THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,
OCTOBER 29,
1935.
HISTORY'S CYCLE
Anniversary
ENGLAND'S INTEREST -IN ETHIOPIA
Of Battle
Of Jena
ANALOGIES OF PAST
AND PRESENT
Washington, Oct. 20.
THE ever-recurring cycle of
history suggests new analo.. gies of past and present on thre anniversary of the Battle of Jena, fought 129 years ago to- day, on October 20, 1806, by armies of the French Empire against the kingdom of Prussia. Military jewel in Napoleon's crown, the Battle of Jena is re- membered by statesmen s 4 remarkable instance of the sud- den humiliation of a great coun- try, to be followed by an expan- sion of the national spirit. Jena, which dissipated the myth of, Prussian power inherited from Frederick the Great, was the thorn in the flesh that moved Prussia to a new greatness, and i finally-military vindication in
1870.
To-day, students of history look bnek to the battle of Adowa in Ethiopia in 1896 as a conflict in alt military respects disssimilar to Jenn, but remindful historically in
The
sense that the untimely and unexpected defeat of the Italians struck at the nation's pride in a manner that gradually stirred #') new national spirit, and perhaps)
Italo- the germs of the Ethiopian crisis in 1936,
bred
Behind all the shadow play of polities and diplomacy, studenta i have scen in Italy's attitude the driving power of a national purpose, having as its irredure- able aim the avenging of the un- happy battle at Adowa In 1896.
motive, recent events would have! been inexplicable,
ریفانه
HUB OF EMPIRE
This is the great Sennar dum, built in Egypt to back up and control the waters of the blue Nile. England's Interest in the Italo-Ethiopian dispute may well lie in the fact that the source of the blue Nile reposes in Lake Tanna in the heart of Ethiopia's mountain region. Control of Lake Tana means control of the Nile. This dum was completed in 1925 at Sennar, in the Anglo- Egyptian Soudan, which is not far from Khartoum, the junction of the bine and the white Nile.
Bride In Beret Completes
10,000 Mile Air Honeymoon
POWDERED HER NOSE IN WYNDHAM Southampton, Oct. 15.
200 Years
At "No. 10”
Downing Street
FIRST BATHROOM
25 YEARS AGO
One of the most celebrated houses in London-Number Ten,
com-
| Downing-street this month
pleted two centuries of use as an otlleinf residence.
This home of the English Prime Ministers, the modest exterior of which never fails to surprise the 1oreign visitor, had Sir Robert Walpole as its first occupant.
About the year 1699 Downing- street-named after Sir George Downing, a former Secretary to the Treasury--was described as "a protty open place, especially at the upper end, where are four or live very large and well-built houses, fit for persons of honour Fand quality; éach house having a picasant prospect into St. James's Park, with a Tarras walk."
"Number Ten," as known to- day, was qurt of the forfeited property of Lee, Lord Lichfield, who retired with James the Second, to whom he was Master of the Horse. The house thus belonged to the Crown; King
[George the First gave it to Baron Bothmar, the Hanoverian Minister,
COMMANDS. BRITISH
FLEET
AVIATION
Biggest responsibility entrusted to military or naval lewders since the world war rests upon shoul- ders of British commanders now. Sir Roger Backhouse, shown ABOVE, commands powerful British home fleet now gatherling in the Mediterranean Sea."
for life; and, on the Baren's death. Slum Child's
George the Second offered house to Sir Rubert Walpole.
Sir Robert Walpole
the
it WHLM
Sir Robert, for whom rebuilt, necepted it only for his office of First Lord of the Treasury, "to which post he got it annexed for ever!"
According to it note in The | London Daily Post of Tuesday. September 23, 1785; "Yesterday, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Walpole, [with his lady and family removed from his house in St. James's. square, to his new house adjoining to the Treasury in St. James's Park,"
During the last two centuries
fifty-five
Without crediting such historical A YOUNG and pretty woman, a blue heret
perched on a mop of dark hair, a blue coat"Number Ten" has passed through concealing her smart autumn frock, a pair of neat ftency. Sir
different periods of suede shoes on her feet, climbed into the cockpit might still recognise his house. In of an aeroplane here early this morning.
