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FRENCH PEACE PLAN

COMPLETED

Refutation Of Arguments In German Note

("Hong Kong Dally Press" Special

Paris, April 4. After Saturday's conference of all the leading officials of the ministries coacerned, the French answer to the note from Ger- many began to take definite shape, according to reports current in political circles, though the final form and text will be decided by the Cabinet Counel on Monday,

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The French note, it is stated on good authority, will con- Sist of three separate parts, the first being a refutation of the juristic

orguments of the Geman note and declaration of the French standpoint. The second part, it is said, points out that the German note,, disregards the suggestions made by the Locarno powers, particularly in regard to the fortification of the Rhineland Zone. The third part of the document is stated to consist of a French peace plan which is based on the League of Nations and the principle of collective security.

much more likely venue. It is understood here that the British Foreign Omce does not any early date for the Locarno Powers' meeting-

This plan is said to be intended; Brussels is a for discussion at Geneva, not only by the League Council but also in the plenary assembly of the Lea-favour gue of Nations.

In the opinion of the semi-offi- | Reuter, clal newspaper "Petit Parisien," the proposals made in the third French memorandum will have a London favourable reception in

and the British and French ideas

on petice and securlly coincide in general.....

Fransocean New Service.

FORECAST OF PLAN

Paris, April 4.

The draft of the French peace plan is practically completed and

will be handed to Britain, Italy, "Belgium and the League of Na

tions in the form of a note after

EDEN-RIBBENTROP CONVERSATIONS

Views On Staff Talks

London, April 4.

HONG "ONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1936.

COMMITTEE OF THIRTEEN

Date For Meeting Advanced

("Hong Kong Dally Press". Special)

Geneva, April 4.

Secretariat

That the Committee of Thirteen has been convened for Wednesday next was the surprising announce- ment issued by the League on, Saturday. The reason for advancing the date of the session which originally was to have been held after Easter, is understood to be the French Gov- ernment's desire to bring about a meeting of the "Locarno powers in order to discuss the German peace plan, at the same time avoiding he convocation of a formal con- férence of the Locarno powers without Germany.

MRS. MOLLISON UNLUCKY

Cape Flight Marred By Mishap

AIRSHIP GETS THROUGH

Eckener Surprised At Report

London, April 4. Reuter's special correspondent aboard the Field Marshal von Hindenburg states that the arship is cruising slow_y down the Brazi- Han coast towards Rio de Janeiro, where it is expected to land this morn.ng.....

Colomb, Bechar, April 4. Mrs. Amy Mollison's flight has been held up by 11 smashed under-; carriage, sustained while landing.

"It is too early to say whether I shall continue to the Cape. but is does not seem likely." said Mrs. Amy Mollison to Reuter. She de- Dr. Eckener expressed astonish- clared that It was too dark last ment and annoyance at the report night

the extent to see

of the

that he is in disgrace with the damage, and she did not know Nazi authorities. He admitted whether it would be possible to that he is not a politician: Els complete the repairs locally. The life interests are airships; but he machine was damaged in taking is a genuine supporter of the Nazi off

the again in

direction of, regime and voted Nazi, He is Niamey across the Sahara,

quite confident of living peacefully, Mrs. Mollison added: "My flight in Germany- yesterday was very cold and windy. Reuter, I arrived much later than I ex- pected, but the plane went magni- ficiently:"

Another version circulating here attributes the earlier date to the British anxiety to begin negotia- tions for peace and the cessation | Reuter. of hostilities in 'Abyssinia as soon as possible, especially in view of Italy's latest military successes and the situation created by Germany with regard to the Locarno Treaty. Transocean News Service,

FRENCH REQUEST

London, April 4.

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EARLIER PROGRESS

Oran, Apri 3. Mrs, Amy Mollisop, flying from England to the Cape in search of a new speed record for the dis- tance. passed over Oran p.m.

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BRAZIL WELCOME

Rio de Janeiro, April 4. The airship Field Marshal von Hindenburg has arrived, after covering approximately 7.000 miles in 100 flying hours The were welcomed by representatives of the Brazilian Government at the German Embassy. The airship will depart at 2.30

its homeward Journey to-morrow.

