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FIRST EDITION SECOND WEEK

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No. 14706

四拜禮:姚六十月正英港香 THURSDAY, JANUARY

16,

1936,

日二十月二十

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WHITEAWAY'S

NAVAL PARLEY WRECKED

EMBARGO ON OIL DELAYED

BRITISH POLICY

UNCERTAIN

LEAGUE WILL INVESTIGATE

London, Jan, 15.

The question of all annetions ocen- pled most the Cabinet's time this morning.

After discussion, it was generally felt it was impo,sible to tell to what extent an oil embargo should be applied and to what extent the oil supplying countries were prepared to co-operate. It was therefore impoarl- ble to take an Immediate decision with regard to an embargo,

It is understood the question of the fate of the Amorienn Ñeutrality Bi!! was also raised.

It is believed the polley of the Gov- ernment will be to favour continuing sarctions against Italy, but to neer- tain by inquiry on the spot how the altuation stands with regard to an oil! embargo,

Techalent aspects of the problem will be explored by Mfr. Anthony Eden nt Geneva. It is learned that it is not a question for decision for or against oil sanctions that confronts the Cabinet, but a decision whether or not they can be carried out.

It is also gathered that from the viewpoint of enforcement of sanctions, the co-operation of member states of the League of Nations has improved.)

-Renter.

Viscount

Alonsoil,

pure

*Japan siz reasonin why Great Britain cannot accept the Japan. ese proposals for a common upper, fimit of naval tonnage,

ITALIANS ATTACK AGAIN

GRAZIANI BEGINS

OFFENSIVE ETHIOPIAN VICTORY

NO ACTION EXPECTED

Paris, Jan. 16. French leaders believe the League of Nations' Council nt its next week's meeting will not impose new sanctions

(Special to "Telegraph") ugainst Italy, since Italy thus far has

Ronte Jun, 15. made no effective progresa

officially anyoppeed IN Ethiopian campaign and the presenteneral Graziani, comunanding Italy's penalties have been unexpectedly authern armies in Ethiopia, as) effective.

commenced his attack in the region It is pointed out that at present af Dolo against Ras Death Demtu

hor

It

think

none of the leading powers sues any and bis ferce warrior tribes, reason for immediately-placing-din

A communique states that Marahal embargo on oil.

Badoglio has telegraphed: Moreover, the commencement of the rains in Ethiopin precludes any Italian advance during the next eight months, in which there is ample time to pursue peace negotiations.

"The Ethiopians, under Ras Demtu, have established themselves during the past several days between the Galanedoria and the Dauparna Rivern, in order to bring pressure upon the

It is learned that M. Pierre Laval, Italian Somaliland front, at the Dolo

the French Prime Minister, hopes that sector.

important

JAPANESE FORMULA FIRMLY REFUSED BY BRITAIN AND AMERICA

PREDICTIONS OF CRISIS IN PACIFIC INVOLVE HONGKONG

LONDON, JAN. 15.

THE NAVAL CONFERENCE IS WRECKED AND FROM ALL SIDES HAVE COME PREDICTIONS OF CRISIS, WITH THE STORM CENTRING IN THE PACIFIC, POSSIBLY AROUND HONGKONG AND THE PHILIPPINES.

The Japanese decision to withdraw from the Conference was officially an- nounced in a statement issued at the end of to-day's meeting.

"We desire to declare most emphatically that notwithstanding our withdrawal from the Conference we are far from entertaining, the slightest wish to embark upon an arma- ments race," the statement added. "We are firmly determined to endeavour, as heretofore, to promote the enuse of world peace by assiduously cultivating, the best and friendliest relations with other nations."-Reuter.

"WE CANNOT AGREE"

London, Jan. 15.

The following statement was issued by the Japanese delegation to the London Naval Con- ference:.

"We cannot agree to the proposals of other delegations, as they do not meet with our fundamental thesis of liquidating our position of inferiority under the existing treaties and providing for minimum forces, required for the safety of our national defences.

JAPANESE THREAT TO BRITAIN

ITALIAN PRESS-

WARNING

CRISIS IN PACIFIC

"Other delegation have made clear that they cannot desujit our proposal for a common apper imit. Therefore we have no choice but to leave the conference.

"We desire to declare emphatically that far from entertaining the slightest wish to embark upon an armanent race, we are firmly deter mined as unfalteringly as heretofore, to promote the cause of world peace by asalduvusly cultivating the friendliest

relationa with other

nations."United Press.

