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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- gics of past and present on the 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 as 4 remarkable instance of the sud- don humiliation of a great coun- try, to be followed by an expun- 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 finally-military vindication in
1870,
To-day, students of history look back to the battle of Adown in Ethiopia in 1896 as a conflict full- military respects disssimilar to Jenn, but remindful historically in The sense that the untimely and unexpected defent of the Italiana struck at the nation's pride in n manner that gradually stirred a new national spirit, and perhaps | bred the germs of the Italo- Ethiopian crisis In 1935.
Behind all the shadow play of politing and diplomacy, students have
in Italy's attitude 1001 the driving power of a national; purpose, having ns its irreduce- able aim the avenging of the un- happy battle at Adown in 1896.
OCTOBER 29, 1935.
HUB OF EMPIRE
This Is the great Sennar dam, 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 Tsana in the heart of Ethiopia's mountain region. Control of Lake Tsano means control of the Nite. This dam was completed in 1926 at Sennar, in the Anglo- Egyptian Soudan, which is not far from Khartoum, the junction of the blue and the white Nile.
Bride In Beret Completes
10,000 Mile Air Honeymoon
POWDERED HER NOSE IN WYNDHAM Wyndham, W. A. Oct. 26. Without crediting such historical A YOUNG and pretty woman, a blue beret perched on a mop of dark hair, a blue coat concealing her smart autumn frock, a pair of neat suede shoes on her feet, climbed into the cockpit of an aeroplane here early this morning.
motive, recent events would have been inexplicable,
Militarily, the French campaign before and after Jena, culminat- Ing in the necupation of Berlin! and the complete temporary con- quest of Prussin, has come down as a classic example of the tre mendous importance of mobility,
Prussians Flanked
Napoleon's armies arrived on the Prussian flank with incredible speed and after the Prussians and Saxons were defeated at Jenn, and on the same day at Auerstadt, 'the French march to Berlin was ne- complished at rate
.
unprecee- 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 French were continually faster than their op- ponents. At Aueratadt, Davout's troops marching in single column deployed into the battle-line faster 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 Napoleonic mobility in warfare, which will force the quick decision 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
DEMOLISHED
make room machine-gun
over human valour. "Motorised Cavalry," neroplanes, big guns! mounted on pneumatic tyres for fast movement, all have as their alm the possibility of a speedy movement around the enemy's flank such as Napoleon had accom- plished prior to the historic clnah at Jena.
The engine roared, the air- plane moved off, left the Tround, and made for a bank of menneing 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 crainmed with personal belongings. In a large leather holster above it was a revolver in case of emergencies.
Ou her knees, concealed beneath aple of maps-for Mrs. Little- john was the navigator on this trip] --was a handbag containing neces- sities, powder puff, mirror. lip- stick.
200 Years
At "No. 10"”.
Downing Street
1
FIRST BATHROOM
25 YEARS AGO
One, of the most celebrated houses in London-Number Ten, Downing-street this month
com-
pleted two centuries of use as an official residence.
1
This home of the English Prime Ministers, the modest exterior of which never fails to surprise the foreign visitor, had Sir Robert Walpole as its first occupant.
About the year 1698 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 ave very large and well-built houses, fit for persons of honour and quality; each house having a pleasant prospect into St. James's Park, with a Tarras walk."
"Number Ten," as known to- day, was part of the forfeited properly of Lee, Lord Lichfield. who retired with James the Second, to whom he was Master of the Horse. The house thus helonged to the Crown; King George the First gave it to Baron. Bothmar, the Hanoverian Minister,
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Biggest responsibility entrusted to military or naval lenders sinen the world war resta upon aboul- ders of British commanders now. Sir Roger Backhouse, shown ABOVE, commands powerful British home fleet now gathering in the Mediterranean Sea.
for life; and, on the Baron's death, Slum Child's
George the Second offered the house to Sir Robert Walpole,
Sir Robert Walpole
Sir Robert, for whom it Was rebuilt, accepted it only for his office of First Loril of the Treasury, "to which post he got it annexed for ever."
According to 22 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
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 "Number Ton" has passed through
poverty - stricken East Side, tenancy Sir Bfty-five different periods of
danced at Chrystic Street Settle- Robert Walpolement House. might still recognise his house, in
spite of the inevitable alterations.
10, DOWNING STREET - It surprises the foreign visitor tu London
She Was Not Nervous Before they left Mr. Littlejohn received Intest
weather reports The present Prime Minister's bed- Trocadero, the famous building from the Meteorological Director in room is the chamber in which Lady near the Eifel Tower in Parit, which Perth.
Walpole died in 1798, and Sir has been demolished in order to
Robert's parlour is now known as for the International
While Mr. Littlejohn was making "Secretary's Room B.".. exhibition in 1937.
lust-minule
preparations, Mrs.
