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MILLIONS FROM⋅ MOSUL":

Ons, man's already vast fortune became even vaster when the now Mosul pipe-line was opened.

He is Mr. Carlouste, Sarkia Gul- benkian, the only private share- holder in the Irak Potroleum Com pany. He holds five per cent, of Ita |6,500,000 shares, Pa

The rest are equally divided be

ABYSSINIA PREPARES FOR CONFLICT

EMPEROR DECLARED CALM BUT WORRIED

ITALIAN AGGRESSION BRINGS BACK MEMORIES OF 40 YEARS AGO

(By Harry Williamson)

BEARDED man, aged about left suspended there for three

tween the Shelf combine, the Anglo- A forty-three: his large eyes days as a warning to the people.

Persian, a French and an American relieving the melancholy of his group,

dark face, sits to-day in a modern Mr. Gulbenkian owes his fortun suburban-like villa in an African ate position to the fact that he ob-city. tained the original concession for

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Queerest Army

THE Emperor's army is the queer-

est in the world. He can He is slightly built, not very tall. put between 350,000 and 400,000 the Mosul oilfields from the Turkish But he has beautiful hands, farmed men Into the field, every Government before the war.

They are his most striking fea-one of them cager to fight. They, ture. He makes sure, too, that are tall and strong, and can move they are noticed.

rapidly over rough country.

MYSTERY MAN

Mr. Gulbenkian has often been

or

The army marches without commissariat, feeding on vil- lages through which it passes. There are plenty of cattle every- where and all Abyssinians cat raw meat. "I have seen twelve men kill, skin and eat a whole or within

He has long tapering fingers, and compared to Sir Basil Zaharoff, at dinner he will rest his hands Like that other mystery man, he is

the table, admiring them, known to his associates.. by hla

stroke caressingly his beard or Initial. "O" in oil circles

moustache. із ая

World's Best Fighters potent a letter as once "2" was in the armament trade...

For hundreds of mile around He is an

Armenian who came that villa with its two reception with his father to Liverpool at the rooms; h. and c., and all modern age of nineteen, and is now a Bri-conveniences, there have massed tish subject.

warriors who rank as being the His introduction to the oil busi-best fighters in the world. ness came through another Armen-THE country le Abyssinia; the city some raw meat and a drink ian, Mr. Mantacheff, who was un-

Toddis Ababa, and the man "tedje," a potent native beer, and able to write, but made a fortunate with the lovely hands is Emperor nothing will stop him but death... out of the Baku wells.

Recently the Emperor has mo- Haill-Selassi I., the King of Kings, Later Mr. Gulbenkian was aano Elect of God, Conquering Lion of dernised his warriors, buying ciated with Sir Henri Deterding in Judah, descendant of the Queen quantities of field-guns, machine guna, rifles, ammunition: He has

an hour and a half, leaving a few scraps for the women who fol low them at the feast... Give an Abyssinian warrior

of

the early days of Koyal Dutch of Sheba. Eight years ago this relationship The Emperor in his villa does had them trained by European of The present rela-ended in a business quarrel over the not want war,

but he is almost ficers, and now Abyssinian pilota tionship is called "Paramountcy," control of Venezuelan Oil Conces-powerless to stop it. In a coun-experty fly the small air force. which is a vague though con- sions. venient word that it is impossi

ble to define, Substantially it SELDOM IN LONDON means that there is no interfer-

ence when all goes well, but in Since then Mr. Gulbenkian has times of trouble such action, is seldom been seen in London. He The debates on the Constitu- taken as may be necessary. It lives in Paris, where he has a tion of India Bill are following can easily be understood, that remarkable collection of pictures. more or less the expected course when such a right is reduced to It is easy to see him but difficult It was inevitable that full time

a hard and fast definition the to persuade him to talk. He usual

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the Paramount Power is assum-corner table in the Ritz Hotel in the charges that important clauses had been rushed through Parlia- an authority that has been Place Vendome..