Militarily, the French campaign before and after Jena. culminat Ing in the pecupation of Berlin] and the complete temporary con quest of Prussin, has conie down as a classic example of the tre- mendous importance of mobility.
Prussians Flanked
Napoleon's armies arrived onj the Prussian flank with incredible speed and after the Prussians and Saxons were defeated at Jena, andi on the same day at Auerstadt, the French march ta Berlin was ac-j complished at
rale unprece-] dented since the ancient days! when the armies of Caesar struck terror to Gaul. In the long cam- paigns, and in the shorter marches! on the battlefield, the Freneli were continually faster than their op- ponents. At Aserstadt, Davouťa Troops marching in single column! deployed into the battle-line fuster) than the forces of the Duke of Brunswick which had arrived at the scene of battle in two columns,į
To-day, military strategists still dream of a Napoleonle mobility insi warfare, which will force the quick declaton before armies have time to "dig in" against artillery fire, and to avoid the paralysis produced in the last war by the superiority of the machine-gun over human valour. "Motorised cavalry," neroplanes, big KUDIR mounted on pneumatic tyres for fast movement, all have as their aim the possibility of a speedy movemcht around the enemy's flank such as Napoleon had accom- plished prior to the historic clash at Jenn.
For modern military students the battle of Jona also has inter-1 est because of the tremendous superiority of the French Intelli- Konce service. The Prussian armies, reluctant to resort
!
wholesale espionage, were so poor ly informed that they could not concentrate their superior forces, and even thought that the French at Auerstadt, half their number, were in fact even or greater.
The minin events of the Battle of Jenn have been frequently re- counted. Napoleon massed his
army on a narrow plateau near the town of Jena. On. his left was Marshal Augorau, ånd on the right Marshal Soult. Closely massed, they escaped the Prussian artil- lery fire the next morning because
DEMOLISHED
The engine roared, the air-' plane moved off, left the ground, and made for a bank of menacing black clouds in the distance.
Mrs. N. Berry Littlejohn, bride of
two months, was bound for Sydney, across the Australian continent on the last leg of her 10,000 mile honey- moon flight with her husband. On a petrol tank behind her was a suitcase crammed with personal | helongings. In 21 large leather holster above it was a revolver in euse of emergencies,
On her knees, eoncealed beneath a pile of maps--for Mrs. Little- john was the navigator on this trip, was a bundbag containing neces- silies, powder puff, mirror. lip. stick,
Robert Walpole
Įspite of the inevitable alterations,
10, DOWNING STREET
Smile Brings Her £30,000
IT LIVED IN A MAN'S
MEMORY
New York, Oct. 15. THIS is the story of a smile
that was worth £30,000.
One afternoon 20 years ago Hannah Gruber, a fair-haired
| little girl of 11 from New York's poverty stricken East Side. danced at Chrystie Street Settle- ment House,
T
Among her audience was Dr. Howard Louraine, A
bachelor philanthropist, who was one the sponsors of the Settlement.
colou founded to bring
and warmth into one of this city's dingiest neighbourhoods.
Childhood Charm
As the dainty and Tisson little daughter of poverty danced, she' gave Louraine a smile which seem- ed to him to be the crance of childhood's charm and Innocence.
Doctor and child never saw each other again, but to-day Hannah Gruber, now Mrs. Medoff, of Brooklyn, with an eight-year-old little girl of her own, learned that this smile had lived in Louraine's heart until he died.
Summoned to a lawyer's office, she was astonished to learn that Louraine had left her £30,000 in his will because she once had smiled at him.
It surprises the foreign visitor to London.
the
"Not So Good" Before they left Mr. Littlejohn Trocadero, the famous building received intest weather reports The present Prime Minister's bed- near the Eifel Tower in Paris, which from the Meteorological Director in roun is the chamber in which Lady has been demolished in order to make room for the international Perth.
exhibition in 1937.
