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MUSSOLINI PUTS THESE PLACES IN THE NEWS
Who on earth
could want Jibuti?
JIBUT
by
0. D. GALLAGHER
Magic of Dalmatia
OLEANDERS, the From the sea, perhaps, the Dai- Tarest white and the deep-made line of pale mountains, spotted
looks monotonous,
Over
of the same limestone, and but the thun.. raisins Dalmalla is nothing
eat pink in the brilliant sun, will here and there with the faint green still be out in Dalmatia.
of pine woods, goes on for ever down the cafe tables in Sibenik, Dubrov- the coast from Sibenik to the bor- of Albanin. The Islands- nik, Hercegnovi (it is not very polite ders
Lopud-are in these Yugoslav. days to use the Hvar, Korcula, Brac uld Italianato Dames. Sebenico, made
the Ragusa, Castelnuovo), and the grapes will be ripening. On harren-zeeming strip running up from the benches and terraces the Austrian the sea to the mountain crest. It is and English holiday-enakers will be a land, someone has wittily said, in getting blacker and blacker, with which you enn only walk aldeways. it is trans- [IBUTI is the town that I, for one, have been most happy to the midday heat around and over a But come closer, and
hundred degrees in what little shnde formed.
Terrace rises upon terrace of vine get out of. It festers-there is no other word for it-ut the southern end there may be.
is no better and olive: cypresses stand up, not in For cruising there
ones or twos as on the Italian of the Red Sea. Guide-books say it is a "Characteristic French'
in Europe. Yachts move Riviera, but in clumps und small town." Don't believe it. It is characteristic of nothing but that const
through the still water like swans on woods. Every inch where soll can
13 sirocco lake. Even when a part of the world.
When the Italo-Abyssinian fight was on, Jibuti was catim-blowing, the long islands which he gather in the hot limestone is cul- In the old days down the const protect the deep, valed, and here and there streams ated to have a population of about 650 whites. it was a port of call for all kinds of adventurers-slave-traders, warm channels from the Adriatic; of pure, clear water burst out from-
work a the gardens, gun runners, dope smugglers, anything. They have stopped the and the water of egg-shell blue, in the limestone wall and cascade down slavers, it is generally agreed, but the others? Mysterious tri-laid with bands of silver in the morn-m or two board they and worked
ing and evening light, becomes som
days, that the to the sea. Dalmatia always seems angular-sailed dhows still sneak in and out on unknown business, motionless on quiet
line dividing it from the sky dis-silent and unpopulated by birds save In the evening long fur-for a few that allp with sharp, shy are cut in the smoothness by notes in and out of the grey olives, the boats which standing oarsmen but where one of these streams falls down from the mountain, swallows row out to the fishing grounds with collect, doves con in the wild figs, strokes distinct to the eye two miles and dippers and grey wagtails, which away: and
very often, is enough without ripples at night for remind one of Cornwall, fly round Behermen to prowl round inshore, the falls. spearing everything that swims un- der the powerful petrol lamps fixed over the bows,
THERE are four hotels and a cinema in Jibull. The hotels look on the central square, the Place Menelik. It is here. that the cosmopolitan population collects when the sun goes down, allowing them to creep out of their bed- room where they have lain sweller- ing all afternoon.
cates sit They
fly-infested in round the square, gossiping and listening to radios that blare jazz African into the and propaganda night. Now they are asking why ABYSSINIA anybody could want such a pince.
stay there.
You have to be a strong man, or THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph"
elaborate one rich enough to buy i used by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to Indieate new which is strictly copyright comforts, if you are to survive a long under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1938. Such newS ME benre the indication "UP" is recolved in Hongkong on the date of publication by The United Proti Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.
The B.W.O.F.
fresh
one fellow, I remember from Europe, who developed hypo- chondria, if his hand accidentally touched a skinny, half-naked Somali nalive in the street he had to rush back to his hotel and smother it in disinfectant. The leprous beggars und seabby hawkers that hung about the cafes seared him so badly he
FRENCH
ADDIS
ABARA
MILARI
HOGADISCID:
#ibuti is tough, tight little hazelnut wedged in a pair of big nutcrackers."
appears. TOWS
the seo,
*
And the cities of Dalmatia-these are perfection in miniature. In the northern elties, Sibenik, Trogir, Split, with there are fine things to be seen. At Split, for example, which is a lively port having cement works and a chich French are
share railway from Zagreb and Belgrade holders in the railway, which is the and Central. Europe, there are the
sinia's capital, Addis Ababa Jibuti.
