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TWO BROTHERS
From the formal pages of the "British Medical Journal" comes this moving story. It is told in a letter from Dr. C. W. J. Brasher, of Great Missenden. «
Two brothers, serving in the sume battalion in the war," were known to their comrades as "the Inseparables."
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One was killed at night by his brother's side. The other sprang out of the trench, shricking, and | disappeared..
REMISSION
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ALOOF EMPIRE OF
ABYSSINIA
MIDDLE AGES SURVIVE
IN AFRICA
ETHIOPIA'S
FEUDAL LIFE
AND CUSTOMS
(By Sir Perce val Phillips)
TF the Italiaes should take Abys-traders. The native market is such sinta the last vestige of the las can be seen in other "African Middle Agee will vanish from the communities, where barter takes Late he was found, arrcated, fuce of the earth. That aloof Em-place in the open air.
The one building with any pre court-martialled and sentenced to pire called Ethiopia still clings
to architectural dignity is. death on the charge of cowardice resulately to the past, despite Haile tence in the face of the enemy.
Selassie's sincere efforts to lift It St. George's Cathedral,. A plain, octagonal structure of stone, with into the twentieth century.
of plain Addis Ababa may show a thin Renaissance windows eamouflage of European architec-glass, no larger than a church in His company and battalion com-ture and the veneer of Western the City of London, and cut by compart. manders appealed to headquarters culture spread patchily over tailor-inner walls into three on his behalf.
ed officials and their surroundings, ments. Within the central and drop smaller compartment is a high altar- Earl Haig Investigated the case, but step outside and you and remitted the sentence.
sheer into a black replica of like a wedding cake, or one of The soldier returned to his unit. mediaeval times embedded in sav- Wren's steeples. Here Masa 25
sald according to the Coptic rite....... A week later he gained the M1-'age Africa. litary Medal for "conspicuous] Feudal barons still rule the as interpreted by Ethiopian priests, bravery" in an attack.
Marchea from their fortified with drums and dances preserving- castles, and go forth on sumpter some dim tradition of the ritual Your Daily Smile ! mules richly caparisoned, with brought back by the Queen of
their retinues and slaves, to dia-Shebu from Jerusalem.
Running Slaves "Lots of people who keep servanta pense rough justice. If the Em- can't afford them,” declaren, a writer," peror gives a State banquet (of) The Emperor lives within a high And lots more who can afford them raw meat and millet gruel) to his wall, on a separate hill which it can't keep them.
warriors; they sit at low tables on encloses. The Palace buildings. Willing to Compromise
a rush-strewn floor, drink honey are as unpretentious as all of the A weary telegraph agent stationed meat from heavy cups, and listen others in the capital, but larger, many miles from nowhere in the to ballads of victory sung by trou-and the Imperial living quarters Sudan, Africa, in the hottest part of badours keeling before the dais of are furnished in European style. summer wired his superior officer: their lord, whose high-backed chair "Please relieve me; can't stay here:
A tower like a lighthouse con-
am surrounded by lions, elephants and is set against a background of tains his favourite audience cham- wolves
The officer wired back. "There are
wolves in the Sudan." Whereupon the weary one replied: "Referring to my wire
of yesterday, cancel wolves."
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"What a beautiful car!"
tapestry.
Ages-old Customs
7
fotgotten that ately: it was money like anything else gets its value from what men will give Hong Kong, Saturday, April 27, 1935 for it. France made the franc only one fifth of its old value, to-day It is worth three fifths of Silver And Speculation its old pro-war value. The United States, owing largely to It is four months since we big foreign investments had for Hummarised the course.of events some years a very high price and of legislation which indicat-level, and attempted to collect its ed that the price of silver on the debts in cash instead of goods, world market would very soon with the result that wholesale
Hippopotamus. depend on the flat of President default occurred and the foreign Herbert had attended
the circus, Roosevelt. There Was
com-and he was attempting to describe it an trade languished. obvious danger that political monest mistake is to suppose to his schoolmates the following day. currents might guide his hand: that high value instead of steady"The biggest animal there was called male-factors awing In
the hip hip- but it could hardly be expected value is the sign of prosperity "Hippopotamus," supplied the
cher.
that the influence of the small¦in finance.