The house has cost a great deal Littlejohn chatted with newspaper jin repairs-an expense which reporters.
William Pitt, who Hved at "Num- ber Ten" for seventeen years, "No, I was not at all nervous attributed to the "bad founda- | about the flight," she said. "Buttions."
It was rather a wrench leaving all
Big Butcher's Bill. my friends in England..
Incidentally, It was during "Australia seemed a
Pitt's tenancy, In 1786, that long Way Robert Smith wrote to Wilber- when we left Croydon a fortnight force: ago, but I hope to be more again
If Your
Wife Is
Pretty
Paris, Oct. 15.
For modern military students the battle of Jenn also has inter- est because. of the tremendous superiority of the French intelli- gence service. The Prussiau M. Frances do Croisset, the armies, reluctant to resort to author, and playwright, gave this wholesale espionage, were so poor- advice to husbands in a lecture ly informed that they could not to the American Club here. concentrate their superior forces, and even thought that the French at Aborstadt, half their number, were in fact oven or greater.
The main events of the Battle of Jona have been frequently re- counted. Napoleon massed his) army on a narrow plateau near the town of Jena. On his left was Marshal Augerau, and on the right Marshal Soolt. Closely masked, they escaped the Prussian, artil- Tery fire the next morning because; of fog. Prussian forces attacked repeatedly in insufficient force. By. 2 o'clock Napoleon launched his guards and cavalry and completed] hia victory.
If your wife is pretty tell her she in intelligent.
for a holiday in two years' time." Can it bo possible that 3,0001b. of "The butcher's bill only is £96.
The revolver was slung round her shoulders as she waited for the final word from her hus- band.
i
Great Adventure
moat could be dressed in 28 days? The poulterer's, fishmonger's, and, indeed, all the bills exceed any thing I could have imagined. The ment is sent in great quantities, fwithout particulars being Įtioned. On a Saturday there is
mon-
Dr. Among her audience was Howard Louraine, ik bachelor philanthropist, who was one of the sponsors of the Settlement, founded to bring colour and warmth into one of this city's dinglest neighbourhoods.
Childhood Charm -Aa-tho-dainty-and-lesome-little- daughter. of poverty danced, she gave Louraine a smile which seem- ed to him to be the essence of childhood's charm and innocence.
Doctor and child never saw each other again, but to-day Hannah Gruber, που 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 bad Smiled at him.
A Year's Search
Shortly after that one meeting the doctor left Now York for Chicago, where he amassed a fortune of £400,000. Being A bachelor without relatives, he left { money to those who had given him happiness. Among them was this sunny-haired child who hadn't even known what joy she had brought to the middle-nged doctor.
So to-day the child of poverty. became a woman of means. Mrs. Medoft, overwhelmed by her wind- fall, said, "The lawyers hunted mo 'for nearly a year. We had moved away from East Side,
you
"They naked me, 'Aro 11annah Gruber, who used to dance as a child at Chrystie Street Settle- ment?' It was so long ago I had to think hard. Then they asked me If I remembered Louraine and
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I couldn't. They said, 'Well, he's IN
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"I thought it was all a mistake, but they showed me a photograph taken at the Settlement and he had
was the child to whom he wanted to leave the money.
"Then I remembered a bit. Ho
to me. was an old man who had been good-
If she is plain tell her she is
"I think," she remarked, casually, generally three or four hundred-placed a cross over mo to show I pretty.
Women look un love as a gravo the trigger.
"I have a vague idea how to press weight.” matter; but they like their husbands should never hit anything, though." 1834, Prime Ministers did not use I am quite sure I After Earl Grey's resignation in to be guy.
Women are irritated by Jealous]
houso-al- the Downing-street She laughed. Mrs. Littlejohn men, but the man who is not jealous regards the flight as a great adven residence-until 1877. Then DIB- though it was still an ocial exasperates them.
true. When they met bad weather Women abhor muro friendship in it merely added to the excitement. eli took possession, moving from marriage. The temperature is too They hope to reach Sydney in time the Prime Minister has al- Whitehall-gardens. Since that To wives M. de Croisset another two days.
ways been found at "Number said:-
Their machine is a cabin-type Ton". "Learn to make good coffee, engine.
monoplane with n 120 horse-power One occupant described It as Poor coffee has caused many in stages, and there was
The flight was made tho, most uncomfortable house in no at-London," and until a quarter of divorces."-Router....
tempt at record-breaking.
in contury ago it had no bath-room.streat.
low,
"After the settlemont show in which I danead, he asked me not. to join the stage."
The Medoff family, who aro in humble circumstances, will leave Brooklyn to live in Park Avenue,
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