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ABYSSINIA CARRIES ON
|OR the past six months I have been a war correspondent in Abyssinia. I have spent three months in Addis Ababa, the forest capital of Haile Selassi; I have spent ten weeks under canvas at Dessie, the Emperor; I have travelled many hundreds the mountain General Headquarters of of miles by mule, motor-lorry and train through mountain and desert;
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But despite these experiences
it is still extraordinarily difficult to give a concise answer to the seemingly simple questions which are being fired at me from all sides now I am back in Lon- don.
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"Well, who is going to win?" "What is going to happen?" "Do the Ethiopians stand a chance?"
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Y answer is: If the of Nations
Meague
ails to impose further effective sanctions and Italy and Ethiopia are deft to fight it out, then the world will see u triumph of aggression,
my
Italy will win, but, in opinion, it will be several years before Ethiopia can be fought to a standstill, and during that. time the soil of Abyssinia will for the Italian settlers of the be well fertilised by Italian blood
future.
There are only two things
By Stuart Emeny
SATURDAY, APR. 18, 1936.
AIR LINE RIVALRY-
Now that the Colony is linked up with the air services plying between Malaya, London and Australia, local interest in world aviation is appreclably increas- ing. For this reason, plaints recently voiced in the House of Commons regarding the Imperial Airways time tables have attracted consider able attention in Hongkong. It is agreed that there is rooni for to fno upon hearing of the death telephonic communication. It is tiated the Italian outposts are magletrate advised a lady, who was improvement in the matter of
"I am sorry to true that the Italians are attack- now only 20 miles nearer Addis puzzled over car-parking facilities, speed on the Singapore-London hear of the death of your king, ing furiously in the north, but I Ababa · than they were last to subscribe to the Government
future.
com-which can spell speedy disaster shows what they think of their tanks,
for Ethiopia.
neroplanes, artillery,
BULLS AND INNERS
From the Office Butts
During the week,, a Hongkong
"flame-throwers and poison gas, One would be the death of the own chances. Emperor, which would immedi- The other is an overwhelming pitted against barefooted and ately plunge the nation into civil defeat which might be caused poorly-armed native troops.
It is not generally realised war with all the big Rases dog- by disobedience on the part of
an important chief or through that even if all Marshal Badog- fighting for the throne.
An important chief remarked the poor system of wireless and lio's recent claims are substan-
of King George: but I suppose there won't be any fighting in England." Which
refuse to believe Marshal Bado- November. glio's claim that "the collapse of the entire Abyssinian northern ' front is complete."
During recent months the
NOTES OF THE DAY Abyssinians have carried out
TURKEY'S TEACHING
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IN the south the Italian in such matter cannot be made
campaign so far has Newspaper heading: "King Will been even less success-Scrap Old Wine Cellars," Passing irrespective of financial guar-
some daring attacks. They have ful. The attempt of General the port! antees, of which, happily, there
captured several Italian forts, Graziani to advance through the is now some assurance, carrying
overpowered machinegun nesta, Ogaden desert to cut the Jibuti
with
A number of Governments might and gone on to capture artillery. Addis railway and the road from the Kowloon tigers are black. Now, it a definite promise of
My opinion is that they have Berbera in British Somaliland to had learn a lesson in international law better services in the near and morality from Turkey. With recently become too confident. Addis--the two main routes for
their European nations rushing to arms, abandoned
successful the import of Ethiopian muni- When making compari- building mighty air fleets and vast guerilla tactics, and in conse- tions has been abandoned. Marconi has discovered that sons between air transport com-jarmies, Turkey has awakened to the quence have taken a pretty hard. In the east the Italians, after short
waves will cure human several attempts to set up ad-fatigue. Husbands panies, there is always the dan-necessity of restoring her own de-knock from the Italians.
fences . for one never knows,j But the Abyssinian learns vance bases in the Danakil, have tired of permanent waves for ger that the layman will over-in this age, who may covet one's from his mistakes. When the found the country of Nesbitt too years. look an important technical cities and farms, be they ever 80 Italian aeroplanes first bombed much for them and have retired
humble. But Turkey did nut tear
A new artificial silk is so thin aspect of the question, namely, up her treaties and defy the one- Dessie thousands of rounds of to the coast.
The fighting so far, has shown that a time enemies who forced them upon rifle and machine-gun ammuni-
woman's undergarments that it is not possible for any her in her post-war degeneracy, tion were wasted in shooting at that the tank is of little value in composed of it can be hidden in the palm of the hand. But clothes aviation concern, immediately a She took the formal, orthodox, and planes which were well out of guerilla warfare.
honest course, and requested the range at a height of 5,000 feet.
To a lesser degree the aero- have been carried in a grip for new type of aircraft
comes other signatories of the Treaty of When the Italians bombed Dessie plane has also failed. The years. along, to scrap all its existing Lausanne to consider her position, the next day not a single shot bombing of civilian populations
and her claim to the right to re-
bas little effect on the morale of flect, replacing it by the newer fortify the Dardanelles. Britain's was fired.
