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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1935.

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MANY CRESCENTS

In the recent Fleet Review at Spithead. there was one ship whose name will bring many | memories to the King.

She is the destroyer: Crescent, named after His Majesty's, last) command

The first-class cruiser Cresenti

WHAT ITALY SEEKS IN ABYSSINIA

SETTLEMENT WITHOUT RECOURSE TO WAR?! NEED FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION :

BY LEAGUE POWERS

(By Victor Gordon Lennox)

HAT is it that Italy seeks) within his sphere of control the

was commanded by the King in W in Abyssinia? Can her greater part of the Danakil and

1898, when he was Duke of York.

THE COST OF DOGS

£10

more

There has been a Crescent in aims be justifiably met: Can Somaliland lowlands. In Soma- the

Fleet for 350 years Only they be met without the clash land. control over the head-

Twaters of the River Wabl once has a Crescent struck her of arms?

Answers to these questions Shebeyli would open out possi fag-in 1781, when the Crescent

great irrigation become increasingly

urgent bilities for of the day was taken by a Dutch frigate, retaken by the. British and it may be as well to exa-schemes to fertilise his colonies. motives. Thus Abyssinia would return and finally captured

by the mine how economic

combine with motives of pres-to the confines of ancient Ethio- French.

kingdom which tige in Italy's new pressure on pia the

Menelek III. during the 24 years Abyssinia.

Alone of the Allied and As-of his rule so strikingly con- a congeries of In 1934 2.902253 dog licences sociated Powers. Italy, received verted from were taken out in England. In in 1919 no spoils of conquest by semi-independent principalities united and powerful 20 years

the canine population way of mandates over captured into à

And in Ethiopia proper From the State. has increased by nearly a million colonial territories.

At a modest estimate it costs outset this has been a source of the Duce would require rights -

but

pro-and facilities to exploit the re a year to keep a dog. So grievance: |about £30,000,000 is spent annual-nouncedly so since Signor Mus-puted mineral wealth of the and im-mountains whence it is said. ly on pets.

solini grasped power, The Treasury gets from the buen his followers, with the con- the Queen of Sheba travelled to licences £1,088,331

ception that a new Italy should visit Solomon in Egypt.

Protectorate Aim arise, the reincarnation of An-

Linked with these require- cient Rome.

World economic, depression.jments is, however, another pre- obvious difficul- Most of the men who whistle at and the protection which the senting more their work are big men. Yeah, it world has sought in economic ties. For there have already takes a big man to get away with it. nationalism. have combined to been unofficial indications from force Italy's particular problem the Abyssinian capital that the before, her eyes. It is the pro-territorial and exploitation re- The pream-him

The park orator looked around blem of a country with a rising quirements might be met in The China Mail Britain and Italy.

birth-rate, unsuited by its phy-large degree. But a people who, ble to the 1906 treaty states You, my friend," he said, gazing sical conformation to large in-by the Duce's contention. are that "France, Great Britain and intently at a member of his audi- Hong Kong: Wednesday. Aug. 14, 1935 Italy shall co-operate in main-exce, are you reading the straight termal expansion, cut off by a already bad neighbours are not world policy of national self-likely to become better after taining the political and terri and arrow path?

The man nodded. "I am."

sufficiency from the former out-they have been compelled to torial status quo in Ethiopia." “And do you find it easy?” That does not confer any "When I started I didn't, but now lets for its surplus population. make important concessions.

*Thus arises the Italian cos- Licence to Italy alone to threa-it comes naturally to me.

Work For Emigrants

tention that the concessions In an undeveloped territory can be of value to Italy only if

WHITEAWAY LAIDLAW

Spoilation In Africa

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of. I'm a fight-rope walker.”

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An Italian correspondent!ten. Abyssinia at the point of know how. Td get on if I didn't stick takes us to task for our leading the sword. In the exchange of nothing else keep my mind on such as Abyssinia Italian emi-she is able at the same time to And will you explain to these grants could work without loss establish a form of military pro in last Monday's issue of the return for certam mutual help ladies and gentlemen why you feel of nationality. The country has tectorate over article under the acore headingNotes of 1925 it was agreed, in nothing else."

the whale land China Mail. His letter is pub-on matters in which they were you should continue on the straight been reputed to possess great The argument may appear to lished elsewhere in this issue. concerned in Abyssinia, that and narrow path?

"Certainly: If I didn't I should fan wealth in raw materials al- have much logical force. Unfor though it must be admitted tunately for those who are seek space Italy and Great Britain. in the It would take far more

that these resources, largely uning a peaceful path to settle-*** than we have at our disposal to event of the status quo being dis-

prospected, must be somewhat ment, the Emperor has so far attempt to deal with all his turbed, should "make every

conjectural

declared with unswerving deter- points one after the other: nor effort to preserve the integrity

case, here?**

A short (and successful)mination that against any such do we consider that several of of Ethiopia and, in any

campaign would put fresh heart challenge to his position as the This points are worth taking at should concert together in or-

inte a population accustomed to ruler of an independent State. all. But one or two of the more der to safeguard their particu-

martial words and military he will fight to the last. salient parries will bear exami-lar interests in and around!

Ethiopia "All these things,

training. And in the process It is open to question how far nation.

the Italian labour market Haile Selassie would have Whether Italy entered the severally and collectively, un-

would be lightened of some taken up so uncompromising a Great War for "greed alone" or doubtedly mean that whatever course.”

