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24, 1936.

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ETHIOPIANS MAKE LAST STAND

ITALIANS STILL Germany's Vast Warlike Preparations

ADVANCING

ANCIENT EMPIRE'S DOOM NOW NEAR

BANDITS THREATENING FOREIGN POPULACE

(SPECIAL TO “TELĖGRAPH”)

Addis Ababa,” April 23.

Ras Nassibou, leading the Ethiopian Eastern Army, has telegraphed to the capital that he is making a last desperate stand against the Italian assault upon his He has been forced to retire after dwindling forces. three days of fierce fighting, and original successes, between Sasabenes and Danena.. He is now 105 miles south of Harrar,

Casualties on both sides total approximately 3,000, Ras Nassibou reports,

The announcement of this retreat has added to the confusion here and heightened the conviction that the Empire's break-up is near.

Ras Nassibou says he attacked the Italians in his sector and drove them back in three days' hand-to-hand fighting. Then, when the Italians moved up fresh Lybian and Somali contingents, the Ethiopians were forced to retire. They marched towards Danena,

Troops Against Tanks

fighting The Ethiopians pre desperately on all frets, but this populace of the capital is now await ing the break-up of an Empire that has endured in mountain isolation since biblical times.

Ras Nassibou in the East, Asfal Women's forces to the north-east of Addis Ababa, and the Emperor him- self, reportedly west of Dessiye, are opposing with the last of their men of the

Anal triumphant advance tanks, armoured ears, artillery and infantry of Italy's "army of coloni

alion."

Bandits are running wild through-

The north out the country to Dessiye. Warriors of the shattered armies of defeated chieftains, roam in Lattered garments, destitute, and with bullet and shrapnel wounds festering. Rich Merchants Leave

HOPE STILL LIVES

RAINS MAY SAVE

ETHIOPIANS

in

CHARLIE

CHAPLIN ·

DEAD?

Unconfirmable Rumour

LAST SEEN

AT SAIGON

Sensational rumours are allont that Charles Hollywood Chaplin has suddenly died in French Indo-China.

An urgent message to this effect,

seeking information regarding the whereabouts of the famous film star, was received in Hongkong early this morning.

Enquiries were immediately mate on behalf of the Hongkong. Telegraph by the United Preak agency, which has elicited the information that

Chaplin arrived in Saigon just after Easter and departed with Mr. Gol ard and Miss Palette Goddard for

the interior,

The purpose of his visit to French not included m his original itinerary, was, and Mr. Chaplin, "to escape newspaper reporters and newspaper rumours."

Indo-China, which was

Although the famous Alm star lus not succeeded in esenping newspaper rumours, he has certainly succeeded In escaping newspaper reporters, for no-one can exactly state where he is at present

In response to Hongkong enquiries, The Singapore-branch-of, the United Prean organisation stated that Chap- in and his party left the Federated Malay States for French Indo-Chin on Goud Friday,

Beyond the fact that he arrived in Saigon three days Inter nothing is known of the film star's subsequoat movements.

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He was due to arrive in Hongkong last week, according to bis original Itinerary. But the Singapore mes- states that Mr. Chaplin has sage altered his itinerary to arrive here on Times", his premiere latest production.

HOLD STRONG May 6, just before the Hongkong

POSITIONS

London, Apr. 23.

reported here on

Activity is

In this city young and oki are both northern and southern

crowded together into the homes of fronts, as the fighting areas in

the able-bodied man who are still at Ethiopia cún

the front. There is ng hope of recribed.

forming families.

Rich merchants have strapped bngs

of "Modera

Prominent

be roughly des- Passengers

A correspondent with the In Hongkong

of silver on teams of mules and, sar Italian army reports that Italian]

rounded by armed retainers, left for safety.

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have planes are bombing and machine-

the gunning Ethiopian troops forty! beon miles south of Dessive, where

ITALIAN TASK

ARRIVE ON FOUR

LINERS

CHURCHILL'S

DISCLOSURE

CLIMAX NEARING

IN EUROPE

HOUSE SPELLBOUND BY

STATESMAN'S PLEA

(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")

London, Apr. 23.