It is said that some Hongkong the people. As one Abyssinian residents will only play poker for His was immediate. type. For a company to keep response
said to me after the first bomb-exceedingly high stakes. Big Majesty's Government commended
BYSSINIA has, by ing of Dessie when 60 people game hunters. really in line with the latest the Turkish method, without com- Athe threat of Italy, were killed and 200 injured: developments in aircraft en-mitting itself to approval of the
been united as she has "Well, if that is all aeroplanes request, of course, It is too bad gineering, which now follow that such methods as the Turkish never been united before,.
can do, we are not frightened of During the week, a broker re-
marked that he "didn't At the same time I am afraid them.' each other with surprising Government has employed are not
the Abyssinian has not a great The chief advantage of the air smell of an ofl-rag" out of share deal of the "back-to-the-wall" arm to the Italian forces is that should go into the dried fish transactions these days. He rapidity, it would be necessary
The significance of the Turkish spirit. While he is patriotic and of aerial reconnaissance, which business. for fleets to be replaced every demand for the right to protect her will fight like a lion in the heat reduces the menace of surprise few months-an obvious im-self is not far to seek. By the of battle I doubt whether he Ethiopian attack to the mini-
Treaty of Lausanne the League of
"Tickpockets At Soccer. Game, possibility. All transport com- Nations guaranteed the integrity of could stand a scries of crushing mum. panics
Supply services can be main-says newspaper heading. Naturally regular intervals | Turkey, Now Turkey questions at
they were intercepted and charged, Fortunately for the Abyssin- tained by the Abyssinians far replace their equipment with the utility of this guarantee. In
口 other words, Turkey doubts very tans it is unlikely that Marshal more easily than by the Italians. the latest and most efficient much whether the League would or Badoglio will be able to follow The Abyssinian warriors' re- Our local, naturalisis are now types that science can evolve. could protect her against attack by up his recent successes in the quirements on active service are predicting that snakes may be seen at any time,now. We under- Not long ago, the Dutch line some major Power. And the Turks north much farther. Within small. plying between Europe and the have some Justification for their two months from now the "big He can live on a small sack of atand that during the winter, they fears. The League, they feel, has raing" will have started in the parched grain for a month with are only observed in the company East re-equipped itself with new failed; and the treaties which were north. Before then
of ladders. Marshal three harvests a year, and owing machines, permitting it to enjoy | based upon its potentialities as a nn advantage over the British preserver of peace. are thus no Badoglio must build many now to the fact that only one in four
longer valuable.
roads and generally consolidate of the farming community has The Island of Hongkong is now We are service. But it is only fair to
his already long line of com- been called to the colours troops a sanctuary for birds. state that next year the re-
munications.
can usually find food wherever not sure whether storks are in-
cluded. For nearly five months Italian they happen to be. equipment programme of Im- perience almost everywhere, inj troops will have to sit where Since last September Abys-
□ perial Airways will be shipping as in aviation, and the they are at present in dripping sinia's scanty ammunition aup
"Pirates Steal Victory says a completed, the company having net result is progressively to tents. Tanks will not be able to plles have been increased by nine sports heading. Enough to make
Nelson turn in his grave. announced a complete replace- better the time-tables, Com-operate, and aeroplanes will only hundred tons.
The people of Abyssinia are ment plan to take effect in 1937, petition along these lines is all bomb at their peril among the
still confident that they can A smashed top-hat was noticed the present fleet. having been to the good, and it is reassuring cloud-capped mountains. allotted an economic life of five to feel that Imperial Airways, tain roads will be swept away, fented them before, but the evening. We understand that its Lorries will get bogged, moun- defeat the Italians, as they de- on the Stubbs Road the other years. Competition between with its fine record of reliability and while the huge costs of the Emperor must know by now owner discarded it in a fit of various lines operating in the and efficiency, is, fully alive to 350,000 expeditionary force that, while he may be able to indignation following unkind re- same areas is such that inovita- the needs of the time. When mount up week by week Musso- hold up the march of Italian marks about Government over bly the advantages pass from its replacement programme is in lini will have his task cut out to "civilisation" for several years, head. one to another in regular cycles. operation, Hongkong, in com-feed his troops marooned in an the last Independent empire in
* Africa and the hopes of all peace It is claimed that a mango taken A concern which one year holds mon with other parts of the African morass.
In five months of war Italy lovers in an effective League of every morning cleanses the system the palm may lose it the follow- Empire, will enjoy the benefits has achieved comparatively little Nations must perish together This, we suppose, is because one ag year, to again catch up later of faster, and even better for a nation with all the advan- unless the gentlemen at Geneva is compelled to, take a bath after
This has been the ex-services.
tages of mechanised transport, act and act swiftly.
defeats.
cating it.
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