The Hindenburg was safely housed at 9 am. after slight diff culty owing to snapping of the cable whereby she was moored to the mast preparatory to entering the hanger-

She' is proceeding steady south- wards, following the Trans-Saha- Tan Company route.

The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eder has given

She expects to land at Colomb careful consideration to the Bechar, 400 miles further on, this request of the French Govern-evening. but possibly she may be ment presented by the French

It was revealed to-day that in bis interview with Mr. Eden yes-Charge d'Affairs last night that able to continue to Reggan before

terday Herr von Ribbentrop sug- gested that the staf talka must be seriously prejudicial if they took place before the conclusion of the new security pacts. Mr. Eden in it has beer. approved by the Council of Ministers on Monday.

reply reminded the Germany en-

"According to forecasts, the plan

voy, that the talks were the Brf will refute the German claim thatish Government's contributien to France has violated President Wil- restore confidence-all those ne- Gor- son's fourteen potnis, instit that cessary since the German the Franco-Soviet Pact is kom-

ernment seemed unwilling to make contribution for patible with Locarno, and declare any substantial

the interim period.- that France will not "admit"

British Wirelent. German fortacation of ner east- ern frontier,

COLONIAL EQUALITY

Landon, April 4. It is officially learned that at the interview on Thursday between sistance, limitation and reduction | Mr. Eden and Herr

von Rib-

The plan is within the frame- work of the League and is based on general principles of mutual as

of armaments and collective secu-bentrop no reference was made to rity, and incorporates a suggestion. the German claim for colonial

ior specialised forces to be contri-equality.-..

buted by each member of the Lea- | Reuter

gue with the object of implement-

ing "protection and observance of : the Covenant. It is suggested that the big powers, provide four me- ́chanised regular divisions and the

small powers one each.--

•Reuter.

FRENCH AMBASSADORS IN CONFERENCE

A

Paris, Apri! .

coulerence U! the French Ambassadors from Berlin. London and Rome was held at the Qua L'Orsay 10-day and lasted for

three hours. It is understool that great importance, attached to the conversations, In the Government's view.

FRENCH DELEGATES TO LONDON

Paris. April 4. General Schweissgutt, Assistant | Chief of French Staff, will lead the French delegadon to the staff talks in London next week. The greatest importance is attached nere to the co-operation of the Anglo-French air forces especially in crse of aggression...

Reuter

GERMAN DELEGATES

LEAVING

London April 4. Several members of the German delegation including Dr. Dekhoff German Foreign Office are leaving London to-day for Berlin.

The Ambassadors covered the ground of Europe's political troub-of les in the widest possible manner. French circles believe it is fairly certain that a conference of the Locarno Puwers will be held next week, probably in Paris, although British quarters ia Paris think

PEGASUS ENGINES FOR IMPERIAL AIRWAYS

Bristol Factory Activity

London, Apri 4.

Pegasus engines needed by Im-

but Herr von Ribbentrop, special Envoy of Herr Hiller, with other members of his staff will remain in England for few days longer.- British Wireless.

SPANISH FASCISTS DISPLEASED

Sentence. Increased

For Leader

K

perial Airways for Empire flying? (“Hong Kong Daily Press" Specla, boats to number o: 156 are being

Madrid, Apr. 4. bullt at the works of the Bristol The Spanish Fascist leader, Aeroplane Company. Of these en- Frimo de Rivera, son of the late ..gines 116

are required for flying dietater under the monarchy, who boats now under construction but a few days ago was condemned Rochester and the remaining 40' to two weeks' strict arrest, has just are spare engines for substitution had his sentence lengthened by two when overhauls are in progress. months for publishing and distri- In the Bristo! works 8,000 menbuting without permission hand are engaged dafiz in three shifts, bills discussing the programme of although of course only a small the Spanish Fascists.-

proportion are employed in pro

ducing these particular engines.

British Wireless.

RICKSHAS OUT AGAIN

IN SHANGHAI

transocean News Jervtcz.

