THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1936.
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2,000 PER CENT TERRITORY INCREASE Italy's Enormous Gain In Land During the Past Sixty Years HOW A KINGDOM WAR WARRIOR MAN WHO DOES
BECAME AN
EMPIRE
Rome, July 1.
In the last 66 years, or in the life-time of many living Italians, Italy has increased its total area almost 20 times and doubled its population, now "Imperial" statistics reveal.
Italy became a unified nation in 1870 when Rome was oc- cupied and the Roman Catholic Church horn of its temporal possessions. At that time Italy had a total area of 220.000 square kilometres with a total population of 25 millions.
To-day, after the conquest until 1905 did Italy finally succeed in and annexation of Ethiopia, establishing possession of this narrow Italy boasts a total area of four strip of desert land on a full-fledged ta 19 Italy went to war with the million square kilometres and a total population of 5 millions, Turkish Empire and on its break-up Almost all the additional terri-In 12 succeeded in annexing Lybin tory is in north and Africa
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A
was When the Italian. Kingdom founded in 1870, Italy had nu colonies: the islands of Sicily and Sardinia were counted as integral parts of thui Italian penninula.
Kan in the sume
colony.
and the Undecanese Islands,
This war brought. Italy's total
Kilometr area to 2,000,000 square from 779,000, and the total population ¦ to millions from 35 millions
A statue of King Albert of the
by his work.
At the end of the world war Italy Belgians which will be erected on the added about ten thousand square bank of the river Yaer, where the King miles of new territory, mostly at the and his soldiers fought bravely during expense of Austria, lier colonial de-the Great War, is completed. Tho Italy's first colonial adventure bemands worn denied by the pence-picture shows the sculptor standing
year when the makers at Versailles and from that
mument dated Italy's scheme to carve | additiomi territory in grivernment purchased the port off out Ab, in the extreme southern part Africs at the proper moment. This proper moment, came of Eritren. In 1889 Italy tried to establish a protectorate over Ethiopia Mussolini in 1935 when, after declar but King Menelik with an nemy of ing Ethiopia an "aggressor", Italy 80,000 annihilated Italy's force of 12,000 meu at the battle of Adawa ia 18. Repulsed from Ethiopia, Italy, however, kept Eritrea which became its first African colony.
About the same time Italy sent is first colonial expedition to Somaliland on the eastern coast of Afrien, but not
Western Education Turns To
The Orient
Under Italy's New Empire
advanced into Ethiopian territory and in seven months conquered the empire of the Lion of Judah,
Mussolini in recent interviews has Banguncel that Italy is now "antis-) fied"
NOT EXIST
VISITS LONDON
TO SEARCH FOR PROOF. OF HIS BIRTH··
A YOUNG man who legally a young Frenchman found his does not exist is now visiting family opposed to his iden of London in an effort to establish marriage on the ground that his fiancee was related to him. But that he is, in fact, in being.
His only hope is to trace the the Frenchman was determined, doctor or nurse who was present and after obtaining the necessary at his birth in a London hotel over! civil and religious authorisations came to London and in France 22 years ago.
This briefly is the story behind was married. the following advertisement which!
in London appeared recently papers:
To doctors, midwives, nurses and others:
DIRTH NOT REGISTERED
The young couple returned to France, but the following year they were in London again, staying at the fiotel de Paris. One night the te husband asked the manager to send
nurse. There i Information required us
a doctor and a birth of a male child on or about far Jamarit 23, 1914, in the anncre were obtained and shortly afterwards of the then Hotel de Paris, Leithe wife gave birth to a son.
That son, now grown up and cester-square, W.C. The story begins in 1913 when married to an English girl, is search-
int for proof of his birth.
FRANCE ANXIOUS ABOUT FATE OF SOMALILAND
ANXIETY over French Somali-
southern neighbour in of a conflict.
of
With colonial possessions al
Paris, June 3. most 20 times greater than Italy it self, Mussolini believes the founda
land and its future now that tion has been prepared for a new and
ія prosperous Italian Empire, the total
in
possession population of which he hopes will Italy nitain 100 million in a few deendes.Abyssinia is beginning to be United Peru.
shown in large sections of the French Press..
GAS EASIER TÒ DEFEAT THAN BOMBS
HOME OFFICE VIEW
There is much talk in these papers also about a potential threat to the "all-red route to the Cape," which is said to be worry. ing the British Government.
Having asserted that "many Englishmen are moved by the
"NUCLEUS"
the event
"And we make no mention of the route to India.
parents, who spoke little English and were ignorant of Eng-
lish law, falled
ta register his
AN
UNUSUAL OFFER
LATEST MODELS FROM NEW YORK
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BEACH
PYJAMAS
birth, this innocently depriving WASHABLE-STRONG
him of nationality and status.
