimed that preventive measures in which British forces took part had re- duced a big stream to a ripple --- British Wireless.

AN OPTIMISTIC

PICTURE

Of Trade With China

B

of the

There was

a further outburst when two youths sitting on a Na- tionalist lerry were attacked.

There was a stone battle between Loyalist and National's factions outside the cemetery where the young Orangeman's coffin was to be laid and military intervention was made necessary here again, Reuter.

LITTLE ENTENTE

ARMIES

(Special in "Hong Kong- Daily Press"). (B) Talagraph, Copyright, Tate: graphic Massages. Ordinanon, / 1894), Received, July 18, 4.50 p.m.)

Prague, July 18 The combined peace strengths of the Little Entente armies and air forces are 702,000 'men" and 1913- airplanes according to the Czech paper "Tenkow”, which reports. that the countries comprising the Little Entente have furnished the League of Nations with a statement of their respective military strengths

The official figures are said by the paper to have been communi- cated to Geneva and give the strength of the Roumanian forces." as 360,000 men, 799 planes, Yugo- slavia 195,000 men, 568 airplanes: Czechoslovakia 190,000 men and 546 planes.

«The figures include nót

New York, July 17. An optimistic' picture

States was presented to a meeting potentialities of economic relations only the actual armies and air between China and the United

force personnel but also the

maintained in all countries. —— Transocean Ruo Min.

the

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(Special to "Hong Kon Dally Press"} By" Telegraph,· Copyright, Received, July 18, 7.30 p.m.)

Berlin, July 18.

in the valleys of the Yangtze and

beset by doubts as to the practibi- Premier Goering has instructed Yellow Rivers and on behalf of the competent authorities

the people of the United States lity of its proposals, the report of defence against political acti- of your great country my sincere criticism which would merely afford sident of China, was married here

Ashland, Ky., July 17. cerned to co-operate in measures 1 express to you and the people stating in conclusion that the pro- posals are likely to evoke much her refusal to sanction the opening vities of certain sections of the sympathy."

Mr. James Lin, son of the Fre of Manchukuo Consulates at Catholic Clergy. It is pointed out Mr. Johnson in a message to more difficulty to the task with to-day to Miss Vicia Brown, a shop of the National Foreign Trade auxiliary detachments in the

the higher ecclesiasticat the Waichiaopu, says: "I destra which the sub-committee has been girl of Columbus, Ohio.

Council by Mr. W. Cameron Forbes, form of police frontier guards

the American months' notice will probably be dignitaries have failed to inform at this time to extend my żym riesinneran 'Kuo Min

A local magistrate performed the Chairman,af

Economic. Mission to the Far East, ceremony,

The wedding was a culmination which is now preparing, compre.... of a romance which arose out of

hensive reports of its findings, Mr. Lin's losing his pocket-book.

Mr. Forbes sald China offers It was while. be was buying some,

great opportunities for the invest fishing tackle in a Columbus store ment of American, capital, notably that, he found it missing. Miss in the fields of transportation, Brown found it and returned it to utilities mining and industry gen- A dastardy attack took place him. That was how they meterally. yesterday morning in Bhanghai | Heuter. Street near the Junction of Prince, Edward Road, Mongkok when s A mesmage from Nanking states Chinese male was assaulted by two that a special mission of nine others and injured in the face and members will tour Slam in August chest. He was taken to the

London, July 13, to investigate the alleged anti- Kwong Wah Hospital. The King has approved the ap-deld which Chinese movement there. In a report to the Police, the in-

Mr Francia, D'Arcy The members of the minion wi jured man's name is given as L be selected from the Ministries of Tan Buen 33 years Foreign Affairs, Finance and stocking weaver of No Cedar Industry

Street. The men who hasnitedo

'NEW LIFE" EDITOR

TO APPEAL

Article Which Offended Japan

Nanking. July 18. It is announced that notice has been fled in Nanking against the sentence of imprisonment pased on ¿Tu Chun Yuan, sditor of the "New Life Weekly by the Klangen High Court for pub- lication of an article considered derogatory to the Mikado- Heuler,"

flict with the law by

activity,

Transderan Ku: Min

Dolitical

JAPANESE AERODROME AT KALGAN

Peiping, July 18. As a result of the terms settling the recent Chair incident, the Tapanese are building a military aerodrome at Kälgan- Reuter

Reuter,

CHINESE MISSION TO SLAM

Shanghai, July 18.

•Reuter

ATTACKED IN THE STREET

NEW MINISTER.

FORMOSA QUAKE CASUALTIES

Talboku, July 18.

It is officially reported

The opinion was expressed by Mr. Forbes that China is ripe for casualties in the eart industrialisation. although the Shinchiku ars 47 killed and 52 American sliver policy has had a Dusly injured. disastrous ef öri Chinese

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Ambassador

Chier of the Far East

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