PROVINCIAL
PRINCE
VOL.  17, No. 51
PRINCE  GEORGE. B.  C.        THURSDA^DECEMBER 19.  1935
Five Cenu
British Incensed Over the
Hoare-Laval Proposal
THE CITIZEN/WILL BE PUBLISHED^ON/TUESDAY FOR NE-jfT TWO WEEKS
General Opinion is the Foreign Secretary Was Bluffed Out By Benito Mussolini
COMMONS VERY ANGRY
Premier Baldwin Expected to ask Sir Samuel for Resignation to Appease the Country
London, Dec. 17�Never in the history of Great Britain: has a minister of the crown been so thoroughly discredited as has S:r Samuel Hoare, British foreign secretary, as the result of liis having given his assent , to what is known as the Hoare-Laval proposals for the settlement of the Italo-Ethiopian trouble in Ethiopia. The British government is said to have been forced into the ignominious position of repudiating the recommendations of its foreign secretary, and it is realized British prestige has suffered to a great extent.
No assurance from Premier Laval;, that the obnoxious proposal was' agreed to by Sir Samuel Hoare and himself, as the final effort to avert a European war, has any effect upon the resentment of the British people, and their conviction that Premier Mussolini bluffed the French premier and the British foreign secretary into a fear of war with his threat to proceed against the British fleet in the Mediterranean with submarines and aircraft once oil sanctions had been approved by the League of Nations at the instance of Great Britain.              r
Although Premier Baldwin has a commanding majority in the house of commons the session on Thursday is looked forward to with much apprehension on the part of the government. Discontent with thus latest development in government policy is resented just as bitterly by Conservatives as it is by Labor members. The debate on the censure motion of Major C. R. Attlee, leader of the Labor opposition, is expected to be reached on Thursday. To meet the storm which threatens Sir Samuel Hoar is likely to be relieved of his post as foreign secretary. When he realizes how general has been the condemnation of his actions, in con-l-tection with the Hoare-Laval peace
.proposals, he will doubtless resign. If he don't pressure upon Premier Bald-win will doubtless foi-ce his^resig-nation0.   �_
The effect of the Hotire-Laval fiasco so far from improving the rcla- ! lions between .Great Britain ami! Italy has greatly inflamed th�fn. I Britain has' already given her answer tc the^demand of Mussolini for tho withdrawal of the British pttel from the Mediterranean by ^directing a substantial increase in her naval force in the Mediterranean. British opinion could not tolerate the imputation that she withdiaw her navy under a threat that if the nava) units were not withdrawn they would be attacked/by Italian submarines and bombing planes.
Tn   the   house   of   commons   today Premier Baldwin, with guarded irony, -t^ted that in view of th-: anil-Brit-i;-li campaign being condxc':-.'J '.n^Di Jt.aiian press that it \v\s considered j inadvisable     that     British     vessels i should   visit     Italian   ports     during! Mediterranean manoeuvre;;.                j
The details of the Hoare-Laval | peace proposals are to be published in a white paper. It is :-;aid they are being distorted, with each variation more unfavorable to Ui3 British foreign secretary. There vwui th� suggestion that in return for the sur-rendr of apprexjmatly one-half of his kingdom Emperor Haile. Selassie was to be given a corridor- through Italian Eritrea to the Red Sei. It was generally understood this for- j ridor could be utilized by Ethiopia to afford a right-of-way lor a railway, but this is now disputed. Provision was rfiade in the proposals for a corridor but it is now asserted Ethiopia was not to be permitted to build a railway to compete with the
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Hauptmann Now Admits
Getting Ransom Money
Denies Knowledge of Kidnaping Other Than That Gained From  Newspapers
POLICE    ARE   SKEPTICAL
Condemned Man Offered Life If He Makes Full Confession and Names Confederates
Conference Made Good Progress on Several Problems
Relations Between Provinces and the Federal Authority Will Be Greatly Improved
B.N.A.A. AMENDMENT
New York, Dee. 17�The latest development In the Hauptmann case Ls that the promise has been held out to Hauptmann that he may escape the electric chair in January next if he will make a full confession of all he knows in connection with the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, and will name all accomplices in connection with the crime. Haupt-mann's admission that he and Isadore Fisch had collected the ransom money, but had no knowledge of the kidnapping other than what they learned through the newspapers, is not regarded in police circles as a full statement. If Hauptmann did not kidnap the child it is suspected he
PETROLEUM EXTRACTED FROM COAL URGED BY
Imperial Government Expected j BRITISH  SCIENTISTS
to Assent to Transfer of the Statute to Parliament
Ottawa, Dec. 13�The provincial conference came to an end today, an adjournment being taken for one year in the expectation the meeting will become an annual affair.   While
French-owned railway  running  from j    tne conference will have far-reachtn
Jubuti to Addis Ababa, and that the j corridor should only be used for the ! passage of camels.
