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EXILED RUSSIAN ARTIST.
CHANGED OUTLOOK IN ABYSSINIA
ADVANCING CAUTIOUSLY
TOWARDS THE WEST
31. Alexander Anitch of the FORMIDABLE NATURAL BARRIERS
exiled Russian artist, whose death
is announced, was formerly a big landowner near Petrograd.” and possessed a famous library and picture gallery which are now Topen the public.
AGAINST AN INVADER
(By Adrian Buxton)
3
pen to the pubition the Soviet Mhare a place to find.
ANY important changes, food, water, or sleep for a long
Government seized thear and offer-Abyssinia during the last three This quality of endurance was ed him the job of administering years. Their significance seems demonstrated during a journey. them as a Government servant in most cases to have been over over a group of high and barren But M. Anitchkof did not care to looked by European nations. mountains in Lasta Province, do this. He went to England in- Five years ago the conditions where our servants went uncon- stead, and settled down happily as in Aybssinia might justly have cernedly for a day and a half Ja painter.
been compared with those which without food or water. Short and white-bearded he prevailed in Turkey or Persiz On one occasion an accident had a charming personality, with at the beginning of the present occurred which might easily an infections enthusiasm for mo century. Today, however, the have proved fatal in the case of dern painting. He was modest comparison would be unfair. bela white man. A man was shot about his own pictures, and used cause of Abyssinia's rapid in the head, the bullet entering to say. "One never paints what advancement.
just in front of his left ear and one likes: one paints what one Some of those in authority, coming out on the left side near He and especially the Emperor the bridge of the nose. His favourite subject was Wim-himself, are broadminded, intel- appeared to be little the worse bledon Common, of which he must ligent people who unlike the for the experience. Within have painted several hundred
rulers of China. are anxious to three weeks he had almost com pictures.
take advantage of all that pletely recovered. jEurope has to offer in the way Apart from this toughness of of progress. Just as the Japa- the Abyssinians themselves. nese began their emancipation there is another and formidable A few tourists have already less than 70 years ago, so a new problem which has confronted seen Petra, but the provision of Abyssinia. determined. on all invaders of their country in
airport at Mann, 60 miles advancement, was born with the the past. away. should bring many more to coronation of Haili Silassye L the "rose-red city, half as old as "the Conquering Lion of Judah, Elect of God, King of Kings of
сад."
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THE ROSE-RED CITY
am
Whites Distrusted
Natural Fortress
Abyssinia presents to the in- time.”
vader a superb natural fortress Tent accommodation and EuroEthiopia?
- great highland platean pean meals have been available
riven with canyons, and this emigrate take with them the for some time at Petra, but the
plateau in turn is topped by This ruler with advanced skill they have learned at home, journey thither can be trying. At
mountain ranges sometimes ideas, probably the most and compete not with the rest present Maan has
to be reached lightened man in the whole above sea-level, to form
en rising to a height of 14,000ft- of the world but with their own by road or the Hejaz railway-country, represents all that is miniature Switzerland.
In France there Then one must travel by car to a best in Abyssinia
compatriots.
the
is an agitation for heavier point near Petra, completing the
The canyons create formid- Most responsible people there able barriers from east to west duties on Algerian wine. ̈ The last few miles on horseback. to-day recognise that the whole across the highlands north of Now that the Emperor Haile USA agriculturists do not like Many are familiar with the future of Ethiopia depends on Addis Ababa Selassie has called for a general | Cuban or Philippine; sugar-phrase, "rose-red city half as old this one man.
