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Blissfully unaware of the Lon- don Stock Exchange bar upon visitors, two strangers entered the "House" recently shortly before lunch With so little of interest in the way of business, their ap pearance was welcomed as being al

LEAGUE PROBLEM

TO-DAY

SETTLING ABYSSINTAN

DISPUTE

ALLIENATE PATHS UNDER

GENEVA COVENANT

(By Maj-Gen. A. C. Temperley)

London, July Si delimited frontier while Earope diversion with promising possibi-TF it is true that in a multitude is ringing with bellicose speeches of counsellors there is wis-and warlike preparations? To fall.

ittes

No Drift To War

It is the master of its OWE

The visitors, who were obviously dom, then the League of Nations in with Signor Mussolini's views. holiday-makers from across the must, indeed, be a fortunate in-would be an abdication of its most Channel, were slow to awake to the stitution. There is no proposal.elementary duty. situation, and found their unex-leither for action or inaction, that pected popularity somewhat em-has not been pressed upon it by

its unofficial advisers. barrassing.

The task before the Council agenda, and this. being a matter A helpful waiter's arrival was readily appreciated, and with his when it holds its special meeting of procedure, can if necessary be assistance the strangers made to-day will be more than usually decided by majority vote. The their exit through the Kaffir door onerous, for the situation is criti-object of the Council being con. One has heard, however, af other cal. It may be of interest to re-ciliation, it naturally would not: more wilful gate-crashing in cord the Council's members: the wish to start by attempting to ride Throgmorton-street meeting with United Kingdom, France, Italy rough-shod over the views sincere

USSR Argentine, Australia, ly held by one of the parties, if it ja wilder justice.

Chile, Czechoslovakia. Denmark. can be avoided. Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Spain. To convince the Italian repre Turkey-and Germany.

sentative of the desirability in his

RUGBEZAN RAS

Few people are aware that an

As often happens at Geneva, own country's interests of a dis-- Abyssinian prince is buried in St. questions of procedure, apparent-cussion of the substance of the George's Chapel, Windsor,

ly innocuous. conceal a deep dispute should not be impossible. He was Prince Alamayahu, a son cleavage upon matters of prin-We have frequently been assured of the Emperor Theodore.

When Lord Napier captured:

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. Magdala and found the Emperor

fciple.

:

Arbitrators' Deadlock

that he has a strong case to pre......... sent, and the Council could hear from his lips an explanation of the he took charge of the Royal On May 25 the Council had left grievances and the dangers which concentra- orphan and brought him home. the two parties full liberty to entail this enormous He was sent to Rugby under Dr. settle the dispute (which "was tion of armed force. Jex-Blake.

then confined to the frontier in- One thing, however, is certain. Rugbeians whose memories gojcidents) by means of the Arbitra-Public opinion cannot allow this The China Mail when maternity and child wel back to the seventies recall the tion and Conciliation Commission gradual drift into war while the fare and such matters as drains Prince as a slim, handsome boy, provided for in Article 5 of the League sits with folded hands and and water supply were held to who was quite good at games.. Italo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928. does not even attempt to find a Hong Kong, Wednesday Aug. 23, 1935 be the concern of the individual. He died a victim to the English The Council is now to meet, osten- solution. We cannot doubt that

We may agree that we have climate shortly acquired a sense of the danger Rugby.

Science In Pursuit

of life that is exaggerated, but

the effective answer is that we Scientific management in in-live much longer and On the

after

leaving,sibly at any rate, because the the British delegate in private

Your Daily Smile !

dustry has passed through, a whole enjoy better Health. A small child at a painting class

Road Rules For All

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Oh! Oh!

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four arbitrators have reached a conversations will urge these con-- deadlock and failed to select a siderations on the Italian repre fifth arbitrator, as the Treaty sentative and insist upon a full

discussion. directs.

-The Next Step Signor Mussolini has published

If that is done we reach the a note to the effect that he is pre- "Red,pared to take part in the Council next step, and the Council has meeting subject to two conditions then to decide whether it is to. The first is that Abyssinia should proceed under Article 11 or 15. IL

period of suspicion, largely be-That is the justification that all in a play centre was asked what were cause in its early days it was the scientists may claim for the three primary colours. Itoo often represented as a what Lord Malmesbury stigma-white and blue, Miss," she replied.

means of getting more work tises as their "shepherding of out of the individual without four destinies."

A stranger came into a small-town adhere to her undertaking to re-may be convenient to quote their additional reward. That phase

grocery store and asked for all the strict the business of the Con-main provisions. has passed, and in all countries

old eggs on hand. As he put the last ciliation Commission to a discus Article 11 speaks of the duty of there is recognition that pro-

one into the bag, the grocer said sion of the frontier incidents. The the League “in the case of war or facetiously, "It looks as though you Abyssinian Government has duction and distribution on the

the threat of war to take any With the distribution of the were going to · see “Hainlet". played modern scale require careful reHighway Code to every home in to night

Iplied that it has entered into no action that may be deemed wise- search into processes and a Britain the Ministry of Trans- "No, sir," came the answer grim-such agreement. pooling of experience Hence port has entered on a new andị Ly. "I am going to play Hamlet the remarkable success of the intensive effort to reduce the

to-night

...