only because it has been latent His son, who represents him on ment; but it is very doubtful In the King's Proclamation of the buard of Irak Fetroleum, was a whether the thirty days allotted 8th February, 1921, establishing scholar in Sir Arthur Hort's house by the time table will be requir- the "Chamber of Princes," which at Harrow, and took a degree at ed: The Member of Parliament is a purely consultative body, Cambridge during the war. may for this purpose be divided one paragraph states "In my into two classes: those who former Proclamation I repeated know India and those who do the

assurance, given on many

not. The first section seem to occasions by my Royal Predecea be satisfied that the Bill is

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try more than twice the size of Britain, and with a population of jabout 15,000,0000 people. his au

capital.: thority hardly extends outside the

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JUSTICE is still based on the old

Mosaic law, Rough justice.

It decrees that punishment shall He is an absolute monarch, be exactly the same as the crime but he is not a strong man. He committed, and crowds of natives. turn out on a certain day, every

is shrewd,

It is estimated that he has week to see vengeance being ad more than £1,000,000 invested ministered. in Britain, America, and A Widow's "Right To Kill”” France.

While I was in Addis Ababa a man was murdered. The alleged

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people over which Halli-Selas-

mistake him for a white man.

He likes to think that people murderer was captured. The wi

[dow: Was given the right to kill In gloomy place, he seldom uses, but band as killed.

The official palace, a massive, exactly the same way as her hus

And in the presence of hundreds stays at home in his little nearby villa governing his country, eat of people she took a sword and ing perfect meals of European calmly severed the head from the

body of the captured man, dishes, which he selects from a

cisely as he had done to her hus Minister (to gamekeeper): "I never menu printed In French.

band. entisfactory compromise in there and Myself, of My deter- see you at church ke

mination ever to maintain un Gamekeeper: Well, I don't want tol

Memories are long in Abyssinia,

"A life for a life, a tooth for s hcores of intricate questions of impaired the privileges, rights, make your congregation smaller. You, and one reason that the Emperor

tooth.. detail involved. They have and dignities of the Princes of see, if I went to church, the rest of the is worrying about the friction with after all, had every chance of India. The Princes may restoreration would go poaching." Italy and the almost inevitable expressing their views to the assured that this pledge remains

war la because his people remem-/UCH is the country and such the Joint Committee to which the inviolate and inviolable.".

ber vividly the overwhelming de-i First Guest! "Wonder why they call Bill was referred. and, which has Princes will naturally scrutinise this hotel the Palma?. I've never seen feat. of the Italians less than 40

is worrying to-day in his little been criticised for listening too the new Constitution very close palm anywhere near the place." years ago..

villa.. attentively to those who had rely, and the Congress leaders do before you go. It's a pleasant little

Second Guest: "You'll see them They Wished They Had Died commendations to make, and no good to their cause by making surprise the whoin staff keeps for the Italy remembers, too. She had thereby causing delay; and also speeches that arouse suspicion. guests on the last day of their stay sent 15,000 men to invade Abys for making too, many concessions There are in all no less than

... sinia, to critics, especially of the "Die-five hundred and sixty two of

Seven thousand five hun- "More statues," declares a writer.dred were killed, 3,000°, were] Hard" school, who were anxious these areas that have a separate "should be placed in the middle of wounded or taken prisoners, and to insert as many safeguards as status. Some of them are very ornamental ponds are deep enough.

ornamental ponds.". But so very few the rest escaped. possible in the interests of order.small, but together they com to combat térrorism, and to pro prise two fifths of the area of

And they who were captured vide for the machine of Govern-India, and a fourth of the popu

wished that they had died too For St. John Brigade ment being carried on if there lation. The Council of the Cham "An actor? My son, an actor is a Since that terrible campaign

They were savagely mutilated. should be too much sand throw ber of Princes has presented a man who can walk to the side of Italy has suffered continually from into it by obstructionists. These memorandum and various reso theatrical props, dirt and dust, other Abyssinian raiders.

stage, peer into the wings filled with controversies having been fought lutions from which it appears actors, stage hands, old clothes and demanding justice. out in committee, mere repeti-that there are thirty points in other claptrap, and say. 'What a lovely tion is a weariness of the flesh. which the Council is not satis. view there is from this window!"**