The
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with
ber. It is reached by an outside staircase, and is ornamented with Under himi the Church is a few rugs and coloured litho- supreme. Wandering frlurs, monks, graphs. The Palace courtyard is. and priests form one-third of the always filled with armed guards, population. The fighting men carry both old and new style, the retinues "Ion't it? That's the automobile 1 silver-covered shields of leather, of visiting nobles, innumerable petitions-and and curved scimitars with ivory suppliants used to sell"
"I see your almá motor.”
handles; their chiefs have.horses slaves.
Slaves do all the work of the docked in cloth-of-gold, with bridles: Studded with newly minted Theresa country. They are the spoils of expeditionary raids into the neigh- dollars.
Every town has its Tyburn, and bouring Sudan, and are as alien to chains, the Ethiopian type, with its strong- Debtors go about shackled to theirs Semitic cast of features; as gre tea creditors. Thieves Catt
re- the few Europeans to be found in "I guess that was his name," said cognised by their lack of a hand, the capital. " Herbert, "but he looked like a truck-Ladies have their tiring women, The ones seen in the streets ap- load of liver to me."
and never venture out save with pear to be quite contented their lot. They trot, after an armed escort.
Addis Ababa. Is rich in these mounted master, grinning widely, and chatter among themselves be-- souvenirs of an age long since past
he started.
CHINESE Y.M.C.A. RECEPTION
Christian Leaders In China Meet
WELCOME TO DR. T. F. KOO
bo
with
their
in Europe, but is poor in every other side the tethered male, while he waya forlorn thing among capi-shops in one of the little wooden tals and attractive only from afar, huts where European gewgaws are- The first glimpse from the Djibouti sold.
Ladies of quality also go mount- train, as it crawls irresolutely around the twisted hills, is full of ed on their shopping errands, but:" with faces so swathed in white; deceptive beauty.
their broad- A ruler of the last century, on bandages beneath
brimmed felt hats that only the tour in the Highlands, came on tips of their noses are visible. No these pleasant slopes encircled by well-bred Ethiopian woman would
bills and covered with
slaves.
Lavish Hospitality When a landowner of distinction
orna--
band of "Silverites" in the Senate The President accordingly set would so completely control the out to make dollars cheap by re. situation by means of holding a ducing their gold content by casting vote as has been reveal nearly half. The natural re ed this week. For the last move sult was a great increase in the which In the game has revealed the purchases of dollars, hand of the speculators so clearly began to send up the value of that no other explanation, no the 'dollar in its balance with political object other than the gold and other communities, and securing of a certain number of thus to defeat his object. The votes, can be plausibly suggested. policy was applied In a different Modern economic study is more way by the provision that a quar. modest in its aims and more ter of the currency reserve practically useful than the old should be held in silver, thus science which talked very, freely bringing down the relative value of "laws," many of which are of the dollar, while the large now seen to have been based on purchases sent up the price of A large gathering of foreign and brown actual practice which has be-silver.
Chinese Christian leaders were pre-groves of eucalyptus trees, and dream of mounting or dismounting in 'full view of the public.. A 'cloth.. come impossible with the dia- Up to this point one can dissent at an informal reception given realised that the site was good. appearance of stable conditions, cern the purpose of the policy, in honour of Dr. T. F. Koo, Vice-Here, he said, will be the capital. screen is held up by her women. and others are suspect as unduly but Senator Key Pittmann and Chairman of the World's Student But having said so he left the rest favouring the haves at the ex-his friends had other plans which Christian Federation, at the Chin-to African taste, and the result is pense of the have-nots. We now did not bother very much about ese Young Women's Christian As-not comforting to Western eyes. get busy collecting statistics and other people's convenience.. If sociation headquarters last night. After three days of travelling comes to town he brings as many on that foundation basing tents the Treasury wanted silver, it
In introducing the guest to the through an unreclaimed wilderness, as 100 riflemen and slaves in his: tive experiments, conscious that would be natural to buy it as members, Mrs. Tao Se-fong (the all crags,
chasms, dust-ridden wake. He wears the conventional a new order is coming into being, cheaply as possible, so as to save Chairwoman of the Board of Dire plains and dispirited vegetation, re-dress: white trousers, tight at the and fully aware that the wisest the taxpayers' money. But it tors of the Y.W.C.A.) said that she lieved only by an occasional sta-ankles, boots of fancy leather, and plan is to watch developments; was represented that it would be wished, as representing the Asso-tion roofed with corrugated iron,a black or purple cape over his. but every now and then discern a good thing to encourage the ciation's Directors, and staff, to ex- the sight of Addis Ababa is like a white tunic. His saddle-cloth is gafly coloured, and the trappings- ing that the old generalisations silver-mining industry, thereby tend their welcome to Dr. and Mrs, tonie. It faces you, miles across of his mule are of red morocco were sound enough, within their increasing employment. An Koo. Mr. Tso said that Dr. Koo an expanse of tiled flelds, like n
leather, heavy with silver own limits.
