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ABYSSINIA A VAST ARMED CAMP
COUNTRY TALKS AND DREAMS WAR
By VIVIAN MEIK
BYSSINTA to-day is a vast armed camp. Superficially it does
not appear so very different from what it was, say, twenty years ago, but a closer inspection reveals the fact that, for instance, the rifles in the hands of the tribesmen are of the most modern and efficient type, and that everywhere, at all hours there are gathered together larger groups of people than usual, a tense look on every face, discussing tanks and aeroplanes, ambuscades and strategy.
Abyssinia believes that war is hovering over the country. The date of the outbreak is regarded as a surety.
can bring almost a The end of the rainy season, they we say, the latter part of September-trained men." perhaps the first week in October-
not later...
million
"But the Italian air squadrons?" "Discounted," was the surprising Two days ago, while on his way reply. "What have they to bomb? home through London, I met an old Addis Ababa? Apart from the Ethiopian friend of mine-a noble-fact of our own machines and anti- man in his own country. He had aircraft defences there, admitted out. They been on a visit to the continent-they wiped the town the Skoda arms factory, to put it blow up a few empty houses, that's nli. Abyssinia is a vast country- bluntly.
Campbell, in California'a Santa Clara Valley, kas started a new departure in fire fighting, with a unit whose members all ride bicycles. The firemen sarry their apparatus that way, too, and say they can make bettar time cutting across country than by sticking to roads. Here they go, in fire fighting
Germany's
Wo discussed the state of affairs. sido, not a conglomeration of cities. Newest
He laughed cynically. "All this Wo can-ait our millions-savo arbitration talk," he said, "means ourselves in our forests. Aero- exactly nothing. If it was meant planes can take a place--but they to succeed Italy would have shown can't hold it. In Abyssinia only
a different spirit--but Italy intends the land forces count."
to declare war. You know that,
"I see," I said thoughtfully, "you
Warships
and whatever they may say, every mean that you think that Italy just 26,000-TON VESSELS chancellory in Europe knows It. can't do it?"
"Exactly that. We can live on
The internal position in that coun- try is such that only a war can the country. They can't. They'll
take the minds of the people off their government.
ITALY WAS NOT READY "Italy would have made the Ual-
even have to bring up their water |supplies."
4
NOW BUILDING
SWARM OF ONE GUN CRAFT
ARMS PROBLEM "About armaments," I Interrupt- Un incident her excuse had sheed, "did you say you got them from
By A NAVAL CORRESPONDENT been ready at the time. But she Eastern Europe?"
"I said nothing of the kind," he
The first of the German 26,000- wasn't, and after that something
the greater than Italy took a hand-smiled urbanely, "all I said was
ton battleships, to replace that we had all that went with an the rainy season,
"But the rains will be over in army of three-quarters of a million Elsass, appears to have been laid down in the Government dockyard year September-and if you don't know men.' what Italy has been doing In the "But," 1 persisted, "the Arms at Wilhelmshaven about a meantime, all I can say is that you Traffle Convention?" should."
this
ago.
formation.
constructed separately in another part of the dackyard, to be united to the main hull when the ship approaches completion.
un
BUBONIC PLAGUE
SERIOUS OUTBREAK IN FUKIEN
Armour has 'absorbed an usually high proportion of the dis- placement of the Dunkerque and
Foochow, August 7. her sister, the Strasbourg, laid
Bubonic plague is raging in down last November at St. Nazaire,
Both ships will have belle nearly Lungyen District in western Fukien of scores of 9in. thick, with two protective causing the deaths decks, the upper Gin. and the people every day, according to a lower 2in. In thickness, to resist message received here from that vertical hits from shells or bombs. district.
POWERFUL CUNS
The Fukien Provincial Govern- ment has Instructed the various of eight Commissioners to send immediate- to aid the The main armament 13in, guns is mounted forward, asly a medical corps
to the in the Nelson and Rodney, but in epidemic stricken district and to
instead of Kive medical treatment turrets quadruple
people.
Meanwhile, General Chiang Ting- triple ones.
The 13in. guns themselves are of a new and exceptionally wen, Pacification Commissioner of powerful model, firing a shell of Fukien has wired to the National 1,2001b. weight. It is claimed Henith Administration In Nanking that their rate of fire will be asking for a number of doctors to be despatched to Fukien to super- Blx rounds a minute. The secondary armament com-vise the epidemle prevention work. prises sixteen 6.1-inch guns, ar--Central News Agency. ranged in three quadruple and
"Like most other talk that means Her sister ship, which is to take nothing in actual fact.... He the place of the Hanover, was
two twin turrets. There are also Patrie are available, it has been "But," 1 argued, "is all
40 smaller weapons, mostly 25 and stated officially that they will be arbitration destined to be futile? held out his hand. "When are you begun shortly afterwards at the Werke establishment,
13 millimetre anti-aircraft ploces, so designed, as regards speed and Everyone is striving for peace, coming out to Abyssinia again? Deutsche
We've been having a number of Klol.
