THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1936.
BRITON'S QUEST FOR SHEBA'S MILLIONS Treasure Caves Carpeted with Rubies, Emeralds and Diamonds
Leaves From An Ethiopian Note Book
By H. R. Ekins
United Press Staff Correspon- dept (Copyright 1936 by United, Press)
Harar, Mar. 23.
I met the most indignant of Ethiopians when 1 talked at.! length with Dajazmach Maribu,{ governor of Harar and com- mander-in-chief on the southern
front.
He was mighty sore, for he had just received reports from the Dajazmach Inbte Michel, In com-! mand at the actual fighting line, that Italian airplanes were using gas bomba.
"I suppose that is Italy's first contribution to the civilisation of Ethiopia," the governor said after! he had announced primitive, feudal Ethiopia's first experience with the weapons of modern warfare.
Nnalbu is one of Emperor Haile Selassie's most trusted officials, Tall, dignifod, at home in the French language and an able ad- ministrator, he was Ethiopian cun-j sul general at Asmara, Eritrea, and Mayor of Addis Ababa before be-1 coming governer of Harar, the Em peror's own privince,
When I saw him he was sulfer- ing a painful earnche. His head
NEW ETHIOPIAN C. IN C
Itan Gabria Mariam has succeeded Ras Desta as commander-in-chief of the Abyssinian southern army, as Mariam formerly commanded the Emperor's personal bodyganrd.
First Woman To Cross Africa
was bandaged. He wore a military On Foot
tunic, the inevitable whito jodhpurs of the Ethiopian gentry and-un- usun! among hla countrymen *bocs.
"Why are you taking notes ?" the governor naked after he had told us about the gas bombs,
We explained the deep interest of the world press in the Italo- Ethioplan conflict and the Interest) in the struggle between mediaeval and modern armaments. Then he became bitter. flashed.
He eyed
Tired of League "We are tired of seeking suppori abroad," he said. "We delayed de- fending ourselves because we planed our hopes for pence in the League of Nations.
"We believed Mussolini was bluffing. Now we know he was not. Now we know that he in- tended to do everything he said he would do. He has belittled and humillated the other nations of Europe and Ethiopia with them.
"Now we know that we must fight alone. Our only hope for salvation les in our own guna, our own courage, and our own Bucrifice. But look at these reports on gas bombs. They are.disheartening..
"If this were not a one-aided war we could win. But the enemy uses
weapons we know nothing about. He hurls hanby from airplanes fly ing so high we cannot shoot at them.
"That I suppose, is what you call civilisation. We are confront- ed with an enemy we cannot reach, although every man among us is craving to fight in defence of hla homeland."
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Governor Noalba also an- nounced Italian use of dum-dum 'bullets. But he was not
angry about them as he was about gas bombs, for he knew there were dum-dum bullets in the badalfers of his own soldiers,; Unlike most of his followers he has been abroad. He lived in France. He knows what his sol. diers-hordes of blacks shuffling off to war with stout hearts-must faco in realuting conquest by a modernly equipped Itailan army.
some
He is about to leave for the front; to establish field headquarters at Jijiga. The war has disrupted his acheme of things. Until other day--if he survives-ho must shelve his plans for reform; his] elforts to work with the Emperor to change the old and strange cus- toms of Ethiopia and fit the nation! for membership in the family of
nations.
country.
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MRS. Mansfield, traveller and
authoress, wife of Lieut.- colonel W. R. Mansfield, died at
her home in Tulse Hill, S.E. last month after a long illness.
She was the first woman to Cross Central Africa on foot from the Cape to Cairo,
She was bitten by inserts and snakes, and it is believed that the ilincas from which she has suffer- ed for many years was the result of what she went through.
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N Englishman who holds the secret of the treasure caves of the Queen of Sheba is awaiting the end of the 'Abys- sinian war.
He is Mr. Frank E. Hayter, who lives near Hereford.
He claims to have visited. these caves, which he found carpeted with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds, and to have filled a haversack with the gems.
These treasure caves are at present within the Northern fighting area, but as soon as an, waters must le the aource of jarmistice is 'signed Mr. Hayter Queen Shehn's treasure.",
will set forth to claim the jowels.
collected by Mr. Hayter was placed Much of the valuable information
un
at the disposal of the Foreign Offles, Mr. Hayter ways that he was who have been able to make much hunting big game in Abyssinin more accurate maps of a country when a mining engineer (on which had previously
been Englishman) showed him map | known to white men. which purported to reveal un- 300 explored gol country about miles west of Addis Ababa.
Mr. Hayter decided to join the engineer in the search. The trek insted almost a year.
