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The largest sports hall in Germany is being built in preparation for next year's Olympic Games. picture shows the present stage of the constra
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THE BELGIUM OF AFRICA
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Lake Tana
Some hundreds of miles north jof Addis Ababa. on the road to the Sudan, lies Lake Tana. It is
which means" so much to the S¤¬j
the same route can be gauged of temperate fertile land and rich from these figures.
silt of the Blue Nile, would pro- vide an ideal colony for cotton- growing, as Japan also has dis-
covered.
Interest In Japanese
top-hatted and frock-
Italy And Blue Nile Italy realises the value of the Blue Nile waters to Britain. She also appreciates that the country
When in the neighbourhood of Lake this lake; part of the Blue Nilea is the richest in Abyssinia coated Japanese diplomats first dan, to Britain, and, in particular. In the negotiations that have so arrived in Abyssinia, it was rum- to Lancashire.
far taken place Italy does not op-joured that they were seeking con- pose Britain's right to the use of cessions to grow opium. The crop The wealth and the great place the waters, but she claims far-was later changed to cotton. of Egypt in the world's history reaching privileges for herself in There is no denying that the are. in fact, the gift of the waters from Abyssinia. Not only is the These include the transport of all an unusual interest in the Japan construction of the dam. Emperor of Abyssinia bas. shown burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & fertilising quality of the Nile materials through Eritrea, the ese Japanese engineers and ex- Full Marseilles & London
floodwaters due to the deposits employment of Italian labour, and perts. financial representatives that the Blue Nile and the Atbara the economic exploitation of the and diplomats have been honour- Marseilles. Havre, London, Ham-bring down, but without
&tributaries the Nile in most years Lake
these fertile territory surrounding the ed guests at the palace in Addis Ababa. There have even been at- would hardly flood at all.
RANCHI
NALDERA +*BHUTAN
CARTHAGE **BEHAR
RAJPUTANA
17,000 25th Jan
* "Cargo only.
+ Calls Casablanca.
E'dm, A'werp & Hull, Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
burg, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Fyll
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Bombay, Marseilles & London,
the
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At the same time Italy herself tempts at a diplomatic marriage The supply of water
that is keenly interested in the grow-between an Ethiopian prince and Marseilies, Havre, London, Ham-reaches Egypt from the White ing of cotton. Her American bill a Japanese girl.
burg, R'dam, Antwerp & Hall Nile is fairly steady at some 14-for raw cotton is a big one, and Bombay, Marseilles & London.
"Spearhead Of Defence” Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamthe other hand, the Blue Nile and own product in Eritrea has been Mussolini's onslaught
000 cubic feet per second. On the possibility of growing her
All of which is responsible for burg, R’dam & Hall Bombay, Marseilles & London.
the Atbara in flood bring down as tried. It has not been a success.hosts of colour who would over- much as 500,000 cubic feet per There is no doubt, however, that whelm Europe. He has declared second.
Abyssinia, with its great expanse in Rome that Italy must be the
Calls Port Sudan
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Moreover, the Blue Nile rises in Abyssinia in Lake Tana, and there have been many projects
for damming the waters in its Cinema Notes
Lake
devious course before it reaches i SAILINGS the Sudan In brief, whoever
controls. the waters Tana, is in a position to black- mail the growers of cotton in the
Singapore, Penang, Rangoon and Sudan
Calcutta.
Calls Port Swettenham.
Now is the time to visit Australia & New Zealand
Dam Project
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"THE CASINO MURDER CASE" MAJESTIC THEATRE
L the
white spear-head of defence against yellow penetration inte Africa. And in the meantime, the diplomats sit around the tea- tables in those glorious gardens of Addis Ababa, perched *8,000. feet above sea-level and mask
by handing each other pastries on their real ambitions and feelings
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to four to prevent his portrayal betic friend of the dinner-table... to the Italian port of Massawah Sherlock Holmes kind of sleuth.Abyssinia he nodded, approving- "The only sane thing to do in
on the Red Sea...
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The Legations port of Djibouti, objected to this Louise Fazenda. Eric Blore, Isabel arrangement Bat it was the Em-Jewell and Donald Cook peror of Abyssinia himself who upset the diplomatic apple-cartį Newby announcing that the concession to build a dam at Lake Tana had been given to the J. G. White En-
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"MADAME DU BARRY”— ORIENTAL THEATRE -
To-day, many of these legations fare packing their bags. Seats on the French train leaving thrice weekly are booked, then cancelled, and booked again The American Legation in Addis Ababa is likely
tically brings to mind the high the country large numbers of The name of Dn Barry automa-to be the first to be withdrawn.
There are also scattered about powdered wigs and befrilled hoop skirts of that era of French These will be advised to make missionaries and their familjes. history that marked her rise în The agreement was for a contama,
their way back to the capital. 7,000 4th Oct. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney cession valued at £5,000,000: The
where it is believed that for- But paradoxically enough. Doreigners would enjoy the fullest 7,000 2nd. NOT. Melbourne & Hobart
American company was to build ores Del Pio, who is portraying 7,000. 30th Nov. i
the dam with its own money, self famous countess in the War-Protection which the Emperor is water to the British in the Sudan ner pay royalty to Abyssinia and Madame De Barry, eventually give her the dam. [wig only once during the entire Addis Ababa, and are,
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aboard
Britain immediately registered length of the picture
ships in the Red Sea bound for protest. Then, on March 18] Jeanne Du Barry herself, as his-Europe
ment then in power, Abyssinia, woman.
betw
Warner
extensive
1930, the British Labour Govern" terfena
torians tell us, was a very clever Besides Italy's
She avoided looking like military preparations and the White Corporation's off the other sirens that frequented Red Sea Coast; the other Euro- on the spring, the American Finance and the court of royal protector pean nations concerned are also Construction Company signed an Louis XV, and going wigless, taking precautions In---French agreement whereby the dam was spite, oftas
of fashion, was just one of Somaliland and in the port of Di- to be built by the White Corporather state gestur tion, whose bonds were to
bouti itself, the native population have guaranteed by the Sudan Govern rounded Miss Del Rio with a bril- sympathetic to the Abyssinians in aux has shown that they are strongly ment's agreement to pay water liant stellar cast, including, be this crisis. The French are tak taxes for 50 years, and Abyssinia sides Verree Teasdale and Henry ing measures to protect. Djibouti was to retain title and control of O'Neill, Reginald Owen, as the French naval transports have un- the dam
King: Osgood Perkins, Ferdinand loaded light guns and munitions Bat Britain's Labour Govern Gottschalk Victory Jory. Anifs and quantities of barbed wire. It ment went out when Britain went louise, Dorothy Tree and Hobart is anticipated that the shall off the gold standard, and the dam in Abyssima was ignored. Even
Cavanaugh
Somaliland garrison will be Zeln forced with Senegalese troops. to-day,
hardly more than 2-sur vey has been made for the dam.
Strange Ramours. That survey has revealed that it would be necessary to build a 250 miles. highway to carry machinery. Tane, and the ngirway
to
alone would cost £2,500,000:
cost of an Itahan railway, along for
BIG HEATH FIRE
fire, which broke out don Hill, Isle of the Needler and amouidering
W25
The Egyptian Sonal press Cairo is, publishing ext mours De Pie actiŲ British in the Abyssinia. It various units of the Bri
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tine, Transjordan
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It is all very alarming and un- dan only hope devout-
by thats
not prove to be
intic friend was
Abyssima w the Belginch of