THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,
JANUARY 20, 1936.
Ex-Tommy's Thrilling Story Of Ethiopian-Night Adventures SCOT WHO PAID FARE TO FIGHT
GREEK CABINET
War Terrors at First Hand
TOUGH WOMEN FIGHT
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WITH THEIR MEN
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HE ONLY BRITON WHO HAS JOURNEYED OUT TO ABYSSINIA TO VOLUNTEER HIS SERVICES AS. A. EICHT- ING MAN TO THE EMPEROR HAS ARRIVED BACK IN LONDON,
He is Alexander Wardlaw, a brawny Scot of Dunfermline...just another Tommy in the Great War...till the fighting bug bit him again and he set off on his one-man crusade.
In London he told the amazing story of his Ethiopian adventures in which
He met and chatted with the Emperor of Abyssinia
The new Greek Prime Minister M. about the campaign
Demertzis, who is also War Minister and Acting Foreign Minister, together with two other members of King George's first Government.
CRITICS OF U.S.
AIR FORCE
GR
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CHARGES OF NEGLECT AND INEFFICIENCY
RAVE. allegations of neglect of equipment of the United States Army and Navy Air Forces, mak ing their great numerical strength illusory, are to be discussed by Congress this
Was entertained in the Palace at Addis Ababa Watched, critically, the Emperor's practice tactics Went into action with the Abyssinian troops
He told how he scraped the money together to set off He told how, as a soldier of on his great adventure. fortune with years of adventure in many lands behind him, he saw little unusual in the fact that a humble rank- and-filer of the world war should sit in intimate conference with Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Lion of the Tribe of Judah.
Life's So Tame In Britain !
"I just couldn't help going." Alexander explained. "I was in Dunfermline when the war actually started.
It's tame enough at "The call was too strong for me. home in Britain ordinarily, but when there's a chance of some scrapping
.!
MAY HAVE BEEN A ROMANCE
This photograph of John Gilbert and Marlene Dietrich was taken Just before Gilbert's death. Hoollywood's rumour was that the two stars were a forthcoming match. But then, in Hollywood,. whispers of romance start when a man and a maid are seen together more than oner. Camera-shy Miss Dietrich and Gilbert are shown
leaving a theatre in the first picture taken of them together.
SPY SCARE IN SAAR
BRITON'S STORY OF HIS ARREST: FOUR DAYS OF QUESTIONING THERE is a spy scare throughout the Saar.
..
This situation was revealed recently by. Mr. R. E.
winter. Crities, both in the and all of them fought. One themselver over heaps of their own Charlewood, a retired British railway official who was
forces and outside, declare
that:
Recent manoeuvres along the Florida coast have exposed a long story of mis-management and neglect.
The Morrow Five-year Plan, which was to make the Ameri- can Air Force the finest in the world, has failed; and
The recommendations of the Baker Board last year for an Army Air Force of 2,300 'planes has not borne fruit, although Congress authorised the pur- chase of 1,600 'planes as a first
step.
It is officially admitted that, al- though the Army Air Corps has 1,696 machines, fewer than 250 fighters are fit for Arst-line ser- vice. All, with the exception of some of the fighters, are from four to right your old and, therefore, obsolescent.
In the new session of Congress appropriations are to be made for An annual increase of 800 new 'planes.
Manufacturers' Complaint The method of deciding upon dealing with re-equipment and manufacturers for the Army Air Corps is strongly criticised. The different Navy, which adopts
more methods, is said to be efficient.
"Defenders of the Army system point out that the Navy, because it is the first line of defence, is compelled to adopt a quicker pro- This, .cedure for re-equipment.. they say, although necessary, is comparatively extravagant.
Aeroplane manufacturers also complain of the Army Air Corps Rystem. The Glenn Martin fac- tory, near Baltimore, has had to discharge 800 employees, although big orders are expected in the ner future.
The British system works more:
was
dead
"I suppose it's natural. I've known active service I was in the Black Watch and ever since I was thirteen.
AJW native solliers finging! fighting at that age. There were six.boys in our family
and landing on the Italian hold, and by jabbing their knives or was killed when he tanks. Then they would claw for
It's just in the swords through the gun ports fifteen.
the crew inside.
were captured family.
