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NOTES OF THE DAY

STIRRING THE POT

The allegations of the Governor

How

Long Will It Last?

of Hopel that the Japanese were directly responsible for the recent revolt of farmers in the North, may or may not complicate the Sino-Japanese position. Although at the moment there is no reason to suppose that Japan, or Manchu- kuo has any plan afoot for inter- vening inime lately in the minira of the North-West of Chine, one

THE Italian General Staff cannot help but recall the docu

suffers from no illusions. ment recently Issued by Major-Its first report on Abyssinia, General Tada, commanding the compiled at the orders of Japanese forces in North China, Signor Mussolini, was which said in part: that the people tremely discouraging. of the northern provincen are 1ing deceived by their leaders, that "unlear General Chiang

Kai-shek

ex:

Even on revision, again neting under orders, it estimated that a

by

J. H.

DRIBERG

overthrown" there are certain to

force of from, 300,000 to 400,000 and his followers are

men would be necessary.

Their experts predict that, even with such a formidable

શીમ this.

TRE

Miles

THE Abyssinians will retire before both these incursions till the Italian forces are en- meshed in the broken and pre- cipitous country between Gondar and Sakotn.

While the Italians will utilize the road running from Adown to Dessye and Addis Ababa, it will be impossible for them to move with any speed: they will be harassed night and day, and every inch of territory will have to be consolidated first: roads

ADEN

DOWA

Aksum

Dera

Auba

Sakola

MAGDALA

Dess

AUSSA

Jigjigg HARAR

Bansh

Wal Wal

ADDIS ABABA.

BRITISH SOMALILAND

and bridges will have to be built to ensure their communications,

On the east, the main offen-

sive was launch-

ed from Assab against Harar

and Diredawa in order to control the railway and to strike at the Emperor's home town before pro- ceeding to cap. Lore Addia Ababa.

more anti-Japanese activities, and that it may be necessary to reguri to force to eliminate the army Influence of the Kuomintang in the war cannot Agordat & North China. This, at least, is the be pushed to a broad Interpretation put on

successful con- General Tada's utterances by weil-

clusion in informed Chinese. The People's

lt:༥༥

Tribune.

than two years. Chinese publication.

In the view of {{*4 8 AT AR to assert that. General Tada promised support to this is an under-

foreign experts Tebetcha any revoit of the anti-Nanking

estimate, faction in the North. "If only in The interests of justice."- Offelaily, A precise es- however, the Japanese Government limate is dif- has nuverted, and re-asserted, that feult, because it it will no longer Interfere in the is not possible Internal affairs of China. But to be sure of nl. military authorities have added tors. We have

the relevant fac that "we cannot leave unnoticed to assume, first, Any condition that may lead to a that the war willi TUESDAY, OCT. 20, 1915.

daturbance of the peare in the remain. isolated, Telping-Tientsin area, and which that Italy and might erente a threat to our red.] Abyssinin will LEAGUE BUDGET dents." If we are to believe what fight it out by

BATTLE.

the Governor of Hopel says, we themselves. mant presume that Japan is at- There is strong opposition attempting to create a situation in sanctions

Application of} Geneva to the economy campalientary intervention and make post-invalidate

the North which will excuse mili- yet,

the heat is so which has broken out afresh this ble

intense that the furthering year at the League of Nations deep-laid plan for the domination

some assumption.

almost certainly native troops Assembly. Protests against a

We may legi- (of additional territory in 'China,

will have to be timately assume fehersepaying policy have been

also that Musso-

employed, sup- voiced by most of the States

ni will be con-

ported by Euro- which have been active in up that the hope of a nuval conference, military occupa-Arrace indicate general direction of the invaders thrusts,

tent with noth-

peans i n We predicted not many days ago ing less than the

This map shows, shaded, territory already occupied by the Italian

mechanical holding the Lengue Covenant.arranged in Lotion for December. tion and

armies. Towns and villages ringed are those which have been bambed, transport. They argue that, faced with the arriving at any really dependable jugation of the on to the capital, Addis Ababa.

