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WAR EXPECTED IN FIVE WEEKS

ABYSSINIA RUSHES

PREPARATIONS

NATION ILL-FITTED TO DEFEND HERSELF

1894.

(SPECIAL TO “TELEGRAPH")

[By Telegraph. Copyright, Telugraphic Messages Ordinance,

Received, Aug. 16, 8.16 0, m.i

Harrai, Aug. 15. Although Abyssinia is hoping for a peaceful settle- ment of her dispute with Italy, she is preparing for all eventualities.

The railways and roads from Addis Ababa to Harrai and Diredawa show signs of the intensive military preparations with a view to repelling any advance by Italy's war host now camped on the frontiers of Eritrea and Italian Somaliland. The Italian attack is expected in five or six weeks' time, says Reuter's special correspondent.

Mr. Jolin. D. Rockefeller, sehn, during the past right mouths, has given away oil holdings of a total value of $7,000,000.

A garrison of over 25,000 regular and irregular Last Hope

troops is now quartered in the neighbourhood of Harrai while it is estimated that 100,000 troops are lying be tween Harrai and Jijiga and Gerlogubi.

Large quantities of war materials

are being concentrated at Jijiga which is regarded as one of the key defences of Abyssinia's points against an Italian offensive.

READY FOR WAR Army officers, soldiers, peasants, Government officials and tradesmen all express the greatest enthusiasm for a war against Italians, pro- viding the Italiana are the aggres.

But it is recognised every- where that Ethiopin is at present ill-fitted to defend her frontiers.

There are 500 British subjects at Harrat now, the majority of them Indians, and all have been warned to be ready for evacuation to safer points. Many are pre- paring to seek refuge in British Somaliland.--Beuter Special.

U. S. SYMPATHISERS

AMERICAN DEFENCE STRATEGY

NEW NAVAL PORTS IN PACIFIC ?

AEROPLANE BASES

(Special to "Telegraph"),

- Washington, Aug. 15.

Geneva, Aug. 15. Naval experts here to-day in A petition urging that "Ethiopia (dicated that a series of closed port be safeguarded" has been received areas in the Pacific may shortly be by the League from the Inter-added to the restricted" districts

national Council of Friends of

Ethiopia, of Harlem, New York, on behalf of the millious of bincks in America,

within America's defence zone. These ports may include Wake and a waiver Midway Islands, with permitting the Pan-American Air- ways Corporation to use them.

are only four The petition declares that the At present there question of Ethiopiu's protection is closed ports un the Pacific, Pearl one of sacred honour and humanHarbour, Guam, Subic Bay in the duty. They claim that if the Philippines, and Kiska in Alaska.

President Roosevelt has Christian nations stand by and see 'Abyssinia attacked by Italy it "closed" the Aleutian Islands poris, will be "a hollow mockery of their but has merely forbidden civil professions of Christianity."-aviation development there. Reuter Special.

SOLO FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA

RECORD LIKELY TO BROKEN

nol.

For Peace

In Africa

BRITISH FORMULA

OFFERED

MUSSOLINI TO DECIDE

(Spacist to "Telegraph")

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Ordinance, 1891. Received. August

Paris, Aug. 15.

M. Pierre Laval. the French Prime Minister, is acting as media." tor between the British and Italian Governments in the Italo- Abyssinian dispute which, since Britain has announced her policy, has caused a Italian leader Signor Mussolini, und His Majesty's Government.

rift between the

M. Laval has handed to the Italian delegates the proposals | which Mr. Anthony Eden has made for the settling of the Italo- Abyssinian quarrel, and they have been passed on to Signor Musso- link. An answer is expected to

morrow.

Mr. Eden will formally read the British formula to the tri-party conference here to-morrow (Fri- day):

It is indicated that when, the

The compromise reportedly in- naval treaties expire, the United cludes concessions by Abyssinia to States may establish naval stations Italy in the economic field; Italian at Midway and Wakes Islands which colonisation and exploitation of are half-way between Hawail and

the Abyssinian uplande under a Guam, which Are already naval League of Nations mandate; and ports. These may become bases the granting to Ethiopia of an out- when the Philippines áre relet to the sca. linquished.

