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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1935.
THREE POWER TALKS
ITALY'S AIR FORCE
(Continued from Page 9)
Addis Ababa, Aug. 19., "It is reported here that the offered Ethiopian Government during the recent negotiations to cede important parts of the coun- try to Italy.
Abyssinia even offered territory hardering on upper Eritrea and well as B.S Italian Somaliland, large economic concessions.
With the collapse of the Paris conference the Ethiopian Govern- ment places its only hope for peace in the League of Nations Council meeting of September 4. Reyter.
ITALY'S AIMS
Rome, Aug 19. Signor Mussolin! has ordered an increase of the I.altan Air Force by 16,000 men, bringing the total to 40,843,- Beuter
Wilk
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CABLES NEWS
IN BRIEF
COPPER SALES.
Washington Aug. 19. Sales of domes.ic copper are re- ported at a rise of 84 cents, the advance reflecting constany; “expan= sion and demand coincidens with sustained upturni in industrial ac- | tivity.
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The export quotation, has also stiffened, with sales abroad, which recenly slumped, improving - no- ticeably in the last few weeks, ap- parent y on war preparations” in some European countries.—
WARNED TO BE READY
"London, Aug. 19. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the British Prime Minister, "to-day warned all members of the Cabinet to hold for an themselves in readiness early meeting. which will prob- ably be held this week, perhaps Friday.
Fractically all Cabinet Ministers | Reuter. are expected to attend. Mr. Bald- win will return from Aix les Bains and Mr. Neville Chamberlain from Switzerland. It Was decided to summon the Cabinet after it was
Paris. Aug. 19, Astutement of Italy's aims was given to the press to-day by Baron Alcisi, the Italian delegate to the abortive peace conference just concluded here between Britain, Į learned that the.. three-Power
France and Italy.
Italy, he said, was determined to continue the policy as laid down at the Stresa conference, in col- laboration with France and Great Britain.
But to play her part in Europe, Italy must be secure in her colon- les. The principal aim of the Government in sending troops to Africa is to assure the security of Italian possessions against an at- back from Abyssinia. Security 's to be obtained by the cisarma ment of Abyssinia.
Italy, he added, had po wish to leave the League, but if she was put out she would have to go, of course.
of
"TOO OPTIMISTIC”
Nanking, Aug. 19.,
It is learned to-night that the meeting place between General Chiang Kai-shek and Mr. Wang Ching-wel has not yet been fixed..
conference at Paris had failed to find a formula for the settlement the Italo-Abyssinian dispute. The Prime Minister announced his intention after a consultation. is doubtful at the moment if the with the Foreign Minister, Bir 4:3cussi-hs will take place in Non- Samuel Hoare.
The text "meeting of the Ca- binet had been fixed for Septem- ber 24, but when Parliament ad- journed the Ministers were warned
Ethiopian that
situation compel them might
to break their holiday.
the
There is as yet no possibility of Parliament being summoned. This is only kely to occur if an even graver situation arises in the Cabinet would seek the sup- The Government had not decid-port of the House.
the to
League legate meeting of September 4. Aloisi disclosed.. Reuter
which
king.
Reports that Mr. Wang Ching- we! has agreed to withdraw his re- signation are branded es "too optimise."- Reuter
UNDER CONTROL
Berlin, Aug, 19. The fire-fighters began to get the upper hand of the radio ex- hibition fire at about 10 o'clock and the flames are being smother- ed...
Ten persons were trapped in the radio tower but have been rescued.
ed whether it would send its de- What transpires at the League Copneu Council meeting on September 4
Baron
will enable the Government to decide whether Parliament should convene immediately instead of! The rescue is due to the herolam of two firemen who scaled the hot waiting for the reassembly date.
iron girders of the lower while .October 29.
hoses played upon them.
GETTING READY (Special to "Hong Kong Daily Press") CHU Tsingraph, Copyright. Tuls
Mensagem gricphic
Ordinancs. 1891 Received, August 20.380 pr.)
Addis Ababa, August 20. The news of the breakdown of the Three Power Conference in Paris, is received here calmly. Although it is still hoped that the joint effort of France and Britain' war, the may
yet prevent Abyssinian Government has placed an embargo on the exportation of silver, which restricts the amoun of money that any person may take out of the country to sums under £50.