No Clear Grounds

and effectual to safeguard the peace of nations." The terms are very widely and even loosely

International Congress of Scien-number of accidents. The "The modern girl's hair looks like It is not clear upon what juridi- drawn, but we are here in the con--" tific Management, which closed programme of education for the mop, says a writer. But she cal basis Signor Mussolini makes ciliation stage and the Council. last month after an address public includes the display of doesn't ry; she probably doesn't this demand. Article 5 of the needs liberty of action. from the Prince of Wales. It 300,000 posters, a broadcast even know what a mop looks like. was opened by the Duke of talk by the Minister, and the Kent with the timely reminder sending on tour of a broadcast | A Cockney merchant had made aftake to submit to a procedure ofjgrievances; the Council-ean then that behind all questions of ing van

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The Pipers

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Italo-Ethiopian Treaty, 1928, says. Both parties are invited to sit that both Governments under-round the table and state their

lot of money and decided to spend conciliation and arbitration dis-make recommendations for as A main theme of all this pro- some of it on a castle in the High-pates which may arise between settlement. These must be un-

lands of Scotland On the first

rationalisation, planning, and systems of working there are whose welfare is the main issue-addressed to motorists alone, the pipers at dinner, sir?”

Thuman beings to be considered way Code is not something and said: "Would you care to have to armed force." This article parties to the dispute are includediy

paganda must be that the evening, the butler approached him them...without having recourse animous and the votes of the

deals with every sort of dispute This first Congress in London but should be studied and for "No thanks," was the casus) reply, that can arise, and it is difficult has been made notable by the lowed by every user of the "but you can tike 'em to the other to see how the procedure can be fact that the delegates have road. About 40 per cent. of room, and I'll read 'em liter." devoted attention to the home the casualties are caused by

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Good Show

The "What does it cost to see him?”?

code is little more than a clear

"Gap" In Covenant Article 15, however, is of a much restricted to a particular set of more precise character. It deals with a dispute "likely to lead to a incidents unless both parties so as offering a field in which some lapse or carelessness on My dad is an Elk, a Lion, a Moose, agree.

rupture. The roles of the parties science and order, may relieve the part of pedestrians, accord- and an Eagle the world's housewives of aing to official calculation

The second condition of Signer to the dispute are excluded. Here vast amount of drudgery.

Mussolini is that the business of again the Council will try to effect. the Council should be confined to a settlement Failing that, it will Aiming at the production of more goods with a lessened ex that should be followed by all

statement of the simple rules STROMBOLI HAS AN the question of the Conciliation publish a report containing a penditure of energy, scientific who are on the highway, and

Commission resuming its work statement of the facts and the management might seem to be were it universally observed a

He adds: "Should this not be the terms of the settlement recom-

mended. of doubtful utility at a

case, the Italian Government will startling reduction would be when one of the main problems made in the annual record of

state its observations on the sub- of the world is to distribute deaths and injuries.

ject” This is a somewhat cryp-{ and consume a surplus of goods. A careful study of the proceed ledge of the code is being made ings of the Congress shows it part of the qualification for a driving licence. That know-

time

Know-

ERUPTION

Sudden Activity Displayed

If the report is unanimous (other than the votes of the inter-

tic utterance, which may be interested parties) it need not be ac preted either as a polite hint that cepted by the disputants, but the Italian representative will members of the League are pledg

ar with a party ed not to go to war The volcano of Stromboli situst: withdraw from the Council, or

Messina

grappling with the social. Pledge is scarcely less essentialed on an island of the same name that he will present some reasoj. that carries out the Council's ra~·

blems that science has created and striving to seek a solution: for them Undoubtedly the Congress is right in its concep tion that there must be no arrest of the improvements in cultivation, manufacture and

for those who go on foot.

WITHOUT VALID PASSPORT

Young Russian Gives Himself Up

distribution which have been made available, but the new dilemma of abundance is equally its concern. Many of The papers read frankly admit Alexander Z. Messel, aged 19, a that scientific management has Russian, who was charged before not proved the universal solvent Mr.. 2 A. A Macfadyen at the of all economic problems but Central Police Court this morning has been the seed from which with entering the Colony without has sprung a bounteous crop of a valid passport, was cautioned and difficulties that require equally ordered to be expelled from the expert investigation

Colony,

Detective Sergeant Russell zuid Science Our Doctor that the defendant arrived from

Manila by the President Lincoln Monday and gare himself up at the Yammti Police Station

from $200.

Lord Ma trange audience in the Ro

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FOILS CHAMPION KILLED

Broken Foil Enters Chest

mionship

folls cha

objections.

Limits Set By Duce

commendations:

If the Council “is” not” unani.. mous, then under Article 12 war

(Continued on Page 11.)

is permissible after a delay of It is unfortunately becoming three months, and this is the only more and more evident from the so-called gap in the Covenant. reports from Rome that Signor Mussolini is determined at all costs to prevent the League from discussing the substance of the dispute at all. The League right- ly stood aside to give the Concilia- Ition Commission a chance, bat it has ended in a fasco, because the Italian representatives insisted upon comfining the discussion to the frontier incidenta.

We have therefore reached the! extraordinary, position neither the Commissi

Council is

dertake

opponent's foil broke in the with which,

cing

the Covenants:

charged

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