They will be biggest test in its history, the arrangement, for the restriction of whole of Abyss the aust the it contrati railway and the rararen routes to Bri- attacks from the From the north the advance is aiming at Magdala and Deanpe, and so constantly ex- flank Lenghe needs all its strength armament construction, was very sini.

anith converges on Hurur, chief town of Eastern Abpainia, posed to MILIZA KORJUS—Invitation to the Waltz (Weber) No. C-2721 and prestige. Niggling critic-stim Indeed. We find that some.

mountains, and The Little Ring (Chopin)

isms of its budget may well one agrees with us, The Foreign ferente an unfortunate impression Relations

It was suggested that after his IT would be the gravest error their communications will offer Association of the initial spectacular victory he and hamper the efficiency of the United

to under-estimate the soli- a problem to be solved only by States, asually well-would be prepared to assent to darity of Abyssinia; its ap- the occupation of the foothills. machinery at Geneva. France Informed on such matters, sounds intervention, but certainly the parently diverse elements have

fore take anything up to six

-All hail, thou Dwelling (Faust) ELISABETH SCHUMANN-Batti, Batti (Don Giovanni)

No. DB-946

Voi cha Sapote (Noxxo di Figaro) RICHARD CROOKS-I Love Thee (Grieg) No. DA,1394.

Partod (Tosti)

MICHEL FLETA-Ay, Ay, Ay, (In Spanish) No. DB-1483

Dolores-Madrigalo (Droton)

DALMONTE TOTI-Splendon Le Sacre Faci-Lucia di Lammermoor No. DB-1015,

Spargl d'amora planto-Lucia di Lammermoor

JOSEPH HISLOP-For Love Alone No. C-2729

The English Rose

SPEAKING OF NAVIES

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SSINIA

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KENYA

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ITALIAN

SOMALILAND

The advance. will have to be mado across the Duykil desert and the torrid valley of the Hawash, where

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. has been appearing in the role the same note of warning, saying only terms he will consider will been welded together by a flam- These operations_may_there-. of "The villain of the piece", und that there is every indiention that such as Abyssinia will have ing sense of injustice; Christian, months, and the next rains may

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Other delegates have expressed respectively. Such is the outlook efficiency; an air force of some

ble with Germany and Italy to the most precise degree of little value.

of

*

*

·

but

M. Laval personally has urged n

Mohammedan, pagan, they are general ten per cent. cut. Dras-

all prepared to die for the in- well be on before the northern and eastern offensives are even tic cuts had this year been made

can do anything to prevent it. EVEN should the Emperor in tegrity of their country,

within striking distance of his wisdom incline to sub- Association in the French budget; and he bases

The technical superiority of Addis Ababa. The armies will Its observations, we know, mission, his subjects would never Italy will certainly prove to be then be immobilised. argued that these should be re-upon information from all sorts agree to the alienation of their illusive once the campaign has flected in the budget of an inter-of official and unofficial, but author-Italy, us sole or conjoint protec

country and its occupation, by been fully launched. national organisation which itative, quarters, and its ideas are tor.

To sum up, the primary objec- tive will be the capture of France helps to maintain. The worth considering. It feels that counter to the ardent patriotism THEIR air force may bomb Harar and Addis Ababa, with Norwegian delegate, however,race not only in the Pacific but in

there is every possibility of a naval of his people, however palatably

Adowa, Harar and Addis Adowa an incidental sop to na- has pointed out that it is im- the Atlantic,

tional honour, and it states that such a protection" might be Ababa, though even for this possible to compare a budget of America is preparing to build disguised. We may, therefore, latter purpose a base 400 miles Adown quickly fell; milliards of franca with one ofleet of modern warships which will eliminate from our consideration from Addis Ababa and the further advance from the north

make obsolete many of the power this possibility as well. a few hundred thousands. Withful fighting craft

necessity of exceeding an al- and the offensives from the east. afloat to-day. Even the more ponderable neutralise its effectiveness.

titude of 8,000 feet will largely and south-cast will be slow and a very large budget it is com- Why all this fear of naval competi- paratively easy to make reduc- tion? Japan la suspected of enter-factors are not so, decisive as we

cautious, and it is hardly likely tions. It is, however, extremely Italy admits them;

taining "imperial" aspirations; might wish. On the Italian And once the

that any appreciable headway campaign hard to strip a skeleton, and the re-arming: France and Britain are highly trained army, with every force, as our own experience has