It Is pointed out that develop- menta at Midway and Wake Islands give Army and Navy aeroplanes stepping stones across the Pacific, while the development of air bases in the Aleutians 2,822 miles north

London, Aug. 15. F. B. Chapman, un B.A.Fotficer who is flying to Australia and back to see his family during month's leave, passed Jodhpur at United Press. noon to-day on his way to Calcut-

tn. He appears likely to beat the

of Guam and 2,185 miles north-west of Hawali, would give these two

aerial flank protection

n ports

Uxisting record of 7 days, 4 hours. S'HAI EXCHANGE

60 minutes for a sold" Might to] Australia, established by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith in Octo- ber, 1935.

Chapman has taken three and a half days from Lympne to Jodh pur, whereas Sir Charles reached Karachi on the fourth day.—British' Wireless.

ANO OFF AGAIN

MARKET

FRIDAY,

AUGUST 16, 1935.

Rockefeller

Giving Away His Wealth

VAST OIL HOLDINGS DISTRIBUTED

Washington, Aug. 15.

It is revealed that Mr. John D. Rockefeller, the oll millionaire, has mnde gifts in off shares to in- dividuals and charities totalling $20,000,000 in the past nine days,

Mr Rockefeller made these gifta following President Roosevelt's fax- the-rich message to Congress,

During the past eight months, however, Mr. Rockefeller hins given away holdings valued at $77.000,- (000), ---Reuter.

HUEY LONG TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT

WILL MAKE MORE MILLIONAIRES

BED-MATES OF DISASTER

New York, Aug. 15. Referring to President Roose- velt and Mr. Herbert Hoover as twin bed-mates of disaster, Senn-

tor Huey Long announced that he

would aband for the Presidency, provided the Republicans go for Hoover and the Democrats for Roosevelt, and there is not any other Liberal candidate.

Spicing his statements with a choice selection of oaths, Senator Long-warned anyone against vol- ing for either Roosevelt or Hoover,

REFERENTSCHLAND ANDÉ SZERETNESSEL ÉS UN DELORESTAMENTİNUTE

WAR INEVITABLE.

LLOYDS FEELS

Will Quote No Rates Against Clash

(Special to "Telegraph”)

London, Aug. 15.

Lloyds will quote no rate

insurance against Italo-Abyssinian war lieving it to be inevitable.

of

an

be-

The latest odds against war within one year for Japan and Russia are twenty to one, for France and any major power, twenty to one. for Italy and any major power fifteen to one. and for the United States and any major power, one hun- dred to one--United Press.

In the event of Mussolini rejec-NTI WINSOT:DEIRANTISOCIAL MENE DE SIENASTE SEIZMARKİNCİA. ting Mr. Eden's proposals the British delegate will suggest an extension of extra-territoriality, with Italy enjoying major concex- of Hell" slons.

as they would be "just asking for an introduction to the gate-keeper

日八十月七

Senator Huey Long, who comer forward as a serious challenger for the U. S. Presidency in next year's clection.

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Anti-Jewish

Excesses In

Berlin Feared

DREADED

STREICHER LEADS CAMPAIGN

CHILDREN of THE DEVIL

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Berlin, Aug. 15,

In order to save themselves from the risk of possible excesses, Jewish leaders here are arging

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U.S. STILL BUYS LONDON SILVER

MARKET NOW MORE QUIET

TREASURY PROGRAMME CALLED "FARCE”

Washington, Aug. 15.

Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the United States Treasury, and the man behind the Silver Pur- chase Programme, to-day announced that the Treasury was again buying silver in the London market, which was more quiet than yesterday when heavy United States intervention was necessary,

Meanwhile, the Canadian Commodity Exchange has amended its silver trading rules by increasing the price fluctuation limitation from three cents to five cents, as from September 3..

