THE HONGKONG
THUNDER
OVER ETHIOPIA
LAWRENCE OF ETHIOPIA
MYSTERY BRITON
IN ABYSSINIA
FRIEND AND HERO OF TRIBESMEN
A MYSTERIOUS Eng-
lishman whose acti-] vities are reminiscent of those of Lawrence of Arabia is reported to have appeared in Abys- sinia.
Wearing native costume, he travels from province to province conferring with the tribesmen and chieftains, who regard him as a "friend and hero."
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This romantic figure, whose name is given as Cap- tain Bremley retired British Army officer, is stat- ed to be on a mission to hearten the various chiefs and unite them under the sceptre of the Emperor Haile Selassie to defend their fatherland.
He is usually accompanied on his travels by a small band of warriors.
High praise is given for the success which his efforts have achieved.
Talks With Tribal Chiefs
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1935.
PEEVED OFFICIALS
Men waving from the decks of the Vulcania os the vessel loft Meaning, Sicily, with further detachments of troops to awell the ever-growing ranks of the army that Signor Mussolini is masting in Italy's East African possessions bordering on Abyssinia.
Royal Artillery Officer Two Million
In Ten-Minute Drama
SENTENCED TO PENAL SERVITUDE
LIEUT-COLONEL
DENIS DALY, D.S.O. M.C.. officer commanding the 18th Field! The existence of this Brigade, Royal Artillery, stationed at Brighton, walked briskly between two brother officers into the court-room of Woolwich barracks a fort- night ago.
"Lawrence of Ethiopia" was re- vealed by "an eminent person-i age" who has just returned from Abyssinin.
In an interview at Marseilles with a correspondent of the Liberte, the personage declared:
"During June I
in
Ethiopia going from province toj province a man of the white race j
Ten minutes later he emerged plain Denis Daly, facing a sentence of penal servitude.
What It Means
In those ten minutes his dis
hac been wearing a native costume, and tinguished service escorted by several warriors, wiped from the Army records. "He stopped at the homes of His medals had been taken away. chiefs of tribes and governing He no longer had the right to Princes of the provinces and wear the King's uniform. held mysterious conferences. "Afterwards he would go on farther king the tour of the vast em Later he would return and received with great. pomp by the chiefs and princes before specially convenel meet- ings in the villages.
"In front of this mystery
was
RIIGI
He
to sentenced
be cashiered and to go to penal ser-
for
for vitude
Reven offences against men employ, Two years of the sen- İ tence were remitted.
in his
The court-martial, which last-
emissary all swore to defend the fed three days, ended on July 24, soil of their fatherland and, if
The colonel was found guilty
necessary, to die for the country on ten charges and not guilty of
and the Emperor.
This man two,
had grent Influence aver the
Abyssinians.
Speaks Local Dialects
"For nearly 20 years Captain
Bremley has lived
on
Colonel Daly was a distinctive !figure in the court.
He was the only man not wear- frontiers of the Egyptian Sudan ing a Sam Browne belt and a
the!
sword.
and Ethiopia. Better than any other he knows the life and! mysteries of the desert.
"He speaks. all the local dialects used by the natives, who know and like him well.
"From the first moment of the Italian-Abyssiniun dispute Cap tain Bremley dressed himself in
When an officer is cashier. ed, he not only loses his com mission, but is disqualified from serving the State in any capacity.
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The use of the word in the the Service is confined to dismissal of a commissioned officer for "behaving in scandalous manner, unbecom- ing an officer and a gentle. man."
It is derived from a Latin word meaning to dash or break to pieces.
3:20 10 188 ENDLESS RELATERALANCONGRESIKKONEČESANSESLERATOARE
Daly in fifty-two years old. He has served in the Army for more than thirty years.
He was posted to the Royal
Black Cats
A Little Grub With A Big Name
ENJOYS HONGKONG'S SUCCULENT PINE TREE FORESTS
DENDROLIMUS
Punctatus.
It's the name of pillar.
a cater-
Last year over half a.mil- lion of these cute little pests, which nibble at pine trees. and other succulent seed- lings planted so carefully by the Botanical and Forestry Department, were captured and destroyed in Hongkong by wrathful departmental officials.
Dendrolimus punctatus is Latin or something for the Pine Tree Caterpillar. The word ik caterpillar, by the way, derived from Chatte Peleuse, two Old French words meaning "hairy cat"!
According to the Annual Re- port of the Superintendent of the Botanical and Forestry De- 1. Green, Den- partment. Mr.
For New York dromus Punctatus appeared in
FOR PEDESTRIANS WHO WON'T BE CAREFUL
New York, Aug. 20. The metropolis will use 2,000,000 black cats during the next few weeks to cau- tion pedestrians that only bad fuck awaits the jay-
walker.
many of the Colony's jealously guarded plantations late in 1934, being most
the numerous in Fanling and Kowloon planta- itions.
Four Tons Of Grubs From June, when the De-
ita partment commenced
wat
on the invaders, until the end of the year, over four tons of the pests were captured and des troyed.
П
Caterpillars are larva of the or scale-winged Lepidoptera insects, including butterflies and moths. The head of a cater. These omens of ill ate pictured pillar is hard, being protected on stickers to be widely distri-with an armour of chitin, and buted throughout the city. The with six pairs of eyes. labels portray black eats perched The mouth, to which officials on back fences, silhouetted by ajof the Botanical and Forestry rising moon and voicing this Department chiefly object, is armed with powerful jaws, and warning:
during the whole time it is
otherwise during caterpillar the larvae stage before it be comes a moth the grub occupies itself eating and storing up a Statistics for the first half of reserve of nourishment for the
15.000 19385 show that
persons Buceceding stage, when no food have been killed and 380,000 in-is taken,
Den- Car accidents.
respectful jured in motor
Ask any drolimus Punctatus what food This figure is two per cent, less than in the same period last year. The decrease in fatalities in New: York City is attributed to an in- tensive safety campaign of the police department. aided by civic (organisations.
