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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH: ·January 14, 1941.
WAR DRUMS BEAT AS LION OF
JUDAH SUMMON ABYSSINIANS
(By "Reuter's" Correspondent)
KHARTOUM, Jan. 13 (Reuter)-The nightly brooding of the Ethiopian sky resounds to the roll of drums, spelling out a message for which the Ethiopians have been wälting five years-that the Emperor is near at hand and that the moment of deliverance is not far off.
In a special interview granted me by the Lion of Judah, I learned that the dark, bearded, distinguished Emperor has already made contact with, the Ethiopian chiefs from the interior.
The last time I saw the Emperor he was disembarking ni his flight Haifa five years ago from a British destroyer after from Abyssinia.
on a
BRITISH
Then he was careworn and defected; to-day, he sat purple silk-covered wooden throne in his little square palm- fringed palace beside the placid waters of the Blue Nile.
Alert and bright-eyed, he is voice another being. In n vibrant with confidence, he told me of his plans-that the day was not far distant when he would cross the border and lead the Ethiopian patriot army against the enemy.
There was a glint of assurance in his eyes as he exlaimed, "I will tear down the figure of the wolf erected by the Italians in Addis Ababa Square and in its pince will reinstate the white marble statute of the Lion of Judah, the original. of which they took to Rome."
RESOURCES
DEBATE
Country Still Dissatisfied
(BY "REUTER'S" LOUDY CONRESPONDENT) LONDON, Jan. 13 (Reuter).
Obstacle To French Thai Negotiations
For the
Golfer
-Bangkok Dignity if you're dressed
SINGAPORE, Jan. 13 (Reuter).-The withdrawal of the French Minister to Thai last May to take up the appointment of Minister to Venezuela was given to "Reuter" by the Thai Consul here as the reason why Thailand is not in a position to negotiate with the French,
The Consul said that Admiral of Decoux. the Governor-General Indo-China, had expressed his will- ingness to undertake such negotia- tions but the Thai Government could not recognise the appointment of the who rc- Indo-Government ofllelal placed M. Lepisseer.
Indo-China was not a sovereign Power with which the That Govern-
Λ
opened for way might be This duties as French Minister.
Revolt Making Headway Ifaile Seinss! was well-pleased with the progress of his army's train- Ing ust added, "The revolt is making) great headway, thanks to the whole-It is anticipated that the well-ment could negotiate. hearted support of the British Gov-known ernment."
William Sir expert, "It is the writing on the wall. The Beveridge, will be appointed to negotiations if M. Lepisseer resumed days of my former Hallan ally who take full-time direction of the betrayed my country, are numbered. country's manpower problem. He bulk the roads but he killed and enslaved thousands of my people; he fallest to break their spirit and look forward to their beration and institution of a just, constitutional the government."
Nazi Kultur In France
FRENCH WRECK CARS
OCCUPIED France is fighting its German taskmasters with the same weapon. which caused the downfall of the French nation-- sabotage and Afth column work.
The car park in the Paris suburb of Lo Vesinet, which has been filled with German Army cars and armoured vehicles, was reported in Vichy recently to have been sabotaged.
Discussion on new proposals to accelerate the war effort is intensify- ing in political circles, politicians having now had a week to consider them and even now It cannot be said! that there is general approval, critic-
Libraries Raided The Emperor told me that just as ism being focussed on the questions Marshal Badoglio had done, he of manpower and production.
The next Parliamentary debate, Systematic attempts are, be- would personally lead his victorious |
to be a secret troops to Addis Ababa, mounted on originally intended
session, is on manpower and producing made by the German a white horse,
and the House of Commons will authorities in Paris to stamp out I asked
him
if it was true that the
tion, Royal Crown of the House of Judah have an opportunity of expressing its French culture, according to tightened control of the frontier line
visitors now in the United States was now in Rome. He said that the views on the changes made. crown which Badoglio took to Rome feel that the whole question of man from Switzerland and quoted by. was stolen by the Italians from the power and production needs more
Edgar Mowrer, Washington cor- Etiopian Church and was not the effective dealing and more action.
respondent of the "Chicago: Emperor's Crown.
Daily News."
