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A British Correspondent Returned To Tell
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Montreal, Dec. 20. Survey flights for a North Atlantic air mail service will be made next year. An ex- perimental service will start soon afterwards, leading to the establishment of regular Transatlantic flights with a minimum of two flights each: way weekly.
This was announced to-day, when delegates to a conference on Trans- atlantic airways which ended here last night left for Washington to with United discussions
open
States oficials to-morrow "with a view to accuring the fullest measure of understanding and co-operation with the United States in the deve lopment of Transatlantle-flying." -
LONGER ROUTE
The Washington discussions re- call a tentative agreement between Imperial Airways-and. Pan Ameri- can Airways foria service between Great Britain. the Azores, Ber- muda, and New York, with British aeroplanes flying as far na-Bermuda and American machines completing the journey to New York.
This is a considerably longer route between Britain' and Canada than the "Great Circle" route be tween North Sydney, Nova Scotia,! by the and Ireland-favoured Canadians part of which flown by Sir Arthur Whitten Brown and the late Sir John Alcock when they crossed the Atlantic in 1919 and won the Daily Mail prize of £10,000.
WAS
Sir Donald Banks, Dircetor- General of the G.P.O., to-day pre- licted a service eventually enrry ing letters between Britain and Canada for three cents. (11⁄2d.) an ounce.
About Your Dog
IDEA FOR A
Mme. Edith Kristoffy, Budapest
thing now, turned to the directory
MYSTERIOUS STALEMATE:
WHY IT OCCURRED
How 60 Hungry Reporters "Captured" Makale Muddle Of Wrong Maps
FOR THE FIRST TIME THE TRUTH-THE INCREDIBLE TRUTH ABOUT THE WAR BETWEEN TALY AND ABYS- SINIA HAS BEEN TOLD.
THE MYSTERIOUS STALEMATE ON THE WAR FRONT. THE HOLD-UP OF THE ITALIAN. ADVANCE, THE SUDDEN RECALLING OF GENERAL DE BONO AND HIS SUPERSESSION BY GENERAL BADOGLIO, HAVE GIVEN RISE TO WIDE- SPREAD SPECÚLATION AS TO THE REAL FACTS ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN.
The correspondents, however, have been unable to tell the story because of the strict Italian censorship.
To break through this barrier of silence Ladislas society hostess, seeking for some-Farago, the famous London Sunday Chronicle war corres- pondent in Abyssinia, hurried home from the front to set out the true position. He described a remarkable state of affairs which include:
and invited all persons bearing the the party
same name as herself to dinner. Eighteen came, and
Was a great success,
LIFE CONVICT IS A MUSICAL GENIUS
Sydney Dr. #11
A man who is serving a lifa sentence in prison at Sydney for murder of his wife has proved to bea musical genius.
After weeks of study in his cell, Alister Jenner Clarke has pussed u first grade gramination of the number of points for Treart Australia. He gained 90 unt of a possible 100,
He is ณ born musician, a 1," said the Conservatorium wening,
Dr. Alex. Burnard. exumber, "Hin paper on counterpoint in brilliant."
The rraminer explained that Clarke has been teaching himself the theory of music from books supplied by his friends.—Heuter.
HERE IS SOMETHING YOU DIDN'T KNOW
Dogs have a colour complex. This is the view of a prominent member of the staff of the Royal Veterinary College, London.
Where you got a case of a dog has failed to eradicate certain suddenly turning on its owner or natural prejudices of many breeds. xuddenly attacking a child it has protected for a considerable time, there is more behind it than mero hysteria.
"In many cases it is due to some ⚫ form of illness, some queer brain twist which turns a faithful ser- vant into a ferocious assullant."
Colour, form and environment certainly affect the behaviour of doga..
For instance, black and tan dogs, particularly those with a sheep dog strain in them, defi- nitely have an antipathy to small white doga.
white dog.
Inefficient Italian staff arrangements; Hopeleia preparation for the offensive, in which staff maps were inaccurate and men were sent to positions which did not exist;
Roads washed away, leaving Italian troops and transport marooned.
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Mr. Farago also told the story of the Italian advance on Makale-a story which would be farcical were it not tinged with tragedy,
Actually sixty Press correspondents were ahead of the Italian advance and reached Makale before the Italian troops.
By Ladislas Farago
DREDGES GOLD
To Miss Mary E. Smith, Lewis- ton Trinity County, Cal., goes the distinction of being the only feminine gold dredger in the United States. She operates her own company, working 50,000 to 100,000 yards of gravel a month.