The second class of Member.fied with the present draft. We who is inspired by abstract prin-lare told that ten of these are the ciples of the rights of man, has result' of misunderstanding,

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Government Aid Urged

To the Editor, “China. Mall"] Sir-As an interested spectator

Now she is of the splendid "turn out" of the St. John Ambulance Brigade at the Annual Inspection by His Excel- HE Emperor's capital is alency The Governor, I was amazed atrange city. Perched on a pla- to hear from one of the officers teau nearly 9,000 feet high, it has that the Brigade receive riot one a just claim to be listened to: which can be removed by ex

for eight months of the year a cent from Government towards cost, but not more than once; and planation. Most of the rest are

climate like a British summer, an of maintenance or towards their. even his friends. and sympathi capable of adjustment without The Kwongtung Tramway Com-June days.

It is notified that the name of endless procession of perfect very fine work work which is nl- sers find it irksome to listen to much difficulty.

maat unprecedent In the New Ter- diffuse eloquence on general that will cause most trouble is the Register.

The question pany, Limited, has been struck off But with the precision of a ma-ritories, and which is known every- policy from men who have no whether particular States may

chine, the rains start on June 1, where. special qualifications. The up-be allowed to accept some part

and it rains every day until Sep- It appears strange that the shot is that there are only two or parts of the Constitution and rived at Kobe yesterday and is due

The R.M.S. Empress of Asin ar- tember 30,

greatest charitable organisation in. or three questions of outstand-remain outside of it as regards at Nagasaki to-day.

City Altered By Emperor

the Colony-ons which runs a free- ing importance on which a vote the other sections. In that case

vaccination campaign where its Addis Ababa has been atlered members stand in the Street from will be of moment. The first toj they

would remain in contact An entertainment by the Stu- greatly by the Emperor, but not 7 to 9 pm. vaccinating thousands be tackled is what is called the with the Crown direct except dents of Wah Yan College will com completely. He has built soms of people, provide an ambulance for "accession" of the feudatory for the sections accepted." Ob Princes. The difficulty in legis-viously this would be liable to An Exhibition of Photographs, buildings, and the streets are now E. The Governor said, almost from. mence at 7.80 p.m. sharp to-morrow, excellent roads, many modern the Colony, and who appear, as H. lating for a Federation which is put the Governor General futo to include the Indian States is the impossible position of acting

taken by the Present and Past well lit. There are number of anywhere to attend street ac- that which is bound to arise sometimes as the constitutional Pupils of the College, will be open luxurious motor-cars, mostly Ameri- cidents, fires, races, etc. and an when a written constitution is head of the Ministers, and some- from 8:80 a.m; to-morrow,

can; there are telephones; there is organisation which runs and man- substituted for a relationship times independently of them as

electricity.

tain 9 clinics and hospitals in the that has grown up in the acci-the representative of the King,

Wah Yan College students are

But trudging along these New Territories, where previously

galong theas dents of history, and through which would mean in fact of the given an entertainment commen-

roads are hundreds of slaves, little or no medical attention had precedents, invented for the con- British Ministers. exhibition of photographs taken čing 7:30 p.m. to-morrow and an

bought and sold openly, al been received, should depend en- venience of practical adminis The Congress Party now is

though Rat Tafari as he then tirely on public - subscriptions- tration. The essence of the mat, rather unenthusiastic about the by the present and past pupils of

was ten years ago promised the mainly from the Chinese...com- ter is that the connection of the admission of the loyal, and con- the College, which will be open

League of Nations to abollshmunity-and also help from phil States with the Central Govern servative element that would be from 8.30a.m.--

slavery in his country, anthropists outside the Colony. ment is by Treaty with the introduced by the Princes, and is It is notified that at the expira- are about 2,000,000 people la bon- John Ambulance Brigade; provided He keeps slaves himself. There I was also told that the St. Crown, and, the Congress Party inclined to advocate Dominion ignores the fact that without the Status for British India, and tion of three months the names of dage in Abyssinia. Man in the 25 men, five nurses and one doctor

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