BRITISHER KILLED IN INDIA

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the meeting of the Locarno powers should be held next Wednesday either in Brussels or Paris. Mr. Eden's reply to this request was conveyed to the French Charge d'Affairs and the Belgian ‘Ambas- sador at the Foreign Office this morning.

Mr. Eden pointed out that in view of the fact that the meeting of Committee of Thirteen to con- sider the efforts of conciliation in the Italo-Abyssinian dispute was to take place at Geneva and was to be called for Wednesday, op- portunity for exchange of views between the Locarno powers could take place there... In these cir- cumstances the proposed meeting at Brussels or Parts seemed opportune- Britina Wireless.

refueling.

Reuter

Colomb Bechar, April 3. Mrs. Amy Mollison, In her new mystery pläne, landed here at 3.45 p.m. to-day, smiling and confident that she would set up a new re- cord for the England-Cape Right-Reuter.

SILVER MARKET

From Our Own Correspondent) London. April 4. London Siver prices to-day were down 1/16 as follow:--

April 3 20. 20

in-

W

Spot...... Forward

COMMONS TO DEBATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Opposition Suggestion Gains Support

London April 4..

A debate on foreign affairs will take place in the House of Com-

mons on Monday.

April 4 19-15/18

on

Heuter's Bulletin Service.

BOY KILLS HIS SISTER French Village Tragedy

PANIC IN ETHIOPIAN CAPITAL

Merchants In Flight After First Air Raid

("Hong Kong Daily Press" Speela!)

Addis Ababa, April,4. Italian aeroplanes bombarded the Abyssinian capital for the first naissance flight over the town in the early hours of the morning. time this morning.' After five scouting planes had made a recon- squadrons, of bombing planes appeared on the scene and dropped explosive and incendiary bombs.

The Abyssinian anti-aircraft batteries replied with heavy fire, which, however, produced no effect. Two aeroplane hangars were burnt down, the Emperor's private machine also being destroyed. Only a little damage appears, to have been done in the town itself,

After the Italian" bombers had USE OF POISON GAS disappeared, the Empress and the Foreign Minister visited the aero-

BY ITALIANS drone to see the amount of damage

done. This is the first experience Hong Kong' Daily Fress" Special) of the Italian fighting planes striking terror into the hearts of

London, April 4. The use of poison gas by the the inhabitants of the Abyssinian, Italian troops in Abyssinia has capital.

been confirmed by the British Red Addis Ababa, taking with them all Stephens, in

Numerous merchants have left Cross delegate, Captain Townsend" ·

the papers here, they possess by camel caravans. which state that Capt. Stephenn, The police are making strenuous in a report. drawn up by him after efforts to calm the crowds keep them in the city.

and his return to Addis Ababa from the northern front, affirms that was during the month of March the

as British Seld hospital treated some. the aeroplane destroyed had | 3,000 Abyssinian men, women and not been used for months and in children suffering from the effects the city itself only three persone were slightly injured.- Transocean News Service,

Actually

done

little damage

by the first rald

PROTEST TO GENEVA .

Geneva, Apr 4.

of gas-poisoning, more than 60 of whom succumbed to their injuries. The report, according to the papers, goes on to say that the gas, which was blown off from re- servoirs placed under the wings A telegram from the Abyssinian of the Italian aeroplanes, covers Foreign Minister protesting against the earth like dew and produces the bombardment of Addis Ababaits effects after about an hour. by five Tallan planes has been re- Other despatches received here ceived by the Secretary-General of assert that the Italians employed the League of Nations.

flame-throwers in the advance on Harrar and also dropped gas bombs on the town,--

Fransocean News Service.

The whole town, states the telegram, was completely without. troops and any means of defence. a fact proved by the Itzdian planes being able to fly low and sweep the streets with machine gun fire. The Italian action was a flagrant infringement of the Hague Con- vention of 1907 bombardment of an open town was and proved the

carried out intentionally by the

("Hong Kong Daily Press Specia)

Paris, April 4. A tragic case of juvenile crime, seemingly due to over-stimulated imagination, occurred in Courget, a small village near Bordeaux, where nine-year-old boy shot his sister dead as a result of a quarrel:

At the end of the dispute the boy 19-15/13 declared quite cold-bloodedly, "now I'll shoot you for that and went to his parents' room and broke enemy.- open the cupboard where his father's rifle was kept and looked to find some cartridges and then returned to the dining room and shot his sister dead through the

WAR AGAINST DISEASE

Memorial To X-Ray Martyrs

met at

head

Transocean News Service.