Germany is side the advantage lies in a reaches the highlands, the air will have been made in the high-

lands before the next rains. League budget is only a skeleton. in a state of tension, fearing trou specialist department brought proved, will have comparatively At that point organised war- their admiration for the meticul-which delegates to the forthcoming 200 airplanes based on Assab;

fare along European lines will Poison gas will be singularly largely break down, and a long ous control exercised by the naval conference will face in Lon- Supervisory Commission, which don. It is not promising. More- an abundance of munitions; ineffective in mountainous and and dangerous period of guerilla does its best to ensure that, not prospect

over, while there is the slimmest engineers more competent than forested country, and in the Warfare will set in, during which the Abyssinians will have every agreement in any to be found in the world absence of any large concentra- a penny subscribed to the League London there is always brake for establishing and maintaining tions of Abyssinian troops.

advantage of terrain and mobility, shall be wasted. Moreover, as inpon the fears of nations and a communications.

delay of dangerous reaction to previous years, considerable those fears. But if the Noval

There will be few, if any, set Their army as a machine is ARTILLERY and mechanical engagements, and a steady war economies have in fact been conference should fail, and it was perfect, their organisation to- transport will be put out of of attrition will inevitably react

compromise, the plunge towards element remains in doubt. ace that there was no hope for day magnificent; only the human action by the absence of roads far more severely on the morale the

and the difficulty of the pre- and health of the Italians than unpleasant, expensive and | League declares, it will be diff dangerous

cipitous terrain. The climate, of the Abyssinians. remedy of naval re The Abyssinian forces may no less than the arduous nature cult to carry on indefinitely if construction would be immediately without disrespect be termed of the country, will take heavy

accelerated. every year the League's budget. Governments to be represented at the standing army trained by no easy matter to keep the of the war at the end of which Realising this, the irregular, with the exception of toll of personnel, and it will be excessive estimate for this phase A further two years is not an has to be reduced, as the absurd the conference must be prepared Belgian and Swedish officers; medical units supplied and in Italy, if successful, may result will be the gradual reduc- to give and take, must go to the they suffer from a deficiency of touch with the fighting forces..

parley with elastic policies and tion of the budget to

claim to have ereated a desert even tempers if they are to have munitions, and their artillery is

and called it peace. Those who are concerned with hope of accomplishment. Some almost non-existent; their nir It will be necessary for Italy the efficiency of the League as how, remembering who and what arm is negligible; their arma- to achieve yet further spectacu- Mr. Driberg worked for fifteen

this con-ment is only now in process of lar

parte of Uganda an instrument for international will be represented at

succeases carly in the years in remote feronce, we cannot be enthusiastic unification, and rifles of differ- campaign. For the sake of her. Abyssinia.

and the Sudan, and is an authority on co-operation regard the constant optimists.

Speaks eight African ing calibres are used by the prestige she attacked Adowa, languages, has written seven books, efforts of certain States to "axe"

feudal and tribal levies, neces- which fell within the first week, and is forty-seven." the League as deplorable. It of the situation is that, at every armament has been completed, offered in view of its unimport- sitating the provision, till re- since not much resistanco was certainly seems as if some coun- Assembly, including the present, of ammunition so diverso as to ance to the Abyssinians. tries who cheerfully spend the tendency of the Member

All the fun of the fair will be found at the second annual garden fete of pounds on armaments begrudge States is to find new taske for create a serious problem.

The attack on Adowa was the Kowloon Tong Anglican Chureli the expenditure of pance on the _Lengue to do. Obviously, They have, however, the launched from Asmara, while a to be held in the Church grounds, 3, peace. Already the effect has the League cannot operate ade enormous advantage of terrain parallel advance was made to the The opening coremony will be per- Duko Street, on Saturday afternoon. been to curtail a number of quately without funds sufficient and mobility, and a spirit of west of the Takkaze Gorge to- formed by Lady Pollock at 3 p.m. League activities; regarding the duties, of which the preserva- carry them to victory despite tion of these forces will be shows with amusements for children

for the needs of its multifarious determination which may well wards Gondur. But any junc- There will be various stalls, usefulness of which there can be tion of peace is only one of its their enemy's technical superi- almost impossible owing to the and so forth. The fete will be open and grown-ups, teas and ice cream. no shadow of doubt. The Irony many functions.

precipitous nature of the gorge. from 2 p.m. until 7° p.m.

effected in the budget for 1936.

As the Secretary-General of the

zero,

ority.

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