BRITISH STAND- OUTLINED

London, Jan. 15. Viscount Monseil, discussing the technical aspects of the naval situa- tion from the British viewpoint, made six points.

doubts that they will will lead direct-bel baltie continue's all along the in London, Japan's withdrawal will of distance from bases, in long com-

EDEN'S INSTRUCTIONS

Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign activity is intense."-United Press. Minister, has been instructed, follow-uan; MATTINONTEKI

ing a meeting the British Cabinet. SHARP EXCHANGE

to propose to Geneva next week that! the Lentrus crents a sub-committee for the investigation of the possible! effects of an all embargo against Italy.

Diplomats believe the proposal will result in the postnonement of the oll boycott-United Press.

OF NOTES Mongolia-Manchukuo Tension Increases

open

clash

AMERICAN REBUFF

TO JAPAN

U.S. NOT ENTITLED TỔ SUPERIORITY.

NAGANO'S ARGUMENT.

(Special to "Telegraph")

·

Mfr. Norman Davis; chief Amor-. iran delegate to the Naval Con- ference, who bluntly told Japan that she did not require equality for security.

EXPRESS WRECK IN ENGLAND.

TWO KILLED IN. COLLISION

LONG RECORD OF SAFETY

London, Jan. 15.

A shadow he crossed the Great Western Railway's claim to be the safest railway in the world by the al injuries received by the driver and a passenger when the Penzance- London night express collided with five trucks which broke away from-n Jocal train at a siding near Swindon.

Twenty-six others were injured, six seriously.

PROBING LOSS OF AIRLINER

WHEN WAS SEARCH COMMENCED

DESTROYER DELAYED

Alexandria, Jan. 15.

Keen questioning by the Coroner with regard to the time which elapsed Lefore a pearch was minio for the wrecked Imperial airways liner, City of Khartoum, was the main feature

Inquest on the victims.

of theater.

of the

Mr. MdMecking, Superintendent of the air base on the night of the disaster, stated that he was told at 8 p.m. that, the flying-boat had not yet wont to the landing. landed, and he stage to see whether there were any, signs of the liner.

He then returned to his office and asked Lieut.-Cdr. Micklethwait, of the destroyer Beagle, who was waiting to meet

A passenger on the City of Khartoum, to put to sea for a search. This was at 8.15 p.m., about an hour

after the accident..

The Commander-in-Chief of the Britlah Fleet at 8.52 p.m. gave per- mlesion to Licut-Cdr. Micklethwait to put to sen, and the Beagle started at 0.30 p.m. The order was delayed in order to obtain the latest information from the pilot of an Imperial Air- ways plane who had just arrived. Ruiter.

Escape From Air Crash

WATCHED AIRLINER'S LAST TAKE-OFF

Memphis, Jan. 15. Mr. John T. Shen disembarked from the doomed American Airlines Lines. plane, "Southernér," at Memphis and watched the last take-off of the plane when she left for Little Rock, Neb.

He said afterwards that one of her

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KIPLING MAKING

PROGRESS

Attendant Doctor Optimistic

Rome, Jan. 15. conversations miny he "On January 12, General Graziani

"First While it is generally regarded as

he said, naval equality is arranged with Baron Aloisi the initiated a strong action. The Ethio-likely that thin will be the last day not measurable in terms of ships, but Italian diplomat, at Geneve. But he pinns have been repulsed and are of the Five Power Naval Conference

By Telegraph. Copyright, Telepraphic Mr. munications, all of which pursued.

must be espes Ordinance, 1884. Received, January

ASSISTANCE RUSHED ly to peace.-Vuited Press,

10. 8.m.)

London, Jan. 15. front. Our losses thus far are not be taken here as foreshadowing an considered.

between Eastern and

London, Jan. 16. power with the greater Second, the

A serious rallway accident occurred serious,

rvival needs cannot denude its territor- The Five Power Naval Conference London, Jan. 15. "On the Eritrean front aviation Western Imperiulism in the Pacific.