During the Budget debate in the House of Churchill made Commons, Mr. Winston striking allegations regarding Germany's with a armament expansion, concluding peroration which held the House spellbound.

Mr. Churchill declared that he had learned from the most reliable sources that from the end of March, 1933, to the end of June, 1935, there was an increase in the German Public Debt of a minimum of seven milliard marks, to which must be added the yield of increased taxation amounting to a further five milliards. There- fore the minimum expenditure for two and a half years, over the current Budget expenditure, was twelve milliards.

Moreover, in that period, the capital expenditure of buildings, Germany, other than for residential amounted to no less than twenty-four milliards, and as a veto prevailed on the expansion of private plants for purely economic purposes, this expenditure must be regarded as almost exclusively devoted to warlike preparations.

OFFICIAL FIGURES

Mr. Churchill explained that these fitures were obtained from detalls of German official capital expendi- ture. The German national income had increased from twelve hundred inillion marks in 1933 to over eleven milliards in 1935. That was exactly what would be expected from the starting of the Garman

industry.

armament

Those figures made a total, since of Herr Hitler came into power,

AUSTRIAN TROUBLE BREWING

nearly twenty milliards of marks, GERMAN INFLUENCE!

SUSPECTED.

AGITATION

IN: PARIS

Mr. Winston Churchill, who, in the House of Commana yentorilau, claimed that Germany had spout £800,000,000 on warlike preparas tions in 1935.

MCAVOY TAKES BEATING

PETERSEN WINS

DECISION

THRILLING FINISH

London, Apr. 23. Jack Petersen, British Empire |

to- Heavyweight Champion, night retained his title against the challenge of the ambitious McAvoy, middleweight, Jock after fifteen rounds of boxing.in the Empress Stadium.

WENDEL

TORTURE

CHARGES

KIDNAPPERS IN CUSTODY?

INDICTED IN.

NEW YORK

(Special To "Telegraph”)

New York, Apr. 23. A sensational ocho of the Haupt- MANN trial and Lindbergh baby murder was the indictment to-day by a King's County Grand Jury of Elila Parker Jr., Martin Schlossman, Harry Dlecfeld. Harry Weiss and a man named-Murray on a charge of kid- napping and torturing Paul Wendel in order to obtain from him a con- fession to the Lindbergh crime.

Schlossman and Blocfeld were im- mediately Arraigned. Schlossman's bail, axed originally at $7,500, was later denied him,

Meanwhile, the County Prosecutor, Mr. Geoghan, has requested the New Jersey

authorities to arrest young

Parker.

Murray and Weiss have not yet been arrested and detectives are searching for them.

Mr. Ellis Parker, Sr., was startled when informed of his son's indict- ment at us Mount Holly, N. J., home, but made no comment.

It was outside the home of Mr. Parker, a Detective-Inspector, that the kidnappers dumped Wendel after obtaining

confession,- United Presa.

bis

"Roosevelt Terrorism"

Ten thousand attended the match UNUSUAL FORM OF and they were disappointed at the general lack of action in this battle of wity.

Petersen gained the decision by his

continuous efforts to force the pace

the stock

ATTACK

They claim

Washington. Apr. 23. The Republican Congressional Com- opted crouching Lacties, bobbing und mitee has issued a pamphlet entitled weaving in the best American style. "Roosevelt Terrorism." His was a superb defence, for he was that free speech has been penalised an elusive targot. Petersen was fre- and the free press attacked. An in- quently balled, and because of bad stances of the Administration's high- handedness the Republicans recall the tining his blows landed repeatedly on the beek of McAvoy's bobbing head. Lobby Committee's seizure of press Petersen was occasionally warned by telegrams, the removal of Hagood and **the ensployment of 5,000 sceret the referce.