"So I got some money together this way after terrible losses by the I was attackers, and set off for the war. unable to get a visa in England either from the Foreign Office or from the Abyssinian Minister. but I took a chance.
"Several tanks
kill
The charges arose from the fact that he was seen by a arrested in Germany on charges of espionage.
a fellow passenger taking notes when travelling from Frankfurt to Saarbruecken.
Twice Arrested
When Mr. Charlewood came to London after his release he had to Havoc Of Gas Attacks
go into a nursing home, but now he were using has sufficiently recovered to describe "The Italians here
which wrought have his experiences and his prolonged
natives.
Saar- chlorine gas, among the unprotected This is
one illustration of their questioning in prisons at
work.bruecken, Frankfurt and Berlin. stat inefficient hopelessly Offer To Emperor
Speaking in his London home Mr. amplel In Was "Luck was with me. I was able to Although there secure the visa I needed, and found supply of masks at Addis Ababa not Charlewood said to-day:
"I left England in the middle of "Everywhere the Abyssinians are October and spent--two-days at my way, via Djibuti, to Addis Ababa, one was available at the front.
"There presented myself at the Ethiopian Foreign Office, gave them poorly armed. Many of their rifles Brussels, then went to Strasbourg. the retails of my Oghting record, and where they have them at all-ate offered my services to the Ethiopian of a 30-year-old pattern, and they afterwards arrived at Frankfurt.
attempt to use cartridges of any shape urm Eventually 1 was presented to and size in them. Machine guns are the Emperor Halle Selassie in person.gradually filtering through to
had come to offer chiefs; but they do not know how to I told him that
use them. my services to his country.
"The Abyssinian troops which ar me the ded to "110 extended cordial hospitality, and ordered his coming from the interior are unabl secretary to give me quarters. Sit even to use a rifle!" ting In his private inner room in the palace he told me, through an inter preter, that he had always believed in the sympathy of the British people.
I carry
a lasting impression of him as a courteous, cultured gentle- mun, but one who is plainly bearing the anxieties and responsibilities of
shoulders. an entire nation on his
EVENTUALLY I WAS OFFERED BY THE AUTHORI- TIES £20 PER MONTH FOR MY SERVICES.
most
searched and all my papers seized. "At Berlin, which I reached on November 2, 1 was submitted to it examination lasting four days.
"Each day I was taken before an official and questioned by him until late in the evening.
"Neither the officials engaged in the proceedings nor myself ad- journed for lunch and all I had ench day was a bottle of milk.
"On November 11 I was moved to the state prison in Berlin and kept there until December 7.
"No charge was preferred against "I travelled to Saarbruecken on me and I did not know what was October 18. When I reached the happening. I was allowed to order railway station I was arrested on what food I wished, but I lived the complaint of a passenger who mostly on milk and soup.
Taken To Frontier "My friends in London sent Sir said he had seen me taking, notes, "I was placed in a car and driven to the Saarbruecken police head-Alexander Lawrence, the solicitor, quarters. They communicated with to interview me, but at no time were Frankfurt and questioned me until we allowed to discuss my case. late in the evening.
"He was permitted only to ask!
whether WAS "In Home cases one man with a
"Then they allowed me to return such questions as musket would be pitted against to Frankfurt, but I was again ar well and to bring messages from complete mechanised unit complete rested when I reached my hotel. my friends in London. with tanks and machine-guns.
"I was taken to the police prison. "In my opinion, it would be simplicity itself for the Italians, to examined by the police, and then bomb Addis Ababa. It does not lie brought before a judge, who accept- high for modern bombing ed my explanations and seemed to be too machines, and fir defences against perfectly satisfied.
"The police, however, aircraft are pathetic.
"Around Gerlogubi I witnessed a type of fighting which was entirely
No organiseti strafige to ne. sistance.
to
Then, without any warning. I was awakened early in the morning by the police and taken to the Dutch frontier, where they asked me leave the train.
