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April 2, 1941.
SECRET British military mission, A
it has been revealed, is operating deep in the heart of Abyssinia. Great secrecy surrounds the identity of the British.
who are leading it. officers
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ARE THESE
THE MEN?
is called Au Petit Coin de France.
Most of its customers sit in the shaded courtyard' that lies between the street and the res-
KHARTOUM
GALLABATO
Miles
200.
GULF OF AUEN
“NOUBBA
SH JOMALIJAN
MALILAND
OCEAN
Abyssinian Camel Corps
on the march'
men with visions of their own; and
atc visions might come true.
HONGKONG HOTEL IF you turn your back on spokesmen. You have read about asleep. Or seem to. But I al- ficers 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 appeas- him the "Lawrence of Abys- I would have only to murmur the ances. They were not like the or- down the street that every- sinin." 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 Abyssinia, armed to do battle on its behalf. concerned only with how best those
breathed, They lived, changed, you will find a little training the patriots to attack
Mussolini's flagging army, hold- Abyssinia. They loved it. At Many a time I have seen. "the restaurant some 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 gharri as though battle order, and sending reports riors and its customs. They he were fast asleep. But he missed on their prowess and efficiency insisted that Italian propaganda noting. He might sometimes forget your question before he had time to back to G.H.Q. In Cairo.
had been so strong during the answer it; but never, no matter how Abyssinian war, when Halle severe the dose of fever he had upon Selassie had no voice of com- him, to answer your questions about parable strength, that the world, Abyssinia.
I wish I could remember half the HAD you noticed these two and even Ethiopia's friends, had taurant itself; and here, twice a 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 gotton 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; Italian convoy ambushed on a moun- Khamsin is blowing off the de- stockbroker with a turn for they were impatient, as you or I tain road.. Bert and the temperature is 115 farming. The other, tall and might be impatient if someone "What d'you think those fellows deg. and there is so much sand thin, might have been one of whom we loved were wrongfully have done now?" That's what he said unsuccessful imprisoned?
suddenly In my ear one morning in the air that you can hardly those eternally
when I was busy reading Reuter's see the women having their hair scholars who haunt the public
tape In the hotel lounge. And I in the librar'es in time of peace; the
would have been M dunce had i permanently waved window of the Greek coiffeur sort of man on whose waistcoat
thing distracted. not immediately known who "those fellows" were. The Abyssinians, of their attention. Not the course. opposite, men will still attempt you would not ever be surprised ONLY one to recapture the forgotten to find spilled snuff.
bouillaisse or the iced wine, but
"They've captured an Italian AA. pleasures of Europe by eating Yet, the first has never seen the nightly arrival of the Arab gun and turned it point-blank on a cassoulet toulousaine and wash the inside of a stock exchange in conjuror, whose only admirers convoy. Blown 'em to smithereens. ing it down with huge draughts his life, the second--because he they seemed to be. In his own of iced wine.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
Wednesday, April 2, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26615
THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" ls used by the "langkong Telegraph to under the provisions of the Telecommuni-
Buch
teste nows which is strictly copyright
callous Ordination up is received a
bears the Hongkong.on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re- either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.
serve all rights and forbid republications,
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
On Fridays they serve bouilla balsse, the saffronspiced fish soup that comes from Marseilles.
•
has no mean library of his own language they would joke with
latest discomfiture of some wretched
.
has probably never visited one him, make him admit he was a humbug and send him away that is open to the public.
Any.
"What next?" was all that I could
"You wait"
to that justice.
If you did more than notice feeling pleased with himself.
WELL, he has walted longer than They understood such men, most of us. Waited with a If you had gone into this res- them, if you overheard their con- taurant on a Friday evening al- versation or, as I frequently did, and felt happy in their company, supreme and unswerving faith for the most any time up to August last dined with them in the inner which is why they understood justice that is now being done; and you would probably have seen room of the restaurant, you the Abyssinian case; and why, inppy, at last, that he is contributing 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 Both spoke of Abyssinia and well, they will be the best dele have been eating-bouillabaisse,-of-its-coming-liberation. They gates that we can find for such the other spaghetti with a thick talked of nothing else; but if, a job..
conversation Almost certainly by chance, the meat sauce.
one or other of these two men is should leave that subject, the tall he whose name wild horses will thin man, like the Dormouse in not now drag from War Office Alice in Wonderland, would drop
Because all the wild horses will not a confirmation from the War drag
is one of these two meri, I cannot be sure that I am right. But, well, yes, I think I am sole in saying so: I'll be prepared to eat my hat if they
Office that this so-called "Lawrence"
N those early days of war they have not, at this minute, a lot to do never dressed in uniform. But even with what is going on in that grave when General Wavell forbade his of- of Italy's Imperial ambitions.
