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"WRIT OF SUMMONS"

The delay in the issue to Lord Brocket of a writ of summons to the House of Lords draws attention to Д little-known constitutional point.

The necessary attestation from] personal knowledge of the Identity

ITALY'S PROBLEMS IN ABYSSINIA

CIVILISATION OPPOSED TO BARBARISM

TESTING THE STRENGTH OF

A NEW-MADE NATION

(By Evelyn Waught)

of the new peer should be made to T is only necessary to study the it is arguable that the lot of a man the Crown Office by a "nedir relatias in order to appreciate the born in slavery in Abyssinia is on ¡tive."

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In

It not infrequently happens that main features of the problem of the whole preferable to that of a no near relatives are living.

Abyssinia. •]

wage labourer in some gold mines that case search has to be made in surrounded by the possessions of be said by any decent man in favour It is a very large country entirely of South Africa" but nothing can family papers, family Bibles, aolici-European Powers, Britain, France of the slave raids to which the na- tors and other records. Only if the and Italy. The British frontier is tives of all Abyssinia's neighbours. Lord Chancellor is absolutely satia- fied can a writ be issued.

in mileage, by far the greatest, but are flable.

the French and Italian are the more Sentimentalists in Europe like to In Lord Brocket's case the neces important because it is by them imagine a medieval, independent sary attestation was made eventual that Abyssinia is cut off from the race living according to their own ly by his uncle's widow, the Dowager Red Sea. The only railway leads finmemorial customa, just as Lady Cain of Wargrave. The writ, from the capital, Addis Ababa, to like to find villages where the they of summons was thereupon issued to the French port of Jibuti, the main people still dance round Maypoleu him.

LEGAL NON-EXISTENCE.

Lord Brocket had, in fact, no idea that the issue. to him of a writ of

caravan trail from the northern pro-In their national costume, but the vinces leads to the Italian port of reality in Africa is more formidable. Masawa. Practically all importa It is defensible enough for the the other of these two places.wealth hidden from European ex- and exporta pass through one or Abyssinians to keep their mineral

The map, moreover, shows that ploiters, but their commercial sim summons to the House of Lords in the whole, vast continent of plicity is less praiseworthy when stood in the way of the issue of a) writ for a by-election In the Waver-the last survivor of independent, a full crop for fear of having it Africa, Abyssinia, thus encircled, is one finds the peasant afraid to grow" tree Division.

native rule, (Liberia is governed commandeered by local military Lord Brocket has for some weeks by immigrant negroes who maintain governors. been the victim of the legal fictions as rigid a barrier against the ori that the Crown Office had officially ginal natives as the settlers of

Right Of Interference no knowledge of his existence as Kenya).

"But," the sentimentalist will com Lord Brocket, and that the House of

plain, "what right have Europeans. Commons was unaware that he was

Sympathy Of Ignorance to Interfere? If people prefer to not still an M.P.

The natural sympathy of anyone be badly governed by themselves, who knows no more of the country rather than well governed by fore than is afforded by the occasional igners, that is their business." been accepted as a political prin- Your Daily Smile!

picturesque references to it in the The answer is that throughout ciple, and democracy has proved,

European Press, is in favour of the the greater part of "the country tho on the whole, remarkably suc-

"Well," said the Irish doctor to his Abyssinians. He sees photographs Abyssinians are just as much fore Even the new "dicta-patient, and what's the matter with of their barbarous lion's-mane head. igners as the Italians. The proper Hong Kong, Wednesday, Mar. 13, 1935. cessful.

torship of President Roosevelt

"Pains in the back, doctor," replied dresses and the claborate ritual of title of. Abyssinia is the Ethiopian is based on democratic grounds, the patient.

their ancient church, and feels that Empire. It was taken by conquest. • and carried out within democra-l soon put you right," said the it will be deplorable if all this is a generation ago. The Emperoc tic forms. Democracy has fail doctor, handing him

box of pills standardised and brought up to Menelik succeeded to a small hilv "Take one of these a quarter of an ed only in those countries which hour before you feel the pain coming date; if European officials in pith kingdom and made himself master did not have the necessary con- on."