How far they Haili Silassye mobilisation and the rains have English farmers clamour for as time"; fewer know the author-is 44 years of age. His people may yet have to be tried out by can be exploited as death traps likely protection against Australian He was Dean. Burgon a winner of respect him as they did Mene modern methods of warfare. stopped. it appears
and New Zealand beef. There the Newdigate Prize. and he is and a clue to his real out- enough that news of some frontier skirmish will sell an is rich soil in Ethiopia, but it remembered by this one
line look may be found in the pre- them all, through which the One canyon, the biggest OR extra edition like the proverbial is fully occupied, and
the Even that is rather less impres-sence of a portrait of Abraham Takkaze River flows, starts by hot cakes. The position is clear African native will only be dis- sive in its context:
Lincoln which hangs in the running like a mighty gulf be- enough. All the other coun-possessed of his land at
Match me such marrel sare în audience room of his palace tries of Europe want to confine point of the bayonet. and will
-Eastern clime
tween the highlands. for appro- One of the most noteworthyximately 80 miles from east to action within the rules of the only be kept from reoccupying A rose-red city half as old as features of
the Abyssinian west. Covenant, because they realise it by keeping the bayonet per-
character is a nation-wide dis-east of Lake Tana the canyon.
At a position 80 miles. the principle that Membership manently fixed:
Dean Burgen was moved to trust of white men This is turns again and write "Petra," the title of the perhaps, justified by their un-north for 150 miles
travels due. carries the right of protection money. with it: Signor Mussolini will The only remaining induce prizewinning poem. by the dis-fortunate experience of types of Eritrea and the river finally not have anything to do with ment that could pay off the cost covery of the city by the Swiss the white man at his worst. the League-in fact treats it of a war, plus the additional explorer. Burckhardt more than To overcome the fears and pre-of Khartoum with studied contempt. His cost of maintaining peace, is a 100 years ago. He never actually judices of his countrymen, and natural defences of Abyssinia.. instruction to his representative big export of minerals visited the place. His descrip- lay the foundations of a modern It is doubtful whether any to give only a verbal reply to Mineral deposits are rumoured tion of Petra's colour is in-Ethiopia able to keep pace with first-class maps of the interior
That costs
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"What model is your car?” "It's not a model, it's a horrible
toward
meets the Nile 250 miles north Such are the
A modern invader would find conditions in Abyssinia very Insularity
different from, those which pre- To show the insularity of the vailed during Lord Napier's Abyssinian and his ignorance successful campaign When
the report of the Council is, of to exist. but nothing certain is accurate.
the march of progress, the are in existence. course a breach of all diplomatic yet known of their quality and
The secrets Emperor has had to introduce of the canyons and of the etiquette That would not extent. There is no reason to i
Your Daily Smile!
reforms slowly and with the passes in the mountains are matter if the reply had been suppose that the Italians have
utmost care, in order to prevent known only to the defenders. satisfactory but insult does not any special information.
The A penguin has been heard over the Such violent revolution as over- lubricate the wheels of business.experience of the Japanese in radio. The penguin has many threw
Different Conditions King Amanulla in The suggestion of treating Manchuria, where nothing has natural advantages as a master of Afghanistan. separately with Great Britain is been found equal to the Fushan ceremonies, as it has a built-in dress equally insulting, and is too Collieries, for which they had a suit. obvious an attempt to sow sus-[concession before the campaign, picion between England and is apposite. Mineral exploita- France to trap any experienced tion is a big gamble: all raw Foreign Secretary. There is no materials are at present at bar-example. analogy with the naval agree gain prices because the supply ment with Gemany, because has been opened up beyond the COSTLY EXPERIMENT Germany is not a member. On absorption capacity of the mar "You sent for your daughter 7" the verge of confict, then it ket The Ethiopian
"Yes; we found it too expensive would seems opportune to consider have everything to learn before to have her living in the city sup-
porting herself.” what Italy could hope to gain he became a competent mine!
a complete conquest of labourer, and the Suez Canal KILLING CONVERSATION Ethiopia, even if the League des would be a handicap-on Scientists now threaten to take merely sat still and refrained transport. The Italian ship all surprise out of the weather, ping companies could only thereby dealing the final blow to the Taree objects have been pro- undertake the transport of alowly dying art of conversation.
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DESPERATE EFFORT "Where's the cashier?"
"Gone to the races."
of the world outside his fron Napier broke into Abyssinia the tiers. I may mention a conver country was already split up sation I had with a priest of the into warring factions, and the Orthodox Church.
mad conduct of the Emperor When I told him that I lived Theodore had wrought discon- 2 350 days mule-journey from tent among all parties Napier Addis Ababa he refused to be was received opent in many lieve me Such a lengthy jour places by the dissatisfied Abys ney was entirely beyond his simians, who found in his army came inquisitive, and asked me, duce imagination. Finally he be a splendid market for their pro-
Is America on this or the other side of Jerusalem?”
