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ETHIOPIA MAY OFFER MANDATE TO BRITAIN

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ITALIAN ATTACKED IN ADDIS ABABA

1804.

(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")

(Bu Telegraph. Copyright, Telographic Messages Ordinance,

Received, Sept. 4. 8.15 a.m.)

Addis Ababa, Sept. 3. Many prominent Ethiopians are convinced that the best way out of the present desperate situation is to offer Great Britain a mandate over the country. The views of the Emperor upon this matter are not known, but unquestionably responsible quarters are giving serious attention to the suggestion.

WAR WITHIN

MONTH

FORECAST FROM

GENEVA

ARBITRATION DECISION

Geneva. Sept. 3.

Statesmen arriving here for the ¡League of Nations Council session to-morrow agree that the future Barope alignment, the League's fate, and possibly European and world peace, depend to some ex- tent on what can be recomplished in the next fortnight by the | diplomata of the nations..

Wednesday's Council meeting will be followed on September 9

by the annual assembly, in which nty-seven nations wil} par

icipate.

Statesmen say that the outlook

may be summarised as follows:

First, an Italian declaration of war is certain within a month;

Second, there will not be an | immediate effort to impose penal-

The Danakil tribesmen are still continuing to arrive in small numbers from villages near Deridawa and the rumour persists that Italian troops have cressed the ties frontier. This report was first heard in Addis Ababa yesterday, and was followed by a quick denial front Rome that the vanguard of the Italian army in Eritrea, numbering some 2,500 men,

had entered Ethiopian territory.

Nervousness prevalle in Deri- dowa. Many foreigners ого leaving for Djibouti, In French Somaliland.

WARRIOR PRINCESS Nowhere is there a Kreater enthusiasm for war than in the wild Tigre region where Bas Seyoum commands an army of between 150,000 and 200,000 men. Princess Atzede, beautiful wife of Seyoum, virtually commands the troops in her husband's absence) and he intends to go into the front. line In the event of war, leaving her to direct operations

ITALIAN BEATEN

BANK OF CANTON CLOSES

REORGANISATION PLANNED

TEMPORARY

MEASURE

Third, the reported oil con-

Sir Malcolm Campbell, world speed champion, who yesterday. attained the remarkable speed of over 304 miles per hour in his

car, the Blue Bird, ・・

Cancelling Still Higher

Ethiopian Speed Sought

Concession? By Campbell

ressions to a mysterious American arm are unimportant, and do not | OFFICIAL' AMERICAN|WILL RACE BLUEBIRD alter the main fuels in the sitar- tion-United Press.

events.

Reuter.

NO RESPONSIBILITY

EDEN'S MOVEMENTS

London, Sept. 3. The Minister for League of

ANNOUNCEMENT

TROUBLE FOR NOTHING

an

would be

POLICY UNCHANGED

Washington, Sopt. 3.

Mr.

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AGAIN TO-DAY

NEARS PLANE

RECORD

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(Special to "Telegraph”)

Telegraph, Copyright. Teleprophis Mer Dedinante, 1894. Rørrived, September

Booneville, Sept. 3.

Campbell, un-

Sle Malcolm

RECORD BROKEN?

Booneville, Sept. 3. A re-check of Sir Malcolm Campbell's times on the record-breaking runs

across

the lake sands yesterday dia- closes that he actually did break the 300 mile per hour average speed, as he had hoped to do. His average for the two runs works out at 300.877 miles per hour.

Officials announced that they could not explain the un- fortunate error in calcula- tions, says United Fress.

TERRIBLE TOLL OF STORM

75 LIVES LOST ON FLORIDA COAST

PASSENGER VESSEL IN

GRAVE DANGER

Jacksonville, Sept. 3.

Seventy-five men have lost their lives and forty- seven have been injured in a hurricane which struck with suddenness and fury to-day.

The casualties were suffered in the War Veterans* relief camp on the islands near Key West, where evacuation was commenced yesterday when reports of the nearness of the storm were first received.

Motorboats are rushing to the camp from the United States Naval Station at Key West, taking aid to the survivors of the disaster, who are without food or water and who may be beyond the reach of assistance for some time yet. The weather is still very heavy and the task of the relief boats a hazardous one.

FORCING JEWS FROM BUSINESS

NOTICE TO CLOSE THEIR DOORS

ART DEALERS' FATE

B

(Special to "Telegraph”)

in the

a Berlin, Sept. 3. Jewish dealers in fine arts and

1, 540 a.m.)

Chamber.

The Propaganda Minister consi- ders that trading in cultural goods is not a purely economic occupke. tion, and therefore is not protected by the general order that business life must not be interfered with.

SHIP'S DANGER

Notwithstanding the mountain- ous seas which are running off the coast, the steamers Limon, Reaper and Platano have fought, thoir way to a point of the reef where the

vessel, passenger

Dixie, Hea stranded, pounded severely, by the combera.

They are standing by the ap- parently doomed ship but have been unable to attempt to transfer the Dixie's passengers. They must walt for the storm to subsido.

