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Friday, June 14, 1940.
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get out of.
same
in these Yugoslav days to use the Hvar, Korcula, Brac, Lopud-fre all
of the names. Sebenico, Imade Italianate
limestone, and та
the raisins Dalmatia fa
but the thin, nothing Ragusa, Castelnuovo), and the grapes will be ripening. On barren-seeming strip running up from the benches and terraces the Austrian the sea to the mountain crest. It is and English holiday-makers will be a fand, someone has wittily sald, fa getting blacker and blacker, with which you can only walk sideways.
But come
closer, and it is trans- hundred degrees In what little shade formed.. It festers-there is no other word for it at the southern end there may be.
Terrace rises upon terrace of vine of the Red Sea. Guide-books say it is a "Characteristic French)
cruising there is no better and olive; cypresses stand up, not in as on the Italian town."Don't believe it. It is characteristic of nothing but that const In Europe. Yachts movejones or twos
but in clumps through the still water like swans on woods. Every inch where soll can
Riviera,
and small part of the world.
lake. Even when sirocco is When the Italo-Abyssinian fight was on, Jibuti was estim-blowing, the long islands which He gather, in the hot limestone le cul- ated to have a population of about 650 whites. In the old days
tivated, and here and there streams down the coast protect the deep, it was a port of call for all kinds of adventurers-slave-traders, warm channels from the Adriatic: of pure, clear water burst dut from gun runners, dope smugglers, anything. They have stopped the and the water of exa-shell blue, in-the limestone wall and cascade down the gardens, and work a slavers, it is generally agreed, but the others? Mysterious tri-ing and evening light, becomes so mill or two before they are released angular-sailed dhows still sneak in and out on unknown business, motionless on quiet days that the to the sea. Dalmatia always seems
In
THERE are four hotels and a cinema In Jibuti. The on the central square, hotels look the Place Menelik. It is here that the cosmopolitan population collects when the sun goes down, allowing them
out of their bed- to creep room where they have lain swelter- ing all afternoon.
They sit round the Hstening to radios that blare Jazz und propaganda into the African night. Now, they are asking why anybody could want such a place.
You have to be a strong man, or
rich
elaborate enough to buy comforts, If you are to survive a long
there. stay
THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" i used by the "fiongkong Telegraph' to indicate news which is strictly copright "under the provisions of the Zelecommune de
cations Ordinance, 1918. Buch news as | Sty
bears the indication "UP") is received in Jengkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previa
The B.W.O.F.
The Rev. J. R. Higgs and his public spirited supporters, we are happy to note, are losing no
fly-infested cafes square, gossiping and
1 remember
fresh one fellow, from Europe, who developed hypo- chondria. If his hand accidentally touched a skinny, half-naked Somali native in the street he had to rush back to his hotel and smother it in disinfectant, The leprous beggars and scabby hawkers that hung about the entes scared him so badly he even had special bathe in disinfectant
cil.
ADDIS
ABARA
ABYSSINIA
MILKE
RYHOD AVT►
MOGADISCIO ****
"but is a tough, tight little hazelnut wedged in a pair of big nutcrackers."
For
laid with bands of silver in the morn-
through
line dividing it from the sky dis-silent and unpopulated by birds VO appears. In the evening long fur- for a few that slip with sharp, thy rows are cut in the smoothness by notes in and out of the grey olives, but where one of these streams fails the boats which standing oarsmen row out to the fishing grounds with down from the mountain, swallows strokes distinct to the eye two miles and dippers and grey wagtalls, which collect, doves coo in the wild figs. away; and the sea, very often, is
•
enough without ripples at night for remind one of Cornwall, fly round
thermen to prowl round Inshore, the falls. spearing everything that swims un- der the powerful petrol Jumps fixed
over the bows.
sinia's capital, Jibuti.
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*
And the cltles of Dalmatla—these
are perfection in miniature. In the northern cities, Sibenik, Trogir, Split, Addis Ababa with there are fine things to be seen. At Split, for example, which is a lively part having cement wor
works
came
and
there are the
The French are chief share- holders in the railway, which is the railway troen Zagreb and Belgrade only one in Abyssinin-the Land of and Central Europe, there
ruins of Diocletian's Prester John, as old-time Portuguese;
palace, which [Robert Adam adventurously wrongly called it a land as big asplored in 1757 for measurements and Britain, France, Belgium and Hol-detalls he was to use in building the land together.
Adelphi, Rather slummy houses, How France
to
with hen occupy complete
runs, are built French Somaliland makes
the Roman walls. But an in-high into teresting tale. The Compagnie Split and its fellows are drier, dus- Nanto-Bordeinise sent a ship away tier, and less rich in gardena and to buy a port somewhere in the Red delights than the Dalmatian diles Sen. It was as simple as that in above and below Dubrovnik, which is those days.
the Queen of them all, and the The captain made a treaty with Pearl, as the travel literature says, FIBUTI began to be a centre Italian Eritrea (to the north) and the Danakils of a place called Edd, of the Adriatic.
for propaganda just before Italian Somaliland.
