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give any sign of the ability which was, later, to bring him to the top. of the legal profession. On the contrary, he has been described, by a contemporary as "one of the very worst boys from the school- master's point of view."
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The son of a successful City merchant, it was natural that re should be given a commercial training, and that he should be
follow expected to
the family In due course he was sent to University College School, where he exhibited signs of a keen intelligence, but the career which appeared to be his natural destiny held no appeal for him, and he deliberately abandon- ed the seats of learning and ran away to sea in an old windjam
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After a period spent in Brussels and Hanover, he became a mem ber of the Stock Exchange, where: be displayed an exceptional capa- city fer finance.
on paper. was otherwise unsuccessful, and eventually was "hammered."
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TURNED TO BAR From the Stock Exchange he turned to the Bar. It is said
a question of organising an ad- that he once, publicly confessed
vance in a difficult. moutain- that be dreaded failure, in this
Fous region like that of Tigre,! new venture, that he had no pre-which has an area equal to one- monition of the position he was seventh of the total area
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FALL OF MAKALLE EXPECTED
to obtain as a leading advocate. Italy and is 250 miles distant He was called to the Bar in 1897, from the army base at Massa- when he was 27. Eleven years WZ.
Addis Ababa, earlier: The in- later be took silk, and was justi- SENTIMENT ON HOME FRONT (habitants of the capital are jubi- fied in so doing for he had proved in conclusion Signor Mussolini last over the great successes of the a particularly brilliant counsel dealt with the sentiment prevail- Abyssinian arma, reported from in all litigation which concerned ing at home. stressing that the the northern front. Everybody is finance, while in other cases his struggle against the "economic looking forward with tense expec- skill in obtaining from a witness siege" was being continued syste-tation to the next army ·COST- exactly what that witness was matically along the entire front minique which it is hoped here. most anxions to conceal, was an and with the effective co-opera-wu annoduce the fall of Mikalle important factor
in his almost tion of industry and commerce, Makalle, where Bas Gugua's castle unbroken success as an advocate.the public spirit to be found is situated, according to the latest One of his best known triumphsjeverywhere being such that there messages from the front, is being was the pulverisation of Whitaker was no need of special legislative encircled from three sides, with the Wright, who added to its sen-measures.
army of Kassasebbat advancing The big organisations as well from Agria in the north, while the sational aspect by committing
as the technical and corporative forces of Ras Kassa and Bas suicide in the dock.
His Parliamentary career began committees, said the Dace were Seyoum are closing in on the city in 1904--he was member for Read- preparing and realising to the from the south and west, respec- ing from 1904 to 1913-but it was highest possible degree the
ex-tively.
battles fought perhaps ss an advocate rather ploitation of all the resources of than as a politician that Rufus the national reserves, while the Christmas are declared to have the Italian chemical and technical been the most sanguinary encoun Isaacs was best known" in
After sciences were providing substi-ters during the war so far, but it years before the Wan- much striving he had found his tutes for many foreign raw ma-lis predicted that even more bitter destiny.
In 1910 he became terials. Trans Ocean Service.
fighting will shortly take place, the Solicitor-General and, six months
Abyssinians, owing to the fact that. later, he was Attorney-General mic and financial as well as poli- the Emperor will be accompanied and a member of the Cabinet when tical, and his great triumph was by the national relic which, ar- Mr. Asquith was Prime Minister: that he, mainly by the force of his cording to legend, is the biblical He was the first Attorney-General personality, "established coArk of the Covenant of King Solo to become a member of the štítutional, and almost friendly ze mon ettecking
lations between the parties in the
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Thus during the last battles the It was mainly in a financial of non-co-operation was, for the Abyssinian troops charged the capacity that he first visited the time, at an end.
Italian machine gun nests with His achievement may be briefyemendous elas, the last few sur United States, as head of the Anglo-French Loan Mission. The indicated by an extract from theviors who came through the ber- last speech which he delivered berife fire capturing the machine- success with which he accom plished the objects of this Mis-fore both Houses of the Legisla guns from the Italian defenders
ture at Delhi sion made it easy, a little later,
The Abyssinians claim that "They "We have strives to attain the have captured no fewer than 50 for the Government to select an Ambassador, and in 1917 Lord end the prosperity and machine guns and mumerous tanks
happiness of India Peace north of Makalle in this manner.
our borders Internal CONFIDENCE IN SOUTH
Bas Nasibu who is commanding
Reading went to Washington as Special Envoy. In the same year reigns in he succeeded Sir Cecil Spring-Rice disturbances have been set at rest;
law and order; have been vindicat-175,000 men on the southern front,
25 British High Commissioner ed and established; the financial declared during a reception of for
| and Special "Ambassador. Y
His relations with the people of situation had been stabilised, with eign press correspondents, that he the United States, from the Presi-beneficial regetions on the nation was extremely satished with the dent downwards, were marked building activities of the reformed strategic situation, and expressed Constitution Conditions have been
confidence that his troops would be throughout with the utmost cor- diality. His singular charm oftested which give a fair prospect easily able to repel General Gra manser enfiled him to bring the to the development of India's re-ini's Back on Face
The foreign: press correspon- most delicate negotiations to a se sources, and the anxieties of In-
dian Moslem opinion have been dents, it is said here, were ex- cessful conclusion.
Įtremely favourably impressed by With the close of the Wer Lord allayed.
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS the appearance of the troepe on Reading laid down his Ambas-
Lord Resting married, in 1887," sadorial duties and resumed his Miss Alice Cohen, and he leaves the southern front, who were all activities as Lord Chief Justice: one son, Viscount Brleigh, who dressed in khaki unions and But the gifts which Lord Reading succeeds to the Earldom of Readspice of the very modest rations an
were seemingly quite fre had displayed for dealing with
ing.
(which, they are forced to men and matters and resolving the Lard Reading played a prúming – most complicated situations to the ant part in the discussions at all satisfaction of al-parties-made the three sessions, of the Indian UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG too deep an impression to be Round Table Conference, as a de readily forgotten, and the country late of the Liberal Party in 1930 soon had urgent need for these and 1982, and as the National gifts. He was being wasted on Government & delegate in 1931 Lim Sze-hok, Ng the Benche
(He was Forzign Secretary in the Lee-yeow, Ng, first National Govenmaent).-
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