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CHRISTENING.

the successes obtained in the fight He is no better he is mich

the same.

Lord Alfred Donglas wrote to say that they should read: -

į against the. Fascist reaction.”:

The message goes on. to say: "These successes are the fruit of a struggle destined to consolidate

Flashed from his bed the Tan united proletarian front as well electric message came: ļas to strengthen the action of the

He is no better, he is much labour syndicates on the basis of the same. class warfare.* .-

Mr. Hector Bolitho, in Vic- The message concludes by toria the Widow and Her Son;" stressing the necessity of educat has yet a third version: Flashed o'er the wires The fateful message came, He is no better: He is much the same.

The Bishop and M. Hall will all the new recruits of the be glad to see their friends at the party in the spirit of Lenin and Stalin. The Communist organ in St Christening of their son

Humanite records with satisfaction John's Cathedral at 8.30 pm on

that the War Minister, M. Fabry, and after-

The lines were written Sunday, January 26

Edward's King wards for tea in the Cathedral had been "compelled to admit" in

the Chamber on Tuesday the exisyphoid fever while he was

"of Wales. Who-wrote them?

WAS IT A JOKE:

Hal

Hong Kong, Thursday, Jan. 23, 1936.

tence of Communist cells in the French army-Trans-Ocean Ser- vice.

Your Daily Smile!

TRAVELLER

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LONG MARCHES AND HARD WORK

WITH THE ITALIANS IN

ETHIOPIA

SOLDIERS AND WORKERS CHEERFUL IN SPITE OF CONDITIONS

(By Lt.-Comdr. Mortimer Durand) [The following artide by a special correspondent is particularly interesting in view of the possibility, mentioned in a Trans-Ocean message last Wednesday, that the Italians may be forced to surren- der, since, with the coming of the rains, the state of the roads has made an advance and a withdrawal equally dificult.]

Massawa working, it seemed to me. One of the first things thatị It took seven or eight of them struck me when, returning frori to lift a load which three white up-country I entered Massawa workmen could have handled, as in the last days of November, well as much vocal self-exhorta- was the enormous number of tion. Between jobs they clap- refrigerators standing by the ped hands in rhythmic maison. during roadside, ready to be installed Among the crowded shipping, natives, usually almost naked, from for the frozen meat supply. Prince

Up to date. I was told, about paddled dug-out canoes with round-bladed 35 ships have been kept in har-long- handled. bour for the purpose of making paddles.

and

this

ice for the cold-boxes on shore. Along the water-front colour- and for conserving the meat fully dressed natives thronged, The authorship has been put The barbour at Massawa, be-lorries hurried, officers' cars down to Alfred Austin, therein tween the steamer in which I sped about, small carts drawn A Happy New Year

following a widespread tradition. spent the night and the Gov-by the little donkey-like Abys- Lady (rhapsodizing over the view): Mr. Bolitho cautiously speaks of erner's palace, was full of Arabisinian mules clattered, The vagaries of the Moon "Exquisite! Th is exactly like!

paced disdainfully- the lines as those which Alfred dhows, with heavily raking camels have this year brought the two beaven!"

Driver of the char-a-banc party: Austin was said to have written masts, and high stem and stern evidently regarding al celebrations of the New Year

"Lamme, AH! She's been about a) Lord Alfred Douglas says that posts brightly painted in crude work with deep, distaste, within the same month, with

they appeared in a "poem" writ- colours. They were laden with I was told that there was less the inevitable result that a re- petition of good wishes seems Mrs. Hawkins: "I have just beenten by an undergraduate at Cam-stores-big straw-covered wine activity than usual on the roads, slightly formal All that one reading that in the Saratoba Islands bridge in a prize poem competi-bottles, baxes of macaroni, sacks because traffic had been held up

be bought for fifteention.

lof flour; some had brand new to allow the retiring and arrİy- can say is that it is never thela wife can

The Eines are so famous for lorries in them, some planks of ing Marshals a clear run through wrong time to wish our neigh-shillings. Isn't it dreadful?"

Mr. Hawkins: "Well, I suppose. bours "all the best." Con- there are profiteers there just as in their badness, that one would like timber, others coils of copper to Asmara At the far end of the jetty there was a great mass our in-any other country.”

to see the point cleared up once wire. sidering how closely

of stores I noticed terests are intertwined, a cynic

for all Can anyone point to the]

In front of the white-domed American-made hand-san's In might also add that in wishing extraordinary how they are time and place of their first ap our neighbours a prosperous neglected by critics in a hurry. pearance and give the author's palace, close by the waterside, one part was a great collection

The advance that can be made name?

was an open-air assembly sta of big wine bottles, with Cara- year we are not leaving our-

There were binieri on guard over them. selves entirely out of account. in any one year is very slight The slight differences of phras-tion for lorries.