The
ex-
houses,
only one in Abyssinia-the Land of
Adam odventurously Robert Prester John, as old-time Portuguese ruins of Diocletian's palace, which wrongly called it-n land as big
plored in 1757 for measurements and Britain, France. Belgium and Hol-details he was to use in building the land together,
slumuny Adelpht. Ruther came to occupy complete with hen runs, are built How France
high into the Roman walls. But. French Somaliland makes on
The tale,
Compagnie Split and its fellows are drier, dus- teresting Nanto-Bordelalse sent a ship away tier, and less rich in gardens and to buy a port somewhere in the Red delights than the Dalmatian cities. as simple as that in above and below Dubrovnik, which is Sea. It was
the Queen of them all, and the those days. even had special baths in disinfectant
The captain made a treaty with Pearl, as the travel literature says,
of the Adriatic. IBUTI began to be à centre Italian Eritres (to the north) and the Dannicils of a place called Edd, Dubrovnik, with a great wall sur-
for propaganda just before talian Somaliland (to the south) and paid them £120 for the village The Abyssinian Consulate This simile does not take into-ac-and at piece of hinterland. Appar-rounding it bullt out into the sea, is time in furthering their initial the war.
-a big stone building which the count less important British Somall-ently this was not a suitable place, one of those rare, obstinate cities that It accepts the tourist,. effort to stimulate Hongkong's French refused to hand over the land, which may also be likened to for it was incorporated quietly into will not yield their independenca to- interest in the war effort.
Aitallans-contained many Abyssini- a nut, but it is not one that anybody Eritren some years later. Off went the tourist.
would be likely to crack at the mo- the Frenchmen again, and bought a grows rich by the tourist, yet pre- the Italian ment.
place called Obok from some Danakh serves its own life. The tourists live- second public meeting has been
among the plane It lay outside the wall 1062 £2,500 in
trees and palms and oleanders of the
The Rev. J. R. Higgs and his public spirited supporters, we are happy to note, are losing no
oil.
ans.
Nol far away was
arranged for to-day week, June Consulate, Inspired by a similar de- An awkward proposition for the chiefs for
sire to keep the colony informed. 21, in the Rose Room of the one pinned a typewritten state- Italinas is Jibuti, because it prevents idle for twenty years.
closing the jaws of their
dour.
word was
Peninsula Hotel, at which thement on the notice board outside its the
quickly carried to geographical nutcrackers. public will have opportunity of the other. The result was that The Italian aut airing more views on the best conflicting reply. Irrunediately went coconut. But they cannot squeeze seventy niles north of Obok. The Placa Kralja Petra, where Franets-
It seemed there were possibilities suburbs; the only visitors who share that Abyssinian trade might find un the city on, equal terms with the outlet to the world through another citizens are the swifts, which twist Abyssinio, a place called Assab in Eritrea, about and sercam in the sunlight above the in Assab. The cant monks, Yugoslav officers, business. and quickest methods. of-raising up on the enemy board,
the trade Juice out of it because their Italians were busy We funds for the B.W.O.F.
And In the
and nutcrackers are cafes, bazaars
wedged open by upshot was the French made treaties men and their ladies, all the city, with Somali sultans and established stroll up and down when the sun no the Ilmertone Francaise des longer glares from earnestly and heartily commend streets there was always a confus- Jibuti.
the colony, Cote
walls and paying. Ing variety of reports. The strength
Bata selis hie smart shoes in the- other words,
of Somalis-French Somailland. most
of revenue Jibuti's other source Abyssinia's trade, which
this meeting to our readers,
of it all can be judged by the cable received in London from Jibuti curly
in October 1935. It said: "Bl
passes
out to the
world
It will be seen from the official notice of this meeting, published millors concentrations in Abyss the Italians were trying to develop. (besides her participation in Abys- Plaen Kralja Petra, but time still elsewhere in this issue, that widely believed war will break al-ibuti, humid, unpleasant port of French Messageries Maritimes Uners music of Verd and Bizet, gently suggestions for increasing Hong-mast immediately." kong's war effort are advanced. For example, funds might be carmarked to provide an aero- plane, an ambulance, a tank, or
The war had three days....
seem
In-
refuciling of moves slowly in Dubrovnik to the through sinia's trade) is the
Most of Dubrovnik was destroyed. French Somalliand. And the French, bound for Indo-China, and any other played in the cutes.
collect Red Sea freighters that pop in.
the in the earthquake of 1807, but not a been under way sitting pretty down there,
10
monopolise
house seems to have come into it heavy tolls in the way at Customs dians
in
the town. since. The clly of the ancient re- commerce ordinary hides, wax, ivory, dues on coffee,
Somalis seem to do the donkey public is bulli throughout, battle- musk and a few other things.
work.
fountains. But if I were French or Italian ments, palaces, churches, cloisters, paving. plump. (or Somall), Jibull is not a place shops,
should willingly fight for. For me, bollards in the Old Harbour, of the Turn to Page 7, Fifth Column anybody who wants it can have it.
his
course, Mussolini has reasons for wanting such
On top of this, the French take Jibut is a tough, tight little hazel-u cut off Abyssinia's trade with the
their crazy, of blghelp of
500-mile- nut wedged in a pair
શ motor torpedo-boat. These a place from France, idens are worthy of fuller con-
sideration, for they enjoy the nutcrackers, the jaws of which are long toy railway 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 make use of them. Indeed, wo are aware that quite fancy prices are being paid for old newspapers and 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 here scoms to be at least one sound and convenient mothod of ralaing some of that money.