The restriction, however, does not apply to money "needed for the buying of arms and war materials, and normal trade trans $25
actions, but is intended to prevent $1265 a flight of capital" from the country which threatened to as- sume dangerous dimensions after the failure of the Paris negotia. tions.
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Preparations for the defence of the country meanwhile is being continued, with
great energy. Fifteen thousand warriors from the province of Schos, who have been encamped in the vicinity of the capital for more than one week, have now started
on" a march to the province of Tigre, after having been completely re- equipped with modern rifles.- Transocean Kuo Min.
It is learned that Sir Samuel Hoare is seeing His Majesty the King to-night.--- Renter
"BE PREPARED" (Special to the "Hong Kong Dail Pres" (Copyright).1
The restaurant refugees had been driven by the heat and the flames, which by this time bad spread from the lower sections rf the tower, itself, to the very top of the structure. From there they were finally brought to safety by London, Aug 19. the two firemen who climbed up All members of the British to them. A ten were taken to the Cabinet have been asked on Mon-hospital suffering from burns. day to hold themselves in readi Less for a special cabinet session to consider the situation created
by the collapse of the. Abyssinian conference in Paris,
le
Mr. Baldwin who made this intimation to his colleagues, is himself stl staging at "Afx Bains- Transocean Aun Min
AFRICA BOUND [Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright))
Rome, Aug. 19,- The steamer "Leonardo da Vinci put out to sea carrying
4,000 officers and men bound for East Africa.-- Transocean Kuo Min.
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HELPING ABYSSINIA Special to the "Hong Kong Daily Press" (Copyright).]
The
Committee
Police and Storm Troopers are now controlling huge crowds which are watching the still fery ruins falling to
the at- pieces under acks of the fire brigades.—— Reuter.
NEW CREW SIGNED ON
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Marseilles, Aug, 19.
The French liner Patria, which was tied up by a lightning strike of the crew in sympathy with the demands of the kitchen boys for more pay, has salled for the Far East.
She carries.
an entirely
crew. Reuter
new
Batavia, Aug. 18. Alexandria, Aug." 19,
The return from individual na- for "helping Abyssinin," decided on Monday to tive rubber restriction to a 578- organise sub-committees in atem of export duties for Banks has been requested by the Resident series of Egyptian towns. The
at Banka total number Egyptians who so far have reported themselves for Heuter. voluntary service in the Abys- s'nian Army has now reached 3,879, of
whom 1,842 are 1. ex-
FURTHER CONSULTATIONS
London, Aug. 19. Mr. Anthohy Eden, Minister for the League of Nations Affairs, had a further consultation
with the officers. French Premijer, M. Laval before
Numerous Egyptian business leaving Paris by air for London
men have offered to supply Abye- this, evening. 3r Samuel Hoare,
sigla with war materials at cost the Foreign Secretary, who had price. In order to arrange regu- been on a holiday in Norfolk, wasations with regard to this, the 55 ots. received in audience by the King celp committee is now conferring
Sandringham this afternoon.
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pire Citizenship Training Coun cll.
The picture she drew of the life of Miss 1935 was this:--
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and later left for London,
Mr. Eden will meet Sir Samuel Hoare to-morrow for a discussion
on the Abyssinian dispute, in the light, of the proceedings of the Three Power Conference in Paris, and of the former s private con- versations with the French and Italian Ministers.
with the Egyptian authorities. Fransocean Kuo Min.
IRISH STANDPOINT [Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyrightja
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between Mr. Eden and M. Laval was much shorter.
No communique about the course of the deliberations was published. Mr. Eden afterwards received the Abyssinian Minister at the British Embassy to inform pim of the course taken at the discussions of the "Great Three","
The reports that Mr. Eden would proceed to Atx le Bains to report in person to Mr. 8. Baldwin proyed to be untrue, as Mr. Eden left for
London on Monday afternoon.-- Transocean Kuo Min...
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THE LAST TRIBUTE.
(Special to "Hong Konr DailyPress")
Dublin, Aug. 19. Mr. De Valera, President of the else they do not realise what is
Irish Free State, has decided Wrong
with them except that
personally to attend the League they fight with their families and
Both the Prime Minister Mr. of Nation's Council meeting on Modern girls are afraid of life are discontented and dissatisfied Stanley Baldwin, who is on a ho- September 4 here he will set Lafraid of failure in marriage with iffe. They are sated with day at Aix-les-Bains, and Sir forth the stand point of the Irish and in a career. That was the pleasure.