1 took: "Fortunately, I had some English "Probably the only reason for the different view, and without any and Belgian money, and i was able "Well, funds were getting low.
my "The police retained all accepted. It seemed as if everything Italian abstention is the presence of warning I was removed from the to get back to London.
documents relating to railway was settled.. i was an officer in the several European legations, in the police hospital at Frankfurt
taken in a car to Berlin, Emperor'a army.
"I had found at Frankfurt that work, but I am hoping that they "But events took a very different turn when I went down to visit the side
me n these silent
are having British Legation. They didn't say Abyssiniann. There is no doubt that my room and luggage had been will be forwarded to me inter very much, only read out to section of the Act of 1870 which says definite effect on the morale of the that any British subject fighting for invaders. any nation when Great Britain
not!
elty The one
thorn in the Italians Is the night attacks of the
raids
have marched and
"Troops who nt war is liable to a penalty of two fought all day scarce dare sleep for years' imprisonment and a fine of fear of a raid. £500."
At The War Front Mr. Wardlaw had to reconsider the whole position in the light of this
"Before the alarm can be given
the tribesmen are among them.
Battle Of Norves
"I have established to my
own
and
Hongkong Romance Ends In Divorce Court
smoothly. We have since 1918 information. He decided that if he satisfaction that already there have DECREE AGAINST
unified the control of equipment for the Royal Air Force and tho Fleet Air Arm, and have, so far as possible, pursued the policy of average annual renewals, spread- ing ordere evenly over the whole field of manufacture.
Dunedin
Has Unusual Visitor
could not fight himself he would do been several cases of Itallan officers the next best thing. He would travel baing their reason under the strain right up to the fighting lines and and running amok. view the war at first hand..
by the
MR. C. W. A. SCOTT. Mrs. Kathleen.
St. Scott, West Mersea,
"It is a battle of nerves, The
aro terrified With Dr. Heckman (who was Abyssinians
incendiary modern warfare which rains bombs Peter's-road, afterwards killed by an
sky. the from strange machines in the bomb) ho models way to Southern front near Gerlögubi.
"There I had my first taste of the war. The plains around Gorlogubil are the most favourable of all areas. to the Italian advice.
was one of My first impression
"the war.j
The Italian is unnerved by the death Essex, was granted a decree nisi which strikes him silently in the by Mr. Justice Buckmill in the. darkness.
London Divorce Court this
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dige dr Wethesliopatarsing what "ning to tell on him, w
For gomo weeks now a sea-lion has begn vlalting Dunedin and has be- allowing conte particularly tame, humans to feed and pot it. Recently; however, ita habit of wandering about the streets is thought likely to cause A motor accidoat, while it is also apt to be rather rough when playing with amall children. In view of the protec tion legally afforded theso animals, it is a moot point as to whether the Dunedin City Council or the Govern ment Marine Dopartment i llabic in
case of accident.
which I had to
my observations of the month owing to the misconduct or himself, whom I saw on of her husband, Mr. Charles many occasions, the strain and anxiety-of-the-campaign is begin-William Anderson Scott; the
jairmanze ve "When I saw him the last time in Mr. Scott, in company with Cap- lator. naw hordes of Abyssinians, the palace at Addis Ababa he seemed tain Campbell Black, made a record-breaking night from Mil- denbali to Melbourne in October "The Abyssinian women amazed 1934. Mr. and Mrs. Scott were me most of all. They are every bit married in Melbourne, Australia, wan then a tough as the men.
in 1929. Mr. Scott They carry the same loads, fight instructor to the Queensland Aero side by side with their menfolk, Club. There was one child, of and even carry out night ralds on which Mrs. Scott was granted tha thoir own account.
who had rallied to their chiefs from to me to have aged considerably. the interior, mown down by Italian machine-guns.
"Fighting was by isolated bandst of warriors led by local chieftains, who had to charge across the open plain to attack the enemy.
"Thoir courage is the courage of ignorance.
"I ate them hurl thomeclure, in waves at the enemy, anme timea by sheer numbers quining the upper han.
Tough Woman
"I have seen numbers' of women custody, lying among the dead on the battle field.
Mr. Scott and his wife.met in Hongkong.
MRS.C.-W..
A. SCOTT
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