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LONDON'S EARTHQUAKE

OIL AND MINERALS IN ABYSSINIA

THE WEALTH WHICH ITALY COVETS

London was visited by an earth- RICHES OF LAND OF SHEBA WORTH

quake on March 8, 1750, which did

no particular damage but disturb

ed many people. Among them

wis Horace Walpole,

“I had scarced dözed,” he wrote

GAMBLE IN BLOOD

(By William J. Makin.)

is generally agreed that theyTafari's too clever.

Trichest territors in Africa going to sign yet.

He's not

to Mann, when an a sudden I felt my bolster lift up my head. The earthquake lasted half a minute, to-day is the Congo. There is That wanderer of the African with a violent vibration and great more wealth in those steaming wilds had interested me more roaring

jungles alongside the great than I cared to admit Only Trang my bell, my servant river over which now fly triple two years previously I had came in frightened out of his engined "planes carrying ivory, stood amidst some mysterious senses; in an instant we heard all apes and peacocks." than in rains in Rhodesia. which the the windows in the neighbourhood most other parts of Africa natives called King Solomon's flung up.

And the Belgians are exploiting mines. Now it seemed that I "I got up and found people ran-those regions to the best advan-was near the equally fabulous mines of the Queen of Sheba, ning into the streets, but saw no tage. mischief done; there had been Yet surveys by lone prospec-who, when she visited Solomon. with her great some-two old houses flung down, tors and adventurous engineers dazzled him several chimneys, and much china-have proved that Abyssinia has beauty as well as her wealth-- a wealth in minerals and oil of I left Abyssinia without hav- *Aparson who came into a type that Europe is parti-ing had an opportunity to trek for at the into the interior with the old. White's in the morning and heard cularly hungry

prospector who had glimpsed a bets laid on whether it was an moment.

Though it is only recently dazzling vision. earthquake or the blowing up of powder-mills went away exceed-that the vast mineral resources

ware.

in

But on my return to England ingly scandalised, and said: Thave been explored it is no I did hear from that well-known protest that they are such an in- secret that the alluvial sand of explorer and big-game hunter, pions set of people, that I believe the Blue Nile contains enough Frank E Hayter, that if the Last Trumpet was to sound, gold to make the country one of Abyssinia he had located the they would bet puppet-show rast potential wealth; and the place where the Queen secured

emeralds existence of silver, platinum, her jagainst. Judgment”.”-

and had actually copper, lead and mica as com diamonds, mercial propositions is no stood in a cave over whose floor longer a matter of conjecture the precious stones were strewn

Add to this the agricultural like a glittering carpet.

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CABINET RIVALS

Two rivals in the Royal Thames

Fabulous Mines

And

rubies.

and

Yacht Club's race for schooners possibilities of highland country Mr. Hayter has evidence to The China Mail volved in membership of the round the Isle of Wight were Sir where white settlement is easy, prove his remarkable. claim. Mr. the advantages of growing Be brought back with him only League and regardless also of Bolton Eyres-Monsell and

many acres of excellent cotton a few of the gems he saw in the urgent necessity for Eng-Walter Runciman.

the in the neighbourhood of Lake (their thousands, and also a quill Hong Kong, Thursday, Oct. 17, 1395 land as the guardian of the The First Sea Lord owns

and the reasons for or two filled with gold dust and Sudan and Egypt to protect the 224-tonner Heartsease, which was Tana,

He explained that flow of the waters of the Nile bolt 32 years ago, while the Pre-Italian aggression in this rich platinum. France And Sanctions It must be conceded to thesident of the Board of Trade owns corner of Africa become expli-he.could not return to the caves at the time to get more. French point of view that the the 161-tonner Altair. She is 30 cable.

because of the sickness of his so years younger than her rival, was This week we are getting League's action had been

partner, and lack of food. But Scottish weak that there was some ex-designed by Fife, the

It can be argued that there he intends to return with a down to bedrock in this very

case for the idea widely ex-naval architect. and is one of the peculiar and disastrous war. It pressed in the French Press, smartest cruising schooners afloat. is a real necessity for exploiting fully-equipped expedition in the

that such vast near future. in which the whole and emphatically stated by There was a good entry for this Abyssinia.