A few days ago father and sun came to London and made straight But the hotel for Leicester square. where the boy was born is no longer | there.
consulted 3Y, F. They have how
to the Allemes, the legal adviser
French Embassy.
NO NATIONALITY
he French beenuse
We can.
"The young man is not English be- cause he was never registered in Now that the Italian operations have been successful, Briinin tends to England, M. Allemen sail. "Nor is his une does concentrate her attention on the threat to her imperial interests.
"Tho extraordinary ceremonies not appear in any civil registry in therefore, do his birth which took place in Rome at the death France. Until we can get proof. of of King Fund, Mussolini's speech on
Is that the doctor and nurso who May D on the resurrection of the nothing, and the only hope I can see Roman Empire of which Abyssiniu! and Libya form the nucleus (the word attended his mother may recall the
veleus was left out of the oficial case and come forward. version but it was actually spoken "Then it will be possible for us to
Palazzo from the balcony of the
the birth registered in France." in London."
The English Inw regarding late Furthermore, Mme. Tebouis, in the registrations lays it down that after Syracuse University this sum-soll, Assistant Under-Secretary the events in Abyssinia," in charge of the Air "Pertinax" declared in the Echo
birth may be registered without the "The French interests in Abyssinus written consent of the Registrar- mer will offer a unified course on of State the Far East dealing with the Raids Precautions Department de Paris to-day that "against Era shows anxiety regarding the expiration of twelve months no existence of tho French colonial officers the Registrar-general does not geographic environment, cultural of the Home Office, told the the wishes and the efforts of the fate of French Somailland.
Constables Association London, Fascist Italy has inatail-are of incalculable value to the very general. On the advice of the law
empire. The port of Jibut! constitutes and political life of peoples bor-Chief
conference at Gateshead recentlyed itself in the empire of the
an indispensable link between France Brant his consent after seven years, dering the Western Pacific.
and Indo-China,. Now Caledonia and Madagascar. that air raid precautions must be Negus. regarded as an insurance.
New York, July 1.
The general point of view will be that of the Oriental peoples, Topics will include:
1. Eastern Asia-geography, racial types, cultural background of Asiatic history.
Wing Commander E. J. Had. humiliation inflicted on England Venezia) have increased apprehensions apply in the French courts to have
"Henceforth' it
commands the "We are getting plans prepared,"communications of the Sudan and he added. have every hope that, Egypt with Uganda, and of Kenya extended by territories ever we are exposed-to hostile air with the region of the Great attack, the combination of active and Lakes, while on another side, passive defence night. be the means Libya,
be able to of ultimately defeating the intentions obtained from France and not yet
transferred, would 2. Chin und Japan-Geography, of the enemy altogether." cultural, origins, development of should be the last person in the exert pressure on Egypt and her civilisations. Early Occidental con-world to minimise the danger of gas. tacts.
3. Contemporary China and Japani Cultural, economic and political.
4. The Far East in the World war
and the Washington conference.
Bus
1 would say that, provided the proper precautions which we recom- mend are taken, I believe that gas will be easier to defeat than either tire or high explosive bombs." last thing the The
to do was wanted
5. The Soviet Union in the Far East general public
Government
to frighten the any er to engender
G. British, French, and Dutch in-hopeless feeling that war was inevit- terests in Oceania and Eastern Asia. able.
7. American Interests: Hawait, tho
Philippines, trade and missions.
8. Economic and naval-lastes in the Pacific arca: U.S. policy.
9. China, Russia and Japanese 'policy.
Listed in three departments, the course may be used as an elet live in graduate programmes, or toward a graduate major upon proper' de- partmental approval.
The course on the Far East is an innovation, sponsored by the Univer sity's departments of geography, poli." Ucal science and sociology.
Conductors will be:
George B. Cressey, 6 years in China
Air raid precautions in this country
New Alphabets
Prepared For
Soviet People
WRITTEN
LANGUAGES
"THE END OF JIBUTI"
INDIAN QUADS "It one day it no longer belonged toi
Jubbulpore (Central Provinces),
Indin, July 1. us, not only would our ships. be with out a halfway point between Mar-
Quadruplets have been bora to seilles and. Hanol, Sut also French colonial prestige in the Far East an Indian peasant woman in the would receive a blow from which it village of Mahagama, near Gote- could recover only with difficulty. gaon, in the Narsinghpur district. "What creates the prosperity of The report says:-"Doing quite Jibuti is the French railway
between
it and Addis Ababa. Now it is, well: all hate and hearty" obvious that the Italians are trying by Reuter.
all means to buy out the railway or
to deflect its traille ta Assab.
