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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,

SEPTEMBER 27,

1935.

VICTOR

IN

IMPACT

British Missionaries Held Captive

IL.M.S. Ramillies, with crushed bowy, in Purtsmouth Harbour after collision with the German ateamer Eisenach off Sandgate, đùring a 60-milca-an-hour gule. Eisenach neus tuwed to Dover Three of her firemen, badly in- with a great hole in her bona, jured, were taken aboard the Ramillies, but the ship's ductors could not sure them, & forth German sailor was lost,

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ABYSSINIA'S ALLY IN WAR WITH ITALY

WILD,

STEAMING DISEASE

RIDDEN LOWLANDS

London, Sept. 20.

TALY intends to attack Ethiopia on two fronts during the first week in October and will be prepared for a four year campaign, according to expert Military opinion. -Italy-will-have-the-finest-military equipment ever used in war. Ethiopia will have in its favour its formidable barriers and its wild, steaming, disease ridden lowlands.

Information in the hands of the British military intelligence is that Italian military leaders themselves believe it will take four years to conquer the country completely. That it can be conquered, there seems no doubt-but at a great cost in blood and money.

Whatever the outcome of war, British experts are now con- vinced that the Italians will launch their big scule military offensive during the first week of October.

The estimate of the time is reached by the experts on the conviction that the Italian will wait for between two and three. weeks after the rains--which started full force in June-have begun to subside.

It is little known, incidentally that another rainy season

ABYSSINILM

starts on the low Danakil plain Ethiopia-a gorge approximately bordering Southern Eritrea in 2,500 feet deep, which would be a October, and that these rainsgrave obstacle until roads could be spread slowly into the interior | built. as far as Addis Ababa. The Italiana are expected attack almost simultaneously from i Eritrea, - their northern colony, southward toward Addis Ababa, and from Somaliland, west-north-

to

According to British military observers the roads could be

For Eleven Months

WHY RANSOM HAS NOT

BEEN PAID TO BANDITS

£70,000 Before

Two Men Will Be

IN

Released

Anxious Wait For Parents : In England

Manchester, Sept. 20.

EN their home in King's-Road, Chorltoncum-Hardy, Man- chester, a father and mother are counting the days that will bring to an end their ten ́months' wait for news of their kidnapped son.

Since last October Mr. Rudolph Bosshardt, a missionary, and his companion, Mr. A. Hayman. New Zealander, have been held captive by Chinese bandits.

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Within a few days now Mr. and Mrs. Bosshardt will know whether their son is safe or dead.

For the sake of other Euro- Ipeans in China-it was thought inadvisable to satisfy the fan- tastic demand of £70,000 ransom plus anti-aircraft guns.

Last November Mr. H. Becker, set out on another missionary, the dangerous task of negotiating with the bandits-without ade- quate fundн,

He took his life in his hands. lle found the bandits after a long search.

This week the headquarters of the China Inland Mission in Lan- don received this telegram from Shanghai:-

"Have received telegram from Becker. Situation is very critical,"

"Darkness Before Dawn"

The telegram, can only have one meaning, but Mr. and Mrs. Basshardt refuse to lose hope.

"My husband and I are praying that Mr. Becker may be success- ful," Mrs. Bosshardt said to me.

"We believe that the 'critical stage that has just been reached is the durkness before the dawn." Prayers have been offered in Manchester mission halls for the safety of the captives.

Miss Grace Emblem, a woman

Mionar, and, the wives of the two men were also captured. Mrs. Bosshardt and Mre layman escaped and Miss Emblem was released later,

Are You Sure?

Answers On Pago 2.

1. Which British king was named the "First Gentleman in Europe":

Charles II. George IV.

Edward VIIE George II.

2. Two of these animals live

in the sea:

Wombat

Dugong

Ibex

Australia

☞ pt 77 31,48 Platypus

Otter

3. Where is Kalamazoo:

Africa

China

United States Brazil

New Zealand

4. How many of these Euro pean countries have colonies on! the mainland of South America:

Spain

Franec Holland Italy

Portugal

Britain

5. The deck drains on a ship Jare called:

Davits

Bilge pipės Scuppers

Galleys GWho was the first Christian] martyr in Britain:

St. Alban St. David

St. George St. Patrick

St. Paul

St. Andrew

7. Which of these countries!

built only in full view of the owns the greatest area of forest

fland:

Canada India

Ethiopian shooters..

outpost sharp-

The Northern front battle line.

westward toward Addis Ababa. of the Ethiopians was expected, lightor than water;

Russia Brazil

8. Which of the following are

Honey Brandy Turpentine Cider

Mük Ice

In order to wipe out the bitter because of the nature of the memory of their defeat at Adown" terrain, to extend roughly from when Ethiopian warriors cut to Axum, through the Adown region, pieces an Italian expeditionary and eastward to Adigrat, parallel. 0. Who was it in mythology force, killed or wounded 7,600 men ing the Eritrean frontier and some whom Minerva, the goddess of wis and captured from 2,500 to 3,000 25 miles south of it. It would dom, turned into a spider? it is believed that one of the first be a-line about 40 miles long, and

10. Ever heard of a lake two] Italian objectives will be Adowa,¦ probably defended by guerrilla miles and a half above the sea? near the Eritrean frontler,

methods.