The Senate has added an amendment to the Tax Bill, providing for the repeal of sections of the Silver Purchase Act providing the fifty per cent. tax on silver profits, authorising the nationalisation of silver and re- quiring licences for silver imports and exports...

BANDITS ATTACK EXPRESS

SEVEN KILLED IN DARING RAID

PANIC ALONG GREAT WALL

(Special to "Telegraph")

Tientsin, Aug, 16. Bandits held up, the Mukden

· Following a conference with Mr. Morgenthau on the United States silver. policy. Senator Elmer Thomas stated:

"Unless the Government buys sufficient silver in a way that will make the silver dollar actually worth a dollar, the programme might

well be abandoned. Otherwise the Government will be left holding a lot of silver and the only ones who will benefit will be the foreign speculators."

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Senator

Immediately after Thomas lasted this atatemont, Mr. Morgenthau announced that the Government was still buying silver.

-Reuter.

POLICY DENOUNCED

Washington, Aug. 15. Denouncing the Silver Purchase Programmens "n"farce":- Senator- Thanina contended that the law, rather than its odministration, was at fault.

Ile announced a drive to amend

the Silver Purchase Act with &

their co-religionists not to show Peiping express between Shanhai- themselves in the cafes or even in kwan and Chingwangtao and kill the streets to-night, when the ed a Korean passenger, allegedly view to "bringing the silver market greatest anti-Jewish rally ever engaged in smuggling silver, and to America." [beld will be addressed by the two of the train crow.-United

notorious German anti-Semite, Preae, Julius Stretcher.

bandits

According to later reports from Japanese sources, thirty were engaged in the raid upon the train. They are said to have kill

Strelcher ін editor of the Stuermer, newspaper which ac cused the Jows of ritual murder. He will address a gathering nted seven and wounded ten of the which 25,000 Nazia will attend. passengers and crew of the express,

The meeting starts at 8.30 p.m. -United Press. at the Sports Palace, where all space has been sold out.

A simultaneous meeting is being held in another ball and ticketk for admission are four pence each. The Voelkischer Beobachter says there are 500,000 registered Jews in Germany, of which 160,000 are tu Berlin. Eeuter Special.

CHILDREN OF DEVIL

Berlin, Aug. 15. A huge Nazi meeting in support of the anti-Jewish campaign was held in the sports palaco and was addressed by the chief Jew baiter, Julius Streicher, to-night.

The radical anti-Semite bogan his speech with a violent attack on the Jews, declaring their father 'was the Devil himself.

He then turned his attention to

"Under my Presidency." de fall, it is understood that France have more millionaires than were the foreign presa, saying:

If all attempts at a compromiseclared Senator Long, "you will

is pledged to support Great Britain

in demanding that the League else will have plenty, too. Council fully investigate the cause

ever dreamed of, and everyone

trouble. United Press.

EDEN OPTIMISTIC

of the Italo-Abyssinian depute

"All kinds of people, from the and place the blame, for the top to the bottom, will line up behind mo, except perhaps a few bloated millionaires who cannot see much beyond their noses," Paris, Aug. 15.

Senator Long Indicated that

• Mr. Anthony Eden, the British Minister for League Affairs, who "Share Our Wealth" will be the Is Britain's chief delegate to the major point in his election pro. tri-partite conference in Paris at gramme.-Router. " which Britain, France and Italy are seeking a formula for the settlement of the Abyssinia im- US. dollars 36-15/16, Sterling passe, spoke on the eve of the 1/5-13/16, Gold Bars $888.60..

opening of the conversations in The market was firm this morn-optimistic vein. ing. The bearish allver'nows from He said hope still existed in Washington had little effect.

