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IF you turn your back on spokesmen. You have rond about asleep, or seem to. But I. al. Acers any longer to appear in public the Cairo Opera House him. Romantic journalists, with ways felt that even if he were in plain clothes, there didn't seem and go towards the Nile a turn for a phrase, have called snoring or under an anaesthetic, to be much difference in their appeur- down the street that every sinin."
him the "Lawrence of Abys I would have only to murmur the tances. They were not like the or- He is the man who now word "Ethiopia," for him to dinary Army officer, ready merely to body still calls Maghrabi, moves quietly among the black spring from slumber, ready do what they were told: they were even though its name is now granite gorges of Abyssinin, armed to do battle on its behalf. men with visions of their own; and changed, you will find a little training the patriots to attack They lived, breathed, ate visions might come true.
Mussolini's flagging army, hold- Abyssinia. They loved it. At restaurant
hundred
ing them back from rash enter those dinners they told me tales Dormouse" driving through the hot yards down on the left. It prises, marshalling them into about it, about its poets, its war- streets of Cairo in a gharrl as though is called Au Petit Coin de battle order, and sending reports riors and its customs. They he were fast asleep. But he missed France.
on their prowess and efficiency insisted that Italian propaganda nothing. He might sometimes forget back to G.H.Q. In Cairo.
had been so strong during the your question before he had time to answer is; but never, no matter how Abyssinian war, when Haile severe the dose of fever he had upon Selassic had no voice of com- him, to answer your questions- about parable strength, that the world, Abyssinia. taurant itself; and here, twice a HAD you noticed these two and even Ethiopia's friends, had
I wish I could remember half the men you would have passed been misled about its people. things he told me. But if I have for- day, they try to imagine that them by without a thought. One. They begged me to do what I gotten them, I have remembered the they are not in Egypt at all, but the shorter of the two, you might would to right the wrongs that glee with which he used to recite the back in France. Even when the have imagined a fairly successful Italian propaganda had done; tallan convoy ambushed on a moun-
Most of its customers sit in the shaded courtyard that lies. between the street and the res-
latest discomfiture of some wretched
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THE preax "Special to the Telegraph" i used by the Nongkong Telegraph" ta
sert and the temperature is 115 farming. The other, tall and might be impatient if someone dag, and there is so much sand thin, might have been one of whom we loved were wrongfully
eternally In the air that you can hardly those
unsuccessful imprisoned.
see the women having their hair scholars who haunt the public permanently waved in the libraries in time of peace; the window of the Greek coiffeur sort of man on whose waistcoat
indicate news which in tiulcus copyright opposite, men will still attempt you would not ever be surprised ONLY one thing distracted not immediately known who "those
under the provisions of the Telecomms] = callona Ordinance, 1936. Such news AJ bears the indicatión “UP” in received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the Waited Press Associations, who rev serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous serangement.
GLORIOUS VICTORY WHEN a naval spokesman in England on Sunday declared
that the victory accomplished by British naval and air units in the Ionian Sea was the greatest news since the start of the war, he was expressing the thoughts of the whole British Empire and the rest of the Democratic world. The action, in the course of which at least seven Italian war- ships were sunk without # single loss to ourselves, has been described as the Jutland of the Mediterranean, and the greatest battle since Trafalgar; be that as it may, the real importance of the engagement is that once again the claim that the British navy is the finest fighting force
tiated,
have done now?". That's what he said "What d'you think those fellows
suddenly In my car, one morning when i was busy reading: Reuter's tape in the hotel lounge. And I would have been a dunce had I
tellows were. The Abyssinians, of to recapture the forgotten to find spilled snuff. ···
their attention. Not the course. pleasures of Europe by eating
bouillaisse or the iced wine, but cassoulet toulousaine and wash the inside of a stock exchange in conjuror, whose only admirers convoy. Blown 'een to smithereens.
Yet, the first has never seen the nightly arrival of the Arab gun and turned it point-blank on a "They've captured an Italian A.A. ing it down with huge draughts his life, the second-because he they seemed to be. In his own of iced wine.
has no mean library of his own language they would joke with On Fridays they serve bouilla- has probably never visited one him, make him admit he was a baisse, the saffronspiced fish that is open to the public. humbug; and send him away
"What next?" was it that I could spy.
"You wait"
WELL, he has waited longer than most of us. Walted with # supreme and unswerving falth for the justice that is now being done; and happy, at last, that he is contributing to that justice.
soup that comes from Marseilles. If you did. more than notice feeling pleased with himself.