Carpet Of Rubies which Mr. T. B. F. mineral wealth should not be issue will be decided by diplo-Signor Mussolini, that it was race. in

allowed to lie fallow.

The treasure caves, he said. Success in the field/naught but a shadow of a name, Davis's Westward was the scratch Haile Selassie himself has been are in one of the twin peaks of macy

and could be safely ignored. It boat.

particularly cautions and even the Tulu Wallel-which is would be more disastrous to must also be conceded that

obdurate when approached by Abyssinian - for" "Sheba's was outraged by the Your Daily Smile! European concessionaires for Breasts? These extraordinary Italy than failure, and either France

the development of these terri- mountains success or failure is bound to open defiance of Germany in-

been have long be disastrous to Europe. So volved in re-arming, and re- Professor. "And whatever on earth tories.

know, but never explored 2 paragraph like It was while I was travelling They are high and rounded, and far as the operations are conforming her General Staff and made you write

through this part of Africa while there is no difficulty in cerned. the Italians have now her conscript army. The policy that

Student: I quoted it, sir, from Dic-that I first heard the story of accounting for half the native crossed the lowlands, where it of England based on the con- would have been suicidal to op- vicison that a great and proud, kens."

Professor: "Beautiful lines, aren't the fabulous mines from which name for them, no one knows. t for ever be

that mysterious Queen of Sheba why they have been for cen pose them, and are preparing nation could

of inferiority,

was said to have obtained her turies associated with Sheba. to scale the higher ground kept in a posit

utations, was Excited Young Father: "Quick gold.

"It was a few moments where the advantage will no with special longer be so completely on their weak and dan ous. But on Tell me. Is it a boy?"

An empty bottle of cham-before. I realised that I was Nurse (carrying bundle): “Well, the side But what will decide the the top of that came the Ger-

pagne stood on the table be standing on a carpet of rubies. tween us Facing me, in a dis-Hundreds of them, ranging fate of Europe for a generation man declaration that she was one in the middle is.” to the test that is France considered is the test that is being applied also going to build a fleet, and • • *

Father (admiring his new-bormal, ant-ridden hotel in Addis from tiny specks to marvellous beir): "That fellow will be a great Ababa, was a semi-drunken gold stones, bigger than a water- statesman one of these days." prospector from Johannes swollen pea

Mother: “Oh, Charles, dear, do you burg. really think he will?"

Father "Sure of it. Look how

lately devised, to find an alter permitting that England should native to the old system of al-have consulted her. The man- liances for joint warfare which ner of contracting the naval we have found to lead to the agreeme it with Germany was double calamity of certain war, certainly

or in

Italian

they ***

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"I paid another visit the next "I tell you there's miles of day. This time I was alone.

the stuff-miles of gold," he Wherever the torch-light flash- shouted waving a grimy, sed on the walls of the galleries, burnt hand. Also caves where and caverns, it seemed to set She: "What will men wear for the diamonds lie about for the pick-fire to the countless red and ing. They're the lost mines of white stories: There were He: The clothes they bought in the Queen of Sheba, and I've rubies, spinel rubies, emeralds

found 'em."

w and even

a few

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

Mysterious Ruis

Platinum

diamonds,

tactless, however easily he wriggles out of everything" however long delayed, and war realistic it may have been. Un- on the biggest possible scale der these circumstances, either

As we have explained, all in terms of a specific promise. coming year?" along, the decision rests ultimas is widely believed.

in terms of general policy, France (1928.” ately with France, and watching the crucial events of is unwilling to agree to any

"Where are they?" I asked among which was a magnificent the next ten

He closed one eye rose diamond bluntly. days we should measures that would be effec-

"Away cunningly.