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 a single loss to ourselves, has been described as the Jutland of the Mediterranean, and the greatest battle since Trafalgar; be that
Haile Selassie, Conquering here," he said, "make it clear as it may, the real importance Lion of Judah, has now raised that my entire people are wait- of the engagement is that once
his standard on his own soil. In ing with anxiety for the day again the claim that the British this interview with RONALD when I shall once more be able navy is the finest fighting force MATTHEWS, which took to take my place among them. in the world has been substan-place at Khartoum earlier in
"Every day I receive fresh evi-
THE RETURN OF HAILE SELASSIE
tinted..
the Italians.
parts of -Abyssinin.
"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 Fascist tyranny."
"Even from Addis Ababa I have received indirectly news of support for me.
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- lied nation which is contributing to the restoration of Abyssinia and her territorial integrity will collaborato also in her post-war peaceful development.
"It is in the economic and in- tellectual spheres that I look for- ward to this assistance.".
the campaign, the Emperor dence of it in the delegations Skilful strategy, first-class describes how he organised which come here to see me and marksmanship and perfect co-the Abyssinian revolt against to receive my orders from all ordination between naval craft 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 enough has been told to permit an appreciation of the glorious work accomplished both by the
navy and the fleet air. arm; the Orion's. elevar manoeuvring which completely fooled the Italian fleef, enabling the British capital ships to batter into a state of helplessness five cruisers and two destroyers; the swift and deadly assault by the
Selassie Welcomed Home
faith in the approaching diving British planes with their aerial torpedoes, which found
First, complete Abyssinian in- liberation of Ethiopia is as ab- their marks so surely that the George ns patron saint after the "My presence here has permit dependence is for him the only soluta as it is in the victory of Italian vessels were too crippled Italians were routed at Adowa ted me to co-ordinate to a great to make their escape; and the on St George's Day, 40-odd years extent plans for warlike action possible end of the struggle my great Ally.
"I know all the treacherous Consolidating work of the Brit-
by my people against the oppres- against Italy.
methods of warfare employed by lsh destroyers who finished off.
Secondly, that he makes no the Italians, but all the same I the Italians with thoir accurately "All reports I have received
"Chiefs who have come to see distinction of creedor race look forward to taking my place almed torpedoes. Each and from my country since I arrived
me go back with instructions among his people. To him they among my people, sharing their every ship and plane, made a
which they disseminate.
are all Southern Gallas, as well destiny and enduring their hard- notable and decisive contribution
as any other Abyssinians.
ships."
Haile Selassie dresses now as a soldier. in khaki tunic and
"Even there, under the nose trousers and on his topee wears of Italian guns which defend the wire-ringed capital, badge which is a challenge to barbed Italy-the figure of St George. people are hoping and planning
For Abyssinia adopted St for my return.
ago..
Bor.
"To those who have not come
in I have sent, at their request,
Expressing his gratitude to, Britain for the ever-growing ald he is receiving in the reconquest of his country; the Emperor con- cluded:
to the victory; the whole anti-a few months Italy has been re-i Aris world will echo Admiral Sir duced to the status of a third- Andrew Cunningham's "Well class Power and she now faces
cate hands were crossed on his Done".
the grim penalty for treachery my representatives who give That this second view is more The Emperor's siender, deli- The defeat has filled Musso- and perverted ambition. For them orders which permit them realistle than some might, sup knces as he spoke. His velvety lini's cup of bitterness to over- Mussolini and Hitler, the writ to get their military activities pose is suggested by the number. brown eyes, which can fill so of Gallá chiefs who have`re-- quickly with scorn or laughter, flowing. He has lost an Empire, ing is on the wall; their total into a general schemo."
The Emperor made two points queated him to appoint represen- flashed with pride and deter and his much vaunted fleet has elimination can only be a matter
tatives in their areas. been rendered ineffective; within of time.
very plain:
mination.