If you had gone into this res- them, if you overheard their con-
They understood such men, taurant on a Friday evening al- versation or, as I frequently did, and felt happy in their company, you would probably have-seen room most any time up to August last dined with them in the inner which is why they understood of the restaurant, you the Abyssinian case; and why, two men dining together, both would have been content to sit also, now hidden in the moun officers of the British Army. quiet and listen to their words. tains of which they spoke so. One, almost certainly, would have been eating bouillabaisse, of its-coming-liberation. They-gates-that-we-can-find-for-such Both spoke of Abyssinia and well, they will be the best dele.
the other spaghetti with a thick talked of nothing else; but if, a job. meat sauce. Almost certainly by chance, the conversation he whose name wild horses. will thin man, like the Dormouse in never dressed in uniform. But even with what is going on in that grave. one or other of these two men is should leave that subject, the tall TN those early days of war they have not, at this minute, a lot to do not now drag from War Office Alice in Wonderland, would drop when General Wavell forbade his of of Italy's imperial ambitions,
THE RETURN OF HAILE
Haile Selassie, Conquering here," he said, "make it clear Lion of Judah, has now raised that my entire people are wait his standard on his own soil. In ing with anxiety for the day this interview with RONALD when I shall once more be able MATTHEWS, which took to take my place among them.
the
in the world has been substan-place at Khartoum earlier in "Every day I receive fresh evi-
Skilful strategy, first-class
campaign, the Emperor dence of it in the delegations marksmanship. and perfect co-
describes how he organised which come here to see me and ordination between naval craft the Abyssinian revolt against to receive my orders from all
the Italians.
parts of Abyssinia.
"The fight against the Italian
"I am here," said the Emper- oppressors has never ceased, but or, "to lead the fight which has it has blazed up more fiercely never ceased for Abyssinia's than ever since Italy entered the freedom and to help our Ally, war, and I returned to the bor- Britain, in the larger fight to ders of my country. liberate all nations enslaved by "Even from Addis Ababa I Fascist tyranny."
have received indirectly news of support for me.
Haile Selassie dresses now us
and aerial units made possible the British victory. When the full history of the action comes to be written, it will stir the hearts of the entire world. Already onough has been told to permit an appreciation of the glorious work accomplished both by the navy and the fleet air arm; the Orion's clever manoeuvring which completely fooled the Italian fleet, enabling the British capital ships to batter into a state of helplessness five cruisers and two destroyers; the swift and deady assault by the diving British planes with their nerfal torpedoes, which found their marks so surely that the Italian vessels were too crippled to make their escape; and the Consolidating work of the Brit- ish destroyera who finished off the Italians with their accurately "All reports. I have received aimed torpedoes. Each and from my country since I arrived every ship and plane made a notable and decisive contribution
a soldier in khaki tunic and "Even there, unde the nose trousers and on his topee wears of Italian guns which defend the
capital,
a badge which is a challenge to barbed wire-ringed
Italy-the figure of St George. people are hoping and planning Selassie Welcomed Home
ago.
adr.
Because all the wild horses will not
one of these two men, I cannot be drog a confirmation from the War Office that this
this so-called "Lawrence"
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sure that am right. But, well, yes, I think I am, safe in saying so: I'll be prepared to eat my hat if they
SELASSIE
Though the Emperor, stands firm for Abyssinian indepen- dence, he hopes and expects help in his country's reconstruction after the war.
"It is my chief desire," he said, "not to retard by a moment the development of Abyssinia...
"So I hope that the great Al- Jed nation which is contributing to the restoration of Abyssinia and her territorial integrity will collaborate also in her post-war peaceful development.
"It is in the economic and in- tellectual spheres that I look for- ward to this assistance."
Expressing his gratitude to Britain for the ever-growing aid he is receiving in the reconquest of his country, the Emperor con- cluded:
"My faith in the approaching liberation of Ethiopin is as ab- solute as it is in the victory of my Brent Ally.
Georgons patron saint after the
For Abyssinia adopted St for my return,
"My presence here has permit. First, complete Abyssinian in- Italians were routed at Adowa ted me to co-ordinate to a great dependence is for him the only on St George's Day, 40-odd years extent plans for warlike action possible end of the struggle
by my people against the oppres against Italy,
"I know all the treacherous Secondly, that he makes no the Italians, but all the same I methods of warfare employed by "Chiefs who have come to see distinction of creed or race look forward to taking my place me go back with instructions among his people. To him they among my people, sharing their which they disseminate. to the victory; the whole anti-a few months Italy has bean re-
are all Southern Gallas, as well destiny and enduring their hard- Axis world will echo Admiral Bir duced to the status of a third- in I have sent, at their request,
"To those who have not come as any other Abyssinians,
That, this second view is more
Androw Cunningham'a・ "Well | class Power and sho now Inces Done"
ships."
The Emperor's slender, defl- the grim penalty for treachery my representatives, who give The defent has filled Musso- and perverted ambition. For them orders which permit them realistic than, some might sup cate hands were crossed on his lini's cup of bitterness to over. Mussolini and Hitler, the writ to get their military activities pose is suggested by the number knees as he spoke. His velvety flowing.” He has lost an Empire, ing is on the wall; their total into a general scheme.”
of Galla chiefs who have re quickly with scorn or laughter, brown eyes, which can fill so and his much vaunted fleet, has elimination can only be a matter The Emperor made two points quested him to appoint represen- flashed with pride and dater. been rendered ineffectivò; within of time.
very plain..
mination.
tatives in their arcus.