Dubrovnik, with a great wall wur- (to the south) and paid them £120 for the villinge time in furthering their initial the war. stone building which the This simile does not take into ac and a piece of hinterland, Appar- one of those pare, obstinate cities that
count less important British Somall- effort to stimulate Hongkong's French refused
ently this was not a suitable to hand over the land, which may also be likened to for it was Incorporated quietly into will not yield their independence to interest in the war effort, A Italians-contained many Abyssini-n
a nut, but it la not one that anybody Eritren some years later. Off went the tourist. It accepts the tourist, ans. second public meeting has been
would be likely to crack at the mo- the Frenchmen again, and bought a grows rich by the tourist, yet pro- Not far away was the Italian ment.
place culled Obok from some Danakil serves its own life. The tourista live arranged for to-day week, June Consulate, inspired by a similar de-
outside It lay 1802.
the wall among the plano An awkward proposition for the chiefs for £2,500 In
trees and palms and oleanders of the sire to keep 21, in the Rose Room of the when one pinned a typewritten state. Italians is Jibuti, because it prevents Idle for twenty years.
the colony informed. Peninsula Hotel, at which the mert on the notice board outside its them closing the jaws of their that Abyssinian trade. might find antizens are the swifts, which twist It seemed there were possibilities suburbs: the only visitors who share elty on equal terms with the public will have opportunity of door, word was quickly carried to Ecographical nutcrackers,
outlet to the world through another! airing more views on the best
The Italian nut is Abyssinia, a place called Assab in Eritrea, about and screen in the sunlight above the and quickest methods of raising
squeeze seventy miles north of Obok. The Placa Kralja Petra, where Francis- funds for the B.W.O.F.
the trade juice out of it because their Italians were busy in Assab. The tan monks, Yugoslav officers, business We And in the enfca, bazaars and nutcrackers иге wedged open
by upshot was the French made treaties, men and thele Indies, all the city. earnestly-and-heartily commend streets there was always a confus-Jibuti
with Somall sultons and established stroll up and down when the sun no this meeting to our readers."
ing-variety of reports. The strength.
the colony,Cote-Francaise des longer glares from the limestone
walls and paving. of Somalis French Somaliland.
Bain sells his smart shoes, in thè Jibuti's other source of revenue
- blg
The result was that a
conflicting reply immediately went coconut, the other. up on the enemy board.
of
"it all can be judged by the cable received in London from Jibuti carly in October 1935. It sold:
suggestions for increasing Hong-most immediately."
The war had been under
Lree days.
"Big
But they cannot
other words, most IN
Abyssinia's trade, which
the
the
It will be seen from the official notice of this meeting, published military concentrations in Abyssinia, the Italians were trying to develop, (besides her participation in Abys- Placa Kralja Petra, but time still out to the world through sinia's trade) is the refuelling of moves slowly in Dubrovnik to the elsewhere in this issue, that Widely believed war will break al- puss Jibuti,
humid, unpleasant port of French Mesangeries Maritimes liners music of Verdi and Bizet, gently French Somaliland. And the French, bound for Indo-China, and any other played in the cafes.
Most of Dubrovnik was destroyed way sitting pretly down
In- there, collect Red Sea freighters that pop in,
in the to
earthquake of 1887, but not a monopolise heavy tolls in the way of Customs dians seem
in the townhouse seems to have come into it. dues on coffee,
ordinary commerce hides, wax, ivory,
to Somalis seem
do the dunkey since. The city of the ancient re- public is built throughout, buitle- work.
But If I were French or Italian ments, palaces, churches, cloisters,..
shops, fountains, paving, plump (or Somall), Jibuti is not a place boards in the Old Harbour, of the
should willingly fight for. For me, anybody who wants it can have it. Turn to Pago 7, Fourth Column
t
reasons for, wanting such
kong's war effort are advanced. For example, funda might be carmarked to provide an aero-
OF course, Mussolint has his musk and a few other things. plane, an ambulance, a tank, or
motor torpedo-bout. These a place from France.
On top of this, the French take ideas are worthy of fuller con-
Jibuti is a tough, tight little hazel-a cut off Abyssinia's trade with the nut wedged іл 1 pair
of of big help
their crazy, 500-le- sideration, for they enjoy the nutcrackers, the laws of which are long toy rallway that connects Abys- virtue of practicability, taking the discussion from the realm of academic patriotism into the {fields of applied action.
We hope too that this second meeting will not only be much better attended than its forerunner, but that several of the suggestions advanced last Friday will again come up for discussion. We are particularly impressed with the proposal for saving newspapers and empty tins. That there is a ready and |profitable market for these dis- carded commodities is indicated by the eagerness with which amahs and cook boys seize and
and
make use of them. Indeed, we are aware that quite fancy prices are.being-paid-for-old newspapers- used tins in Hongkong. There is no reason why the B.W.O.F. should not receive the benefit of this market.