The newspaper Stampa declares les of essential defences to concentrate has ended in complete failure, follow-tarly this morning, about five miles that Japan has won all the points of its entire fleet in distant waters. ing the Powers' refusal to accept from Swindon on the Great Western the game during the past few years. Third, a power with world-wide Japan's parity demand. Thereupon, Railway, Now the Washington Treaty system responsibilities must devote its naval Japan officially withdrew from the is ended, Great Britain and the forces to the protection of its com-

Conferenco. United States will have only one munications between various

parts of Admiral Osami Nagano, the chief weapon at their disposal: namely, the the empire, and these long com- of the Japanese delegation, in a brief fortification of Hongkong and the munications must require forces statement, said Japan had no other Philippines. But will they resort to exceeding those of a power whosa choice than to withdraw from the this? the paper

itself.

whole fleet la concentrated In home conference due to the divergence of "Hitherto, and America) waters.

views. Fourth, a common upper limit to have prevented the fateful Pacific

Admiral Nagano's plea for equality conflict from assuming an aspect of inconsistent with the defence require was couched in strong language. It open war by simply giving way be ments of the British Commonwealth, was a demand. His hinted that the fore the Japancao advance: but re which must take account of its United States

was not entitled to waters, equality with Great Britain because. nunciation is no solution, and arave responsibilities in European issues will arize to-morrow. for the and in the Atlantic and Pacific of the British Empire's greater de

and United States

the British, Oceans.

Lenco noods. Empire," says this newspaper.

BEST GUARANTEE

Mr. Norman Davis, the chief of the American delegation, replied, imply- Fifth, the Washington Treaty offering that Japan was seeking a navy Britain in laying up her fleet in

to the the best guarantee for equality of superior than the defence purposes for which it was required. He Bald Sixth, the Japanese proposal would the present treaties provided equal conflict the miserabic Ethiopian]

while Japan la

la building up an face Britain with a strange situation, defensive security due to the goo- impregnable position in the Far East, in which every country, however

is impossible to change the from which will come a menace to stender its resources, would not only Eraphical location of the powers: European interests in China as a be entitled but would actually be in geography. Should a nation in this

socure position whole and to the whole future of the directly encouraged to build up to its naturally

possess neighbours' strength. British Empire in the Pacific.

naval armaments equal to those The press talks of the possibility he was unable to find in the Japanese would

Expressing ble sincere regret that powers not so. favoured, that nation marked hayni of construction, under Japanese aus- pices, of a canal through the Isthmus lana basis for the reduction or superiority, far more than sufficient navica. Viscount Mongell for her defence posla" declared Mr. of Krn, which would destroy the power limitation of n

erald he hurt the 'spanerenteleradion Dari of the Singapore naval base-Reuter, would continue to seek co-operation

GERMANY'S THREAT

Iowa's Loss Recalled

INVESTIGATION DEMANDED

Portland, Jan, 15. Mr. G. O. Hunter, vice-president of the Portland Central Labour Council, in a radio talk to-day, demanded a federal investigation into the loan with all hands of the steamer lows.

This followod tho Bureau Navigation's unamusement that ani Investigation was impossible becauso there were no survivors,

of

Bfr. Hunter charged that the wrock was due to the fact that, the com pany tried to save money and that the Iowa carried nơ Bar Pilat, as is the general custom at the Columbia River mouth United Press.

LOCAL DOLLAR UNCHANGED

Moscow, Jan. 15. Vigorous language is used in notes exchanged by the. Governments of the Mongo- lian Peoples Republic and Manchukuo on the subject of .the

border recent incidents. Manchukuo has threatened to take decisive. action, notwithstanding the consequences involved.

In reply the Mongolians have asserted the frontier incidents have been caused by Manchukuo and Japan, who are clearly aiming at

relations.- complicating. Reuter..

aggravated situation will be published in to-day's Final Edition of the Hongkong Telegraph.]

The Italian press "the

short-sightedness ally deplores

of

Mediterranean and absorbing her security.

with other delegations and that some Berlin, Jan. 15. alternative method of achieving the The veiled threat that Germany end which all had in view might thus might consider the Anglo-German be discovered.--Renter. naval pact jeopardised if the Naval Conference collapses as a result of

the

Wilhelmstrasse.

exists.

bavo

and non-menace.

Į

London, Jan, 15.