400,000 men temporarily engag-position had he pondered the for thoroughly altruistic and delinquencies Abyssinia may

Home industry extent to which he could count noble reasons has nothing to do have been guilty of, Italy in-

dividually has no shadow of have found a sheep in the Himalays would meantime be stimulated upon the united support of the with the case. We question

right, however meritorious or Mountains that can run 45 miles by the work of providing for League for his actions. The pos- also our correspondent's asser- tion that the fact that the

This

disinterested her motives may

"Yes, Your Honour." "Lights OK?” "Yes, Your Honour." “Sound. O. K.?RE "Yes, Your Honour." "Good! Then let justice take its

*

Today's Mary: Wife (reading)-It says here they ed overseas.

hour

lamb like that to follow Mary now-

Strategy

In contrast with this alluring the eleventh hour lay before the their requirements in the field-sibility that Italy may now at prospect the insistent argings League a full statement of her of his commanders on the spot, charges, against Abyssinia may and the friendly advice of other exert a powerful influence on "Why do the Browns have a two Governments with longer ex- the conclusions which the Coun- They have only one perience of local military condi-cil will reach. But few would They live in tious, should have induced in concede that the task of setting

Signor Mussolini's mind by now Abyssinia's house in order could' ja belated appreciation of the im- immediately be entrusted to a mense risks he must take in single State which demands launching his campaign. that right at the pistol point.

Sickness already takes toll

car,

MARRIED WOMAN

FINED

among the men assembled in Three Powers Duty

Were the League to assume unsuitable camps. Returning that duty it could with perfect hospital ships do not make good propriety and commonsense ap.. propaganda. and an army medi-point as its agents the three- cal staff virtually without train-European Powers whose inter ing in colonial conditions is only ests in Abyssinia are already now being passed through hur- well recognised But the ried fortnightly courses.*** |League would first have to in-

- Risk To Regine

Allies "flagrantly broke their be, to settle them by unilateral, Her Hubby-Well, it would take

action In short, Italy, has no adays. promises of territorial compen- sation to Italy is known history right to be in Abyssinia proper. This, even if it were true, would the sovereign State, at all, and also still have nothing to do no amount of sophistry will with the case. Neither the alter the logic or correctness of car garage?

that fact

Don't you know? Allies nor anybody else were

Our correspondent's question the other half" empowered to divide up the

about Colonel Clifford being in territories of an independent

Abyssinian territory at the time sovereign State, not even a combatant in the late war, and of the incident is childish. He hand them over, bag and bag- was there, at the express wish

and invitation of the Abys gage, to any Power as terri simian authorities, as leader of torial. compensation for help the British section of the jmt during the war.

Boundary Unregistered Mui Tsai might be done, and was done, Commission working on the pre-

Abyssinian-British with the territories of the van-cise demarcation of the Abys

In Colony quished; but if the Allies at the man-British Somaliland fron end of the war had suddenly tier So much for that point. Ng Yuk-hang, a 29-year-old proposed to Norway, for in-

quire into many matters con-- stance, that they proposed to our correspondent goes on to married woman, residing at No.

Suppose victory did not come cerning the internal affairs and allow sonre of her sovereign tersay: "Abyssinia has long been 503 Queen's Road West, second considered by Italy to be her floor, this morning appeared be ritory to Italy as "compensa tion for help rendered to the sphere of imfnence." This is a fore Mr. W. Schofield at the Cen- quickly? Even an ultimate conduct of Abyssinia, for me so impoverished as to render jest peoples,” brought under the- Allies, the idea would have been preposterous claim, in view of trai Magistracy, when she plead success in arms might find Italy stance, the feelings of the "sub- treated with the ridicule it dethe League Covenant, the 1906 ed guilty to a charge of bringing impossible the exploitation of rule of Addis Ababa within the

Treaty and the 1925 exchange an unregistered mui-tsat into the the promised land. What if past half-century. served. Exactly the same prin- of Notes, as outlined above, and Colony on August 1.

the menace to Italy's own north (Continued on Page 11.). ciple applies to Abyssinia and

there is not the faintest shadow Ng Ngan, aged 11, was presentern frontiers, for which the Italy's "claims against her tere of support for so sweeping a jed by her mother to the defen Duce maintains an ever alert ritory as "territorial compensa-

statement."

dant at the age of three for and attentive ear, appeared then tion.

Whether our readers do or Canton currency, and had been in active form? The relationship of Italy with

'ever do not "care a jot for the Lion with her presert mistress

Signor Mussolini has not Abyssinia is governed by three of Judah but would prefer to see since.

blinded himself to the probable! particular things. They includelalavery entirely stopped" is also The defendant's ~ husband,, had reaction in Italy and the con- the League Covenant, first and!

extraneous to the discussion brought Ng Ngan to the Colony sequences for the Fascist State: foremost, under which Italy - and is neither here nor there on August 1 from Macao. He has faced them and decided dertook to respect the territorial in our previous leading article His Worship imposed a fine of that the rise must be taken. integrity of fellow-members of we considered the question of $10 for a technical oxence. In His need to gain the objective the League "Everyone does the Italian designs on Abysspector T. O'Commor, of the Se has become, in his mind, para- not know that "Abyssinia had simia not on their relation to the cretariat for Chinese. Affairs, mount the moment for with- no right to be in the League abolition of slavery, but as wil-prosec and it is futile to raise that ar-ful and deliberate violations of gument twelve years after she solemn obligations, treaties and has been accepted as a

with full rights

not she has a righ

continue her members

ja matter for the League, as

Covenants We have not the

drawal without tangible gain

has passed beyond his control, if the Fascist regime is to sur-

Two cases of enteric fever and vive. He will stay his hand slightest hesitation in insisting one of diphtheria were reported 23 only if he can attain his obi

we have made on case.

an entity, not for Italy alone.

DEATH IN A CINEMA

to decide. The other interna-

tional commitments gover

the relationship of Italy

Abyssinia are (1) the Treaty of Streatham Con

1906 and (2) the exchange of

Notes in 1925 between

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