MAIL BAG ROBBERY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 236, 5 October 1935, Page 10

MAIL BAG ROBBERY.

Sustenance Workers’ Pay in West Australia. FOURTH THEFT THIS YEAR. (Received 12.30 p.m.) PERTH, this day. Five bags of registered mail believed to contain a large amount of sustenance workers’ pay was stolen from the mail van of a train bound from Bunbury for Perth. It is believed the robbery, which is the. fourth this year, occurred when the guard left the train to switch it on to a siding. LOSSES NOT SO HEAVY. . ADVANCES BY ITALIANS. (Received 1 p.m.) GENEVA, October 4. Signor Suvich, telegraphing to the League from Rome, denies that the Italians moved southward from their posts at Mount Mnesa Ali, and adds that this territory in any case is undemarcated. Local reports state that 50,000 Abyssinians are prepared to oppose any such advance.

The Italian drive northwards into Ogaden from Somaliland was accompanied by engagements in which both sides suffered, but neither so heavily as was at first stated. U.S. ARMS EMBARGO. PROCLAMATION EXPECTED. WASHINGTON, October 4. The State Department has kept President Roosevelt fully informed about developments in the Ethiopian situation, and he is expected to proclaim an arms embargo against Italy and Ethiopia as soon as the Secretary of State, Air. Cordell Hull, advises that this should be done. However, Mr. Hull said yesterday that an embargo would not be imposed before there was a further clarification of the economic and financial sanctions against Italy. A message from Geneva says the Emperor of Abyssinia has urged the Powers to lift the arms embargo now. RACIAL CLASH. DISTURBANCE IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, October 4. Trouble unexpectedly started yesterday between Italians and negroes in Harlem and in Brooklyn, necessitating 1000 uniformed policemen and 300 detectives being ordered out for special duty to prevent further outbreaks. Tho Harlem trouble 'started when negroes boycotted and picketed the Italian market and resented the efforts of the police to stop the picketing. The Brooklyn disturbance originated with a childish quarrel between Italian and negro schoolboys, in which the parents rapidly participated. ITALY OFFENDED. SPANISH AUTHOR GAOLED. (Received 2.30 p.m.) BARCELONA, October 4. The author Diego Ruiz was fined £3OO and imprisoned for publishing a book entitled, “IL Duce Against Negus,” which the Italian Consul considered offensive to Italy. AVOIDING SUEZ. AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING. (Received 1(1.30 a.in.) SYDNEY, this day. Three overseas shipping companies, foreseeing possible delays in. the Suez Canal, have decided to divej't their vessels to the Cape of Good Hope route. Mail steamers will not be diverted at present. N.Z. IN TEN DAYS. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 4.

A member of the Royal Air Force. I'lying Officer A. E. Clouston, a New Zealander, will leave for the Dominion on leave on October 14, flying a Desoutter monoplane. He hopes to reach Australia in a week and New Zealand in 10 days.