The tower itself became on Janu-
a metal con- go until December 31, 1894, to the grandiose Incredible work, received certain height. But the congratulations modestly, touch struction opened up new possibilities. constructor. ed, yet filled with pride. He was Eiffel's project was met with mis- an elderly broad-shouldered gentle- trust by many experts. Would the ary 1, 1800, the property of the City man, with round brown beard, steel bars be able to withstand the of Parls. To-day it is the property already streaked with white, and wind pressure, at such a height of State. Bagacious, carnest eyes.
Would the workmen be able to work Eiffel lived and worked long after at such a height? the erection of the Eiffel Tower-he was then already 57-he died only
in 1023. But the red tower of steel
in the Champs de Mars remained the
The Eiffel Tower was indeed the Kreat sensation of the World Exhibi- flon. Some were amazed at Its. height, but the experts admired it. The commission which examined for its superlative technical execu
tion. The public flocked to see it..
(487 great work of his life, with which the plan, however, thought other At the restaurants in the first (185. feet) plat- he entered the history of building for wise. They had full confidence in fect) and second.
Elitel's ability.
forms it was difficult at certain hours But when the public learned about to find a place. Gustave Eiffel, the
of the day.. the project a storm of Indignation most popular mun His tower, for the construction of broke in the art circles of Paris. A erected a laboratory for himself on. was top of the tower, where he studied. which 9,000 tons of steel were used, protest was published which surpassed in height not only all the signed by the lenders of the art nerodynamle problems.
all time.
The
t
Tower Eiffel
Is .50
buildings of those days-the Cheops Pyramid of 474 feet or the Washing- ton Memoriel of 607 feetbut it has held the record till now for the high-
227 feel lower.
But fate bad prepared a hard blow for this man who at one stroke: had reached work 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
involved in the scaridil that. scraper, the Woolworth Building, is others were Maupassant, Sardou, was
Huysmans, Sully-Prudhomme, Fran- destroyed that ill-fated company. When in the spring of 1086, cols Coppee, Charles Gounod. They In 1892, together with Ferdinand. Gustave Eiffel handed over the plans protested against the barbaric de Lesseps and other leading officials, of of the the Fanama Society, he appeared in of his gi antic tower, which was to formity of the appearance
be the main attraction of the 1880 city, they talked about the death of the dock. Although one of the best- World Exhibition, he had already the world-famous Parisian taste. barristers of the day pleaded his was in March, 1889, when respected name as a daring construc-But this profest, which might have ense, -Elfel was sentericed to two- Few people are aware of the fact on the highest point of the tor in steel. Railway bridges and been effective, was sent too inte. Not years' imprisonment and a heavy fine that second-hand nowspapers are imported into Hongkong
purposes,
and Eiffel Tower, on
circles his
the round viaducts introduced his name to his only was the contract with Eiffel was imposed on him. A re-trial be
profession. In wider China for re-sale for various balcony above the Lantern, a name was not unknown, as he was the signed and the first part of his feca fore the Supreme Court finally catab
chiefly from the small society of gentlemen builder of the pavilion of the City already paid to him but work had lahed his complete innocence and he
of Paris at the Paris World Exhibitarted on the foundations and he was liberated,
factories were in full swing. United States. Nearly every gathered for its solemn in- tion of 1878. This, owing to the
novelty of its steel construction, had In tho contract which had been- home in Hongkong subscribes to
auguration.
caused #1 aenantion.
signed on January 6, 1887, a sub- The Eiffel Tower has long since at least one Hongkong newspaper and-to-one or more English,
Eiffel had dreamed for a long time sidy of 1,000,000 francs was granted, become part of the city. It has be American or Dominion Journals. The Tricolour was hoisted by M. of a colossal building of steel-a-and-the-income from the entrance come a sign for Paris, like the in the tower--it held the Pantheon, the green roof of that If even a fraction of these papers Francols Carnot, son of the then thousand feet high. It had for long charges and from the letting of Tower of Notre Dame, the dome of
been general knowledge to all build premises
cafes, a Opera, and the Arc de Triomplic, were saved, the B.W.OF. might French President: high, waisted top-ing engineers that a stone building several restaurants and 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 Eiffel, the creator of this the material be extended above-a Innumerable souvenir. tail-was to
Walter Angel: