The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-08
World Front
by HARRY CANNES -
A Note on Abyssinia
A Robbers Plan
Silver, Gunboats in China
BY HARRY CANNES

"A Simon, British foreign
minister, to MussoIini, fully
approving, and giving the
greatest details, of the plum
der of Abyssinia, got into the
hands of the United Press in
Paris. Its contents were cabled to
tAe United States. But we have
failed to find it reproduced in the
American capitalist press.
We therefore print it here. The
cable was wired from Paris by
Ralph Heinzen, United Press staff
| correspondent and reads as follows
Fortified by England's approval
sent in message of good will by
Sir John Simon. British Foreign
Secretary, to Rome, France and
Italy today proceeded to revamp the
map of Africa.
Sir Johns message, sent yester-
day Chat is. Jan. 81 signalled to
Paris and Rome that Britain has no
objections to territorial changes
which France is making in Africa to
satisfy Italys demands for territory
under the 1915 promise of the
former allies to reward Italy for
coming into the world war on their
side, deserving Austria and Ger
many.
London has consented to Frances
giving Italy a wide stretch of land
totalling 10000 square kilometers
south of Libyak. bordering Egyptian
Sudan on the west England SINH
larly has no objection to giving
Italy an outlet in the gulf of Alden
! as well as the Red Sea, arranged
through Frances giving Italy a 20
mile strip of the French Somalis
coast protectorate.
FRANCES agreement to 1taly's
proposed participation in con-
troll of the railroad from Djiboutt to
Adds Ababa, Abyssinian capital,
however, does not mean Paris agrees
to sacrifice Abyssinian independ-
ence, it was emphasized in WELL
informed quarters.
However, there is no doubt that
Frances gift of an important OUT
let to the Gulf of Alden and share
in the railroad will greatly increase
Italian influence in Abyssinia, par
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railroad board will be able to con-
troll arms shipments and other sup
plies Of national defense which
Abyssinians must bring in by rail
from Diibouti
"Abyssinia is entirely cut off
from the sea, being surrounded by
the Italian colony of Erithrea, the
French Somalis coast protectorate,
the British Somaliland and italian
Somaliland
"F~"nlier Pierre Etienne Flandin
and avail, on the latter's return
from Rome, are to visit London
Jan. 20 and report in detail on
the Franco Italian arrangements in
Africa and for central European
cooperation.
Never was piece of imperialist
robbery so openly arranged before
hand.
THE Saar, low it seems, has as
many foreign correspondents re-
porting the events up to the pleb-
iscite as there are assigned by the
American press to the Lindbergh
case, that is. about 500.
But even at that no clear picture
was given by them on what hap
pened Jan. 6 at the Nazi and anti
Nazi demonstrations All of the cap-
italist reporters declared that the
Nazi demonstration numbered from
100000 to 10000 marchers, while
the few who do give figures for the
anti Fascist united front say around
| 10000 marched. Our own CORE
spondent in the Saar, whose special
cable was published in yesterdays
Daily Worker declared that the fig
ures in reality were just reversed
10000 anti-Nazis and 10000 Nazi
followers.
The fact remains that the cap
italist press, which previously was
certain of huge vote for return to
Fascist Germany, is now expressing
more and more doubt as the date of
the plebiscite gets nearer.
|
THE Roosevelt government has de-
1 cided to continue patrolling the
Yangtze river in China with its
gunboats. Admiral William H.
STANDBY, chief of Naval Operations.
in his annual report declares:
China continues in state of dis
ruption with internal strife INCLUDE
ing Communist and bandit ACTIVE
tiles engaging the wholesale atten-
ton of the Chinese government
forces" And to help the butcher
Chang Kai-shek, the U. S. Navy
will keep it's gunboats running up
and down the Yangtze river.
MORE recent reports from China
ll emphasize the growing currency
crisis. Silver is becoming scarcer,
because OF export of the metal
due 70 higher prices in the United
States. The stocks of silver in
Shanghai by November of 1884 had
dropped by 5000, 100000, a decrease
of 1870 per cent. Many bankers in
China have suspended the payment
of silver altogether. Banks collapse
in Shanghai at the rate Of about
four week.
Banking circles are talking about
a general money panic. In China.
! silver must be paid on demand,
when bank notes are presented
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