STIR OF VETERANS

ITALIAN ADVANCE

CLAIMS

("Hong Kong Daily Press" Specia!)

Rome. April 4 Italian troops among the Alpina" and Sabauda divisions continuié pressing forward in the south, Addis Ababa, April 4. states the Italian official War Five planes without warning ag- Bulletin, No. 175, and are again in peared over. Addis Ababa this touch with the retreating Abys- morning, two flying at a height of stritans who were bombed and sub-

On

The boy then went out into the fields and told the neighbours that

about 50 feet, and fired on the city jected to machine gun fire. his sister had committed suicide.

with machine-guns, riddling the Friday, Chessad Ezba was occupied. When cross-questioned, he reem-hangar with bullets and destroying The losses of the Abyssinians were ed to be unaware of his guilt, ad-

an old aeroplane, But there was very heavy, thousands of rifles, mitting the deed and saying that no loss of life, and the wireless eight guns and a large number of he had first intended to shoot his apparatus was not touched.

machine guns being abandoned in mother also. "

their fight. The Itallaz

losses Aged Adowa veterans appeared are placed at 40.

at every nook of the city, armed with antiquated rifles, which they fired wildly into the air, endanger ing the inhabitants more than the

enemy

Bulletin 176. reads: The battle

("Hong Kong Daily Press" Special)

Hamburg, April 4. Eleven nations were represented on Monday at midday at the A suggestion made yesterday by gathering of distinguished Roent- On account of the child's extreme the Opposition leader, Major Alee,genologists and that other League powers as well had

radiolog.sts who youth the police did not take him

the invitation info custody- ás Locarno signatories should be of the

of Late Ashangt ended on Satur- German Roentgen $0- Transocean News Service! brought into conference од the cicty outside St. George's Hospital

day morning with all the troops under the command of the Negus situation resulting from the events to take

part In the cere- the civilised world, whose names

in desperate fight southwards. of March 7 and the later German

When the sound of the aero- Our airmen, following the disorder- proposals, met with a considerablemony of unveiling the memorial to are engraved on the memorial,

160 research workers, practising Prof Dr. Hoitsusen of Hamburg Planes was heard the foreigners | ed. fleeing masses, dropped boroby: measure of support in Parliament

hastened to their respective Lega- and physicians, nurses and technolo- recalled in broad lines the develop

Kept the fugitives under- and the newspapers state that in

tions, where the dugoute and machine gun fire,- gists from all parts of the worldment of science in Roentgenology

The Transocean News Service.. who had sacrificed their lives. 1a since the rays were first discovered Pioneer work whereby the benefits and depicted the insidious way in of X-Ray treatment in the war of whlen the first pioneers Were humanity against disease were struck down before the cuspected made available to the millions of deadly nature of the mysterious sufferents to whom relief could be forces they were learning by ex. brought by no other way,

periment to handle. Prof. Dr. Frik, in the name of The 80-year-old French Profes the German Roentgen Society. sor. Bectere, of Paris Sorbonne, voleed the thanks of all the healed responded, on behalf of the re- sufferers to the victims of Roent-presentatives of the foreign coun- gen research in all countries eftries-- romanesan News Service

Monday's debate Sir Austen Cham- berlain and Mr. Winston Churchill among other members will raise this point- British Wireless.

MENZEL GIVING UP TENNIS

Last Game Against Henkel

Aleyandria, April 5. Roderich Menzel, Czech Davis Cup player, tö-day plays the last game of his career, when He meets Henkel of Germany in the final of the International Championships,

Menzel is abandoning the game in order to devote his whole time to writing. He told Router that tennis was a whole time job and was impossible to indulge in

other interests at the same time- Reuter.