It is a foregone conclusion that Sir j John Simon, who was removed from the office of foreign secretary because he lacked punch in his policy, will succeed Sir Samuel Hoare. That Anthony Eden will remain in the cabinet seems certain. He gave notice he would resign if the government gave its approval to the Hoare-Laval proposals, but it is said there i^ not a remote possibility of the government eiving its approval.
Ethiopian Willingness to
Accept the Italian Invaders
Business Has Been Resumed in Conquered Portion of the Province of Tigre
NEW   MARKET   CREATED
Caravans Making Their Way from All Parts of the Country to the Adowa Region
London. Dec. 13�Although there has yet been no official statement, there are persistent rumors that the British government will repudiate the proposal of Sir Samuel Hoare and Premier Laval, of France, for the ending or the war in Ethiopia. There is a disposition to explain the slip oi Sir Samuel in the Paris negotiations upon the ground that while the: ptace proposals were being discussed with the French1 premier Sir Samuel was -i "sick" man on his way to Switzerland to recuperate his health, with the result he was unduly impressed with the arguments of Premier Laval. When the terms were first announced it was reported the settlement contemplated tho ceding of one-third of the area of Ethiopia to Italy as the price for peace, but a later estimate of the area to be acquired by I'-My is placed at two-thirds of Emperor Haile Selassie's kingdom.
The Hoare-Laval proposal would cive to Italy tho greater part of the TJffre province in the north, adjoining the Italian colony of Eritrea, and would also include the historic ,'.''f Adowi where the Ethiopians mt the Italians to rout in 1896. and which was captured by the Italian? in the early stages of the present war [ without "much fighting. Adowa is a \ relatively unimportant, place, but the psychological effect of its capture by the Italians, like the effect of the defeat of the Italian armv at this point, in 1896, has been enormous tioon the residents of Tigre province. With the capture of Adowa the naMves ot Tic-re were content to consider the war as won. and there began a marked shifting of allegiance on their part from Emperor Haile Selassie to the invaders. There is said to be^Uttle opposition to the Italians left in tho whole of the Tigre province.
The native market just outside the town is full of I'alnn solHiers bovine produce from the natives. Tho invaders have created the best market the people of Tigro have known and they are out to take full advantage of it. while in the city itself there is evidence of general contentment with the change which the capture of the city has brought about.
The  native  of Tigxe  resembles  in | a general way liis native brethren in' other   parts   of   Africa.     The   white I man's  prestige  must    be  upheld  by force of arms or the native loses respect   for   him,  gains   confidence   in himself   and   become    a    dangerous enemy.    The Italian army has been the  top  dog in Tigre  since  the  fall of  Adowa   and  the  people  of  Tigre j have no use for the under dog.   This j is what happened in 1896. to such an j extent that many of the native As-karls of  the  Italian  army deserted. It is one of the most striking com-mrntaric; on the Italian victory that! former Askaris, pome veterans of the | first  battle  cf   Adowa,    have    boon; flocking in'o the Italian camps by the i thousands  to  make  submission  and ] even to ask �o be enrolled anew In the | Italian forces.
