The British Residents' Association has "made an ad Chairman in Porter who, lor rendering useful service to that organization, has been compelled to relinquish office owing to pressure of duties in other 4 ons, Mr. W. J. Hawkings has ea the confidence of the community by many years of solid public service which he has managed amazingly to vender in various capacities, He is well known (0 the community and to other nationalities in Shanghai, and cordially esteemed. As chairman, he may be expected to display qualities of emues and vision whied are particularly valuable at this moment, On inducing Mr. R. G. Mace Donald. to accept the past of Vice. Chairman the Association ts also to)
congratulated. Mr. MacDonald may, be regarded almost as one of the "elder statement"" in the community, That endows him with eon-siderable uuithority and, Incidentally, "he commands affection aswell respect. The Association has the right to be hopeful that under these usplees its labours will be effectively rected and supported, The latest article of the editor of the "Giornale "Itatia", considered to be the uofileiat mouthpiece of the Ialian Government is to be taken as having been written purely for home consumption, and is not to be regarded us making much contribution fo the International consideration of the Lalo-Ethiopian dispute. It is. probably quite true that "the apparent brief truce in Ethiopia has not been forced upon aly either by the situation In Europe or by the me superable resistance of Abyssinia, but those are not the only' factors operating against the Ttaslan advance. There is the undoubted fact that this dry season in Abyssinia has been ith which the Tlalian invaders have been faced, have ham-ered that swift progress which the Mahan high command. at one time considered possible. Nor is It to be believed that this "brief truce" Is Ballan choosing as Signor Gayda, the editor in question, would have. his readers believe, it Is onl a very short time before the rainy season Proper sels tu again, a matter of weeks and not of months, and every delay to which the It the year again, Those are not facts which could be published in Italy at the present, for it would amount to 44 confession of failure of the original plans, and an indication that. what was thought to be a war of short lutation, may be an interminably Yang one, unless sanctions oF negotia-ions can persuade Signor Mussolini to withdraw from an adventure which has every sign of turning out badly the Tong ru
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