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Portuguese Republic

25th Anniversary Celebrated

ROMANTIC RISE OF COUNTRY

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1935

HARRAR ITALIAN To-day's Short Stary

OBJECTIVE

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have been the Queen of Sheba's capital

CROWNING GLORY

Saturday evenings Mr. that what his wife "advised" was

O eveningslage the best thing for him to do in all

PORTUGAL and her eight Colonies will to-day celebrate the in chalian colonial great disaster day morning, and retired to bed pecking and clucking were always

AEROPLANES LEAVE

Bob Minter, the store-keeper, who sang bass in the choir and

Concerning the operations an} the Adows front, scome reports verger and sexton, washed his circumstances. Įstate that the Italian advance remarkable blond hair to rid it The villagers vowed Clegg was guard has already succeeded in of a week's grit and give it henpecked but cosseted was the capturing the town, whose name is that halo-like lustre on the Sun-better” Word. because Emily's

The at half-past nine" He wore a charming. True, she WES at of the foundation of the what history.

Abyssinian despatchesį night-cap to keep his curls in times didactic, but she never flap- may be called the ninth period of her history since her foundation official

In 1095 merely say that severe fighting is place.

ped her wings; she was a quiet- as an independent State in the eleventh century. Portugal was an obscure border fief in the Kingdom of Leon, its in progress north of Adowa be Mr. Clegg did not like doing spoken woman, and her wishes! name being derived from the little seaport of Portus Cale or Villa tween the latter place and the these things, but his wife. Emily, were so adroitly worded that Clegg Nova de Gaia, now a suburb of Oporto, at the mouth of the Eritrean border, and that Italian advised them; and he had learned always felt he was really acting!

(on his own initiative Douro But from these obscure beginnings it took only four heavy artillery is in action. centuries for Portugal to emerge as the greatest maritime, com-

The importance attached here to IMPERIAL AIRWAYS mercial and colonial Power in Europe.

The country has had a romantic history since its earliest the issue of this struggle is that six Between 1095 and 1279 a evidenced by the fact

TEST FLIGHT beginnings as a separate entity. Portuguese kingdom was established; between the latter date aeroplanes left Addis Ababa for and 1415 the gradual consolidation of the monarchy was evident, the north early yesterday in spite of the resistance offered by the Church, the nobles and fing, conveying officers to the scene!

of the battle... the rival kingdom of Castile.

Then began a period of crusades and discoveries, the cul- It is assumed that after the of Adowa the Italian minating accomplishment of which was the discovery, between capture 1497 and 1499, of a route to India; and in the next 80 years troops will endeavour to establish was carrying out a series of test helpmate to me in every sense of Portugal acquired an empire extending from Brazil to the communications between Eritrea fights in a Diana type of plane the word. Mr. Minter. Moluccas.

and Italian Somaliland.. thereby which

ordinarily carries nine cera herself with my comfort is! gaining control of the Djibouti

passengers and which will proh-what I wed her for. She advises. the railway and cutting off the Abys-ably be used on the route between and I act, if I consider her advice

sinian hinterland from the sea.

Penang and Hong Kong.

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The history of the country journey to India during then underwent a swift change. years 1497-99.

Balanced Budgets Spanish kings ruling over the

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service which arrives from Singa. pore that day.

Captain Armstrong said that he

was addicted to uninvited COM- ment on his neighbours affairs. once said to him:

"That missus of yours bosses you around above a bit. don't she..

Clegg?**

To which Clegg replied: *Mrs. Clegg has always been a

good."

*

*

To con

Was

It is believed that the Abys- That plane would be controlled That shows what an exceptional- country from 1581 to 1640: but The recent history of Portu-sinians intend to let the Italians by a pilot and Flying Officer who by clever woman Emily Clegg was in the next 35 years the Portugal shows a concentration upon penetrate still further into the would also be a wireless opera- guese monarchy was restored. the development of

On their present survey] Minter retailed that remark to while the reforms of Pombal sources of the country and her country in the north before them tor.

selves taking the offensive. and the Peninsular War. com colonies. It is significant that Kassa. one of the ablest Abyssineer and a wireless operator.