War Drums Beat
He went on to explain about the royal war drums which nightly re beating on the hilltops of Gojjam and along the frontier. "There are 44 of them. Some are big, others are small, hollowed out from tree trunks and
My covered with cowhide. chleftains ure allowed a maximum of 12 druma ench, but mine sound a the when particular signal and peculiar note of those druns is heard my people know that am nearby.
Many
Lonely Life
Of Puppet
Told Wang
Passive resistance to the German oficials in the occupied zone is la creasing and the
Germans Have
to prevent sceret crossing of people
over the border.
It is also rep
reported at Germans have issued warning that any- one caught sending food from ve- cupled to unoccupied France with be severely punished.
Reports reaching New York Bay that sabotage has been rife French
Overtime for Gestapo
Three Germans, Kruess, director of the Berlin State Library, Becker and Fuchs, also librarians, he says, con- stitute a commission. in Paris under large industrial and munitions fac tories now under Nazi control. whose "orders all books felt to be Machinery is being constantly tam- contrary to the Nazi spirit are re-pered with products ruined.
and private from public moved libraries
At and from bookstalls. the same time, booksellers have been forced to display German propaganda: works.
Catholle documents have also been The lonely, fear-filled life of
And according seized,
to Mowrer's "I know that they hearing and
the Japanese puppet lender in understanding the message of my
to wrest Vatican physical violence drums because hundreds of former China, Wang Ching-wei, was informant the "Germans tried with from the lands of sokliers who were forced to fight with described by the Consul-General correspondence
Lienari, Archbishop o! the Italians are deserting and rally for China, Dr Pao, in an address Cardinal
Lille." ing to the standard raised at Gojjam to the China Society in Sydney, by my faithful commanders."
"Loyal and useful Chinese The
ure
Emperor then held a clandes-
tine meeting with Д number
of hate Wang Ching-wei for his
Ethiopian chiefs from the interior, treason to his country," said Dr Historic Room
the
At the risk of their lives, they made Pao. "Though about 20 per their way
to the meeting on frontier and upon ascertaining that cent.
of China's soil is under
7 Hankow Road, Kowloon,heir Emperor was really there they Japanese occupation, Japan has
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The audience terminated OR personal and still confident nole. "I hope you will accompany me when I return to my country," said the Emperor as I left the palace.
Peace Terms Allegations Enquiry
JOURNALIST TO BE
QUESTIONED
NEW YORK, Jan. 13
not actually been able to hold- these places. Her penetration extends to no more than 12 per cent, of that 20 per cent.
Undamaged
THE room where Queen Victoria was born, and the bedroom where she was aroused from sleep and told that she was Queen of Britain, es- when Kensington coped damage Palace was hit in a recent night! rald.
The engines of Nuzl officials' cars are put out of aetion, and the tyres slashed. Whole wardrobes of clothes have vanished mysteriously from the
Nazi Army Officers have been found Injured and beaten up in Paris Streets.
hotel suites of officials.
Immler's Gestapo are working overtime to discover the agents re- 30 far falled sponsible, but have milkerably.
Mystery Of Yacht 'Wing On'
The mystery of what happen-
"Wang Ching-wel may have a few followers hanging round, but actually he cannot trust any one of any rank.
A shower of incendiary bombs was He lives like a prisoner, and even his meal has to be cooked and served by dropped, and a fierce blaze, fanned his wife. Inside his prison-like by a strong wind, destroyed the roofs house in Nanking, Wang is sur- and top stories of buildings around ed to the small salling yacht rounded by a group of Japanese 'nd-the clock court quadrangle. visers, and outside his master, Japan, provides him with bodyguards,'
"Treaty Train"
the
ter). Mr Verne Marshall, some gain by selling himself as a
he le Chairman of the "No Foreign/slave to Japan for its skin.
ing
with a tiger for
Wing On, long missing in a The State apartments by Wren did South Seas cruise, was solved not entirely escape. Queen Mary's privy chamber: King William's bed-after discovery of its wreckage
Vanua-Levu island. room, and Queen Mary's bedroom on remote Visoqo Reef, near were extensively damaged.