Bamual Hoarn. have been kept Free State on the Abyssinian- indictment made yesterday by "They object strongly to their closely informed of the progress Italian dispute. Miss M. E. Popham, of the Em-familles attempting to give them of the proceedings in Paris, and On good authority it is stated The state funeral was held here
some guidance in life, and yet Sir Robert Vansittart, the Per- they are unable to direct their manent Under Secretary for For lives themselves.
---| eign - Affairs » who'i accompanied "At this stage of their lives. Mr. Eden, is visiting Mr. Baldwin then, they face the question. Are at Aix to acquaint him more fully we going to marry or adopt a with what took place career?' and they are afraid of It is expected that Mr. Baldwin making a failure of both will interrupt his holiday and Miss Popham was addressing return to London for the meeting the Imperial Social Hygiene Con-of the Cabinet, which it is anti- gress in London, and she told cipated will be called within the them that in her opinion there course of the week, to receive a was a craving among many me- detailed report from Mr. Eden Aloisi went to the Qual d'Orsay leaders, and foreig
and to consider the whole situa- on Monday to take leave of My took
tween ion resulting from the failure of Laval The conversat
Baron Aloist and M. Laval -lasted the Paris Conference,
an
"I believe that there are many girls to-day who have had "average "education which has not been sufficiently broad or pur podeft)
"This is followed by some years of social life and galety, and then they do one of two things.
They either wake up to the fact they have some respons bildern girls for some sort of train- nés as citizens, but their minds ing in citizenship, but that they
are quite blank se to how to did not know how or where to carry out these responsibilities,
British Wirden
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Telegraph, Copyright, Telr raphie Massagen Ordinance, 189; "Received, August 30, 4.80 p.m.)
Rome, August 20. that De Valera, will declare that on Monday night of Minister Treland is prepared to support in
Razza and those accompanying everyway the endeavours of the him who were killed when the League of Nations, to protect the aeroplane travelling recently to independence of Abyssinia........ East Africa crashed shortly after Transocean, Kuo Mingg
leaving Cairo..
The funeral, took "the form of an impressive national tribute to the first patriola, to fall in the East African expedition. Bignor Mussolini himself and all the ministers and high state Mr- Anthony: Eden- and 5 Baron | ofici Inginding the military
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Paris, Aug. 19.
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MR. RUNCIMAN'S
SURVEY Recovering Lost Markets
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(Special Air Mlauí Service)
London, July 30, With "restrained optimism" Mr. Runciman, Presfilent of the Board di Trade, told the House to-day
that the
Home markets had improved silice last year, and were still im proving s
Trade within the Empire," as result of the Ottawa Agreements. Kad increased;
Tearle with those forcizn coun-
entered tries which bunny
inte agrements with us had expand-
ed largely, Mr. Runciman produced statin ties which showed continuous trade improvement year after year. mouth after month.
For the brat six months of 1965, much he said, our exports were ahove those of the same period of 1934. Taking manufactured goods alone, there had been in advance from £145,500,000 to £180,500,000
I was spread over nearly a classes of exports. Only one im- portant group showed a fill. The great advance in exports of ma Chinery showed the versatility of our manufacturars.
BENEFITS OF OTTAWA The other side of the picture was candidly parated. There had been little recovery in the cotton trade as a whole. Coal showed a slight decline. Many factors had contri- butted to reduce the demand. which in same countries might not t
cover.
The new trade agreements had, in several instantes, kept open foreign markets. The agreement with Po- land had led to the recovery of a large area which had passed out of
the hands of British exporters,
Then Mr. Kunounan came back to proofs of the general improve ment
of conditions at home, Throughout the country retail sales increased last year and had now risen to a still higher level.
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First zmong the induenues which had thus raised the stand ard of national well-being he placed the tariff system; Its stimulus in the past three years accounted to a large extent for the prosperity of internal trade and to some extent for the increase of exports. It had also provided 20 millions of revenue to
Every one of the Ottawa Agree ments had come up to expecta tions in increasing inter-Imperial trade. We provided a free entry into our market for Dominion goode, which Mr Bunsiman added, they do not give us," Since 1931 our importa from Ot tawa countries had increased by 29 millions, our exports to them by over 25 million. Their reduction
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of tariffs had led to their purchasTrianon, Thoresen, August 20
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