Direct service to the Allied cause may be a trifle difficult to offer from this great distance, but money we can give,' and hero seems to be at least one sound and convenient method of raising some of that money.
grandiose incredible work, received certain height. But a metal con- go until December 31, 1894, to the The congratulations modestly, touch struction opened up new possibilities, construcior. ed, yet filled with pride. He was
Eiffel's project was met with mis- The tower itself became on Janu-- an elderly broad-shouldered gentle trust by many experts. Would the ary 1, 1800, the property of the City, man with a round brown beard, steel bors be able to withstand the of Faris. To-day it is the property, already streaked with white, and wind pressure at such a height of State. sagacious, earnest eyes.
Would the workmen be able to work Eiffel ived and worked long after at such a height? the erection of the Eiffel Tower-he was then already he died - only In 1923. But the red lower of steel
The Eiffel Tower was indeed the great sensation of the World Exhibi tion. Some were amazed at ta height, but the experts admired it. for superlative technical exeru- The commission which examined tion. The public flocked to see it.. thought other At the restaurants in the first (185 he entered the history of building for wise. They had full confidence in feet) and second
(487 feet) plat- all time.
Eiffel's abilty.
forms it was difficult at certain hours Gustave Eiffel, the But when the publié learned about to find a place.
man of the day, the project a storm of Indignation most popular His tower, for the construction of broke in the art circles of Paris. A erected a laboratory for himself on which 0,000 tons of steel were used, protest was published which was top of the tower, where he studied. surpassed in height not only all the signed by the leaders of the art aerodynamic problems.
In the Champs de Mars remained the
great work of his life, with which the plan, however,
*
The Eiffel
buildings of those days-the Cheops Pyramid of 474 feet or the Washing- ton Memorial of 807 feet-but it has held the record till now for the high-
Is
Tower 50
appearance
But fate had prepared a hard: -blow-for-this-man-who-at-one-stroke-
had reached world fame. As direc
Years
Old
est building. The New York sky world of Paris of those days. Among tor of the Panama Canal Society he scraper, the Woolworth Building, is others were Maupassant, Sardou, was involved in the scandal that 227 feet lower.
Huyamons, Sully-Prudhoming, Fran- destroyed that Il-fated company. When In the spring of 1880, cola Coppee, Charles Gounod. They In 1892, together with Ferdinand Gustave Eiffel handed over the plans protested against the barbarie de Lesseps and other leading officials of of his gigantic tower, which was to formity of the be the main attraction of the 1889 city, they talked about the death of the deck. Although one of the best of the the Panama Society, he appeared in World Exhibition, he had already a the world-famous Parisian IT was in March, 1889, when respected name as a daring construc- But this protest, which might have case, Elifel
taste. barristers of the day pleaded his Few people are aware of the fact In the highest point
WES sentenced to iwo. that second-hand newspapers are imported into Hongkong and Eiffel Tower, on the round viaducts introduced his name to his been effective, was sent too late. Nal years' imprisonment and a heavy fine only was the contract with Eiffel was imposed on him. A re-trial be. his China for re-anle for various balcony above tile Lantern, a name was not unknown, as he was the already paid to him but work had lished his complete innocence and ho
signed and the first part of his teen fore the Supreme Court finally estab purposes, chiefly from
the small society of gentlemen Paris at the Parls World Fitarted on the foundations and, the was llberated." United States. Nearly every gathered for its solemn in- tion of 1878. This, owing to the factories were in full swing.
home in Hongkong subscribes to at least one Hongkong.newspaper
auguration.
der circles
In wider profession.
builder of the pavilion of the
novelty of its steel construction, had In the contract which had been caused a sensation.
signed on January 8, 1887, a sub- The Eiffel Tower has long sincdi and to one or more English,
Eiffel had dreamed for a long time sidy of 1,800,000 francs was granted, become part of the city. It has be American or Dominion journals.
from the entrance come a sign for Paris, like tho The Tricolour was holsted by M. of a colossal building of steel a and the income If oven a fraction of these papers Francols Carnet, son of the. then thousand feet high. It had for long charges and from the felling of Towers of Notre Dame, the dome of
the been general knowledge to all build-premises in
tower held the Pantheon, the green roof of thes were-saved, the BW.OF. might | French Frestdenty-high, waisted-top=""
ing engineers that a stone building severni restaurante bad cales, - a- Opero, and the Arc de Triomphos benefit to the extent of some-hats were waved, and Gustave Alex- could not because of the weight of branch office of the "Figaro" and thing like $10,000 a month. andro Elffol, the creator of this the material be extended above a innumerable souvenir stalls-was to
Walter Angel.