Ras fight. they were carrying an en-his cronies in the saloon bar of the "Cross Foxes" that evening: ing between 1755

1826.Portugal. almost alone among

SERIES OF TEST FLIGHTS and Billy Taw, the stationmaster, prepared the country for the the nations of the world. has sinian generals, is at present ad-

Captain Armstrong said that who was known to baby his wife. change from absolutism to con-had a balanced budget since ancing into the province of Tigre

the Imperial Airways had recent- sniggered. stitutional monarchy, ..

which 1930-31. resulting in the steady at the head of 300,000 men.

development of agriculture and It is assumed here that Ras ly duplicated their service run-

"Shouldn't be a bit, surprised,” began in the latter year.

toning through from London to chortled Fenly, the landlord. The last King of Portugal industry, after patient effort Kasss will allow the Italians

She has advance about 100 miles and then Singapore, but this was purely an Tom Puriton, who lives next door was Manoel II of the House of land steady striving.

to Clegg, says Braganza-Coburg,

the poor feller 2. younger taken her appointed place in the face them in the wild mountainous experiment

with innumerable) He had no authority to say so, can't have a stroll in the garden son of King Carlos I and Queen modern hegemony of States. region

of having also been duly elected to gorges and containing numerous but he understood that the Aus on a sunny day without her com- Mary Amelie, daughter

Abyssinianstralian National Airways would ing running out with a hat... She Philippe Count of Paris. The a permanent seat on the Council caves. in which the

are said to have stored vast quan- be doing the same thing in the told Tom's missus that she King died in his home of exile of the League of Nations.

35 near future. The relations of Portugal and tities of ammunition as well

scared of his lovely curls getting in England on July 2, 1932-

PIONEER CIVIL AVIATION bleached.". Republic Proclamation England have been essentially food.

ETHIOPIA'S WAR CHEST

Captain Armstrong is one of the cordial for some generations.

"Burrh" snarled Taw, who was The modern history of the finally cemented by the oppor-

Addis Ababa: The Abyssinian pioneers of Civil Aviation in as bald as a billiard-ball. That country begins with the pro-tunity for a true rapprochement war chest, which has now been put Britain and has down well over hair of his!

It doesn't look na- But for the fact tural on a man!** clamation of the Republic on afforded by the celebration of at the disposal of the Government. 800,000 miles. October 5. 1910. after a short the fourth centenary of Vasco consists of 11,000,000 lire paid by that he was attached to the Im-

"That's

very

agreed Airways Administration. revolution. when a provisional de Gama's voyage to India in Italy as the war indemnity after perial

Albert Chain, the wheelwright and| Government

established 1898.

the ill-fated Adowa campaign in staff for four years, he might have undertaker. 5

* was standing with Dr. Theophilo Braga as Our relations here are pri-1896 and money left by the late been a member of that select few alongside him at Fred Wharton's the Provisional President. He marily concerned with our very Emperor Monelik and the late Em-who have covered a million flying

putting-away last Wednesday. was followed during the period good neighbour, the Portuguese peror Zanditu, as well as contribu- miles

There was a bit of a breeze and August 24. 1911. to June 1 Colony of Macao. Their cor-tions made, by the present. Em-

He joined the Royal Flying the wind rafted his locks so 1926, by eight "duly elected diality has repeatedly

Corps during the Great War in they looked like spun silk. been peror. Presidents.

made evident, not the least by The total amount contained in 1917, and the Independent Air a remarkable head of hair sure On March 19, 1933. the the message of congratulation the war chest is estimated at be-Force in 1918. and was awarded enough, but as you say it would Estado Nere Constitution (pro-which was brought from the tween 20 and 25 million Maria the Air Force Cross.

look a lot better on a wench.” viding for a Dictatorship on a Governor of Macao by a special Theresa dollars, which will proba-

Soon after "the war he went "Well," chuckled Minter. “I corporative basis) voted deputation to the Governor of bly be chiefly used for the par- into Civil Aviation, then in its reckon the chap only just missed upon and adopted. this Consti-Hong Kong on the occasion of chase of war materials abroad

infancy, and joined Aircraft Tran being an albino; but that missus tution providing for a President the recent celebration of the TTALIAN TELEGRAM

sport and Travel Ltd, who were of his sets uncommon store by it.