If Your
Wife Is
Pretty
Paris, Oct. 15.
M. Frances de Croisset, the author and playwright, gave this) advice to husbands in a lecture to the American Club here,
If your wife is pretty tell her she Is intelligent.
If she is plain tell her she is) pretty,
Walpole died in 1738, and Sir Robert's parlour is now known as While Mr. Littlejohur was making "Secretary's Room B." last-minute preparations, Mrs. Littlejohn chatted with newspaper in repairs-an
The house has cost a great deal reporters.
which expense William Pitt, who lived at "Num- "No, I was not at all
ber Ten" for seventeen
years, about the light." she said. "Buttions."
attributed to the "bad founda- it was rather a wrench leaving all my friends In England.
nervous
WOM
A Year's Search
Shortly after that one meeting doctor left New. York for Chicago, where he amassed I fortune of £400,000. Being a money to those who had given him bachelor without relatives, he left
happiness. Among them was this sunny-haired child who hadn't even known what joy she had brought to the middle-aged doctor.
Mrs.
So to-day the child of poverty became a woman of means. Medoff, overwhelmed by her wind- fall, said, "The lawyers hunted me for nearly a year. We had moved away from East Side, ;
inc,
'Aro
you Hannah Grubar, who used to dance as a child at Chrystie Street Settle- ment? It was so long ago I had to think hard. Then they naked me if I remembered Lourainó and I couldn't. They said, "Well, he's made you one of his heirs.'
Big Butcher's Bill Incidentally, it
"They asked during "Australia seemed a long way Pitt's tenancy. In 1780, that when we left Croydon à fortnight Robert Smith wrote to Wilber- for a holiday in two years' time." Can it be possible that 3,000lb. of. ago, but I hope to be more again force:
The butcher's bill only is £96. The revolver was slung round meat could be dressed in 28 days? her shoulders as sho waited for the poulterer's, fishmonger's, and, the final word from her hus-indeed, all the billa exceed any- band.
thing I could have imagined. The meat is sent in great quantities, without particulars being tioned. On a Saturday there
Great Adventures
men-
Эн
Women look on love na a grave" hvo
"I think," she remarked, casually, generally three or four hundred- matter; but they like their husbands
vague idea how to press weight." to be gay.
Women are irritated by jealous inen, but the man who is not jealous) exasperates them,
the trigger.
I am quite sure I After Earl Grey's resignation in should never hit anything, though." 1834, Prime Ministers did not une
the She laughed. Mrs. Littlejohn though it was still
house--al- Downing-street
an official Women abhor mere friendship in true. When they mot bad weatherrnell took possession, moving from regards the flight as a great adven- residence--until 1877. Then Dis- marriage. The temperatur la tou It merely added to the excitement.
They hope to reach Sydney in time the Prime Minister has al-
Sinco Whitehall-gardens. To wives M. de Croisset another two days,
ways been found at "Number
low.
of fog, Prussian forces attacked said:-- repeatedly in insufficient force. By
1
2 o'clock Napoleon launched his "Learn to make good coffee. monoplane with a 120 horsepower
guards and cavalry and completed Poor coffee has caused
his victory....
divorces."-Router. -...
that
Their machine is a cabin-type Ten.".
One occupant described it an made the most uncomfortable June In at London," and until ́a quarter' of qantury ago I had no bath-room,
engine. The flight was
many
in stages, and there was no tempt at record-breaking:
Marked Photograph
"I thought it was all a mistake, but they showed me a photograph taken at the Settlement and ho had placed a cross over me to show I was the child to whom he wanted, to leave the money.
"Then I remembered a bit, Jo was an old man who had been good to me..
"After the Battlement show in which I danced, ho nekod mo not to join the stugo."
The Modal family, who are in humblo elreumalapest, will leave Brooklyn to live in Park Avenue, New York'a, most Pushkunlik stival,
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