entirely artificial price was fixed was a great lecturer, thinker and white garment thrown carelessly enta So far as we are. concerned for the Treasury to buy silver friend of the students.
but gracefully against the sides of a basin-like valley, world it is mined in the States, what is now with the outside
difficulties This Speaking about the
In Addis Ababa. through trade, and exchange, and called "domestic" silver. trade depends on the "price relieved the market of any chance which present-day Christian workers level" of the various countries. of being disturbed by new sup-most commonly encountered in their That would be calculated by com-plies from the American mines; campaign, Dr. Koo said that they jumble of roofs in a frame of ROMANCE MAKES paring the amount of money that and the speculators got busy. had met with some opposition in green foliage. There are domes, would change hands in the course The market price was raised to their work because of the rise of imposing buildings-an they seem of satisfying the whole of the the price given by Mr. Morgen-nationalism in China. This national wanta. Each country thau, and even above it. At this most noticeable in big cities such spital.
The But enter It from the new rail- has some things in plenty and a point one might say that the as Nanking and Shanghai. scarcity of others. The plentiful Washington Treasury was not, introduction of Western science, in way station, guarded by a rampant
llon on a high pedestal, and you Romance, the 25-ton yacht, which: things can be sold abroad in responsible for what the specu-which the students demand a scler-
are swiftly disillusioned. The was obliged to return to the Colony: 'exchange for the things that are lators might do. It had merely tific explanation of their religious rare and therefore highly priced. been restoring an American in-beifef, had also been an obstacle to houses are nearly all wooden struc- lact Saturday owing to a defect in
{tures, one storey and never more her bilge pump, salled to-day at 8: The Italy, for example was cheap forjdustry to profitable working, and the spread of Christianity. food and personal services: dear now the owners of the silver speech was translated into Chinese, than two storeys high. So-called am, on her trip to Vancouver vin for coal and steel. The Argen-mines could sell their product by Mr. To, after which the speaker streets are paved with undressed Yokohama.
stone or not at all. There Is an Captain E. P. Green and his son'·· tine was cheap for grain and either at the Government rafe or was thanked. Light refreshments of confusion about the whole Phillip form the crew of the boat, cattle; dear for manufactured at a higher rate in the market; were served, before the meeting
place that defies description which was built in Hong Kong, articles. For export the coun- and the fact that the rate was re-broke up
One principal thoroughfare Her owner retired last year from try with the lowest price level munerative was shown by the The Right, Reverend R. O. Hall, bisects the city crookedly and the command of the C.P.3. liner: had the advantage; and trade increase of production.
Bishop of Hong Kong and Mra, struggles to keep its identity as a Empress of Asia. tended to produce a more or less It is the last step that shows Hall were among those present at street through Intervening patches identical level for all the trading the game for everyone to see. the reception. countries.
Either the Treasury wants silver In the last seventeen years for it does not. If it wants allver the wish to make money more it can buy any quantity on the plentiful in order to pay debts open market for less than it is thought it desirable to cloak their it more easily, led to the false paying the mine owners. If it operations behind some pretext theory that a low price level does not want it. It should state of seeking the general good; but could be artificially created by that, it will not buy any more this last step is quite frankly a any Government acting separ-1 Governmenta have
usually gift to the speculators.
WAB
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The Emperor's palace rises above
-and all the elements of a divilised
(Continued on Page 10)
FRESH START. Defect In Pump Now Remedied
of vacant land to the Legation | quarter, where real houses are Unless cause is shown to the con-- clustered near a racecourse. From trary at the expiration of three wander alde issues of streets into months from April 28, the name of the primitive Africa of grass huts the Sung Yip Land Investment Company Ltd., will be struck off the and calabashes.
There are several hotels of a Register and the Company dis-- sort, and shops : " run
Greek solved.
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