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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1935

FASCIST ITALY OF THE WELL

TO-DAY

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CANADIAN PACIFIC

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"You an-me are pah, Steve" surrounding districts. O'Hara said in a semi-maudlin tone. Every year a great pilgrimage

to this particular well! WORLD'S- You an' me are pals-even if we came

· Puzzle Of Abyssinia

GREATEST Priests and people drove from the

TRAVEL The theories, lately advanced by do lie with the same woman."

„SYSTEM. the man in the street for an Abys! Gaffney jerked his arm away (parishes around in all manner of sinian campaign are varied and What are ye talkin' about?" he vehicles, which were left at the foot of the boreen while their owners curious. The cynical view is that asked in a cold tone.

"Terra, Steve-boy, don't get cross streamed up to the grotto to pray Italy must be self-contained in her natural resources and Abyssinia about it! Sure I know ye've been and secure bottles of the holy water. can make good this deficiency. He shapin around afther Mary these The sick and deformed could not But take my bathe here as in some wells, because has suggested to me that Great six months back. Britain and France have given advice an have nothin' to do with this well was said to be bottomless She's got a tongue like a and anyway the water was too far their tacit consent to an Italian oc-ber.

down from the rock floor of the cupation of the country, in order horsewhip.”

"Ye're out of yer mind," said grotto. The miraculous water was to restore-law and order and pro- tect the adjacent colonies from at- Gafirer. "I don't know what yere drawn up in buckets tied to ropes.

talking about.”

Gaffney took one quick glance tack.

Then he drag- In this connection it is interest- “Ah-I'm not such à fool as around the grotto

O'Hara ged O'Hara to the edge of the hole ing to note that the local Press re-pretend to be at times.".

and heaved him over. There was a cently

border told him. “I am not faith! announced that tribesmen had made a raid into Gaffney said nothing. He walk-great splash and such a sucking and! and moaning of water that the grotto į British Somaliland. The report is ed beside the shuffing man

Suddenly he boomed with the sounds and Gaffney generally believed, despite the glowered with rage.

He struck another denial issued elsewhere.

thrust out his foot and O'Hara went was terrified. Another suggestion made to me crashing to the ground. The shock match and peered into the well. He is that the Abyssinians themselves seemed to clear his befuddled brainsaw merely the agitated waters far once. But below. He turned and ran head- are desirous of a change of gorem-for he half-rose at ment. The deposed Lige Yasau. Gaffney, crouching now like a beast long out of the piace and scuttled who has been in confinement since ready to kill, thrust him back again down the mountain side as

This time the almost as one of the goats that lived Haile Selassie ascended the throne, with great force. is mentioned as the possible insti- poll of O'Hara's bead struck the upon it. gator of a revolution which will road and he lay still

It was midnight when he reached flead to the rebels putting them Gaffney leaped upon him, seized the 'Bars farm house. Mary serres under Italian protection. him by the collar and bashed the O'Hara was waiting for him. The One thing, however, is certain back of his head again and again moment she heard his footstep in Italy would have a vast amount of upon the ground. The blows sound the yard she had the poor preparatory work yet to do before ed as though someone were plying a They did not speak a word until he an invasion of Abyssinia could be mallet. At last Gaffney let the was safely behind the bolted door.

** the successfully undertaken. The lack battered head fall limply

ear He placed his of roads and other facilities for an road. advance in force has been made O'Hara's breast. The heart was clear in emphatic language by mili-still beating, but the man was un- tary observers in both African co-conscious. That would serve Gaff-God forgive me. I did it!" lonies. Their views do not seem ney's purpose quite well

"Good," she said. Her face to have been received with much He heaved the hmp figure across brightened and she added in a more favour in high places.

his shouléer O'Hara was a middle-lively tone, "I go get ye a dhrink. sized Country With Mussolini

man, wiry and wizened. It'll pall ye together.* Contractors have been despatch-Gaffney on the other hand, was over

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Then she turned to him and he saw for the first time the anxiety in her eres "Well7" she said in a tone- less voice I did it he replied.

He

a glass of Wednesday 18th June at 10 amed by aeroplane on a rapid survey six feet in height, broad and pos- She brought him

of the forward territory over which sessed of terrific strength. He whisky, but this time she did not She sat looking an expeditionary force must move, carried O'Hara as easily as another drink with him. jand their recommendations are man would have carried a sack of hat him with her hands crossed in meal. He took care that the head her lap. Her face was chalk-white. The man in the street has full with its bleeding scalp hung clear Gradually the colour came back to

it as he drank the whisky. faith in his Government. If it of his clothes.

conscious of his damp įwere decided to invade Abyssinia He struggled over the ditch and became

his famished Over clothes clinging to for this or that reason, he would trudged across the field support the enterprise outwardly, ditches and felds he went for more limbs. whatever qualms he might feel as than a mile, relying on intuition and Ito its wisdom or success. Mus- his great knowledge of the country

solini has made Italy once more a side to find his way in the dark. first-class Power, and the people At last he came to a narrow boreen behind him, irrespective of their which led up a mountainside.. secret political convictions, are

He dumped the unconscious man with him to a man.

on the ground and sat down to rest] They certainly lock to him to He remained seated for about teny?" she asked again. find a way out of the European minutes. He did not fear discovery crisis, and free them from the bere for the place was wild and menace which they think threatens deserted. Ther he heared O'Hara them from the north. To

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set out to climb the mountain.

Up and up he went, toiling and ita Jost The boreeN panting. ditches. Little shrubs appeared in place of the stunted trees found near

-Did any wan see ye,” she asked, keeping her eyes glued to his face. "No," he said, almost inaudibly. He shivered and turned his face away from her relentless gaze.

"Did ye come away immediate-

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HATCHING EGGS SENT BY AIR TO AUSTRALIA

{Continued from Page 7).

the foot of the mountain. Thei From Brisbane they continued. Jane gradually. narrowed to a path to Sydney by rail, being delivered Snally to a mere goat track. A to the consignee a few days later. examined the watery moon had appeared by this He immediately time.

ezg

Gaffney blessed it with all consignment, and found it in per- his heart. It gave some glimmerfect condition, not a single of light in this treacherous district having been damaged in transiti

This first consignment of, hatch-

Referring to Notice to Mariners No. 1064, notice is given that The path was now winding along

the top of a cliff which a landslide ing eggs by air from England. Lower Dredging Beacon has now

the created immense interest in Aus- had formed mid-way up O been established in a position from

Photographs of the eggs. which Nanhui Beacon bears 269 mountain. One false step here and tralia.

be and his burden would go crash-land of the box in which they tra degrees, distant 5.3 miles.

veiled, appeared in the Press, with The beacon is lighted and ex-ing down to the rocks below.

Near the mountain-top rain was full accounts of the experiment. a red Aga flashing light 27th May hibits

falling steadily. Gaffney was soon. 10th June every 3 seconds, thus:-

wet to the skin. His bur- 0.3 second Light

den grew beavier and heavier. Eclipse ...... 2.7 seconds,

cold air he which is visible in clear weather Despite

At last, after 24th Jun, for a distance of about 3 nautical was bathed in sweat.

ja sharp bend in the path, he came miles.

All bearings given are true and to a wide fissure in a rock face. measured clockwise in degrees from He squeezed through the fissure and 000 degrees (north) to 359 degrees, dropped O'Hara on the floor of what

Charts affected: Chinese Ad-seemed to be a cave.

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