CONFIDENCE SEEMS TO BE RETURNINGTM

Shanghai, Aug. 16. Opening exchange rates to-day

were:

ZETOLKETAN SURINGATAKANKEN DODATNE

BOMBAY SILVER PRICE

COUNTRY IN PANIC

Senator Thomas asserted that the Government was trying to buy silver us cheaply as possible inslend

Tientsin. Aug. 16. People in the Great Wall zone are in a grip of penic as bands of bandits, numbering no less than 1,600, have gathered at Tsungshaoof ku, Hungshnoku and Lowenyu, and are threatening to march beyond the Great Wall, according to message received here from Shan- haikwan.

CIUSKULIIMAPUCAOnt

The official rate of the Hongkong dollar Wan un- changed at 18. 11. this morning, despite the fall is silver prices in London and New York. The market was quite firm, with business done nt two shillings.

ZETTELJAVE ZOZZZVSTALKEROUAGE pushing the price with the ultimate objective of its monetisa- tion,

"We thought we had a silver polley, but we haven't other than About 700 bandits with modern to buy as cheaply as possible. In arma-are reported to have entered that case we made a terrible mis- take by enacting the programme be- Kupoakow and created disturb- ances at Huiyang and Makuokh-cause we could have bought silver wang south of the Great Wall passat 25 or 30 cents an ounce.

"Unless the Government plans to on August 13.

The Special Forces stationed in make silver into real primary the Great Wall zone are trying to money, the whole programme is check the advances of the bandits, colossal farce, and as soon as the but lack of heavy arms handicaps next Administration comes Into marauders power the whole thing will be "I know no lower profession the authorities. The

scuttled. than the making of business out can easily make good their escape

FALSE HOPES of lies. What concern is it of by taking advantage of the tall yours if we clean up our own kaoliang crop now growing in the

"We have built up false hopes in house ?"

the minds of the silver states which The Jews had been warned by

According to the special ad-fare doomed to suffer a tremendous Administration thrir leaders to keep indoors ministrator for the Chimen-Miyun loss when the during the evening. All their usual area, reinforcements have been changes," he declared.

to help in the

Meanwhile the silver-market con- cafes and restaurants were de- rushed to the zone

| tinued ́on a downward trend despite sorted, although several of them suppression of the bandits.

Mr. Ku Shih-ho, secretary of the Mr. Henry Morgenthau's statement carried notices announcing con- cealed gardens in the backyard.

Special that the Treasury was still buying, Luanchow-Shanha kwan Nothing untowards occurred Administrator's office, has just which is indicative that the Trea- during the early proceedings.

arrived here from Tangshan toaury continues to adhere to its Streicher spoke for two and a make a report to Mr. Ying Ju-policy to buy as cheaply as possible, half hours. He violently attacked keng on the present conditions in and avoid bidding up the market, Catholle priesta as well as Jews. that arcu.. According to Mr. Ku and will accumulate on a scaling- Persipration streamed

felds.

down his face, and many of the audience, in the situation there is normal.

Central Netca. Shanghai, Aug. 15.

British quarters that the gap be

cluding several Storm Troopers, The Central Bank was selling tween Signor Mussolini, and Em After a prolonged stay Mr. K. exchange. Speculators · are

Bombay "ready" silver was four-fainted in the crush.

No serious disorders are report- -in-poror Selassio might be bridged teen annas up from yesterday's Ano, the youthful Japanese clined to buy. General confidence by goodwill. A peaceful solution latest price, according to Reutered in the city-Reuter. aviator, hopped off for Japan from seems to be returning.

of the problemi remained within messages at 2.80 p.m. to-day. Shanghai at 7.40 o'clock this The market was steady at the the bounds of possibility. morning on the last lap of his close the morning session, V.9. He emphasised that Britain and London-Tokyo......... flight -- Control | dollars 86–18/16, Sterling 1/5-9/4, | Frinea must have no secrets from Gold Bars 3685.60——United Press.

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To-day's

Price 67.06.

down basis in the face of pressure

[of liquidation.—Reuter;-

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