în the avoid any tendency to under-tive in preventing an estimate the difficulties, in conquest, followed by a claim

mountains out into the blue" and which France is placed. or for recognition as the actual

Grantham, "And why don't you go Mr. A. W. G. H It has been said to unduly simplify motives possesse prompted by more history than that if ir John Simon had Acting Assistant Colonial Secre- grab the stuff?" space will allow us even to re-spokens clearly as Sir Samuel tary, and Mrs. Grantham are leav fer to in a short article. For Hoare ten years or ten months ing the Colony to-morrow by the They will leave a thousand years there has ago everything would have. Tricolor. been rivalry between France been different. That may be Queen's Pier at 4 pm Mr. Gran-knocking over the bottle. and Germany, and for the last so, but it still remains true that tham has been transferred to

Bermuda as Colonial Secretary. sixty years it has been the one England's only motive for sup fixed point of European inter-porting France, or anyone else

Europe is to maintain The as.. Chitral is due here from national politics. For the last in

based on treaties. Shanghai at 6 am next Friday fifteen years it has been ob-peace

that if no trea vious that Versailles settled and

Mr. J. Fearson, of No. 90 nothing: the question has been ties are to be held sacred Eng- how can a settlement be reach-land will, in Sir Samuel Hoare's Waterloo Road, reports that he words "withdraw from particis was bitten on the hand by his fox ed that will be permanent?

France has consistently taken pation in European, affairs."terrier yesterday. He was treat- the line that it would be mere That would mean the collapseed at the Kowloon Hospital and sentimentality to suppose that of the whole post-war structure the dog sent to Mataukok. any policy could forestalla of peace defence: But it is easy.

..

Such is the story of Mr. Frank Hayter, who is now busy with his material and maps at his country house near Here- His fist. thumped the table, ford. When I heard it, I re

gretted that I had not taken the “Because I can't get a con-lold prospector at his word, and cession to mine granted me by journeyed into the wilds with " this black man who has been him.

But of the existence of that crowned Emperor of Abyssinia. I've been in the god-forsaken other precious metal platinum, town ten weeks, bribing and there is a good deal of available wheelling a chance for my con-data The existence of plati- cession to be signed. But Ras num in Abyssinia was first dis-

covered in 1926, and the metal is now being produced there in commercial quantities by a One case of diphtheria and two French company. The yield is {cases of typhoid fever were re about 2,500 oz. a year, which is ported as having occurred in the very small compared with the

Hong Kong on Tuesday.

bia, and compared with the total world output of 240,000

The platinum resources of

Hospital after being bitten by a been scratched. There is, in terrier, bitch owned by Mr. K the words of the old prospector

German revanche: that the only to understand that there was A coolie, Cheung Wing, aged 34, Colony during the 24 hours ended 55,000 oz. produced by Colom- realistic plan was to keep as deep feeling that the time had employed at the

As Brewery at Sham Tseung was ad- fully armed as possible, and come for "a showdown.”

A boy named Marcus Silva, of oz

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get as many allies as possible, we have already said, it is the mitted to the Kowloon Hospital and by means of Reparations misfortune of Europe, that this with burns on the face and hands No. 25 Kimberley Road, and such a measure as the oe war must be a bad effect sustained when a blow-lamp ex-treated yesterday at the Kowloon Abyssinia, however, have only cupatic i of the Ruhr prevent however the fighting may go. ploded.

the economic recovery of Ger many as long as possible. In cidentally, last January, in or

der to win the goodwill of Italy, BENGALI CENTENARIAN who cherished several grievan

ces, a deal was made of which

Mr. F. Maher, aged 45, a diver may of No. 18 Cameron Boad whom I met "miles and miles

at the Kowloon docks and residing The dog was sent to Matankok for lof the stuff” As also gold and DEAD at No. 34 West Terrace, was ad- obse

[mitted to the Kowloon Hospital, Sahebulla” Shelf The claimed sufering from a stab wound a

en In the fleged to have been inflicted by one

the terms were that Italy was to be the oldest.

quantities of oil This is modern treasure, besides which ring unclaimed tele the mines of the Queen of Sheba The at the office of 15 of small consequence. stern Extension Telegraph whole world knows that Italy's

Morpeth, sa. Hakozaki-finances to-day are in a par from Darlington and Elso lous state. The riches of this Build-land of Sheba may well be with a ramble in blood.

to protect Austria from occa-district, has died in the village of of three Norwegians near the the tion by the Nazis, and in re Pachuria, Bengal, at the age offside entrance of West Terrace at Co.,

France would give Italy 115. He leaves behind him 's son,17 p.m. yesterday, during an argumarn, free hand to annex Abyssinia,jaged 80, a grandson, and a great-ment with them. His condition is Heim, Room 106 Glouces

ious. the duties o

ing,-from-Manchester regard