effect upon the future of the dominion, the outstanding immediate effect! will  be  noted  in  the  willingness of the  federal government  to assume a large share in the cost of unemploy- i ment relief.   The federal government will   net  come  to   the   relief  of  the'; municipalities in the matter of relief expenditures, but with  larger grants to the provinces it i.s expected some of  this additional  assistance  will be passed   on   to  the  municipalities  by the provinces.   Just, what tho increase in  federal  assistance  will  be  is  not I stated but the understanding is the increase will be at -least 50 per cent j and possibly more.
No conclusion was reached with i respect to fixed taxation on the min- j ing industry but there was an implied : understanding there shall be no increase in this form of taxation during i the next year either on the part of I the federal or provincial governments, j
With   regard  (o   the   amending   of the   B.N.A.A.,   the   decision   reached j was that thig statute,  which  consti- ! tu'es tho written constitution of the j dominion, shall be    transferred from; the  imperial  parliament   to   that   oP Canada. This would admit of amend- | ing tho legislation from time to time , without   reference     to   tho   imperial j parliament.  It  was the  understanding  cf  'ho  conference   this  nrrnntre- i ment will be assented to by the Brit- ' i.rh parliament.   A formula for brine-', ing Pbcut    tho desired    change  was submit tod  to the conference by Attorney-General SIotii. of British Co- ; lumbia  and  i.s likely  to be  adopted. | Tli" details of tho proposed change will bo worked    out by    constituting! committees of  tho  conference,    and' until   this   has    boon     done    basic' chanse^ of finance    and    economics will- be hold in abeyance.
Since Italy gained the upper ham! the flourishing caravan trade between Tigre and Eritrea, of which Adowa was the center, has been resumed. Al-ready hundreds of na'ive merchants. reassured by the peacefillness of tho territory and by Italian guarantors'LAVAL CONFIDENCE of security., have been drifting through   the   front   lines  with  their VOTE ON PLAN
FRENCH CHAMBER GIVES
London.   Dec.   17�The    extraction of  petroleum  received   Che  attention I of an imposing bedy of experts here j today.   It was pointed out that Great" Britain    suffers  an    enormous    loss j through  the burning  of  coal, which would be  avoided    if the  petroleum ! were extracted.    Wlith   an   approved! system   of   extraction     in   operation' much of the wage difficulty in con-nection  witih  British collieries-would be avoided.    It was .stated Germany j is now virtually independent of for- I oign petroleum supplies by reason of I the  perfection    of  extraction    from coal.
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WHITE GIFT SERVICE IN KNOX CHURCH WAS VERY ATTRACTIVE
The  White   Gift  service  in  Knox church on Sunday morning proved a very attractive one.   The platform in fi-cnt of the choir loft had been con- j verted into a scene of the stable in j Bethlehem, in which was enacted the ! tableau of the three wi.se men bring- j ing  their   gifts    to   tho   newly  born ! saviour,  the characters of Mary and ! Joseph  being  presented  by   M.   Miller and James Smith.    The singing of the junior girls choir was excellent. The girls were attiredNin white surplices and came down both isles from the front of the church chanting a Christmas hymn.    Joan Mealing was heard in a solo which was very pleasing.
On the platform with Mary and Joseph was a realistic manger, Avith hay protruding from it. and back of the setting was an excellent skyline of ancient Bethlehem., the work of Norma Olds, one of tho Sunday school pupils. Tho pupils of the school occupied the greater, part of the body of tin- church, and two from each class carried the gif's of the class and deposited thorn in the manger. Representatives of tho older classes wen1 each costumed to represent different nations.
The services wore opened by the pastor Rev; N. J. Crees. who explained the significance of tho pageant to be presented, and later Rev. B. M. Lancaster made' an interesting ad-dross to the boys and girls.
camel trains.