Caverns "Find"
After a series of adventures They} found themselves in sight of thef Titin Peaks of the mountain of Tub Wallel.
Here they found a number openings in the face of the cliff.
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Frenels mathematician, Andre-Marlo A century has passed since the Ampere, was born. He was the Brst to propound the electro-dynamie theory and on this occasion the state of France has published a postage. stamp, shown above.
Heavyweight Champion
Grandfather Of Heavens
2 p.m.-Police Constable Cambridge, Mass., Mar. 16. Charles Schneider is called into A new heavyweight champion the commissioner's office at of the heavens-weighing 420 Cedar Grove (Now Jersey). octillion tona-bas just been dis- "At first," he says, "I thought
His chief says: "Congratula- covered by a former pupil of they were natural caves. But, tians, Schneider. Nursing home's Prof. Albert Einstein. when 1 drew nearer, I found that just phoned to say your wife has they were stone doorways which given you a fine son. Off you go had evidently been fashioned by for an hour, father, and take men in the distant past.
peek at 'em." "The next day I went back with
The champ is twins-a double star, which has been christened a20 Canis Majorla," meaning that it's the 29th in the constellation of the great dog.
With a antive escort, shy fol- one of my boys," who carried a 3 p.m.-Police Constable Charles Plainly visible to the naked eye loved the route planned by Ceeil Haring abre torch. We reached a Schneider returns to duty, packets in the southern sky under Sirius Rhodes, and underwent
seversave through which ran a shallow filled with cigars for distribution V near the constellation Orion, Ita privations. She has tokl thestream, and this led us into a grottajamong hin colleagues. Those existence, has been known to as- story of her journey in many from the ceiling of which great gentlemen accept his offering tronomers for 2,000 years. But books and lectures.
stalactites hung.
gravely, then inform him that he only now has Dr. Sergei I. Gaposch- is wanted again in the
kin of Harvard Observatory estab commia- "Suddenly my torch-bearer gravesioner's office.
Hshed the fact that it is both the cry. Look, effendi!'
His chief asks "Say. Schmei-heaviest and hottest known object
in the Universe. "Ahead of us were what took der, you're having a joy day,
He estimates it is: ed like hundreds of angry red aren't you? Your son-in-law rang eyes winking back ni us in the lun ten minutes ago. Your Mickering light of the torchi. Idaughter's presented him with a
jbaby girl. Better take the day! "I grabbed the torch and swept it off.... grandfather!" towards the floor. Immediately a myriad points of Eght leaped to Schneider did, after making life, and I realised that I was stand-second distribution of cigars. ing on a carpet of rubies,
It was while she was in South Africa that she first met Lieut-
colonel Mansfield, whom she mar ried in 1918 on returning to Lon- don. He was then an engineer ju the diamond mines, and after the welding they returned to Africa and lived at a mind.
"There, were hundreds of them. rauging from tiny specks to stones bigger than peas.
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Handwriting Expert
Colonel Mansfield is now well „knowu_23_a_scientist_and_hand- writing expert. In his laboratory at Tulse Hill. a few years ago, he discovered that by using altra-human hands had bored the hones violet rays be could photograph comb centuries before. At last I writing long after it had, to the turned to retrace my steps, but I was puzzled to find my feet sinking naked eye, been crased.
in soft mud.
On one occasion during her travels in Afrlen Mrs. Mansfield
progress barred
found her
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the sandy edge of the stream, "I had to struggle hard to roach
where the walking was easier, when swamps caused by heavy rains.I heard a menacing booming sound. In order to continue, she was
The North Atlantic Passenger classol as "mail," and with native
"It was followed by the noise Conference in Paris has ended in of rushing waters, and then bearers was sent by post" across the swamps.'
huge wave rolled on me from a triumph for the Cunard-White behind. Mre, Mansfield's last work ab- "The trave swept on roud was in 1926 when, with her water receded. Then bushand, she toured Northern
Star line.
40,000,000 times as heavy as the
earth.
70 times as heavy as the sun. 4,000 times greater in diameter than the earth.
10,000 times as bright as the' aun, with a surface temperature of 65,000 degrees fahrenheit..
20,000 light years (approximately 119 gandrillion miles) dlatant from the earth.
made
Paradoxically, discovery of the heaviest of all stars was through one of the smallest photo graphic-telescopen used by scien tists, one equipped with a half inch lens.