Abroad were the bodies of a man and woman who apparently had starved to death, and one survivor, believed to be Mrs Fern Thompson, of Salt Lake City. Another man was believed
the the sea.
to have been washed away in Summer Trip
"The feeling of the Chinese people in regard to the so-called "Wang- Japan treaty' is Indicated by strike of Shanghal policemen and the blowing up of the treaty train' the Turks & Allies (Reu- ather day. If Wang hopes to secure
ANKARA, Jan. 13 (Reuter) merely 'consul-Major-General Cornwall and Air Vice-Marshal Elmhurst, of the British War Committee," announced to- "In the
here for conversations with day that he had been served indivisible. Untess peace with justice Middle East Command, have arrived with a subpoena to appear before is secured throughout the world, and Turkish General Staff.
unless every single Japanese soldier the Grand Jury of the Supreme is driven off China's soil, my coun- Court of the District of Colum-try and my people will continue to bin, and added that he did not
and the need material fight. We know the reason.
moral support of friendly but China's power of resistance is
Irish In N. America
The Wing On, owned by Dalton OTTAWA, Jan. 13 (Reuter) Condley, -20; left Oakland, Cal., Inst Millions of people of Irish descent summer for Hawall, stopping at San Pedro, en route to pick up Robert A year ago Condley and his 20- states a cablegram sent to-day from year-old wife, an expectant mother, days her condition necessitated ber Irish Canadians in Canada to the started for Hawall, but after three Elrean Government.,
a Coast, Guard cutter. The cable was signed by Dr IL removal to Manion, former leader of the National The baby, a boy, was born shortly Conservative Party, on behalf of a afterward and was reported now to group of prominent Irish Canadians be with Condley's mother, Mrs A. M. in various parts of the Dominion. Condley, in California.
peoples,
Pin North America would acclaim Mr Marshall, who is a newspaper the determination of her people to every act of co-operation on the editor of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, alleged fight. The success or failure of the of Eire in the war against the Part | Thompson and his wife. n fortnight age that President Roose- determination of my country and my velt had a chance a year ago to halt people will determine the fate of the the European war und still had the Pacific." chance to serve as peacemaker if he grasped it.
Standard Press
For Norway
Ho told a sensational story of German official peace termos being flown to the United States in Septem- ber, 1939, by William Rhodes Davis, "Не the New York oll
operator.
The Norwegian Government further alleged that these terms were suppressed by the State Department although they involved "just and is trying to swing public opinion honourable" terms for a peace con- by standardising Press and ference to be held at the White House broadcast reports. Oslo editors with President Roosevelt as mediator.
are compelled to attend the pro- paganda ministry's daily con ferences. The number of pro- vincial papers has been reduced to a minimum.
Norway's Nazi clerical, M. Jerdle, STOCKHOLM, Jan. 13 (Neuler).-- Rumours of a coming Naz! air blitz appeals to Norway's churches to ng
themselves to thei the Mediterranean are being cept and adapt
New Order. He declares that the spread from Berlin.
in
Nazi Air Blitz In Mediterranean
Belgium
Prepared As
Base For Invasion
LONDON, Jan, 13 (Reuter)-In preparation for an attempt
to invade Britain, thousands of workers have been drafted by the Germans to repair waterways and bridges destroyed during the invasion of Belgium, according to news received in London by the "Free Belgian” news service.
a special
The Germans have aimed first waterways and ports.
A system of voluntary" labour The Berlin correspondent of the National Council has undertaken not at re-establishing navigation be service on the Nazi model has been "Dagens, Nylicler" reports to-day that to interfere with religious observe tween Brugos and Ghent and the started in Belgium and the German military command is ances, as long as the Church abstains port of Antwerp. Men have camp is due to be opened this week obviously alive to the ever-increasing from politics, Importance to the operations in the Norwegians are incensed at the been working day and night to for the Instruction of leaders to take Mediterranean and lively activity by hypoerlay of permitting M. Jerdie to repair canals, the German air force may be expect-practice, politics and appealing to
charge of labour camps,
Despite the propaganda drive car- Some 750 bridges wero destroyed ried on for some months, the number and of "volunteers" for the labour service ed in that area in the next few other clergy to refrain from doing during the fighting Inst May
hundreds of ships wore sunk in the lis very small. weeks.
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