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TO ARRANGE
A REBELLION
(By A Special Correspondent)
FOR FOUR YEARS "Lawrence of Abyssinia,” the mysterious new force behind the Ethiopian re- volt against the Italians, has lived the life of a tribesman, eating raw meat and joining in their folk-songs round the camp fire.
Who is he? What is he like, this man who has risen on the war horizon like a brilliant comet? If anybody knows, he is not prepared to tell.
It can be said, however, that "Lawrence of Abys- sinia" is not a mere ad- venturer.
five
He had been training himself for this role for the last years.
He was the first man to greel; the Emperor when he came to Bedam to take refuge
LOVE BLEW
UP HIS LIFE
For over twenty years.;
He revealed his intention to the Negas, and readily agreer to be! not even a breath of scan- intrated into the mysteries of the dal had touched the re- Amhane language
He is the only white man who putation of a quiet, sedate can read, write and speak this schoolmaster. ancient language like the natives of Ethiopia.
Secret Radio Built
Under the able guidance of the Emperor he mastered the langu- age quickly and then set out for Abyssinia.
With British thoroughness this; "Lawrence decided to turn the had tables on the Italians, who distributed thousands of radio sety to their newly conquered peoples to tell then "the blessings of the Duce's rule."
With the help of "Lawrence," a falthful follower of the Em- peror built a secret transmitting station from which daily bullet. ins of the Emperor's work in Britain were broadcast.
Then
he fell in love with schoolgirl. fifteen-year-old Scandal burst on
a
age of forty-eight.
him at the
So he blow himself up in his found He school.
was own dead among the wreckage, The master was William Louns- New West New York, bury, of Jersey.
Only the day before Loung- after bury was freed on bail being charged with having an ifficit relationship with a blonde pupil whose name is being kept
in
a secret. He became infatuated when he He saw the girl in a classroom. showered her with money and
her He followed
every gifts. where. Soon she started to ap- pear
school in expensive At first the Italians ignored the
clothes and decked with jewel- station, but later they tried to take
lery. But by the time back the sets.
Lounsbury must have gone the authorities came to collect, back to the school after classes them complants were lodged by were over for the day. the native owners of the sets that they had been stolen!
"CLOUD" WAR NOW
special
R.A.F. BOMBED BY HIS COMRADES
An R.A.F. leading aircraftman who lost his way and was cap- tured by the Italians while examining ad- vanced listening posts was freed when. To- bruk fell.
On the night of his capture an R.A.F. bomber carried out a raid on Tobruk. The airman and his guard were huddled in a deep dug-out.
The airman's de- scription of the raid was: "All round me were deafened men. The explosions were terrific.
counted twenty-two of us with bleeding noses from concussion."
JUDGE REBUKES BANNED GIRL
as
After Phyllis Tracey, variety artist, of Wentworth Court, Sur- biton, stated at Kingston County Court that she billed herself "the girl the Lord Chamberlain banned," Judge Hancock ordered her to sit in court "until he was ready to let her go.
She was released after fifteen minutes.
(Mrs. Tracey is a well-known strip tease and fan dancer. Her
is professional
Phyllis Dixey.
name
Good Publicity
The Judge warned her that when she appeared in a court of law she must treat the Court with respect.
Mrs. Tracey and her husband,
Detectives believe that he turn- ed on the gas taps of twenty-two ranges in the cookery classroom, ¦ Mr. Jack Tracey, applied for per- let the gas escape all night, and mission to discharge a debt due then ignited it.
to booking agents at the rate of Early in the morning the terri-
£4 a month. They were ordered fic explosion woke. West New to pay £20 a month. York people. They ran
to find
Questioned by Mr. J. P. Williams, solicitor the high school in ruins.
for the agents, Mrs. William Lounsbury's body was Tracey said she had been publicis- found among the rubble.
ed as "the girl the Lord Chamber- + =
lain banned." She had found it good publicity.
BEQUEST OF SIX COWS
Germany has "cloud troops," equipped A bequest of six cows is made
OFFICERS' PAY TO
STAND
with cloud-throwing ap-in the will of Mr. John Harwood paratus, according to a Cash, of Farnsfield, near Mans- speaker on the German field. Notts, cotton doubler, who members of the
died aged seventy-seven years, leaving £119,989 gross.
radio.
The speaker, who was anony mous, gave an address on cloud warfare, and revealed one of the methods the Germans might em- ploy in an invasion attempt.
"Germany's cloud units," he sald, "are fully motorised. They shell the enemy with their cloud shells, and the enemy cannot see the Gormana, but has to fight in darkness. He becomes holpless and depressed. He can't see anything.
Moment For Advance
"The cloud shells force him to take shelter," the speaker added "and this is the moment for the infantry or tanics to advance. Then the cloud shelling stops and hand-to-hand fighting begins,
"The artificial cloud," he said, "is not detrimental to health, but soldiers serving with the units must be good infantrymen and have a knowledge of weather con- ditions."
The broadcaster said it was proved in the blitzkrieg in France) that cloud troops were of great importance for a successful offen- sive.
NEW FINDS AT POMPEII
During excavations at Pompeil the skeletons of eighty-five people, killed while fleeing frorn Vesuvius, have been found.
Near by was a case of oculist's Instruments.-Reuter,
He left the cows to his farm manager, Charles W. Reynolds.
The financial position of other community does not support grounds at present for and an increase of officers' pay uniform allowances, the War Min- ister said in the Commons.
U.S. INCREASING NAVAL
EXPERTS IN FAR EAST
RELIABLE QUARTERS in Batavia said that the United States is quietly increasing its staff of naval experts in the Far East and the southern Pacific area although they persisted in their denials that any concrete defence agreement has been con- cluded between America, Britain, Australia and the Dutch East Indies.
The informants said two U. S., ward. At the present time, it is naval officials each have been as said, there is only a bare skeleton. signed to Singapore, Darwin, Syd- British naval squadron stationeti ney, Auckland and other points. at the great naval base on the tip These are in addition to the U.S. of the Malaya peninsula although naval officers assigned under rou- Australian air forces there have tine orders to the legations in been steadily increasing in recent (Slam). | months, Australia and Thailand The naval "observers" have been officially described as not mem- bers of the American and diploma- tic consular
For offices in the East and south Pacific,
There is a somewhat similar situation in the Dutch East In- dies. The Dutch, colonial navy iRoks capital ships and dependa mainly upon submarines and The arrival of American war- speedy torpedo boats, ships in Australlan waters on In view of all those develop- what was announced as a "train-ments, official and otherwise, it is ing" and "recreation" cruise was considerat certain that the United considered significant at this time. States fleet will undertake "heRvY Reports, unconfirmed by official work" If Japan moves the main quarters, reiterated that Singapore | body of her capital ships against will be available to the United either Singapore or the East In- States feet it Japan moves south-dics.