"That would clearly be the end of Jibuti.
"A
for the
French troops Ethiopia, that is a small matter.
in
were based on a voluntary system. MADE WHERE THERE material interests, but rather of spiri-
Although the co-operation of local su-
thorities had been sought, the arrange-WERE NONE; MORE TO ments were entirely civil in character.
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HONOUR-
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FOLLOW
Moscow, July 1.
tasks major the One of
the Russian -by assumed Bolsheviks has now been com- pleted, with the introduction of 34 new alphabets for races and tribes which had no written languages before the revolution, of 34 other CONFETTI was falling around and provision
Cyril Watkins, aged 28, as simplified Latin alphabels for teaching at the University of Shanghat he emerged from Neath Register Innguages, such as Mongolian, and conducting geographic research, ollice with his bride-when sud-Arabic and Chinese, which could
China's Geographiste denly police plunged into the be learned only with difficulty. of He is author
After a recent meeting of the Foundations," the standard geography of China in English. He is heat of coloured shower and took him to
He appeared the next day before All-U. ion Committee for the. In the department of geology and the police station! geography at Syracuse University.
the magistrates covered with con- troduction of Now Alphabets, the fetti and with a flower in his bat-Committee's vice-chairman, J. E. Korkmasuf, informed correspond- tonhole. He was accused of obstructing the ents that written Inngunges have peoples except a few very small Tokyo; student of. Japanese ille since police the previous night. He was now been provided for all. Sovlet 1917. Haring is author of the "Lands ned 1 and sent out to his bride.
But the bride's brother, Thomas tribes which have decided to asc of Gods and Earthquakes," and is
of Sociology, Collins, who was beat man, was sent naslatant professor School of eltzenry and Public Affairs, o prison for a week for assaulting a the languages of larger neighbour. Syracuse University-United Press. policeman.
Douglas G. Haring. 7 years Inj Japan, graduate of the School of Japanese Language and
Culture,
BLACKENED LIGHT WILL
CURE SLEEPLESSNESS
-Says H. de Vere Stacpoole'
DE VERE STACPOOLE, the novelist, has come to the rescue of Ho the scepticas millionaire, Rai Bahadur Ramjidas Bajorta, wh offered £2,000 to any one who could help him to sleep,
Writing from Glig. Dene, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, he gives this sadvies; Ma
Have an electric light at the bedside with the bulb blackened so That only a small ray of light excapes.
"Lio with the-euce-fixed-on the rau.
ing groups. All races which have requested now Latin alphabets for their languages also have been served.
PLENTY OF WORK TO DO But the large number of institutes and organizations formed to create vast new alphabets st have A amount of work before them, Mr. Korkmasoft explained. They must now help various tribes and races to develop rich literary languages from the spoken languages which are being given written expression for the first time.
About 25,000,000 persons are using the new alphabets. Most of these. belong to races with ancient languages so difficult to acquire that literacy has hitherto been rare among them. But about 2,000,000 are reading and before recorded.
"The room must be in darkness." Mr. Stacpoole does not mention writing--languages – never
the reward.
"The question for France is not of tual interests, and with them our colonial prestige is included."
DELICATE NEGOTIATION
The well-known writer on colonial subjects, M. Pierre Mille, asks in the
totali Becciator, "Faced with the tarlan desires of Rome concerning Abyssinia, how shall we safeguard the rights of France?"
The material problem resulting from the stationing of Italian troops 15 right on the French frontier aggravated by the attitude of Rome.
"French public opinion does not Keem to appreciate the danger of the position. With its surrounding area of simply 60 miles of desert. Jibuti will receive a death blow. Moreover taken by the Power occupying the Ethiopian heights. at the slightest alarm it could be
1
"Can we allow this insecurity for port destined to be the only refuge for our mercantile ships, our sub. marines, squadrons und seaplanes, be tween Marseilles and Madagascar, and Saigon ? It is a national question, and the negotiations which must take place among Italy Britain and our Relvos vill be long and delicate." Renter.
ANSWERS
to questions on Page: 2. 1. Right. The pike lives for more than 200 years.
2. Wrong. Barrie took the title from James Crichton (1665 82) accomplished son of a Scots Lord Advocate.
3. Wrong. It was used by Charles V. when talking of the Spanish Empire at the beginning of the 16th century.
Polos and 4. Wrong. The Russians are Slave The Finns aro Mongole.
6. Right. It was first applied to the majority party of 25 which
votes
In a doelded by two Revolutionary Congress in London in 1002 that Lonin should.odit' the party newspaper..
6. Right, At Crécy in 1840.
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