What is even more significant is that some of thorn are comiin from a considerable distance *o the south, where Ras Seyoum holds nominal sway and where he has Rsuod orders that no caravans be permitted to, po�s northward.
Emneror Hailo Sola.ssio denounced � the Hoare-Laval peace proposal as .coon as iL was communicated to him. > but whether it ha* boon abandoned or not it has made his position much more difficult. Thorp' i.s no denying t.hn>. thousand?; of his form or subjects have accepted the Italian invasion as smoothing accomplished, promising them greater fired cm and opportunity than thev enioyed before. Thev do not foar the Italians as thev d'd nt first and nre quite contort1 to switch their jilloiiancp. The-ro are however. | thousands of other Ethionians in the area of the coun'ry not yet pono-trated bv the Italians who are for war to tho ond. There is said to bo evorv likelihood thaf in thr� event r>f iffliio Felap-if* acrreHncr to anv r>eace terms which surren^-ers anv Ethiopian territory to Italv. tha* they would endoavor to supplant Hnilo s�-Vx-Mo nnri 50' tin another emperor in his ftefld. This "situation ii> turn cnnnH rates matters for tho League of
Paris. Doc. 17�The chamber of deputies gave Premier Laval a vote cf confidence en his handling of the Hoare-Laval proposals for the settlement of the Italo-Ethiqpian difficulty. Tho confidence vote was carried o,u a division of 310 to 250. The Hcare-Lav.il proposals will be submitted to the League of Nations at Geneva, tomorrow, but there is .said to br> slight prospect that they will be approved. M,ost of tho small lva'ion members of the loagiio have taken fright over tho Hoare-Laval proposals which they look upon; as ending the hope of league members in collective security. The Hoare-Laval proposals will bo submitted to the league by Anthony Eden. Ho is not in sympathy with them and has threatened to resign hi.s position in the Baldwin cabinet' should t.he proposals be adopted by the league.
MRS. McPHERSON LOSES HER APPEAL TO PRIVY COUNCIL ON DIVORCE
HEPBURN EXPECTS TO BALANCE BUDGET IN ONTARIO NEXT YEAR
London. Doc. 1G�The judicial committee* of tho privy council  has  rejected  the  appeal of Mrs. Cora Mo-Pherson   from   the     decision   of   tho Alb�rt? courts errfnting^her husband O. L. McPherson. former minister of public works in the Alberta government,  a decro* of  divorce.  Tho  appeal was ba-f-fl on   the circumstance the divorce  hod  been  granted  af'er a hearing  in the  court library,  and I not in op~n court.   The privy council heVl the proper procedure would have ! been  to have had  tlio trial in open J court,  but  to  upset  the decision  on ' Hint  ground would nnke tho remedy worse than the procedure complained of.   Since the granting of the divorce ] the  olnintiff  in   the   action  has  re-* married.
Toronto. Dec. 17�It is said Premier Hepburn has promised to balance tho Ontario budget for the current fscal
NEWFOUNDLAND TO GET REPRESENTATION  IN
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
 in =�H*kin 000.000 on. ordinary exi>endt-turcs.
London,  Dec.   17�It  is announced i a measure will .shortly be submitted j to parliament tr> grant representation j in rho house of    commons to Newfoundland, Th:^ disposes of the ho|>o for  an  early  return of self government,   which    was   lost    when  Newfoundland  got  so   far  into  the   red that the outlook became hopeless.
