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ITALY'S NORTHERN
CAMPAIGN
EYE-WITNESS'S SURVEY
- OF CONDITIONS
GAINS AND DANGERS EXAMINED BY TRAINED OBSERVER
(By Mortimer Durand)
London, February 25. organised troops decisively.
If the Ethiopians accept HAVE just returned to Eng-
of Commerce and the Chima Adraughtsmen to produce them, I land after spending four pitched battles they are bound
For
Southern
General
men
stated to be, the principal aimaity), Mr. A. S. Campbell (Ce the settings formed of a number Blackshirt
Chinese Mari- of layers of transparent white spaghetti off ammunition boxes!
depth.
TEMAKIN HOW TO NOURISH A SKIN THATlated to show the fundamental cil were present in the capacity ment, perfect synchronisation be./about the flowers and the moun-venerable rifles that looked as
Use .
Says ELIZABETH ARDEN
*
*
Comptroller
1
**There
terday in the Roof Garden of the Where Walt Disney needs about Hong Kong Hotel by members of 2,000 drawings per foot of film. the Hong Kong General Chamber
land employs staff of
sociation (Hong Kong Branch)-Lotte Rainiger cuts out her figures
They canot other guesta were: His
Exfrom thick black paper and soft months with the Italians in to be defeated.
stem the Italian advance. cellency the Gorexzeń
(Sir metal sheets so that they have Eritrea and Ethiopia.
I have marched day-long with Until this ill-advised battle they,
Askari Hong Kong, Thursday, Mar. 26, 1936 Andrew Caldecott). Sir Thomas weight and stability, and fasters
bere-foot
columns, have not attempted to do sai (Governor - designate their joints with wire hinges to Gambis); the Attorney make them capable of articulation accompanied the picturesquely The primitive and cowardly
of Bas natives inhabiting, the Tigre, C G. Alabas
The action is worked out in armed irregulars
advancing. made very little attempt to re- ter. C.), Sir William Homellinate detail beforehand in close Gugga's
conjunction with the music, and have pitched my tent with sist their invaders.
divisions, eaten
Pitiful Weapons If, as it has so often been (Vice-Chancellor of the Univer
I saw a pile of weapons at of German diplomacy is to drive missioner of the
with Gount. Ciano's "La Dia had been captured from the de- a wedge between England and time Customs, Kowloon and Dis paper which create the illusion of by moonlight, flown into action Amba Anghier just after they squadron, listened,fending Ethiopians. It was a be admittedtrict) and Sir William Shenton's France, it must
above (perata"
are while watching glittertag Orion pitiful collection of antiques, that this has been most success-Unofficial colleagues on the Legis Then, with the camera fully accomplished by the inci-lative Council (the Hoa. Mr. J. Pthe trick table, the figures, dents of the last few weeks. Braga and the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo), alightly altered for each 1-24th march across the sky, to Alpinis including brassbound English Nothing would be better calcu-Other Unofficial Members of Coun- of 3 second of the musical more singing their haunting songs and French horse-pistols and
tains.
if they would be as dangerous And I bring home a strong to the man who fired them as IS FALLING INTO WRINKLES difference between the inter-of hosts, viz., the Hon. Sir Henry ing secured.
feeling of friendship for the to his enemy. national outlook ris-a-vis Ger-Pollock and the Hon. Mr. T. N.
also included)INDIA'S CRICKET MANAGER
personally. Those & FURROWS.
When I asked the Italian Imany of the British and French Chau. The hosts
Chow and Mr. J. Major J. Britain-Jones, who has Italians WHEN YOUR SKIN IS NATURALLY Governments than Herr Hitler's Sir Shouson HEALTHY IT WILL BE CLEAR & decision to take a decisive step Owen Hughes, former members of been appointed manager of India's front line officers, who so often colonel, who had led his Askaris and force the whole issue of the Council. The Hon. Dr. S. W. Tse cricket team for England: is the insisted on my eating with up the mountainside to the e
of the them, instead of leaving me to tack, if there had been many FINE & SMOOTH.
my lonely ration tins, never let casualties, he replied: Versailles and Locarno Treaties. and Dr. R. H. Kotewall wrote ex-present
Black me feel any reflection of the was not time-they simply fired We believe that we are inter-pressing regret that absence from Viceroy's Household.
He is an officer of the
between our a scattered volley and then preting British opinion aright the Colony prevented their being
threw down their arms and when we say that, while in present as hosts. Sir Robert Ho Watch, and went out to India with political tension
As an athlete countries.
Before The Rains
surrendered.” theory the sanctity of treaties Tung was similarly prevented by Lord Willingdon.
But as far as the campaign The almost peaceful penetra- is upheld, there is a sneaking indisposition. The Acting Chief he ranks with the best the Army
on the northern front is con-tion of the Tigre district must sympathy with the German Justice (Mr. R. E. Lindsell) who has ever produced, and his physi-
despite the recent be scored up as a success for leader in his unequivocal breach had accepted an invitation to be que is superb.
He was the Army heavy-weight(cerned, of one of the most important present was unable at the last mo clauses of Versailles. We be- ment to attend, on account of in-boxing champion, a good Bugger Italian offensive resulting in the the Italian political bureau.
(Mountain) As did Napier in 1868, lieve that British, public opinion disposition. The Bishop of Vic-player. and is still a plus golfer capture of Amba has for years contemplated toria was prevented from attend- and a more than useful cricketer, Aradam and the reported de- Italians bought
struction of Ras Mulugeta's through it, and the only serious without enthusiasm the attempting by an engagement in Canton. who captains the Viceroy's side.
