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Abyssinia--And After?

the

Lady

BRITAIN'S PRIDE IN QUEEN MARY" GREATEST LINER IN THE WORLD

TRIUMPH AFTER SOME YEARS OF ANXIOUS PLANNING

(By Hector C. Bywater)

solation that he has now conquer-} W THEN the RMS. Queen Mary urged us to accept the challenge.

Southora, their founder.

ed an obstacle which at first de-l

left her birthplace at Clyde-The history of the Atlanic ferry has proved Mrs. Carrie, after speaking infeated him.

bank on March 24 and passed for nearly 100 years down the river to Greenock on the that the fastest ship invariably at- As a general rule, az English| glowing terms of the great work)

to the tracts the cream of the traffic. Can- that Lady Southern had done for barrister would meet with no dif-rst stage of her voyage in the sculty if he wished to conduct a

from the sequendly great speed, combined charity during her stay ¡Colony, presented her

Members Present

with

cheers

case in one of the Dominions. The open sea, the

cial proposition. Hong Kong Friday, April 24, 1936. beautiful Chinese ivory statuette. local Bar Association would ac-multitudes on either bank of the with a high standard of safety cept him as a member without Clyde voiced the sentiments of theland comfort, is a sound commer

entire British peoples. making him pass examinations.

No ship has ever before started Passengers Attracted But in South Africa Roman-

Ther career on such a flowing tide A record-breaker attracts pas- In addition to the President

jof good will.

sengers not only to itself, but to there were present Mesdames B.Dutch law-an optional subject in

The Queen Mary is something other ships of the same line, and definitely benefits Various reasons, or excuses, Maughan (Secretary), L. H. King, law examinations in England

more than a splendid ship, the no-indirectly but have been put forward for RAC. North, RAD: Forrest, D.is in force.

blest example of marine architecthe whole mercantile fleet of the Italy's attack upon Abyssinia Davies (Committee), Angus, J. H.

ture the world has yet produced.nation whose colours she flies.

This truth was so well recog- and the wholesale butchery of Gelling. LE Longbottom. T.)

She is the symbol of a nation's re- The frontier Bolt. W. Smith, F. A. Hopkins, her populace.

G. T. Padgett, CODE. NAPOLEON IN QUEBEC

Queen incident at Ual Ual was the H. F. Westlake,

Raven, Wattie. A. In Quebec, too, French civil law solve to maintain the heritage ofhised that but for insuperable

London barrister a thousand years, that sea supre-economic difficulties the first "reason" given; but a poor Hast. May.

showacy which is exemplified no less Mary, or a similar ship, would cer excuse, they say, is better than White. Westlake, S. Deacon, Watt- applies.

more. H. Strange. R.H.E. Marks, would probably have to

of the truly by the peaceful merchant-tainly have been built 10 years ago. As it was, the Canard direc- It was very obvious that such Budden. H. H. Pegs, A. T. Hamil-satisfactory knowledge

For Britain, indeed, more than tors with commendable courage. an attack on an Italian post by ton. Starling. Petherick Hynes Code Napoleon-as adapted for man than the ship of war. desert tribesmen, owning no and the Misses M. Cooper, Buck-Quebec when that province had

been for some decade. British-if for any other State, mercantile caused the Queen Mary to be laid allegiance to Haile Selassie, and well and C. Angus.

he wished to plead a civil suit shipping is the touchstone of na-down in 1930, in the midst of the tional welfare and, security. It is, worst era of trade depression the It is distinctly unusual, how perhaps, the sub-conscious reali-country had suffered for 90 years.

sation of this truth that accounts Unfortunately, English barristers ever, for wish to take briefs in other parts for the unexampled interest which proved too strong for them, and 12 the building of the Queen Mary month after the laying of the keel of the Empire. Sometimes they aroused, not merely in the they found it necessary to step all wish in vain.

none.

quite beyond

his

st

control,

should never have been made a

jensus belli,

Britain does not

hold the Amir of Afghanistan WEDDING AT THE responsible for the raids and

uprisings of the fierce hill. tribes upon the North-west or mate Frontier of India.

the on occurrences İsimilar

Yet

REGISTRY

Neill-Eckert

tbere.

A

to

circumstances

Despite the notorious fact that, Some years ago Mr. F. T. Bar-United Kingdom, but all over the work on the ship.

Empire.

whereas the huge foreign express rington-Ward, the present Metro-

To Win Back-Riband

liners then in service or under Kenya border an excuse for an The wedding took place at politan magistrate, went to Trini-

Though her owners and Eer construction had been built large- attack upon Abyssinia. the Registry this morning of dad to take a very big brief. The when fifty-two member States Mr. Francis John Neill, of the local Bar were not completely builders disclaim any such ideally from State funds, the Queen of the League o Nations had European Y.M.C.A., son of Mr. amendable. Mr. Barrington-Ward the public sees in this ship Bri-Mary up to this point was a pure- declared, withou. reservation, and Mrs. John Neill, and Miss returned to London without havtain's reply to the foreign rivale ly private venture, the country Italy's attack upon Abyssinia Erna Eckert, daughter of the ing appeared in court. unjustified and had determined late Mr. Ernest Albert Walter

to apply the "Sanctions" pro- Eckert.

Mr. M. J. Abbott officiated.

were witnesses The

Mrs.

vided for in Article XVI of the Covenant, we find a man of the

Your Daily Smile!