Swiss Girl Spy Leaves Her Prison
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Paris. Dec. 29. ELABORATE precautions taken to-night to amuggle through France Lydia Oswald, the pretty Swiss blonde, sentenced on September 10 to nine months' imprison- ment for naval espionage and released from Breat Gaol to- day for oxpulsion to Switzer- Let me lift the veil of mystery sistance and the 60 reporters, foeling
land. that has descended on the whole hungry, pushed on and arrived at
wartime No diplomatist Makale ahead of the troops. Italeysainian conflict.
When the Pressmen sent back amission will have been so carefully messenger to General Santini asking hidden away as the fascinating for permission to enter the town. to buy some chickens, he turned down Lydia from the time she left prison the request. "First the troops, then in the dark hours of the morning
until she arrives at Geneva the reporters," was his reply.
So while Press representatives morrow.. from all over the world waited patiently but hangrily at the walla of the town up marched Ras Gugua, with his soldiers, clad in a pictures- que mixture of Abyssinian and Italian uniforms.
The world has read of spectacular Italian victories, of road building feats by Italian engineers uul labour corns, and of clover staff work by the Italian General Staff.
The true state of affairs is far otherwise and is a terrific anti- -climax to the flug-waving док bravado spirit with which the eam- paign opened.
One of the most revealing features has been the inaccuracy of some of the Italian maps.
Before the campaign began the -Italians—sent a number of agents under the guise of Greek merchants into Abyssinia in order to prepare reports and detalls of the country to be incorporated into the General Stuff's mops.
Many of these men forwarded completely inaccurate details of the country they were supposed to have Burveyed. The result that
WAN when the campaign hegan it was discovered that in several instances the maps were not even in accor- dance with the actual landscape. Soldiers were ordered to march to places which did not exist...
In other instances the agents had Their fur bristles, their teeth be marked the positions of various come bared at the sight of springs where good drinking water could be obtained. But when the The reason for this is traced thirsty Italian troops arrived at the back into the history of domestic promised sites they found that there
were no springs at all. dogs.
They made good subjects for the photographers, whose cameras began to click. Then the troops entered the town, and the Italian Army could report "Makale Fallen."
on a
to-
"She was not allowed to' sny. good-bye to the man she loved, Lieut. Count Jean de Forceville, who, with another naval officer, was acquitted of being concern- ed in her espionage.
It, was known at Brest that slic was due to be released shortly, as the term spent by her in prison Eventually, the hungry reporters awaiting trial counted as part of could buy their chickens too!
her sentence, but she loft prison BRIBES GO WRONG
with only 4s. 6d. in her handbag, Another instance of the erroneous the rest of her money having been
on which the Italian taken from her. information, General Stall based their early plan
Every police official in Paris, and of campaign is the fact that they were at every other station on hor route nasured by their own secret agents denied all knowledge of Lydia. that the moment the war started pra-But a correspondent ran her to tically all the chiefs of Northern Abyssinia would desert to the Italian ground late to-night just as she was being secretly led to a second-class flag
For mouths before the war started compartment of the 13.20 express the Italians had been paying their for Geneva, in which a seat had chiefs big monthly sums to secure been reserved for her.
She had arrived in Paris like an the allegiance.
What they did not know was ordinary passenger, accompanied that the Chiefs were simply taking the money with one hand and hand-by two discreet detectivey of the ing it over to the Emperor with French-Belgian service, both of whom spoke English admirably, the other to buy arms. Further ineficiency in respect to but who professed that they know grounds for mistake were frequently the equipment and arrangements for nothing whatever about Lydia
the troops is revealed by the fact that Oswald. These inaccuracies were responsi-they are badly equipped for colonial traceable to an ancestral distrust ble in part for delaying the early warfare.
stages of the Italian advance, for the of the white fighting dog
But there are other types with areas had to be mapped out anew by peculiar characteristics familiar air. FARCICAL: "VICTORY" to dog breeders.
The white breeds, the terriers,
"If one took the trouble to find out and trace the origin, it would be found in nearly every case that a puppy had wittingly or anwit- the bulldogs and bull terrier
were always fighters, and the tingly been ill-treated.
"Then some malady affects it, resentment of the coloured dog is and all the training is forgotten in the natural instinct to protect itself when circumstances appear to it to be repeated.
"That is to say, a child playing' with a puppy while dressed in red may have unwittingly In jured it.
Landmarks and other details ́ on which there should have been no found to be fletitious.
Despite the fact that the tempera- ture during the day time may reach 130 degrees Fahrenheit, and at night may drop to 50 to 55 dégrees, soldiers have only the one set of clothing.
They are not equipped with extra blankets and extra clothing guard against the chill. Conse quently they are going down in | thonsanda from pneumonia,
to
They carefully hid her away "somewhere in Paris," as only the secret police know how, and only half an hour before the Geneva Express left the Gare de Lyon did they turn up unobtrusively with their charge.