Lord Willingdon will go home army, I feel sure that their fight the ambushing of Col. to harness a great nation to a The Hon. Mr. W. H. Bell (Chair-
after the occupation of Makalle position of actual and meta-man of the Chamber of Commerce next month, and Major Brittain advance has been brought to a Mariotti's Danakil column, just Marshal Badoglio will prob was done by Degiace Cassa phorical inferiority; that peace- and China Association) presided, Jones will therefore be free to standstill.
small ful revision of the treaties has and over 100 members of the two take over the management of the
ably push on down the Buia Sebat's regulars and been recognised as an eventua-bodies were present.
Valley and occupy Amba Alagi number of irregulars from the lity bound to have come sooner
(Continued On Page 10)
before the rains begin, but Danakil desert, to the west of for later: that there has been al
think this will be the last jump the Tigre. forward for a long time.
Terrain Real Enemy Advance down the funnel of The Italians' real enemy en King Edward To Carry this valley, while the flanks the northern front is the ter- remain open to guerrilla pene-rain. The quick-moving, light- On Tradition
tration, seems extremely rash. ly equipped Askaris, with little mountain mules that no lasting peace of Europe
London, To-day. Apparently the Marshal has Abyssinian would be possible without some The Metre Is The Official HM the King will perform read Ethiopian psychology carrying supplies, can cover the attempt to meet the legitimate Standard Of The U.S. the ancient ceremony of distribute aright, however, and was clever country at a good speed-these
ktow that German
his wity, lightly built men are aspirations of the
ing gifts to as many deserving old enough to people half way.
the years of his age enemies would be so stupid as first-class marchers and their when he attends the Maundy to offer resistance to his over-bare feet pad tirelessly
the rough goat tracks running essential problem at the present NEITHER the yard for the people as
Thursday Service at Westminster whelming strength time is to face certain facts standard of measure in the United Abbey on April 9. When King Using his fresh Alpini troops steeply up and down "the moun❤ squarely. France is in no mood States. By Congressional enact George attended the service insome of the finest mountain tainsides. They were amused -my-nailed boots. to condone the deliberate breach ment of 1893 the United States: of the treaty which has occur-accepted the International Wetze Person two years ago it was the campaign soldiers in the world at the way
first time for 200 years that the and all the resources offelipped and clattered red The thin end of the as its legal standardi The yard
reigning Monarch had done so.-modern warfare, he has crush-loose stones. wedge between the policies of was defined as 3600/3937th of the
led the opposing primitively- (Continued on Page 11) British Wireless Service.. Britain and France is already International Metre The yard is there: it consists of the two officially recognized only in its diametrically opposed facts, ratio to the metre, but has no that while Britain is ready to direct standing in the American consider the Locarno Powers official scheme of measurement. suggestions as a stepping-off The same applies to the pound, place for the further considera-which is recognised only as bear- tion of the problems involved, ing a certain ratio to the Interna- France considers that they tional Kilogramme.
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certain feeling of impatience in EXPLANATION OF
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for European peace; that there has all along been a realisation
But granting all this the
YESTERDAY'S CARTOON
1
foot is the oiicial legal
must either, be accepted or re- The Chinese Politician | jected in their entirety and is! not disposed even to con- sider any suggestions the Ger-
may now put forward
Of Boston
I
TYHAT turned out to be quite
10-
mens Wa spined coupe ce ler are making things infinitely the fight of Chinese laundryman more difficult by their intransi-Jerry Yee Woo of Charlestown for gent attitudes; and for Herr Boston City Council seat from Hitler to pronounce, as he is re-Ward 2 Jerry announced. his ported elsewhere in this issue to platform-"See nothing, know no- have done, that "We must con-thing, hear nothing, and do quer back what we have lost in thing," and at a meeting of the recent years," is only adding Yee Woos, he threw his hat in fuel to an already well-drawn with the other 15 candidates for fire. In one hand he holds an the council seat. Jerry, not being and olive branch; in the other heja registered voter himself, brandishes a sabre rattling in not having complied with the rules its scabbard. M. Flandin's un-of election, could not have been compromising attitude, in com-elected legally, but he actually re- parison with this, is severely ceived 39 votes for the office. logical. At least with him the His campaign cards read: "Tee rest of the world-Germany in-Woo for City Council. If your cluded-knows exactly where it can't give me your vote, givè me
With Herr Hitler one has your laundry.”
is.
to guess. He talks, and has talked incessantly for the last three years, of peace. But in
those years the rest of the
Your Daily Smile!
"Why did the new women's club
world has seen enormous in break up wo, soon77
the
creases in the naval, military "The majority voted to have the and air forces of Germany. three oldest women constitute Herr Hitler offers in all serious boardy"
ness to guarantee 25 years ofj
The Waste
peace by entering into a new George Bernard Shaw is # Locarno; but he does so within master at the ready report. A young five minutes of crashing woman sitting next to him at dinner through the old Locarno-free-remarked. “What a wonderful thing
Youth
ly signed, sealed and devered yes and what a crime to waste
with a rip-snorting challenge it on children G. B. 6. replied, that will not be stayed What
is the plain man to make of Now presumably it will be sub- all?
1jected to hammer blows.
Is
The thin end of the wedge another explos the only way has already been inserted. to clear the air?
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