"Watch your step as I watch Imine-You have one life, I have
nine."
Toll Reduced Slightly
1
it profers, and it will tell you. between mouthfuls, that there's nothing like the leaves of the Pine Trees planted by the Forestry Depart- Hongkong ment.
supplemented by 2,000,000 book ARE YOU
of safety matches.
The "black cat" labels will be
Even if the superstitious avoid having a rail- They were taken from him at
lion or two black ents figuratively the beginning of the general Artillery in 1902, promoted lieu-cross their paths, it is argued that court-martial. Had he been ac-tenant in 1905, and captain soon at least one is certain to appear quitted, his sword would have after the outbreak of the war. Been handed back. Now he will again.
never wear
Three years later he was pro- moted to the rank of major.
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Soon after the sentence had;
native garb, crossed the frontier, been promulgated the convicted and went directly to Addis Iman changed into civilian Ababa, where he began to carry clothes. out his difficult mission.
Handed Over
when a elgarette is lighted,
CERTAIN?
Below are published a dozen questions. You should be able to A run is expected on Harlem's answer at least half of them. If correct answers for supply of "left rabbit's feet, cured you give
to during the perigee moon," nino, consider yourself at the top Colonel Daly served with disserve as antidotes for the black of the class. The answers are
on Page 12. tinction in France and Flanders, ents during the campaign. He was awarded the M.C. and
The warning stickers will be mentioned in despatches.
distributed by the city motor veh-
In 1919, when he was a major¦iele bureau, the police department
"The Government decided:
He said good-bye to the officer in the Royal Garrison Artillery, and owners of large fleets of Caution no- thal, impossible though it seem-¦
tives, signed by Police Commis-) ed, the uniting of the country of equal ránk who, according to attached to the 17th Brigade, trucks and taxicabs,
sioner Lewis J. Valentine. have to be military law, must guard him Royal Field Artillery, he achieved. Captain Bromley has until the sentence has been pro- awarded the D.5.0. for his war been displayed prominently re- performed his task perfectly."
cently throughout the city's vast transportation system.
was
the great
task
The paper adds that it takes no responsibility for its formant's statements.
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mulgated.
Then he was handed over to
services.
was
in-warders from a civilian prison. Youth May Drown
I where he will serve his sentence.
CHINESE ART TREASURE
HANDEW WITH FARK
How the bores of Chinose Art Treasures wore landed in London from H.M.S, Suffolk, which carried them from the Far East.
In Hospital Bed
A powerfully built, young barberi
1.What Apostle killed him-
self.
2. The American Statue of Liberty holds In her left hand a:
torch
driver's licețer
-
in
copy of Marx's "Das Kapital" book represent- ing the law. 3.-The New Territories Hongkong are owned by Japan Kwangtung -Where was the first Prince of One of the appeals is directed Wales born? to persons past 10, warning them)
If You're Over 40
Britain China
6.What father and sol
were
to be more cautious because both Prime Ministers of England? their reactions are not as swift
as those of younger persons. Kansas City, Aug, 20.
These public notices aroused
mildly sarcastic
remarks
is apparently winning a fight for life! against an ailment which turns itsume victim's blood to water and drowns from persons just turning the two
in by flooding his lungs.
score mark.
General Hospital physicinas re.
ported that the patient, Fred Green. The police department has 22, had gained so much strength since sued eight "Don'ts". They are:
ia-
6.The word "sagn" is used correctly in one of these sentences: He gave her a saga on the jaw. The drought hus ruined the sapo crop
4
Rapily they listened to the old Norso saga
One look told him the aage was broken
7.--The frat round-the-world
his admittance in the Hospital. that 1. Drive carefully for your safe-fight was made by:
been) have
oxygen administrations stopped.
Smith
Kingsford ty and the lives and safety of So much of the 250-pound young others. man's lungs was covered with water
Rive that physteins had to
2. Slow down at street crossings.
him 3. Obey traffe signal lights..
4. Give the vehicle on your left
oxygen to prevent him fruni being i asphyxiated. Although Green in breathing at twice the normal rate of the right of way. speed, without medical attention his lung would be filled with water, in cross.
5. Give pedestrians the right to
a short time and he would be drowned.; 6. Immediately pull car to right | Muasolini
at-curb at sound of siron or bell, to Physicians repeatedly tap the cumulation of fluid on his lungs and give the right of way to ambu-Henry
drain it away.
The ailment, known as Pulmonary lances, police Edema, was in an acute state when apparatus. Green collapsed and was brought to
Post and Gatty
Wiley Post General C.W.A. U. S.
Balbo
Scott Army
8. What is the nearest foreign capital city to Hongkong..
9.-One of these persons is un- married:
Ramsay Helen MacDonald Willa Hitler Amelia Einstein Barhart
a famous horse Minister for League of Nations
noted Nazi- 11. What were the highest and lowest temperatures ever recorded in Hongkong?
cars and
fro Ford
10.-Anthony Eden is: 7. Saving lives and protecting Dickens
the hospital. He has been too weak your property in their job. Help character to talk, but physicians learned that them to help you.
be suffered a severe pneumonia al- 8. If you see a crime committed Lord Privy Seal
telephono need assistance, tack neveral months ago and they or believe the Edema resulted from that: Police Headquarters at once.
The allment usually exacts a high
Special emphasis is placed on percentage of fatalities and physicians
Green's the safety of children in the refused to prognosticate
Icampaign. chances of recovery.-United Press.
12.-Where is the only Pitts- burgh in the United States?.
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