Of the eclipsing type, it was this property of the star that enabled Dr. Gaposchkin to determine its
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He also found the twins playful, revolving about one other, hiding each other at regular intervals of three and one half days and shooting of black jets of flam-· ing helium.--United Press. ··
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and the Ships will be grouped in 19 or a second 20 different categories.
wave almost swept me off my feet. Queen Mary and the Normandie
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Spain and carried out rosearches "I was in for a fight for life, will be in the first grade. into the history of Columbus. and I had to drop my haversack
A few months ago she began filled with gems. work on her memoirs, but just be- fore Christmas she was forced to but luckily I was swept into the "The end was near, I thought,
stop owing to her illness.
outer passage, from where I stag Considerable material has been geret into the arms of my scared prepared, it is learned, but her boy. work was far from complete. "Somewhere at the head of those
POPULATION OF U.S.A. NOW 127,521,000
Washington, March. 24. The 1935 population of the United States to-day was officially estimated by the census bureau at 127,521,000.
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Renounces Germany
The result of the redistribution of classes (states Reuter) is that the rich man
Zurich, Mar. 16. pays less, the Itourist class will pay a little more,
Thomas Mann, famous German: and the third class pays the same, author and winner of the Nobel Those will be the only
prize for literature in 1920, has classes in future.
renounced his native Germany bo- Rating of ships as cabin-class cause of Hitler's nizi regimo.
A bitter letter which the 60- instead of first-class has various year-old author wrote to the Fea advantages for the steamship ture section of the Neue Rucreler companies, such as that the port Zeitung has, in the belief of his perfelends, broken down his last tie passenger for cabin-class com-with the Fatherland. pared with first-class, and that, His books have remained on sale whereas frat-class cabins cannot in Germany during the three years be converted thero is Д certain he and his family have lived at elasticity about the cabin-class. Kunnacht, near Zurich, but may be The leading categories will be: banned now. His wife is a Jewess, (1) Queen Mary (Britain), Northe former Katja Pringaheim whoni mandie (France).
he married in 1905. (2) Empress of Britain (Bri-
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The official count is taken as of the middle of the year-July 1. The governor was rich. But The new figure represented a tration, was 12,120.000. The num now, he told me, he has placed alignia of 0.71 per cent from 1934, ber of deaths in the same period, of his possessions at the disposal and of 4 per cent from 1900 when likewise allowing for under-regis of the Emperor for the defence of the last actual census was taken.tration, was 7,423,000. The num-tain), Bremen and Europa (Ger-Jews, or the hate of the German "The German hate against tho Ethiopia's 37 centuries of freedom, Many other major chlefs in the tinued at this rate until the end during the 6-year period exceed-
"If the ingrense should be con- ber of persons leaving the country mony).
dielators is in reality not directed country have done Ilkowi80,
(3) Manhattan and Washington against the Jews or at least not Governor Nasibu has one of the of the decade," the bureau suid, ed the number coming in by 261,- (U.S.)
against thern alone," wrote the (4) Britannic, Georgle (Bri-author of the "Buddenbrooks," few modernly trained, equipped and "the nation's population in 1940 000. disciplined military units in the would be around 132,000,000" Subtracting the number
tain). Champlain, Lafayette "The Young People" and a dozen Indicative, however, of a slow.deaths and the net emigration from (France).
other widely read books. It is understood that in the now His Galla rifles, recruited from Ing up in the nation's population crease of 4,740.000 between the classification ships of the United tellectual and moral nature of the
the number of births gives an in-
"It is directed against the in- among Galla tribesmen who were growth was the part that the 1930 census date and July 1, 1936. States lines will come about the Europe of to-day and against any conquered by the late Emperor average annual increase since Menelik many years ago, are uni-1930 was 904,000, which is only as of April, 1930, was
The population, taken by count middle of the scale..
noble sentiments of the Germans. formed, have machine gung, moun- a litle more than one half of the Estimated population in the follow- arrangement
122,046, It is considered that the now It has become more and more clear tain guns, and crack new Mausers. 1920-1930 average of 1.666,000."ing years, as of July 1, was: 124.travel without the steamship com- is directed against the Christian: encourage that the hata of the nationalism They are a dashing, courageous The rate of gain in 1936 was the 113.000 in 1931: 124,974,000 in pantes suffering, losses through antique base forco. The Galla rifles were or highest since 1981 when the popu- 1932: 125,770,000 In 1983; 126,-the abolition of the first class. ganised to be the governor's body-lation that year gained 0.88 per 620.000 in 1934, and 127,621,000 in
world. It attempts to shake off all guard. Now they have been sent cent over 1930.
It is understood, though no de- obligations of civilisation. off to fight in the front lines along
1935. The bureau said it hoped tails on the point are given in the The conviction that nothing with the feudal lovica-United 1, 1930, and. July 1, 1985, includ-and the larger ofties may be issued lowing üli-round fare increases sont German autocracy, has made
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