Well, where is it and what is its Iname?

ATLANTIC AIR SPURS

took wrong turning

JACK VAN on first attempt to By Atlantic, and flew from England to Europe instead of Canada. No quitter, Jack will try again.

Mother One Baby Nearer £100,000

Toronto, Sept. 15.

NEW contender in the Canadian "Stork Derby" for a £100,000 prize appeared to-day.

Mrs. John Nagle gave birth to her tenth child since 1920, the year when Mr. Charles Vance Millar, eccentric lawyer, left £100,000 to the Toronto mother who in ten years bore the most children.

She claims leudership in the race with Mrs. Matthew Kenny, who has had thirteen children since 1926. alleging that Mrs. Konny has registered only ten of her children, and only registered births count in the contest.

Mrs. Nagle's claim is likely to be short-lived, however. Mrs. Kenny is expecting her fourteenth child.

Another competitor is Mrs. Grace Bagnato, who states that; eight of her twenty-two children have been born since Mr. Millar died.

to conduct their campaign by building a railway into Ethiopia from the south. Realisation of such an effort would require, under favourable circum. stances at least two years, it is estimated. But once accom- plished it would assure Italian victory.

Much of

the Italian fighting would have to be in the lowlands in some parts of which lions, rhinoceros and leopards roam. but It must be remembered that even the climate hardened Ethio- pians, with exception of nomadic tribes, live above the 3,000 feet lavel.

THE FIRST BIG HIT

DANGER BORDER LINE

OF THE NEW SEASON!

Besides the Abyssinian conflict the Brenner boundary is an important: problem to Italy. The picture shown the boundary atone at the Brenner Paxx, near the Italian-Austrian boundary. Behind the stone is

Italian Custom Office..

the

27 Murders By Youth Aged 21 Years

CALIFORNIA POLICE HEAR A STRANGE CONFESSION

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Auburn, Calif., Sept. 4.

Confession to 27 murders by twenty-one-year-old youth

has given the police here the problem of their lives. They do not know whether the young man, whose name is Earl Cramer, is a colossal liar cold. an outrageously blooded, slayer.

or

Detectives here have dis- covered two bodies following | directions given by Cramer. They are those af Jolin Kennott, aged sixty-five, and John Mon- san, aged seventeen,

Cramer has been charged with the murder of Kennett, and the police are now search- ing the desolate mining region of Placer County for further victims.

After confessing in detall to four murders, Cramer said to the police: "You go and find those bodies and then 1ll-toll- you some more." He declared that his crimes extended over a period of four years,

"If you look in the old proB- pecting holes you could find men buried everywhere."

Cramer, entd he intended to tell the police about "two or three killings a day" until he had finished the list.

Unicus Cramer gives the police detailed directions, the task of finding the bodies is almost insurmountable. entire district in riddled the shafts of scores of abandon- ed mines.

The with

Cramer is displaying extra- ordinary vanity as he lies in his cell awaiting formal indict- ment. He seems anxious to know how much publicity he is getting; and reads eagerly all the newspapers he can get.

Originally Cramer was arrest- ed on charges of stealing cat- tle. He admitted killing calves and drinking their blood, and while in prison astounded the police by his confession of mass murder. United Press.

"HONOUR-SLAYING" WIFE GOES BOHEMIAN

Washington, (D.C.), Sept. 15. Mro. Thalia Massie, wife of the United States naval officer in the Honolulu honour-slaying trial, has disappeared from the fashionable Washington circles in which she used to move and is living a Bo homian life in the art colony at Carmel, California, writing hor memoirs,

Mrs. Massic was attacked by natives" in Honolulu In 1932. One native was With airplanes, tanks und Should the Italians,advance from

killed. Lieutenant Massie and Mrs. motorised artillery co-operating Somaliland, their southern colony,,

Fortescue, his mother-in-law, accused with Infantry, the Italians are as they are expected to, obstacles

of his manslaughter, were sentenced Mira. expected to strike southward from even greater than in the north

to ten years:, later pardoned. the rogion between Asmara, would face them.

ly impeded.

The milling green grass plains

Masate won divorce at Reno last year. Eritrean · capital, and' Agordat. The climate in the south is The few wells in the region are of Shon and Gojjam which the It was thought that n flanking worse, the rivers feed vast dangerous.. their mineralized ter Italian force from the north would try. In all districts syphilis is column might advance southward jawamps where fevers are bred. having a laxative effect. More- rench resemble the plains of widespread. from the neighbourhood of the water supplies are lacking, broad over they are used by camela and Nebraska. The lakes and jagged These gruesome allies of Ethiopla Gulf of Zula,

areas are covered with thorns and sheep and man, containing sul mountains are reminiscent of the may, before the campaign is well In their advance from the jungle like brush through which phurated hydrogen, are perilous wilder parts' of the Adirondacks. under way, strike terror even Asmara front toward Adows the an army could only with enormous alike for man and beast.

But in the lowlanda malaria into the courageous hearts of the Italians will be confronted by the difficulty: hack its path. Even British authorities believe and typhoid,are.common. Numor Italian troops, eager for a fight, Arst grant natural barrier

that the Italians may attempt | ous lepers

coun- British experts say-United Prean,

of mechanized units would be severe-

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