GARRULOUS

*

who have momentarily wrested was bitterly disappointed at the from us the blue riband of the At-suspension of work. It seemed as lantic. For the greater part of the if the Red Ensign had been lower- nineteenth century this trophy reed for the first time in its history. mained in our possession. Cap Negotiations were at once opened tured for a time by Germany's with a view to obtaining Govern- ocean greyhounds, it was regained ment assistance, but not until two was an agreement in 1907 by the twin Cunarders years later Mauretania and Lusitania, to be reached on mutually satisfactory held for no less than 22 years by terms.

mental calibre of Marchese G. M. Sclater and Mr. E. F. Then there was the woman whose Marconi plaintively declaring Selk, and after the ceremony at husband was struck dumb- but it

a reception was took her a week to find out. that "Italy's only crime is an the Registry endeavour to protect her scanty held at the Hong Kong Hotel, and dearly-won colonies."

when friends of the couple ga-

The referee's wife who complained Another excuse put forward thered to offer their felicita-

Italy's tions. for justification

The honeymoon is be- that her husband ill-treated her when the first-named ship.

he was drunk. Beaten on pints, so) action is that slavery existed ing spent at Cheung Chau.

to speak.

¡in

in Abyssinia and that she was

performing a sacred duty in

ridding the land of this curse

and introducing the blessings

of Italy's own brand of Chris EXPLANATION OF

tianity.

Mussolini himself gave one, if. not the principal, reason when, in what was perhaps an unguarded moment, he stressed for expansion, Italy's need which seemingly, in his eyes,

TO-DAY'S

CARTOON

The Giant Baby

TEIGHT 142 pounds at the

tarns a wrong into a right and W age of 3. That's the record

jinhumanity in the attainment of "Baby" Leslie Bowles of Lowe- Istoft, England. Recent body mea- of his object.

But perhaps the real reason surements for Leslie are 49 is one which Mussolini dare inches around the waist, 45 inches not avow, but which certain of around the chest, and 3 feet, 3 who have inches tall. his countrymen, slipped the muzzle of Fascism Strangely enough, Leslie's two are not brothers are both normal in every and escaped abroad, afraid to suggest that there way, and his parents are actually is a rising tide of dissatisfac-slightly under-weight. Until the tion and resentment against summer of 1935, Leslie was unable the Duce's iron-handed regime to walk, but crawled about at and that the Abyssinian adven-tively. He is very forward intel- ture has been embarked upon lectually, having the mind of a in order to divert the minds of child twice his age, is contented Italians from dwelling upon and happy, and greets his visitora their grievances at home. It at the Pleasure Park, Ramsgate, is an old trick, and may serve with a happy smile and breezy

But, its purpose for a while.

as Abraham Lincoln said, you can't fool all the people all the time.

conversation.

MORE NEGOTIATIONS

Foreign

The Bible tells us that no

ris, to-day.--The king goes to war unless he has

of the considered the cost thereof Minister, M. Flandin, had a long

the chairźn But Mussolini is above the king talk with

afternoon and apparently has not count Committee of Thirteen, Senor dej ed the cost. The war is not Madariaga, yesterday over yet, though it looks as if after having previously conferred Abyssinia will soon be at the with the Soviet Ambassador, M It is understood that The latest Potemkin.

the mercy of Italy. cables bring news that the the conversations turned on Emperor's troops are still able subject of the preparations to be ¡to fight back and inflict heavy made for the forthcoming Geneva losses in men and material on negotiations-Trans-Ocean their aggressors; it has pot vice. been the easy walk-over that

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has cost Italy sums that will let for her surplus population. impoverish her for a generation The rest of the country. with to come; and the end is not yet. lits reputedly vast, but un- And what of the prize itself known, mineral wealth, is en- if, as now

appears probable, tirely undeveloped and will re- Abyssinia should fall complete-jquire for its development more ly into Italian hands? It will millions: by far than Italy has the cam- prove but a barren victory, already spent upon that will bring with it dis-paign. There is a bitter dis- illusionment for the Italian appointment in store for Italy; people. The fertile agricul-and, when the Italian people, tural region of Tigre, already after the tumult and the shout- occupied by a peasantry that ing dies, discover that their bas a claim upon Italy's grati-idal has feet of clay, what of tude, can never prove an out-Mussolini?

* K.0.1

won the

Shipping Lines Merged This involved the merging of Then, in 1929, Germany again

blue riband with that the Cunard and White Star lines

* *

splendid pair of express liners, to obviate inter-British competi- Atishoo

Bremen and Europa, only to lose tion, and the granting of a sub- Government loan for These cares for colds are consist a few years later to the Italian stantial tent, anyway; apparently it isn't Rex, which last year had in turn completing the Queen Mary, and cold and it isn't caused by a chill and

to yield the trophy to the French eventually building a sister ship. they don't care it.

Work was re-started in April, Normandie.

It was unthinkable, in view of 1934, and proceeded so vigorously Q: Is it proper when shaking her traditions, that Britain should, that in five months the ship was hands to hold the hand high?

#

Guide to Good Manners (No. 1)

A: Yes, if it is done to guard the hold aloof from this thrilling ready to go afoat. On Sept. 26, chin in case the other person takes ocean speed race. Considerations 1934, she was launched and named

Continued On Page 10). weightier than mere prestige' swing at it.

“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

ALVIN

3.

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LESLIE BOWLES-of LOWESTOFT, Eng, AGE 3 YEARS - WEIGHT 142 POUNDS