was

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It's

Her husband's hair was in fact

to be elected for seven years Jubilee of HM King George. Geneva: The League Secretariat the pioneers of Civil Aviation, She buys a shampoo powder every by direct suffrage by the heads This Colony may well echo the yesterday forenoon received the firing modified war aeroplanes.week for him to wash it with." of families, besides outlining hope of Portuguese subjects following telegram from the Italian Following a lapse of several years the rules governing the electhroughout the world to-day: Under Secretary of State, Signor when Civil Aviation was at a low tions to the National Assembly that they may continue to be Suvich: "Referring to the Abyebb in England, he joined Imperial

The present President of the blessed with the efficient sinian Government's telegram to Airways in 1924, soon after they very precious to Mrs. Clegg: hers

General Republic is

was dark and a bit scrawny, and Antonio and honourable administration the League of Nations of October had started, and has been with Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, who which at present guides the 2, according to which Italian them ever since.

so her lord's halo of pale gold was elected or November 29. destinies of the country.

troops the same day crossed

His normal line of duty is

fascinated her. She made it her 1926, re-elected on March 25.!

frontier south of Moussa Ali in piloting the huge passenger craft own particular pride, and referred 1928, and February 17. 1935.

the Sultanate of Aousia, the plying between London and Paris. to it as "Mr. Clegg's Crowning The present Cabinet, with Dr.j

Glory." Italian Government has the honourja very popalar route.

She saw that he never Antonio de Oliveira Salazar as

to inform you that, apart from the

VALUE OF AIR DESPATCH exposed it to the sun or rain, that Prime Minister and Minister of

fact that in the region in question

The following letter was re-he gave it a rigorous brushing the frontier between Eritrea and ceived from the Managing Direc- three times a day; and that every the Sultanate of Acussa has

tor of Imperial Airways:

two months, never more and never The local dollar has risen yet been delimited, no movements

This letter, conveying to you, the less, he went to her brother, who Portugal can point to a proud opening on demand this morning of Italian troops in that region compliments and greetings of Im- had a hairdresser's shop in Wrent record of illustrious history in at 2/03%.

have taken place. The statement perial Airways, WLS carried to ham, the little, market town, and the course of the centuries "Spot" silver rose % to 29-9/16 is consequently entirely without "Continued or Pege 12) Perhaps the most picturesque and "forward" 3/16 to 29-11/16. foundation." of the various epochs was the The London on New York cross- period of discoveries, beginning rate was quoted at £-US$4.89% early in the fifteenth century as compared with US$4.29%, and extending for some 85 while the New York on London years.

| cross-rate was quoted at £- Portuguese mariners, inherit-US$1.89%, as compared with £---- ing the direct stimulus of ex-U.S.$4.8834-

Finance, has been in office since

October 23, 1934.

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tion Committee protested empha- tically to the District Election Commissioner about forgeries.

was mobilised. - To-day attempts Mr. Clegg's hair, too; he also con- are made to play the same zame sidered it a family treasure. with Italy, But it is not to be as-! And then one Saturday evening

SENSATION AT MEMEL sumed that world opinion will let in early spring Mrs. Clegg made

ELECTIONS VIGOROUSLY DENOUNCED itself be duped a second time by a terrible discovery. She had

IN ITALY

these fantastic allegations."

watched her husband shampoo his

In a written statement handed in, (Continued from Page 19 the German The paper especially takes ex-golden crown, and then, taking the on the Lithuanian scrutineer to its frequent objection to the em- Committee recalled. Rome: The Messagero vocifeception to the reports alleging towel, she commenced to dry it for retire, pending investigation. This ployment of students and also ried on during the middle ages. KING TO GO SHOOTING WITH rously protests against the that the Abyssinian Eed Cross him, in order to rest his arms he refused to do, declaring that asked that not only the guilty "strocity lies" already being cir hospital at Adows was bombed by Abruptly her hands halted. and only the chairman of the Election scrutineer put also his partner culated against Italy by the anti-Italian aeroplanes, and points, out she peered closely into the blond Commission was authorised to ing far into the Atlantic. Por!