ال

"NEW AIRCRAFT CARRIER

LAUNCHED

Italians Claim Elimination Of Last Obstacle

Rome, April 5.

"There is nothing loft for you to do but to pray for me." The Neguss reported to have telegraphed this message to the Empress from Djibouti. As a result of the Italian victory in the four-day after his defeat at Lake Ashang), according to an Italian press report

battle, the Negus' picked force of 40,000 men is described no longer as an army but a disorderly mass of fugitives. The Italians feel that the victory eliminates the last military obstacle to complete occupation of Ethiopia.

of

trenches were rapidly filled. police behaved admirably. *They proceeded immediately to their ap- pointed stations and prevented any looting.

The Italian planes were up- parently not hit, and departed after flying for nearly hour over the city and its suburbs.— heuter.

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OWN DISCRETION

Addis Ababa, April 4. According to D. semi-official Abyssinian report, the Italian

Government has informed Marshal Badoglie ind General Graziani that they are empowered to use their own judgment in deciding whether to bomb Addis Ababa, Diredawa, and the Addis Ababa Djibouti Rallway. Bester's Bulletin Service.

SAFETY OF FOREIGNERS

Addis Ababa, April 4.

It is announced that at a meet ing of the diplomatic corps it was agreed that all fofeigners in the capital cake. refuge in the British Legation if the situation becomes more dangerous......

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SHORES OF LAKE TSANA REACHED

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Rome, April 4. It is reported that the shores of Lake Tsana have been reached by the Italian right flank columns which linked up after occupation of Gondar and advanced together. -Reuter.

ITALIAN ASSURANCE

London, April 4. Bignor Grandi inforried 'Bir Robert Vansittart yesterday at the Foreign Office that the Italian Government wished to reaffirm the previous assurance that the rights of Great Britain in regard to Lake Tsana district se secured by exist. ing treaties would be scrupulously observed.

British Wireless.

LAKE ASHANGI BATTLE CONCLUDED

The Italians are continuing in observer at Itallan Headquarters pursuit and i la reported that not telephoning to Renter's correspon- only have they reached the shores dent at Asmara. He pointed out is hurriedy leaving the town for Meanwhile the native population of Lake Teana but entered Quoram that the Negus explicitly ordered the surrounding foresta owing to Newport News, April 4.

ότι the heels the flying the Rases to confine themselves to fear that another air raid im-

Rome, April 45. Fategharh, April 4.

Mrs. Roosevelt baptised the new Ethiopians, so gaining com and of guerilla tactics, but they refused to minen. All stacks of petrol das concluded this morning, states The battle near Lake Ashangi Shanghai, April 4, Mr. Gilbert Wheeler Cole, 17,000-ton aircraft carrier York-two important caravan roses to retire and allowed themselves to be been removed. Rickshaws are again plying for superintendent of Folice, was shot town launched here to-day at a Desae and into the Danakil coun- overwhelmed by being drawn into

Marshal Badoglio's communique. hire on the streets of Shanghai dead and an Indian sub-inspector cost of nearly £4,000,000. This 18 try road to Desale now open to the close contact with the Italians authorities have reason to belleve by the Negus are in desperate It is leamed that the railway All Ethiopian chiefs commanded this morning as a result of the was fatally. Infured when they the fist vessel to be launched in Italians along a comparatively flat Bettlement of the lockout last were raiding a house in which a the naval programme begun under country.

It is added that thereafter the that the bridge carrying the Addis fight southwards. The entire air night, when the owners accepted murderer was hiding. The latter the Roosevelt administration. Two The view that the Negus lost the fate of the Negus was sealed. It is Ababa Djiboutline across the force was engaged in bombing and the reduced rates, in return for was found shot dead when the similar ships are in course of con- battle because the generals dis. the same mistake as the Abyssinian River Awash will be bombed by the machine kuning

police finally broke in.-

structions

obeyed his commande was express-made in the Temblen and Shire-Itellans in the near future- Router.

Heuters Bulletin Service.

ed by an authoritative military struter.

Router.

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minor concessions.-- Reuter

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