Though designed to steam at armament, as to form a homogene Surely"
No serious mennee is precented "Everyone-except the most im-European visitors lately who like
This implies that they will portant party." He shrugged his our country so much that they're by the swarm of fast motor-boats291⁄2 knots with 100,000 shaft horse ous squadron with the Dunkerque shoulders. In my attache case are staying on indefinitely. Germans, which Germany is turning out for, power, both ships are expected to and Strasbourg.
mount 13-inch guns, while a speed of the Anti-Submarine develop 120,000 horse power and
exceed 80 knots on trials. cuttings reporting the inspired at-Swedes and quite a few English-the use
Though few details of the 35-[of 30 knota with 150,000 sh.p:"is titude of the Italian press. Some men and Americans-all, by some School at Kiel. They are armed
000-ton capital ships France and predicted. of it has been given wide publicity strange coincidence, with great war with a single in your own country-you know records behind them." what is being said and the lies they are telling there about Road them in conjunction with the 'dispatch of division after division of Italian troops. They say it is only to defend Italian Somaliland."
England
He laughed again. "Defend it against what? Mosquitoes? What other danger is there in Eritrea? No, my friend-we know what is coming and when..
"Is that why you're boon Czecho-Slovakia?"
to
RUSSIA'S
SUPER. AIRCRAFT
REPLACING LOST MAXIM GORKY
Moscow.
"There, and to other places. My country has been an empire since the days of Solomon-before Rome was bullt-and it will not be our Russia is to start building at fault if it is not still intact after once a fleet of 10 super air-liners, Rome or any other capital-has the largest in the world, of the crumbled away. -
same type as the ill-fated Maxim
"I know It sounds extravagant, Gorky, which crashed with the loss but that's just simple Abyssinian of 67 lives in May. history, and we love our country.
The Kremlin has announced that
To offer just one proof-only forty funds for their construction already years ago we rolled up the might voluntarily subscribed by workers
of Italy and threw it into the sea."all over the country, total over 68
BRAVEST.OF THE BRAVE
"Things
have changed
then," I reminded him,
"I know. Your own West driven that fhet home to us.
do you think of our people?"
million roubles.
The planes will be named after sinco popular Soviet leaders, among them Lenin, Stalin, Voroshilov, Gorky hasand Kalinin,
What For ordinary transport they will
carry a crew of 23 and
40 pas- That was a question I could sengers, travelling at 150 miles an and at once. hour for 1,240 miles without refuel- answer honestly "Wild-but the bravest of
the ling
Steeping apartments will be pro- brave," I said.
Thank you. Yes, that is true.vided for all aboard. Power is from eight motora But we who lead them in this developed twentieth century of yours have developing 750 h.p. cach. The learnt from you that that is not planes will carry printing works enough. So we married courage to and loud speakers capable of being modern science and discipline. We heard half a mile away for pro- know there's going to be a war by Paganda purposes. October, and we have to be ready
#1
In addition there will' be
wireless first cinema,
telephono "ex-
to savo our country. The thing we did was to discipline our change, photographic printing de- tribesmen, and to-day we have a partment and restaurant on oach
first line army of over 750,000 men of the liners."
trained by some of the best Euro- pean generals in the art of modern warfare-as required in Abyssinia.”
I opened my eyes.
FIRE ON CRUISER
HEAVY DAMAGE TO NEW U. S WARSHIP
Quincy, Mass., Aug. 7.
"Aren't you doing the same, in a slightly different way?" he asked quietly. "We have, too, all that is required for an army of this size. We do not want to fight Italy or anyone else, but there you are. A big fire broke out, to-day
A Self-preservation and if the engine room of the recently Italy is prepared to force the lasue launched cruiser Quincy, which is
well, it's for her to decide, lana still in the shipyard, ":"Im't that rather a bold state ment?"
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one-pounder gun and two 18-inch torpedo tubes."
NEW FRENCH CRUISER The now French battle-crulsor Dunkerque, of 20,600 tons, is being built at Brest in a dry dock, from which she will be floated out on September 15 if present arrange- ments hold good.
Owing to her length, 702 feet over all, exceeding that of the dock in which she is being built, the bow section of the Dunkerque is being
Here's a view of fighting-top of Berlin's new "television` car” which goss about Germany on news assigns menta.
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