be expelled from the counting hospital tangle

give such an order.

room, the latter action seeming tugal was the training-ground London. To-day Their Ma-Fascist section of the foreign that not a single such

When the chairman arrived the to suggest that the Committee is for a race of adventurous sea- jesties the King and Queen will press, recalling in this connection exists in all Abyssinia.

stricken voice. "You're going contents of the drawer were ex disposed to hamper the supervi men, dealing directly and re-according to present arrange the atrocity stories spread at the

amined, when they were discoversion of the work of the scra gularly with England, Flanders ments, leave London on Monday beginning of the Great War,

aware of ed to consist of 54 voting papers tineers. Mr. Clegg had been that fact for two or three weeks, on the German list and two 03 In addition, nowhere was the expected they will be in resi-alleged cutting off of the hands of

but as his wife's brother had not the Lithuanian, which were evi of a total of 68,000 papers had By midday yesterday 30,000 out ancient crusading spirit

dence for a fortnight HPH Belgian children by Germans.

noticed it the last time he had dently put there by mistake in a been examined as to validity, 200 active a political force as in this the Duke of Gloucester is going The paper goes on to say: "We

trimmed his hair, he had kept the hurry. country, which had acquired to Sandringham next week for now know these lying methods, by

The scrutineer at first denied Trans-Ocean Service.

being declared null and void. misfortime to himself for the sake and held its independence by

a few days shooting with the which the entire world, not ex the sword.

King.

Lady Alice Scott, the cluding Italy, was deceived 20 Geneva: The League Secretariat of peace. Now he tried to make his guilt, but nevertheless he was It was the genius Duke's financee, yesterday lun years ago, but whose real nature yesterday afternoon published light of it.

arrested and handed over to the of Prince Henry the Navigator ched with Their Majesties and as a contemptible attempt to per telegram from the Abyssinian

"It is a failing even the best criminal police. Yesterday, he that co-ordinated and utilised the Duke at Buckingham Pa-vert the truth has now been re-¡Foreign Minister replying to the quality hair has, my love," he murmade a full confession. all these tendencies towards

The scrutineer is a Lithuanian expansion, and it was his cap-vice

lace British Wireless Ser-vealed. Twenty years ago the air Italian Government's telegram of mured.

Mrs. ⠀⠀ Clegg - was ten years student named Prapiestis, belong tains who were primarily res

was full of reports of Belgian Thursday and affirming that "des- ponsible for the exploration of

children whose hands had alleged-pite the obviousness and brutality younger than her husband; but at ing to the Memel high school, and Africa and the Atlantic

ly been cut off hr barbarous Ger- of the Italian aggression, which that moment she looked ten years is 23 years of age. Altogether 50 Auction. There is a long list of ex-

mans, and to-day stories are car-compels the Abyssinian army to older. Her voice held deep dis- students from the Lithuanian ploratory accomplishments to

rent of women and children killed defend the national territory aster as she said:

High School at Memel were en- the credit of the intrepid navi- London. To-day Road acci-by Italian troops.

against invasion, the Abyssinian “Oh, Arnold! It will be terrible trusted with the responsible work gators and travellers of Portu-dents in Britain during the week

Government reiterates its deter having a grey-haired husband. It of counting the votes, against the gal The most famous of these ending September 28 were 142 "During and after the Great mixation to co-operate whole will show up the difference in our repeated objection of the German were perhaps Bartholomen killed and 4,530 injured. These War nobody ever succeeded in heartedly, with the League Council ages so dreadfully; and I don't Election Committee.

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ROAD ACCIDENTS SHOW DECREASE IN BRITAIN

NO MORE DUPING

Diaz, who doubled the Cape of figures compare with 130 killed finding a single victim of th Good Hope in 1488, and Vasco and 4,889 injured during the barbarities, on whose behalf the de Gama, who completed the corresponding week of last year public feeling of the entire world Servi

-British: Wireless Service. ^

Framewor

Covenanti

now what Tom will say when he -Ocean trims it next week":

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