The early rounds were exciting service snoopers"

"The campaign of terrorism is de- Petersen, quick-footed, darting after signed to compel the Administration's his man, gathered points with a fine selection," it charged: "and was left hand. But he falled conspicu-

i

ously in his attempts at uppercuts, started by the Administration seizing control of the country's radio system left and right hooks.

in an attempt to stifle attack.”

Criticism, Блуз

BRAINY BATTLE

McAvoy fought a brainy campaign. Ile had the advantage in the in- *fighting.

was

But as a result of the early gruelling pace, the bout degenerated into the

of Tirs. There bamest much holding, and the referee had to warn them to "Make a fight of it." The crowd was restive, clapping (Continued on Page 4)

courts annoyance

United Press.

the pamplilet,

disaster."

or

CLIPPER DELAYED:

Alameda, Apr. 23. The Philippine Clipper's departure has been delayed owing to unfa voor- able weather. reports.-United Prove,

SAVED FROM SLOW DEATH

TWO MEN RECOVERING

Nearly all the usefulness of foreign Red Cross units has

(and Mr. Churchill declared that they ended because of the rapidity of the, the Emperor's men are trying!

more than justified his estimate of Italian advance. They are also ready to divert streams to destroy the

Four large liners brought a large £100,000,000 which he previously to leave. The Emperor's Belgian road to Addis Ababa. military advisers have already gone. A correspondent with the Ethiopian tumber of passengers to Hongkong mentioned as having been spent on The Dutch Red Cross unit has been forces says thousands of Ethiopian this morning, while many more will warlike preparations in 1935 alone. ordered to leave on May 1.

troop

THE ALTERNATIVES arriving by caravan on the farrive on the two N.Y.K. Jiners due re-this afternoo!!. Bandit Menace

Dossiye road, where they are

Among the arrivals this morning Mr. Churchill concluded, amil tense silence:-"Europe is approach- The last report froni Emperor organising their forces,

The cream of the Ethioplan army were:

I believe the climax Haile Selassie's troops is that small is taking up its positions in almost Mr. Sasuma Yagi, Japanese sculler ing a climax.

Paris, Apr. 23. bodies of men are raiding the Italian impregnable, natural strongholds in of the Tokye Imperial University, will be reached in the lifetime of the Europe on the present Parliament. Either there lines in the north."

melting of hearts and a Torukuni Maru do take part in the will be a

Fears that trouble is brewing in But here bandits are watching the the rocky ravines adjoining the Des- who is en route to

hands between great Austria, aro expressed to-day in Olympic Games hold at Berlin.

Joining of capital, ready to woop upon the city siye road. and loot the moment the Government

On the same ship is a delegation of nations which will release for us a France, following the news that Dr. Lakes fight.

It is stated by competent engineer 12 members who are going to attend glorious' ern and age of prosperity, or Kurt Schusclines, the Chancellor, has ordered a hastening of the introduc- Foreigners are more alarmed at that they estimate the Italians will

Te the International Labour Conference there will be an explosion and

Moose River, Apr. 29. the possibility of bandit attacks than require at least two months at the likelihood of Italo-Ethiopian build the shattered Dezsiye-Addis at Genova. The members of the catastrophe, the cost of which notion of conscription. It is proposed

include

Messrs. Kitaoka, imagination can measure, and beyond that the 1916 Class of men be sum- Ababa Highway. It is an emphasised Party

Kiwano, Yamaguchi, which no human eye can see. moned to the colours in June, whereas

Physicians are confident that Dr. D. E. Robertson and Mr. fighting

"belteve,also, that a strongly it was first announced that con- Acuto anxiety is felt for the mis-point that given a respite of at least Shibudawa,

armed Britain, resolutely and scription would only be ordered in 'an

Alfred Scalding, the two men rescued from the Moose River sionaries still in the country. The month, or until the arrival of the Kinu, Moribei, Yoshiga, Yusunage,

There are seven members in an vallantly led, seeking nothing but emergency. Rev. Kemeth Oglesby and his wife, mains, the Ethiopians will again have Shimizu, Ikeda, Shizuki, Fukuda.