A bulletin issued at 6.30 p.m, states that Mr. Rudyard Kipling had a very restful day, this morning's improve- ment being still maintained. A later bulletin, issued at 10.30 p.m., stated that Mr. Kipling was maintaining his slight improvement. ...If is stated that Dr. A. E. Webb-Johnson, the surgeon attending the patient, is optimistic, very especially in view of the very afair adayawiilch. Mr. Kipling

has had. Reuter,

now

t

from

ነ

The crash is the worst in the history of American commercial aviation, for Reventeen lives

The were lost. previous record disaster was sixteen" killed in an airliner's crash at Ocean- side, Cal., in January, 1930-United

Press,

ACTOR'S WIFE INJURED

MRS. MCLAGLEN IN JUMPING MISHAP

Pasadena, Jan. 13.

Mrs. Edid McLaglen, wife of the noted screen actor, Victor McLaglen, broke her nose and suffored head and internal injuries when her horse was caught on the top rung of a jump on the McLaglon ranch to-day and fell heavily on top of. the rider-United Press,

NEW TRAFFIC POST

QUEEN'S ROAD CHANGE

turn round,

43.

'NO INSURANCE

The work of substituting the traile supertenvore, post at the top of Pedder Street with "Equal armaments do not ensure

another on the basement outside Shell equal security," he argued.

from Penzance to London came into House is now being undertaken by "The Japanese have stated that one collision with trucks which had come the Public Works Department. of their objectives in to create a stato uncoupled ETHIOPIAN SUCCESS

a proceding coal The new position of the post will Dessiya, Jan. 15. the withdrawal of the Japanese, is Naval Conference is regarded as the of non-aggression.

the line.

both. Pedder Street and Queen's Rond A belated communiquo, dated contained in a communique published inevitable outcome by practically the We are convinced this state: now train and were running back along enable the trails pointsman to watch January 6, states that Ras Siyoum sur in the Diplomatische Correspondens entiro press of Germany..

"It would be most difficult,

The first three coaches of the ex-without having to even in "Japan goes, but Moscow comes," prised the Italian forces in Gjeralta, to-day. The communique is regarded and in the sudden attack.completely as reflecting vlows of the is the comment of the Kekalastreiger, more normal times and in conditions Press were derailed, one falling down hitherto. defeated them.`-

This paper adds: "The absence of an of greater mutual confidence, to agree an embankment. The driver and 27 The Italians lost alxty-five, killed. It declares that "Germany proved honest determination to diearm con- upon such a radical readjustment of passengers were injured, nine serious. The Ethiopian Ionses were five killed her willingness to adapt her demands demned the conference to failure from relative strengths as would be in-y, and the driver and one passenger have since died. The fireman had a and a number of wounded-United for security to a general reduction of the beginning. The United States and volved in the acceptance of a common remarkable escapo.

Mr. limit," naval armaments by concluding the Britain may arrive at some agree-upper

Doctora and nurses, rushed from Anglo-German naval pact. Therefore ment, but they cannot lay down any stability such readjustment, quite the light of bonfires of the wreckage. "In face of the world's present in Swindon, attended to the injured in

Moscow, Jan. 15... Gormany would like to see cortain deânito disarmament programme as

The Soviet had informed Japan that Rome, Jan. 15.

aside from the developments avoided which might| Jone as Javan does not loin in.

question of principle, A communique Issued fate. to-day endanger existing agreemonts and The Hongkong dollar

Breakdown gangs have been at work she is prepared to release the Japanono "Meanwhille the

Is Impossible," he declared. Franco-Italian

all day clouring the blocked soction aviators held since their landing on chanred on onohing this morning, the states that Italian forces on

create a new situation with all its rivalries cont'aue.”

"Bearing in mind the situations in of the line, and meantime trains to Russian soll some days ago, HE SOOD NE Bank's offletal rato being 1s: 3%d/ southernBamaliland front have

Volkiskor Beobachter-heads. its re- the Far East and In Europe and in and from South Wales and the West the investigation into their reasons for Inter-bank rates were about 1x. claimed to have won a completo vic problems."--Reuter.

port from London with "Anglo-Amor- Africa, the United States is unwilling of England have been considerably landing had been concluded.— 4.11/100 sollars and Is. %d. buyers: tory after a lengthy baitle, inflicting INEVITABLE OUTCOME.

United Press:" Berlin, Jan. 15.

can Naval Agreement Against Japan, to consent to any change which would delayed Britisk Wireless. The market was fairly quiet, with the heavy longes on the Ethiopian reg!-

(Continued on Page 7) The Japanese withdrawal from thei-Router tone somewhat easier than yesterday. monta-Reuter.

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