helmate take the place of the roof a vast population differing ab flooded ditions for its success, such as

mautic military governors,

and solutely from himself and his own

The China Mail

Democracy And Dictators

The world is being

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with a deluge of books which Italy, Germany, Turkey, Poland, "But why don't you yawn when he metalled roads and motor-buses people in race, religion and history.. deal with various aspects of the and some, other European coun-alays so long? He'll take the hint and bring the remote villages Into. touch It was taken bleodily and is held, so great political problem of to-day,tries. For one thing, these did so."

with European commercial develop far as it is held at all, by force of ment.

arms, In the matter of abstract. The more adventurous globe justice, the Italians have as much trotters resent the idea of yet an right to govern; in the matter f

"I did rawn but all he did was to

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the lasue of democracy versus hot have the necessary political tell me what beautiful teeth I bad" dictatorship. Eathusiastic poli-training. As Sir J. A. R. Mar

riott puts it in an excellent ar-

ley of symbolic shirts which re-

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tical amateurs, arrayed in a net-ticle in the last "Quarterly Re- A new minister came to town and other country being made safe and practical politica, it is certain that joice respectively in every shade View" United Italy and Un-sot to talking with Jimmie one day. comfortable for them. But there is their government would be for the of the spectrum, proclaim that ited Germany are politically saying: "What church does your another side to all this. However benefit of the Ethiopian Empire and the rule of the many headed babes, and babes are appropriate mother belong to, son?"

exciting Abyssinia may be for an for the rest of Africa. ly wrapped in swaddling-clothes" multitude" is over, democracy is

occasional visit, it is intolerable an

Hard To Conquer a permanent neighbour,

But dead, and long live the dictator-of dictatorships.

it is another question It is one of the facts of history whether, however desirable, Italian that it is impossible for two peoples conquest is a possibility.

"The Methodists," “And your father?”. "The Seven Day Absentists,"

Johnny......

On the other hand. a cultivated tators are those who have suffer-

Again, the countries with dic-plied thinker with a sense of humoured crises. And" a dictatorship like Lord Dunsany will put dicta- tors in another perspective by may be an excellent form of an emergency-j entitling himself in his book "If government for I Were Dictator" the Grand Dictators arise. like mushrooms with a crisis. Like mushrooms Macaroni. The conflict of multitudes

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

The

they could defeat any army sent against them; but military victory is not synonymous with conquest.

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of widely different culture to live great defeat at Adowa in 1896 was, peaceably alde by side. Sooner or it is true, suffered against, over- later one must absorb the other. It whelming odds and as the result of The annual prize distribution of is not necessarily the higher cul- the misdirection from Rome, Italy. jexpressing the problem in an/away with the return to normal/Friday: commencing at 10.30 a.m. virile. Early history is full of the ped army, and it is probable that and Macaronis many of them will probably pass the Unlong School will take place ture which survives. It is the more has now a highly trained and equip

times. In classic times tyran-Mrs. A. O. Brawn, wife of the la records of advanced and fine cultures extreme way, and although there nies were accepted as a form of spector of English Schools, will being absorbed by barbarians. is some truth in the caricature,

How Empires Grow the matter goes much deeper. government, but as an irregular present the prizes.

Lately-but only very lately, in Democracy, democratic, and de- |were good, some bad, but all Anti-aircraft artillery gun prac the last two centuries--the tale has mocrat are terms which carry were apt to be short-lived. Aristice will take place from Stanley been reversed and we have acen, oue with them a double meaning. In totle regarded "tyranny" or dic- Peninsula between the hours of by one, the lower civilisations fail- the first place, they stand for a

tatorship as the perversion of 8 am and 12 noon (approximate-ing to the higher. We have come special form of political govern- "monarchy." Herodotus asked: ly) on Saturday next. Shell frag to accept thie as a universal law, ment, a particular polity. the second, they signify certain well- constituted

In "How can an autocracy be, aments are liable to fall on the when, in point of fact, it is due to fundamental principles in regard when one man is allowed to do

government Peninsula during firing.

the accident that our own civilisa!! tion has taken the form, that inven.

one.

Some of the tyrannies

to human nature, society, and whatever he likes without hav- As he did not appear at the Kow- tion has glyen new physical even the universe. These twoing to answer for his actions?" loon Magistracy this morning in strength to counterbalance the loan meanings, the purely political A dictatorship may be beneficent, answer to a charge of riding a in virility.