The Dixie want nshore in the path of the hurricane which did so much damage near Key West,

and her wireless was put out of commission soon after she called for immediate assistance. She had aboard 235 passengers and a crew of 118.

Coast Guard cutters are fighting their way towards her-Reuter.

The ship is pounding heavily on the reef, on the southern tip of Florida.

PACIFIC AIR BASE AT MACAO

ACCEPT OFFER

Non-Aryans own over 80 per AMERICAN AIRWAYS cent. of the fine arts and antique businesses, and their enforced liquidation is expected to over- alock the market and свияс 摄 great drop in prices.

(Special to "Talegraph")

Parla, Sept. 3. The Italo-Ethiopian Arbitration Commission has decided that no responsibility of any kind, either moral or pecuniary, attaches to

Washington, Sept. 3. alther Italy or Ethiopia in the Untun incident or in subsequent If what the State Department

says is true, the fear of complicap It is understood that the Arbitions arising out of the letting of tration Commission's unexpectedly a concession in oil and mineral conciliatory non-committal production in

and

Ethiopia to An decision was renched because the American, company is no longer challenged king of the world of arbitrators reasoned that the serious. The State Department speed drivers, will try again to Lengue Council's decision

of says the concession is to be can-better the prodigious speed he has already attained in Bluebird, and August 3 ruled out the Commla-celled. Seyoum's plan is to warn the

sion's purview on the question of It was reported Saturday that will drive the lake bed track to army and the population of any

ownership of Ualual, making it Mr. F. M. Rickett, a British agent day. He smashed his old records Italian attack by means of a series

virtuntly impossible to give a of big oil interests, had procured yesterday, actually attaining and of great bonfires on high points

o concession from the Emperor of speed of over 300 miles per hour in but his his north-easterly run, A sensation was created in local legal decision.

The Commission accordingly | Abyssinia which was worth of land. The fire line will extend 150 miles to the rear of the front banking circles this morning when decided to deal with the question immense amount of money. Bri- average for the runs in two direc- line and 100 fires will send their the Head Office of the Bank of on a basis of examination of facts tish and American, capital was lions was still slightly below 300 antiques have been given notice to

Imiles per hour.

liquidate their businesses within a smoke warning to the back country Canton, Lid., one of the best-known which is difficult nine months said to be involved, and it was

expected that Italy

month, when their names will be and bring the irregular levies into Chinese banking houses in the after the event. action. The system has been Colony, failed to open its doors, a

Considering that the Italians at gravely disturbed by the develop- OČEŽEVİRTUALATINE CASEZNAM removed from the Reich Kultur found to work very satisfactorily, notice being posted on the door Ualual are acting colonially ardment,

the Ethiopians nationally, the Yesterday, at Djibouti, making rapid mobilisation posal- ble. Reuter Special.

stating that "The Bank temporarily Commission found it was unable Rickett denied that the British suspends payments pending reto impute the blame to Ethiopia. investors had any money in the organisation."

The decision is regarded here venture. It was purely American, London, Sept. 3.

ax clearing the horizon of he said. Meanwhile, the Foreign On the eve of the Langue of

all official Rumours had been current for troublesome incident and tending Oflee had denied Nations enquiry into the Italo-some days that there had been a to facilitate a peaceful solution knowledge of the concession, and Abyssinian dispute, a disquieting mild run on the Bank, and when of the Italo-Abyssinian problem.-Washington, too, had declared that personal incident is reported from Interviewed by a representative of

It had no hand in obtaining the Addis Ababa. According to the Hongkong Telegraph yesterday,

contract-Reuter. Italian sources an Italian citizen Mr. K. F. Lay, the manager of the was attacked in the street. Stones, Foreign Department, admitted that were thrown at an Italian house. this had been the case. He added The Italian Minister is said to that there had been a gradual in- have told the Ethiopian Govern-crease of depositors withdrawing Nations Affairs, Mr. Anthony The Ethiopian concession to the ment that he is not responsible if their money during the last few Eden, motored this evening across African Exploration Corporation take months, and explained that this the frontier from Geneva to Aix-will play no part whatever in the legitimate means to defend them was due to the depression and lack les-Baina to dine with the Prime United States attitude towards of remittances from overseas, Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Italo-Abyssinian situation, an French reports state that Count

who is leaving for London to- nounced Mr. Cordell Hull, Secre. tary of State, when questioned Roquestelle, the French When questioned as 'to the

to-day. manager of the East African Com- financial position of the Bank, Mr.

Whatever the nature of the pany, has been arrested at Jijiga, Lay said that it had so far succeed- Mr. Eden arrived at Geneva

may prove to be, Abyssinia,

charges of ed in mesting all demands, but early to-day to attend the League transaction espionage. Jijiga is a fortified (as ragards the future he declined Council which meets to-morrow. either commercially or politically, rity.

to say anything. He frankly Conversations with the French the Government's polley towards main- The French Consul at Derlwada | stated that he expected a heavier Prime Minister, M. Laval, begun the controversy would be has gone to Jijiga to Investigate. run on the Bank either to-day or in Paris last night, were continued tained hereafter just as it would -Reuter,

to-morrow, but gave no indication at Genova to-day and Mr. Eden have been maintained had the that the Bank would suspend, its also BEW other members of the concession not been arranged.