knows  who did,  and  he  is to be given the chance of telling who the kidnappers were and explaining  how  the  sleeping  clothes  of the  child  came  into  his   possession   before  the    ransom  money was paid and the remains of the child were discovered. If the death s-cntence were commuted the l>nst Hauptmann could hope for would be  life imprisonment. New  York,     Dec.   Hi�Local  newspapers   cany     a   story    that  Bruno Hauptmann has made a partial confession in connection with the Lindbergh    kidnapping and  murder,    for which  he has boon  again sentenced to die in the electric chair sometime during the week of January 13th. In the alleged confession Hauptmann is represented as saying ho had no part in  t.he kidnapping of tthe Lindbergh child, but that he and Isadore Fisch. a German with whom he had associated  with  in  the  Bronx,  took  advantage of what liliey had learned of the .crime in the newspapers to collect the ransom of $50,000 offered by Colonel Lindbergh for the return of his son.    In  his    alleged confession Hauptmann is represented as saying he is willing to submit to any scientific test as to his truthfulness; and suggests that Dr. J. F. Condon, who paid tho ransom money bvar to him, submit to a like test. * Governor   Harold  G.   Hoffman,   or New Jersey, in commenting upon the doath sentence    imposed  on Hauptmann,  said  that while  the majority of the people- familiar with the case believe in Hauptmann's guilt,    they are still of the opinion there are rd-dies in connection with the case that remain  unsolved.    As  the    situation stands doath would lock Hauptmann's lips.    If he is guilty nnd had accomplices, all hope of bringing them to justice would be destroyed. The execution can  be  stayed  only by  tho board of pardons, of which the governor is a member.
This Ls 1akcn to indicate Governor Hoffman would be in favor of a sfay in tho execution, but as against this then* is the opinion tho Hauptmann confession, may be questioned in that it was made only after Hauptmann had exhausted every other means to escape the electric chair; that, at the best he i.s still an accessary after tho fact, and that his return of 'he ap-narel of the Lindbergh child lias not been explained.
Now York, Dec. 14�What is to be the fate of Bruno Richard Hauptmann? Tiie supreme court of tho United States has refused to review the conviction of the Bronx carpenter, charged with the kidnapping and murder of the infant ;on of Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh. Since then Ellis Parker, a somewhat famous detective, has boon injected into the case, and the statement issued that ho does not believe Hauptmann was the actual kidnapper and murderer of tho child. Since Hauptmann's conviction the lawyers in charge of his defence have stopped; at nothing. They asserted the Lindbergh child had been kidnapped but not murdered: that the child is still alive, in New York, but no effort was made to substantiate the statement that Colonel Lindbergh was in error when ho identified the remains of the child found near his country homo as those of his son.
An effort was also ma do to create the impression that the kidnapping �and murder had boon thV crirpr> of Isadore Fisch. the German from whom Hauptmann. said he received the bulk of the Lindbergh ransom money, but Fisch is dead and the evidence secured by the state of New Jersey Ls tha' he died in poverty in? Germany aft or his return from Now York. Now Ellis H. Parker ts injected into-the case with the statement he i.s satisfied hhat Hauptmann did not commit tho crimes of w'vlch he has boon convicted. Sources clo^o to Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh say they are ."till firmly convinced Hauptmann is tho man who murdered their ��on. At the trial Colonel Lindbergh identified Hauptmann. bv hi.s voice1. ;is the man who received the ransom money from Dr. John F. Condon in the gloom cf St. RayT mend's cemetery,
Tho supreme court in declining to review the Hauptmann con vie4 ion had ncno of these rumors before it. The court took no judicial notice of nnyt'hin1? that has happened since tin* Bronx carpenter was convie'ed. and tint verdict was affirmed bv the court cf errors and appeals, tho highest New Je'n-ey court. Bv its refusal to review *h� rase tho supreme court in effort said it did not beliVe Haupt-mann's riphts under tho federal constitution, had boon denied bv tho trial proceedings in 'he New Jersey courts. ai>1 Uvs decision loft, in effort the death sentence in the electric chair.
Hauptmann still hn-~ recourse 'o the court of pardons of Now Jersey, which is empowered to pardon, naroio or commute tho doith sentence. It remains (o bf* soon how far tho board of pardons will bo influenced bv tho "convic'ion" of Ellis H. Pnrkor in the matter of Hauptmann's guilt, to break down the very strong case which the state of New Jersey pre^entd against Huup'mann on hLs trial.