CHICAGO. MINER. IN TROUBLE

Carries Arms Without Permission

William Exler, a 35-year-old Chi-- and the politico-philosophical, but does it provide a well-con- bicycle in Nathan Road at 10.46 But it is in the nature of civiliss-cago miner, appeared before Mr. A.. must be kept distinct, although, stituted government?" If it per- p.m. last night without a lamp, the tion that it must be in constant W. G. H. Grantham at the Kowloon of course, they are interrelated sists after the death of the dic- $10 ball of Harold Lewis, in 18- conflict with barbarism. Very few Magistracy this morning ona.. The first is particular and re-tator, like the Communist dicta- year-old American musician off the empires have been the result of a charge of having in his possession. lative; the second, universal törship after Lenin had gone, It B.. President Wilson, was estreated deliberate ambition. They have one colt, a .45 automatic pistol, 16: Political forms vary with times then becomes a despotism. It by Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham. grown, Inevitably, because it has rounds of 45 ammunition, and 23 peoples, and climates. Their may become, like the early Czar-

been found necessary to expand in rounds of 32 ammunition, at the

validity and their value are reist regime, "a despotism temper- The R.M.S. Empress of Japan order to preserve what it already Trocadero Hotel without 'a' permit lative to these variations. Leted by assassination. And cer- arrived in Shanghal yesterday and beld. The French hed to annex from the Inspector-General us examine for a moment a few tain countries may prefer des will leave this afternoon for the Algiers because it was the only way Police.

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Barbaric Country

of

of these variations, concerning patiems just as British countries Colony, arriving here on Friday at in which the Mediterranean could Detective-Sub-Inspector Whant, of ourselves only with the purely prefer democracies. In fact, 7-a.m. She will sail at 6 p.m. the be made safe from pirates. Empire the Water Police Station, was in- political significance of de-some form of despotism same day for: Manila,

moves in a series of "incidents," charge of the prosecution and asked mocracy.

may be The war to save democracy is for them

a. better polity

and these incidents" mean that it for three days' remand, which wast permanently as The R.M.S. Empress of Asia left is impossible for a country to live granted. At his request bail of $250 now said to have lost it. De-well as for the nonce. As Ma Vancouver for Hong Kong is in isolation: Barbarism means con- was allowed. mocracy as a political form has chiavell! pointed out shrewdly, Japan ports and Shanghai, lastatant provocation. not lived up to expectations. It the best government, is that Saturday, and le due here on March was an invention so successful which suits the occasion, and the 23. She will leave the same day for in England that it was copied in people. Political forms are not Manila other countries, and Lord Bryce divine, ordained, or sacrosanct. could single out for one of the Their validity lies in their util most significant changes of the ity. And the course of history, married woman, of No. 828 Lock choose to live without cinemas and Poon · Tsang-shi, a 25-year-old country where the inhabitants nineteenth century "the unl-Including recent events, shows hart Rond, was fined $10 before Mr, patent medicines and safety razore versal acceptance of democracy as that democracy is a form of w. Schofield at the Central Magis and motor-bleycles; nor even where the normal and natural form of government suitable for British tracy this morning for failing to they prefer to retain their natural government." But democracy people, who, under it have report the death of a former em wealth unexploited. I mean that it whether Parliamentary presi- achieved: a freedom, an efficiency, ployer of a 15-year-old registered is capriciously and violently govern- dential. representative, direct, or a social and economic progress mui trai, Law. Wong referendal in its type-depends a law and order which we will

Chardy labour

Now Abyssinia is still a barbar- ous country. By this I do not mean that, it is simple. It is not merely a

Ped Gand that its own govern- |mental-machinery is not sufficient to

President Hoover. It is entertaining to find a coun-

for its success upon certain con-not lightly barter, for the pro-The Dollar Steamship Line. ad cope with its own lawless elements. ditions. Those conditions have mises of any Grand Macaron or vise that the been found in Great Britain, the duodecimo Napoleone will arrive from Shanghai, Kobe, try where the noblemen feast on United States, France, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, and the Sentence of one year

Yokoha Scandinavian countries. With was this murning imposed on Ng Wat cisco the peoples of all these nations 4.81-year-old unemployed by Mr. w. tie up

government of the people, by Schofield at the Central Magistracy for Th the people, for the people has turning to the Colong from banish-

ment

Honolulu and Ban Fran raw beef, but less amusing when morrow, and will they enslave and castrate the that time, villagers of neighbouring countries. to sall for There is much to be said in samp day,

favour of the institution of slavery:

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