THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII. MONDAY,
JANUARY 20, 1936.
Ex-Tommy's Thrilling Story Of Ethiopian-Night Adventures
SCOT WHO PAID FARE TO FIGHT
GREEK CABINET
The new Groek Prime Minister M. Demorizia, who is also War Minister and Acting Foreign Minister, together with two other members of King George's first Government.
CRITICS OF U.S.
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AIR FORCE
CHARGES OF NEGLECT AND INEFFICIENCY
of
War Terrors at First Hand
TOUGH WOMEN FIGHT
THE
WITH THEIR MEN
THE ONLY BRITON WHO HAS JOURNEYED OUT TO ⚫ ABYSSINIA TO VOLUNTEER HIS SERVICES AS A FIGHT- 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 about the campaign
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 on his great adventure. He told how, as a soldier of 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
...1
"I suppose it's natural.
I've known active service
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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 once. Camern-shy Miss Dietrich and Gilbert are shown
leaving a theatre in the first picture taken of them together.
SPY SCARE IN SAAR
GRAVE allegations
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 winter. Crities, both in the and all of them fought. One themselves 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 begleef.
The Morrow Five-year Plan, which was to make the Ameri- can Air Force the finest in the world, has failed; and
ever since I was thirteen. I was in the Black Watch and fighting at that age. There were six boys in our family
was killed when he was tanks. fifteen. It's just in the family.
"Several tanks
use them.
the
kill!
the
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. arrested in Germany on charges of espionage.
"Each day I was taken before an ofcial 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 each day was a bottle of milk.
On November. 11 'I was moved to the state prison in Berlin and kept there until December 7. Twice Arrested"
"No charge was preferred against "I travelled to Saarbruecken on me and I did not know what was railway station I was arrested on what food I wished, but 1 lived October 18. When I reached the happening, I was allowed to order the complaint of a passenger who mostly on milk and soup.
Taken To Frontier said he had seen me taking notes.
**[ air native soldiers flinging! Italian <lead and landing on the
Then they would elaw for a hold, and by jabbing their kalveg or
The charges arose from the fact that he was seen by swords through the gun ports
a fellow passenger taking notes when travelling from the crew inside.
were captured Frankfurt to Saarbruecken.
When Mr. Charlewood came to searched and all my papers seized." "So I got some money together this way after terrible lossen by the 1 was attackers.
London after his release he had to "At Berlin, which I renched on and set off for the war.
Havoc Of Gas Attacks
go into a nursing home, but now he November 2, I was submitted to an unable to get a visa in England
"The Italians here were using has sufficiently recovered to describe examination lasting four days, either from the Foreign Office or
which wrought havoc his experiences and his prolonged from the Abyssinian Minister, chlorine gas,
natives, ainong
unprotected ene illustration of their questioning in prisons at Saar- but I took a chance.
This in
work.bruecken, Frankfurt and Berlin. staff inefficient Offer To Emperor
hopelessly
Speaking in his London home Mr. Was 1111 ample! I was able to Although thero The recommendations of the
"Luck was with me. Baker Board last year for an
"I left England in the middle of secure the visa I needed, and found supply of maska at Addis Ababa not Charlewood said to-day: Army Air Force of 2,300 planes my way, via Djibuti; to Addis Ababa one was available at the front,
"Zverywhere the Abyssinians are October and spent two days at "Thore I presented myself at the bas not borne fruit, although Ethiopian Foreign Office, gave them poorly armed. Many of their rifles Brussels, then went to Strasbourg, Congress authorised the pur-the sietails of my fighting record, and where they have them at all-aro afterwards arrived at Frankfurt. chase of 1,600 'planes as a first offered my services to the Ethiopian of "n: 30-year-old-pattern, and they attempt to use cartridges of any shape step.
Eventually I was presented 10 and size in them. Machine guns are Haile Selassie in person. gradually filtering through to I told him that I had come to offer chiefs, but they do not know how to my services to his country. most The Abyssinian troops which ar
extended to
from the interior are unabl
"I was placed in a car and driven "My friends in London sent Sir cordial hospitality, and ordered his coming secretary to give me quarters. Sit-even to use a rifle!""
"Around Gorlogubi I witnessed a to the Saarbruecken police head-Alexander Lawrence, the solicitor, ting in his private inner room in the palace he told me, through an inter-
strange to me. No organised re Frankfurt and questioned me until we allowed to discuss my case.
late in the, evening.
"He was permitted only to ask whether I was in the sympathy of the British sistance.
"In some cases one man with a
"Then they allowed me to return auch questions as people.
musket would be pitted against to Frankfurt, but I was again arwoll and to bring menanges from "entry a lasting impression
complete mechanized unit complete rested when I reached my hotel. my friends in London. with tanks and machine guns,
"I was taken to the police prison, "Then, without any warning, I "In my opinion, it would be simplicity itself for the Italians to examined by the police, and then was awakened early in the morning bomb Addis Ababa. It does not lie brought before a judge, who accept by the police and taken to the Dutch bombing ed my explanations and seemed to be frontier, where they asked me to for modern too high
leave the train. machines, and its defences against perfectly satisfied.
took 4 "The police, however,
"Fortunately, I had some English aircraft are pathetic.
any and Belgian money, and I was able "Probably the only reason for the different view, and without Italian abstention in the presence of warning I was removed from the to got back to London.