Let me now deal with the reports | The greyhound, for instance,
to of big Italian victories. Actually cannot resist the impulse
there have been no real battles chase small dogs and cats fought in Northorn, Abyssinia, where They have been known to worry the bulk of the Italian Army is
Her baggage had been sent to "A dog may have been acciden-
goats, especially white goats. situated.
Between October 20 and November the station in advance-it conalstod tally trodden on while young by ita
Another myth exploded by this
When the Italians marched into 10 I was told that approximately of three suit-cases and one black- 'owner. At the time the incident' passes, because the dog is im-expert is that bloodhounds do not. Adowa photographs wore published 2.000 were reported sick from this varnished leather hat-box bearing all over the world showing the tanks cauze alone. Phoumonia and chills, labels of hotels in the United States mediately petted and consoled. as generally belleved, enjoy
which were said to be in action in in fact, account for the greater pro-and Canada, as well as Switzerland
portion of sickness among the Italian and Italy. But the incident remains in the man hunt.
the taking of the town,
But actually the tanks did not forces. There is practically mind.
arrive until seven days after the malaria at all... Italian occupation! They
waited until the roads were built before. they moved up.
NERVY.
were
TROUBLES WITH NATIVE. ...・・・ TROOPS -
no
,
It is on record that when In the bad old days bloodhounds imported to the West Indies to "Circumstances arise in which hunt down escaping slaves, they failure becBUSE they the dog in nervy just as human proved a
Then when Stakele was taken on In all their so-callód vjetories` the beluga become on edge. Then an would not-savage their, victims
November 8 Rome celebrated it as a Itallans have followed their habit of attack in made, and the dog is when they had caught them.
making the fullest possible use. af -donounced as a vicious animal, A cross bloodhound and lurcher "Great Day of Victory."
The truth is, the attack & was a native troops to go on ahead of the whereas it is merely reacting to had to be employed for the pur faree from start to finish. I was an white soldiers. Usually, the Askaris, its natural instincts."
pose. And even these had to be Another point made by the ex-goaded to carry out their in-ye-witness of this so-called great their own native soldiers, lead the port is that domestication-of-dogs human task.............
260 m. p. h.
PLANE
FIRES
4,800
SHOTS A MINUTE.
victory.
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advance.
To all intents and purposes Makedo Actually, despite the praise which was enptured by 60. reporters who has been showered on the valour of arrived there before the Italian these troops, the Italians are having
troops..
This is what really happened, The reconnaissance planos having reported no enemy in sight, General Santini ordered the advance to Makale on November 5.
Lydia had not dined, and she took back at the station res- taurant, complaining that she felt hungry and cold.
She was dressed in the same clothes as those she wore when she appeared before the naval court martial at 'Brest a brown toque, and brown- checked cloake—and as soon its she and her escort perceived that they were recognised, they } a good deal of trouble with them. left the restaurant hurriedly
Reports of minor rebellions-by
and mingled with the crowd: Askaris are frequent behind the
walking to the train.. front, and one report which it was Impossible to confirm stated that Lydia looked, pale and tired, and they had turned on their own when she reached her compartment. officers and shot” them.---
the blinds were closely draws, and But the greatest failure of all she was locked in which was unknown. In the history of and the greatest thom in the Italians'
Two other detectives were walt Britain's newest fighting airplane is a single-seater capable of Abyssinia, for the rait suddenly be-side--is their failure to bring the ing in an adjoining compartment to travelling at 260 miles an hour while the pilot fires a stream of gan again. It rained all the day and Abyssinians to battle on u big scale escort her as far as Geneva and no-
also the next day."..
For several weeks the Italian 4,800 machine-gun-bullets a minute.
Rands in front and behind the troops have actually been no nearer one was allowed to approach her. troops dissolved into a quagmire
than 160 miles to the main Abys The strictest orders had been under the dronchlyg downpour.
einian foreca in the north. Buch given in this respect, for, although Transport became bogged. Meni, thuoc affrays as have taken place technically she was free from the naimais" and guns floundered in the have merely been with marauding moment she signed her release at moras, :: STAGENA
banda of raiding tribesmen, jo
Just above the engine is mounted a small gun, capable of firing 6-ounce sholls at the rate of 300 a minute.
"This airplane is one of a number designed by Britain in the race with Franco and America for the airplane market."
Official trials are now beginning. Two of the four machine. guns of the British single-enter ure synchronisell to fire through the propeller.
The troops moved, up, but on the following day something happened
The advance was checked. Then
My own opinion, from what I have the naval prison at Brost, she was the weather cleared, and the Italians seen, is that when they do moet the still the object of an expulsion marched on, headed by Ras Guges, Abyssinian main body the Italians order until she passed the Swiss the deserter. But there was no re, will gut.
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