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London, April 13. Mr. Tay Garnett, American race- horse owner and Hollywood 'pro- ducer, la at present taking pictures In Singapore to provide background for his two projected films, "Sings- pore Bound" and "Trade Winds"
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A statement on the situation in Abyssinia was made by the Foreign Secretary in reply to a private no tice question in the House of Com- mions this afternoon, Mr. Eden
By the process of superimposition said: "On
evening of Friday Victor McLaglen, Franchot Tone, May 1s, the Emperor of Ethiopia and William Powell will be shown sent his secretary to inform Bir betting on the Singapore Tote and Sidney Barton that he had renoun- | mixing with the heterogeneous enquiries tar enough to elucidate ced the direction of affairs which groups af Europeans, Chinese, the matter thoroughly, but the he had confided to his Council of Malays, Indians, Arabs, Persiana evidence he had collected was of character as to ind'cate intended Japanese, Armenians, Siamese and such a to leave for Jibuti with his family Eurasians who help to make racing that a leakage might have taken immediately. In communicating the most nourishing industry in place. "As 1, have already stated. the Government are anxious tha! this me age the Emperor made it || Malaya. clear that his wish was to proceed Hitherto most nims with a Sin- with his family to Palestine. His gapore thème have been banned Majesty's Government felt it in-locally because they offend against cumbent upon them to grant this racial susceptibilities. request and so far as lay in their power to facilitate the passage of
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JANE AUSTEN MANUSCRIPTS The new Jane Austen manu-
the party to Jerusalem. They scripts lent to the British Museum therefore placed themselves in are an addition to others already communication with the French there; for instance, six letters from Government who for their part ex- pressed their readiness to give ef- fect to whatever wishes the Em- peror might express as to his fur-heroEE. ther destination. In these circum- stances His Majesty's Government
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Jane Austen to her brother, Admir- at of the Fleet Sir Francis Austen. on whom she modelled her naval
"P, & P." SOLD FOR £110 Some of the letters, too, have fetched large prices. One was sold in 1930 for £1,000 to Mr. Walter' H. of Chicago, who also bought the "Lady Susan" manuscript.
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They include part of "The Wat- sons," which is one of the very few have ordered the cruiser Enter-terary manuscripts in existence, weighing evidence with the know- prise' to proceed to Jibuti and con- Another, of "Lady Susan," belonged edge of the rules of "evidence and vey the Emperor and his party dir- to Lord Rosebery's ubrary, and was ect to Haifa. The Emperor who has sold for £2100 in 1933. Lord Rose- renounced the Direction of Affairs bery paid £90 for it. will naturally be expected, while in Palestine, not to participate in any way the furtherance of hostilities!" SITUATION IN ADDIS ABABA The Foreign Secretary then turned to the situation in Addis Ababa itself regarding which he sald His Majesty's Government has reported that grave disorder broke out shortly after the Emperor's departure which has, 7 understand. continued ever since. There bas "P. and F. is sold. Egerton gives been extensive looting and arms £110 for it. I would rather havė have been freely used. Attacks had £150, but we could not both have been made on certain Foreign be pleased, and I am not at all Legations though not, I under- surprised that he should not choose stand, upon the British Legation to Hazard so much... The money. and on foreign property and the is to be paid at the end of the business quarter of the town is said twelvemonth."...
It was a letter to Jane Austen's friend, Martha Lloyd, and dealt with the bargain she had just made with her publisher about "Pride and Prejudice":"
Both letters and literary manu- to be largely in ruins. I regret to inform the House of the latest re- scripts are exquisitely written in a ports from His Majesty's Minister clear, precise hand very charac- Indicate that a certain number ofteristic of the writer. casualties have occurred among the LETTER FROM KIPLING'S foreign residents though so far as I am aware only one British sub- fect has been injured. This is Dr. Melly, Medical Officer in charge of the British Red Cross ambulance, who was wounded in the streets by an Ethiopian rioter. He together with the remainder of the British community and over 2,000 refugees of 23 different nationalities are at present being cared for in the Eri- tish Legation.