(Continued on Paje 11.) OBITUARY
Air Vice-Marshal Sir Vyell Vyvyan
The true Abyssinians are tol be found north of Addis Ababa and in the Province of Jinima, "Gone to the races in business tribes of the Ambara, Tigrian. and these are the dominant hours?" making the books balance"
“Yes, sir, it's his last chance and Falasha peoples. Those in the south are for the most part
They are mostly tribes of Galla Reutero more primitive, and not unlike! the people of Northern Kenya Vice-Marshal Sir Vyell Vyvyan-
The death has occurred of Air
of
claimed. There is the purpose South African maize to Genos of avenging Adowa, and the with the bait of a subsidy of prestige of victory. Adowa £60,000 a year, which is not had as a matter of fact been likely to be renewed when the forgotten: In Europe the re- three-year contract is at an end pute of the Italian army will any case the offer by the take rank by its achievements
League Committee of experts, in the Great War. Mechanisa this industry, plus the offer of NO NUMBER PLATES including Italians, to open up tion has given such an entor mous advantage to modern Great Britain of a convenient equipment" that no first-class port at Zella, would develop a army will add to its laurels by more economical trade.
ON CAR
European Motorist
London, To-day-
origin, conquered by Menelis when he recreated the Ethiopian KC.B., D.SO, late RN. and R.A.F
Air Vice-Marshal Sir Vyell Vyvysa, a colonial campaign against a And there is always the ten-
Empire about 50 years ago was born in 1875, the son of Col. Semitic or Negro opponent dency of the Powers to demand
Cut off by natural barriers from R. O. Vyvyan "He served in the Fined And no war ever consists of an Open Door in the back-
the march of progress in the punitive naval expedition against the unbroken success. "
ground Italy will only get the
world outside, the Abyssinians King of Benin in 1897, being re
warded with medal and claspinge Another motive has been de-Open Door in the British and Dodwell and Co., was this morning conservative people, loth to war College, 1911-13 War Staif Mr. R. R. W: "Ashby, of Messrs, 23 a whole have become a very He was on the start of the RN. fined as the need of Italy for French African territories on fined $5 by Air. W. Schofield at abandon the ways of their fore officer, 1912, and Assistant to the room to breathe." This is one the basis of reciprocity. It is the Central Police Court for driv fathers, and held back by tradi- Chief of the War Star, 1913. result of the stoppage of migra- very difficult to believe, that ing along Queen's Road on Septons which had their origin in
He served in the Dardanelles in tion, especially by the countries anyone in Rome has sat down tember 16, without proper num- the dawn of time. of North and South America, quietly to take long views for ber plates on his car.
1914-15, securing the rD-8.0, the Legion of Honour, and the Orders of due to depression. War will do it clear that no settlement by Sub-Inspector Brittain said that
S. Anne, Bising Sun, American Dis- nothing to remove depression conquest will be as favourable the car had no number plate in deep patriotism, coupled with a Cordon of the Order of the Redeemer Lack of imagination and a tinguished Service viande, fal Grand Except for a narrow stap along as the offer made by the League front and at the rear there was splendid physique produce during this spell of service. He was the seaboard the Italians have Committee.
shown no disposition
Along the
Libya.
create flourishing which only Compete
AIR TRAVEL FOR MPS.
Deep Patriotism
piece of paper with T 327 writ- fine race of ten on itimum
over the Mr. Ashby said that one of the what is called plates had been lost and report McKeag, MP for Dured to the trafic office)
about at high the fest to avail himself other inul beste taken
htconvenience or Chinese cbmker. He was des clénry. These monstrafing the
among the touri mankind, and can
sinians
placed on the retired list of the Royal More Force: in 1925 The loaves
have widow to fee bloods wage
GAS WORKS EXPLOSION
Eleven men were burned in an