run risks for other party on the Terukuni Maru

but ready to peace,

Le Tampa refers to the renewal of Mine cave-in yesterday after being buried alive" for ten days, turn the of Los Angeles, stationed at Lalibella, a formidable army ready to strike

The leader of the party, Professor peace, may

conceivably

Nazi machinations, while the radical 87 miles north-west of Desalye, Inst back,

The Ethiopian commander, Ras Kocring within the misalon compound Mazzihau, trporis a big battle on the T. Katsuru, und five dis menbors dread scale between the blessing and NAZI "Whiteclares that events, will recover almost immediately, though both are in a weakened wrote on March 16 that they were

branches of science there; At the conclusion activities of bandits, youthern front, around Mount Chike, are going to Germany to study cursing of mankind."

of Mr. Chur-speeches and gestures in Gormany all north of Danakil. He claims that various

Austria and Germany.

Scalding has been flown to Victoria,drove to their rescue. Later they crowded four days of fighting have resulted in the seventh member, Mr, T. Eguchi, chill's speech, there was loud cheer tend to the same goal-the union of state and Scalding is suffering from an infection in his feet. a stalemate, despite the fact that is going to London to study chemis

permanently. Now, the paper adds, in to-morrow's Hospital, Halifax, for emergency will dynamilo and close the shaft Italian nativo troops have been try and to attend the International ing from the Reuter Spectul.

secret. But there seems scarcely any treatment..

Officials say that if the inen had In the House of Commons toy brought up to strongly reinforce the Power Conference. Mr. Egucchi is a

doubt that Herr Adolf Hitler's deel-

been rescued yesterday they Lord Cranborne said the Italian white battallona.-Reuter.

WORLD TRADE IMPROVES

sion has been taken, allegation of the use of dum-dum bullets by the Abyssinian forces was

London, Apr. 23. The Little Entente has already been forced to board up the entrance would never have been saved, be-. being dealt with by the League.

Addis Ababa, Apr. 23.

Statistics, Insued by the Economic protested against the Austrian con-to the death shaft from which Dr. cause the entire mine floor is sinking Suggestions about the supply by

A desparate battle is reported to be north werp: British firms, either directly

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Dodwell who Intelligence Servico of the League of scription law on the ground that it Robertson and Scalding were ex-rapidly. They added that Dr. Robert- indirectly, of dumdum ammunition to aging, in a piountain pass 120 miles the Ethiopian Government for mill-from the capital, with the Emperor's are on a visit to tiongkong. ir. A. Nations at Geneva show that the gold is a violation of the Treaty of St. triented, and where their companion, son, part qwner of the mine, Mr. tary purposes had been fully invest! forces fighting gallantly to hold up Brearley, Manager of the Chartered value of world trade in February Germain Austria replied that the Mr. R. E. McGill, Toronto lawyer, McGul, another partner, and Scald-

the Italian advance,"

Bank, and Miss Brearley, Mr. I was 8 per cent higher than in Febru conscription was not of a military perished, because of the risks run by ing who voluntarily accompanied treaty the men were imprisoned and the repeated warnings that it was unsafe,

dangerous tunnel which workmen United Press, gated and found to be entirely base- The Ethiopian Government has de- Sanger, of the Starklard Vacuum Oilary, 1936. The trade of the United character, but merely for labour persons anxious to see the spot where them, went into the shaft despite. less, he added, answering two ques-finitely decided not to leave Addis Company, returning from leave spent Kingdom represented 14 per cent, of service, and therefore, no

the world total-British Wireless. tions-Brattah Wireless,

·Ababa,—Router Bulletin Service.

due to the United Press,

DUM-DUM. BULLETS

London, April 23,

or

DESPERATE BATTLE

chemical engineer attached Imperial Japanese Navy,

to the

Among the passengers who arrived

on the Empress of Japan from the

in America.

House.

breachRouter.

Meanwhile mine ometals

have

not