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selves on Canton, Yesterday. Defermmed to put through the thirteenth of the month, as the Editor, and be accompanied by its proposals before the Sixth their wedding day.

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September 15. is the Writer's Name and Address Plenary Session of the Knomm not necessarily for insertion, but tang Central Executive Com watched over by four saints St uloʻzus," and two as a guarantee of good faith

mittee Canton has mobilised its crack units in a grand line up for political battles in Nan

anniversary" of Mon king next Friday.

T taigne, who was less Itely in his These gentlemen include Mesas, marriage than Mr. Parry, for he Liv Layin, Tang Ching-yang, Chini was married against his will Awang-hsin, Li Jen-yen, and Chin Had he been left his choice, be Ku-chi. The vanguard already in would not bare wedded Shanghar is composed of Professor Wisdom ** Hong Kong. Monday, Oct. 28, 1935. Hoang ki-lu and Mr. Li Ti-en, willing

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MANY JEWISH OBSERVANCES

IN THEIR RITUAL

was

-Abyssinian crisis, tinue of the first-born of Israel the camous anoma and Judah, who brought" with est of war between thêm & share of the Divine two Christian States both bound blessing vouchsafed to the Jews {by the solemin obligations of the It is therefore, held by the ague Covenant, the one Abyssinians that their Chris- first-class modern European tianity, first imparted to them Power within the area of whose by the Apostle Philip through territory resides the traditional the famous emuch who representative of St. Peter, the treasurer to their Queen Can- other an African people of dace, was grafted on to a pro- immemorial antiquity, hunters, existent Judaism. herdsmen, and slave-holders. To this day the Ethiopian professing a Christianity essen Christians bake their bread in tially the same to-day as it was thin round cakes similar to the in the earliest beginnings of Jewish Passover bread, and Frith common Faith and pre their creed, though mainly a for senting moreover, many fea-modification of that professed tures that link it with primitive by the Coptic and Orthodox

P. Hawkes in The Times. Budaism. writes Lieut-Colonel Churches, valves a consider- table admixture of Hebrew The language of the Tigre ritual, and belief. The adora highlanders who inhabit the ton of the Host, for instance, northern and more mountainous is accompanied by that of the

~~How Christianity Came Province of the Ethiopian Ark of the Covenant. Empire is a dialect of the aff Ghis language mixed with Apart from the legend of Hebrew and Arabic words while Queen Candace's eunuch, mare that of the people of the sold historical ground exists southern Amhara province can for believing that Christianity tains a large proportion of was introduced into Ethiopia by similar words. Both sections Frumentins, & Syrian merchant branch of the ancient Coptic the Patriarch Athanasius of of the population belong to a who was ordained AD 327 by

Church, but the Tigre preserve Alexandria and who became the with pride a multitude of first Bishop of Axum, the old Jewish nations and ceremonies Ethiopian metropolis" whose The most probable historical ex-mins are near Adowa Invest planation of these is that they led by him and his successors are the legacy of a settlement with ecclesiastical as well as of exiled Jews, expelled from temporal functions in virtue of Arabia some time before the their descent from Solomon, Mohamedan conquest of the rulers of Abyssinia became Western Asia.

in medieval times the subject of

ber of the South-west Political NAPOLEON'S FRIDAYS Coumes also in Shanghai for re

It has been suggested that Significance is attached to the day, was a day of destiny Science is at last being sys fact that Mr. Liu Luvin is include Napoléon. tematically applied to the new ed in the Canton contingent. A problems of road construction follower of Mr. Hu Han-min. Mentered the itary school of On Friday, April 13, 1779, he The British Road Research Liu will interview high. Nanking Brienne. On Friday December Board has drawn up a com-officials to pave the way for the

|13, 1799, he was nominated First prehensive programme and political comeback of Mr. Hu.

As previously reported, General Consul, and on a Friday in 1804 made a good beginning with it The need was urgent Beyond Chiang Kai-shek, strong man of the he became Emperor. dispute, one of the main causes Nanking regime, is willing to coza He left for St. Helens on a Frk of the she or seven a thousand promise with the South-west (Ca day in 1815, and on a Friday road deaths each year is the on) owing to Japanese pressure for 1838 the inglish offered his tomb state of the road surface. There concessions. It is stated that the to the King of France.