In September 1935 the Lega- tion guard was reinforced by a company of Indian Infantry
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FATHER Together with some Radyaramunication by messenger with the Kipling manuscripts an interesting letter will be sold in London "next moh rule in the town, the United month. It is in the hand of John States Minister who remained with Lockwood Kipling, his father, who was an artist and a pottery designer of some distinction and did illustrations for some of his son's books.
his wife and six men at his owI: ten when Legation yesterday women and children were removed
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sent a wireless message this after- acon to the Department of State In the letter he describes his
attack by meeting with the woman he was in Washington of the
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stood by the staff and the native Lake Rudyard; hence Rudyard servants. The State Department. Kipling's name...
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spoke by wireless. telephone to the for the express purpose of profec- John Lockwood Kipling spent a
American Ambassador in London ting the British community in the great part of his life in India, event of emergency." I am glad to
where he had posts at the Bombay who in turn telephoned the Foreign think the presence of these troops School of Art and the Lahore face: The Foreign Office imme-
dlately wirelessed to the has almost certainly enabled a Museum.
Legat'on the United States Minister's great many lives which might
request tor assistance. In contrast otherwise have been jeopardised or The successful completion of the to the disorder which separates lost to be saved. Members of the Hindenburg's return journey from and surrounds them, calm and British community have continual-South America after a period of discipline reigns among the belea ly at great personal risk formed anxiety owing to engine trouble, gured foreign nationals who be.. rescue parties to bring into the would have recalled the first doubled emergency defences are show- Protection of His Majesty's Lega- crossing of the Atlantic by the R 34 tlon, Europeans regardless of na-
even 17. Lord Invernairn's deathing courage and resource,
The second incident illustrates the tionality from points of danger.
Yesterday had not directed atten- I am sure the House will agree the tion to the fact that his firm built spirit in which they are meeting |
discomforts of the greatest credit is due to the staff that early airship at Inchinnan 17 dangers and
Two newspaper corres- of His Majesty's Legation who have years ago. The Hindenburg in stresituation, gone through and still are going would dwarf the R24 11 the latter pondents British and French filled through a most anxious time for still existed, but the German Zep-in the enforced leisure this mor- canning by getting married at the con- the way in which they have hand-pelin's latest achievement led a very difficult and trying sit- arouse no greater admiration than state. They spent the boneymoon uation and, above all, to Bir Bid- did the R 34's pioneer fight in 1918. driving round the British Lega- Bugs, Gramophone and Records, tion Park including the refugee Typewriters. Clocks, Pictures, Oil ney Barton whose conduct of af-
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The R 34 was a copy of the Ger- Italian aeroplane has been seen and Table Lamps, Cutlery, Porcelain ail praise.-
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The British Missionary. Buxton Silver Ware, Electrio Refrigerators, March, 1919, and. äfter extensive trials, which included a fight to was slightly wounded while engag-Ice Chests, Linen, Curtains, Blankets,
etc., ete, the Baltic, the set out on her ed in rescuing Europeans. Transatlantic adventure from the London, May. 4. The Emperor of Ethiopia and his East Lothian village of East Fur- family went on board HMS. En- tune in the early morning of July terprise this afternoon and the 3. Four and a half days later she cruiser sailed for Haifa immediate-landed at New York, having com- pleted the first flight across the Atlantic from east to west with enough petrol left, for only 100
London, May 4.
One Fine Japanese Dinner Service miles, The return journey occupied
The Prime Minister and the One G.E. Refrigerator Just over three days, and, together Foreign Secretary received a de- One Child's Teak Bed Boom Suite with the outward flight, showed
putation this afternoon from One Radio Gramophone and Pick-up what airship could accomplish on the League of Nations Union. cccasion. The flights of the Graf Both Ministers spoke and em- Zeppelin and the Hindenburg, on the other hand, are an example of phasised that the Government would have to take stock of what existing airships can be ex- the League's position in light of the apparent failure of collective pected consistently to perform.
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