"The police retained all my European legations in the police hospital at Frankfurt and
documents
railway relating to several city.
"The one
thorn in the Italians taken in a car to Berlin,
"I had found at Frankfurt that work, but I am hoping that they "But events took a very different
tho is the night attacks of
been will be forwarded to me later." turn when I went down to visit the side British Legation. They didn't say Abyssinians. There is no doubt the my room and luggage had very much, only read out to me a these silent raids are having a 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 is not
It is officially admitted that, al- though the Army Air Corps haa 1,696 machines, fewer than 250 fighters are fit for first-line ser- vice. All with the exception of nome of the fighters, are from four to eight years old and, therefore, obsolescent.
me the
In the new session of Congress pretor, that he had always believed type of fighting which was entirels quarters. They communicated with to interview me, but at no time were
appropriations are to be made for an annual increase of 800 new *planes.
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Manufacturers' Complaint The method of deciding upon re-equipment and dealing with manufacturera for the Army Afr Corps is atrongly criticised. The adopta different Navy, which methods, is said to be more cficient.
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 comparatively extravagant.
Aeroplane wisnufacturers also complain of the Army Air Corps system. The Glonn Martin fac tory, near Baltimore, has had to discharge 800 employees, although big orders are expected in the near future.
The British system works more smoothly, Wo have since 1918, unified the control of equipment for the Royal Air Force and the Flost. Air Arm, and have, so far as possiblo, pursued the polley of average annual renewals; spread- ing orders evenly over the whole field of manufactüre,
Dunedin
Has Unusual Visitor
come
For some weeks now a sea-llan has been visiting Dunedin and has be particularly tamo, allowing humans to foed and pet it. Recently, however, ita habit of wandering about. the troeta is thought likely to cause a motor accident, while it is also apt to be rather rough when playing with small children. In view of the protte tlan legally afforded theso animals, it ta a moot point as to whether the Dunedin City Council or the Govern ment Marino Department is liable in ense of accident.
of
him as a courteous, cultured gentle man, but one who is plainly bearing the anxieties and responsibilities of an entire nation on his shoulders.
EVENTUALLY I WAS OFFERED BY THE AUTHORI TIES E PER MONTH FOR MY SERVICES.
"Well, funds were getting low. I accepted. It seemed as if everything was settled. I was an officer in the Emperor's army.
"Troops who have marched
and
at war is liable to a penalty of two fought all day scarce dare sleep for and n fine of fear of a raid. years' imprisonment £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
own "I have established to my
Hongkong Romance Ends In Divorce Court
information. He decided that if he satisfaction that already there her DECREE AGAINST
could not fight himself ho would do been several cases of Italian officersi
the next best thing. He would travel losing their reason under the strain'
right up to the fighting lines and and running amok. view the war at Arst hand.
St.
MR. C. W. A. SCOTT "It is battle of nerves. The
Mrs. Kathleen Scott, are terrified by the was Abyssinians With Dr. Hockman (who afterwards killed by an incendiary modern warfare-which rains bombs Peter's-road, West Merscu, bomb) he made his way to the from strange machines in the sky: Essex, was granted a decreo nisi The Italian is unnerved by the death Southern front near Gorlogubi,
strikes him silently in the by Mr. Justice Buckmill in the "There I had my first taste of the which
London Divorce Court this war. The plains around Gorlogubi darkness.
"From my observations of the month owing to the misconduct are the most favourable of all areas to the Italian advica...
Emperor himself, whom I saw on of her husband, Mr. Charice. many occasions, the strain and anxiety of the campaign is begin-William Anderson Scott, the
nirman.. ning to tell on him.
"My first impression was ono aff the hopeless Inequality of the war,
which I had to revise somewhat]
lator.
"When I saw. him the last time in Mr. Scott, in company with Cap Waaw hordes of Abyssinians, the palace at Addis Ababa he seemed tain Campbell Black, made a
who had rallied to their chiefs from to me to have aged considerably.. the interlor, mown down' by 'Italian machine-guns.
"Fighting was, by isolated bands] of warriors led by local chieftains, who had to charge across the opan plain to attack the enemy.
Tough Women
record-breaking flight from Mil- denhall to Melbourne In October "The Abyssinian, women, amazed 1034. Mr. and Mrs. Scott were me most of all. They are every bit married in Melbourne, Australia, thon as tough as the men.
in 1929. Mr Scott was "They carry the same loads, fight instructor to the Queensland Aero Club, There was one child,- of "Their courage is the courage of side by side with their
and even carry out night raids on which Mra, Scott was granted the ignoranec..
"I saw them hurl themselves in waves at the enemy,' some times by sheer numbers palning the upper hand.
their own' account.
menfolk,
"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.-SC
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