Yet there are other days as de are busy streets in London leaders here are not unwilling to which are still of skating rink operate with General Chiang Cisive in Napoleon's history

Waterloo was slipperiness, and others which Provided Mr. Wang Ching-wei is Friday.

removed as President of the Execu them. are safe in any weather. There tige Tran

"There will be a big battle to fare striking differences between Afr. Wang's concurrent post as morrow,

of Wellington's the high roads of one county Foreign Minister is likely to be Peninsular veterans predicted, the and another. What is the taken over by Ambassador Chiang day before Waterloo The Duke safest, the most durable, and Teo-bin, who will arrive in Shi

always fights on a Sunday.” the cheapest method of con- hai to-morrow from Japan. struction? To that question

the Research Board should “be

able to supply an answer, for it EMPOWERING is attacking the problem from LAW PASSED · various points.

IN WARSAW

Finance Minister's Triumph

*Even standard materials, it appears, are not thoroughly understood, owing to the absence of knowledge of the properties on which successful road use depends. There is clearly an immense amount of work to be done, but we hope that the Board will not neglect one of the most important. of! the danger factors, the black ori dark colour of roads. That After a session lasting from has been the fundamental the early forenoon on Friday

BLANK CF QUE FOR PRESIDENT

CHINA MAIL - SPECIAL

Warsaw. Yesterday.

une

Your Daily Smile!

• HOW WE TAKE IT Some days it's cold,

Some days it's hots But what we want Is what it's not..

*

GOOD GRACIOUS!***

..

This derivation, however, fabulous rumours surrounding does not satisfy the Ethiopians the name and identity of Pres- themselves. Throughout the ter John Neither the Portu Empire they believe that their guese military adventurers in "My Gord! Basn't she a bath robe best blood and oldest traditions the fifteenth and sixteenth cen- or something?”

She paints in the "nude.”~/

*

TOO LATE

mony straightened up afterward.

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The Note

have no meaner source than turies nor the later Jesuit mis- King Solomon himself, the sionaries ever, succeeded in in- The man that was bent on matri-temple-builder of Jerusalem ducing the Abyssinians to They assert that the Queen of acknowledge. the spiritual Sheba then their sovereign supremacy of the Pope. They and for whom their name is recognised then as now, only The wife of an usher, suddenly re "Ažeb”" or "Maqueda,”* but the Coptic Patriarch of Alexan cause of many an accident at until after midnight, the Sejon membering that she had left her whom the Koran calls "Balkis" dria, from whom the “Abuna,” night, and it is a perpetual Commision, by a great major- Sunday roast in the oven, hastily had by him a son Menelek, or Abyssinian Archbishop, must A NUMBER OF OTHER EXCELLENT DESIGNS FOR YOUR source of strain and anxiety.lity, finally passed the new Em-wrote a note to her, but born after her visit to Solo receive his official consecration

The declared opinion of the powering law, which is to re. He, however, mistook it for a mon's capital

gave it to another usher to hand to

Menelek, they This Grand Ecclesiastic is bound Ministry of Transport is that main in force until January 15, note to the minister, who was in say, succeeded her at the age by vows of celibacy, unlike the the ideal road must have a 1936, and which authorises the she middle of his sermon.

of 25 and was crowned King of rest of the hierarchy and Ethiopia in Solomon's temple. clergy, who may marry as in He then returned to his own the Orthodox Church. country with a numerous re- (Continued on Page 3)

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IN AFRICA

Less Than Three Per Square Mile

Our denudated basking, we tell EUROPEANS LIVING Lone another," is a prescription of ultra-violet rays and vitamina. On the whole the results have been good, but it is eminently desirable that the }methods should be the subject of such critical examination as

According to the statistics just they received at the recent released, the present European meeting of the British Health population of colonial Africa is Resorts Association. For the just under three persons pez cult of fresh air Sir Leonard square mile. It is estimated that Hill had nothing but praise there are 3,500,000 European in Though the common cold may the 10,000,000 square miles of co- still distressfully baffle the lonial Africa, which means that doctors, they are quite sure that in the whole of its history. It has "colds are not caught by cold.”} facquired a European population In a stuffy room, though it be no greater than the increase in on an exhilarating aseptic Al the population of Italy in the last pine height, is the danger ten years. What is more, of these

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