Gathursts Of Cheering A Japanese writer has re in comparison with all that basing suggest either that the ori-only about a dozen lorries there

When at lunch, at which I cently published an article in to be done, and can usually only ginal has been, lost in the mists A ship's captain said to me:

is a very different was entertained in the Italian which he expresses a feigned be made if the reformers are of antiquity or that the lines are sympathy with our own race, on either assisted or left alone the work of some joker who start place from what it was. There front line in the north, bursts the ground that we are obvious- In the case of the China of the ed the Austin legend.

ly decadent. We are failing to present day, neither condition

con-

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Assembly Station

"Massawa

some

has been time enough now to af cheering sounded from the organise things. The confusion mountainside. I was told this at first was extraordinary. was an Askari custom on arriv- Four (The unpreparedness of the port ing. at a new station

keep up our Army and Navy. has been granted by Providence. "POOR AUSTIN” We have lost our patriotism, The advisers have given and so on. We have heard the trary advice, much of which Was Alfred Austin so had a has been mentioned to me as companies came pouring down same thing on many occasions has not been disinterested, and poet as people think? Lord Alfred proof of Italy's innocence of the hill tracks, singing.

** I was introduced to the Shum- before, and if they were true there is only too good reason Douglas says that "poor Austin forcing war on Ethiopia.)

There were some 60 or 70 bashi, senior Askari in rank, we certainly could not expect a to believe that a great deal of was a much better poet than is good year for ourselves The the interference has been deli- generally supposed." and he adds:¡ steamships in the harbour, in who carries the colours in ac

This Shumbashi had wish that is father to theberately designed to prevent "I know of at least one fine sonnet cluding naval vessels. A num-tion. thought probably also suggests any progress at all Our first that he wrote.”.

ber of ships with stores lay joined at the age of 14, and similar criticisms of modern wish for better days will there- That is the first good word to stern to the jetty alongside the meant to serve till the retiring China. We see descriptions of fore be that the Chinese Bepub-be heard for Austin for a very lone I was in, awaiting their turn age of 70 contemporary China by those lic may be exempt during the long time. In the popular mind to haul further up where other "We have men in the brigade of both those ages," an officer aim at exploiting her coming year from mischievous he and the poet Pye are consider ships were unloading. which would certainly suggest interference.

ed to be the two worst poets ever Lighters lay alongside the told me. This one had fought that so

backward a country. Given that freedom of action to hold the Laurenteship.

jetty unloading. There was a at Adowa in 1896 and later in would not be worth exploiting what boundless tasks lie ahead! A bute from a poet himself deal of chanting from the grey- Libya. He had five medals for

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The retort that if the descrip There is the vast programme of so distinguished as Lord Alfred robed blacks, with their small valour.

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tion is true the obviously wise road-making, of which so good Douglas is interesting. course would be to leave her to a beginning has been made in look after her own affairs would several Provinces. The back- not be popular, and would not bone of the country is the pea- be acted upon.

sant farmer, and the great lack On the other hand the in-of the countryside is the pressions gained by visitors operative buying and selling who have read accounts of the that will deliver the farmer stringency of traditional proce- from the money-lender. Host dure and the feebleness of the encouraging reports have been attempt to deal with emer-submitted of the progress gencies, and who travel in the already made, and all that is country to form their own esti needed is to allow the farmer mate, is one of surprise at the to have security from molesta- unbounded energy of

the tion by bandit and oppressive younger generation. One such tax-collector. -Hand in hand. observant visitor said the other with this movement has gone day that the young men of the adult education movement, China were an engine of bound-with its simplified vocabulary, less motive power waiting only the possibilities of which are for an engineer to put it to unbounded. Here again all work. In our opinion that is a that is needed is the assurance true word, and the question of peace. There is so much why so much effort runs to will to learn in the country dis- waste is the point to which we tricts that the New Life move- should apply our reflection. ment might easily grow to Impatience may be excusable, dimensions that would falsify but it does seem that too much all the cautions estimates. is expected, and at an impos- Far too much prominence sible rate, from the educated has been attached to trade leaders. Though the size of statistics, as if a profitable in- the country and the vast mil-vestment were all that the rest hions of population are what of the world wanted from strike the stranger first and China. The trade and the pro- most vividly, he neglects, to al-fit will come automatically when low for them when he whites a the new China has found her- criticism of political action. Itself and the task of the would not be easy to imagine moment is to stand by and give any operation more delicate good counsel if it is requested then the adaptation of new-not otherwise Boir ca ideas that are only followed by anyone trust in advice given by Western students with some men who have only sought their difficulty through their rapid own profit in the past, and who developments, to habits and a by their acts make it clear that point of view that have all the they have no other object in immobility of centuries of use the present?

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