Driving north, Sir Malcolm hit payments.

Council and the Secretary General He reiterated that the concen-up 304.811 miles per hour; driving Genova, Sopt. 3.

of the League, M. Avenol.

sion was negotiated without Gov-south-west, he travelled at 295.666 The League of Nations Council The Bank was established in

ernment cognizance.-Reuter. miles per hour. He covered the FRENCH VINEYARDS will meet privately at 4 o'clock to- 1912, and has branches at Canton, The Council will hear a reporti

mile course northwards in 11.83 morrow when the agenda for the Tolahan, Shanghai, Hankow, Bang- on the Three-Power Conference →

seconds and southwards in 12.18,. acssion will be settled.

kok, and San Francisco. It has which broke down in Paris on

mean averages of 299.876 miles The meeting will be followed a capital of $11,000,000, of which August 18 when the Italian

Mr. Cordell Hull, Socretary of per hour or one milo in 12.005 immediately by a public session.$8,666,000 is paid up, and claims Government rejected the Anglo State, announced to-day that as a seconds.

total resources of over $32,000,000, French proposals for a possible result of conversations he had had Despite his now record Sir HAVOC PLAYED BY

settlement of the dispute with Mr Look Poong-shan is the Abyssinia. The Council will also with officials of the Socony-Vacuum Malcolm was downerst because

TORNADO Chief Manager of the Bank. receive the report on the Valual Oil Company they had declared they he had failed to average 800 miles

Bordeaux, Sept. 3. incident of Italo-Ethiopian Com- would withdraw from the concca-per hour. mission of Arbitration act upsion agreement with Ethiopia. "Well, I've got to do it all over Some of the most famous claret

again," he said. Probably he vineyards in France under the 1928 Treaty of Amity,

were to-day Seen by a Telegraph reporter this The Commission which was un-

Will attempt to pick up the elusive devastated by a tornado, these in- morning. Mr. Li Taze-chung, man-able to reach an agreement as

one-five thousandth of a second cluding the Saints Milion Pomeral

THE TYPHOON, Tokyo, Sept. 3, ager and cashier of the Bank, stat originally constituted, finished its

lacking on the south-westerly run vineyard. Addis Ababa, Sept. 3.. -There is a report from Shanghai od the depression during recent work under the presidency of -- The Government is not disposed to-day when he takes Bluebird The storm struck the region bo- that the Italian Consul there is years had affected business gener- Arth neutral member, the well- to change its attitude regarding over the course to-morrow. tween Libourne and Bordeaux, com- The Manila Observatory, report- engaging Chinese coolies and sand-ally throughout the world and known jurist, Monsieur Politis, the concession awards, affirms an He needs only this fractional pletely stripping the vines on which ing at 8.40 a.m. to-day, states that. ing them to Italian Somaliland. therefore remittances from over- Greek Minister in Paria-British official communique. It acted increase in speed to attain the de-hung masses of grapes ripe for the typhoon is situate in about 181

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henceforth

LEAGUE COUNCIL

ITALIANS Leaving

Addis Ababa, Sopt. 3. All Italian women and children have loft Abyssinia and the steady exodus of mon is continuing. Router.

Reuter.

CHINESE COOLIES

CAUSES EXPLAINED

morrow.

(Continued on Page 18:J Wireless.

COMPANY WITHDRAWS

Washington, Sept. 3.

Reuter.

ATTITUDE UNCHANGED

'A Router message from Wendover, Utah, slates that the official contest board of the American Automobile Associa- tion has corrected Campbell's average speed to 301.337 miles per hour. The original figure was due to a miscalculation in the time.

(Continued on Page 12.)

Foreign dealers who are inter- nationally well-known have pro- tested through their Consuls! against the order to liquidate.

Meanwhile, A message from Lucerne states that a strongly- worded resolution condemning

New York, Sept. 8. Following the announcement from Lisbon yesterday that the had Government Portuguese

Pan-American Air- authorised whys

to halt their planes at Germany for persecution of the Macao, as the terminus of their Jews has been passed by the trans-Pacific service, officials of Zionist Congress meeting

the American concern to-day, in- voted dicated that the offer would be

accepted.

The

German delegation against the resolution.

there.

The Congress' adopted a resolu- tion approving of the convocation of a World Jewish Congress to protect Jewish rights in different countries-Reuter Special,

DESTROYED

| gathering-Router Special,

When asked whether a definite decision had been reached, Pan- American

sald Airway officials present surveys indicated Macao as presenting the best operating conditions on the China coast for the services which the Company, now.contempintes

It is evident that the Company, intends using Macao as the pro- sent terminal of the trans-Pacific service, but the impression gained was that it would not necessarily. be the only one.

Yesterday's Lisbon message also stated that Pan-American Airways are seeking permission to establish radio-telegraphic and chronometric stations at Macao, United Press.