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77 Years Of Work

Vienna.

The succession

F

AND LAND ROUTES TO BE SAFEGUARDED

THAT is

(By E. J. H. Robinson) happening

in Germany, Russia, Turkey and

W Arabia? Is the united even the United States are

in

obtained is a highly Egypt by right of primogeniture valued article of commerce. I since Abbas Hilmi became Khe- will keep indefinitely without salt dive on the death of his father,

Tewfik, and is, besides, whiter, firmer and leyen more pleasant to

Prince Abbas at the time was the taste than cow's butter..

like the new King. a military ca- det. He was taking the course at Arabia with which Colonel Law-watching its completion, the Imperial Military Academy inrence's name will always be varying degrees of caution and linked to be realised at last, but alarm. France and Italy in par- junder the mighty Ton Saud, con- ticular have been checked and ORN in 1848, Olin H. Smith

was broken queror of the Sherifians? thwarted in their many at- B

started work at the age of 11 when he was deposed from the Is Islam coming to its own tempts to establish a footing in Fears, when long days of constant Khediviste in 1914. His uncle through the Wahabite king, un-Arabia: Germany was beaten work were the common thing. He Hussein then became sovereign, disputed Lord of the Holy Cities when the Ottoman Empire end-

while the title of Khedive being ex-of Islam?

ed in 1913. "bound out to a farmer. which changed for the higher dignity of Thirty-five years ago, this Land Route To India

the custom in those days. Sultan.

giant of the desert-be is Д When recently the House of was

to Britain is determined Commons discussed the gen-And all his life he has kept up

On Hussein's death three years magnificent figure of a man-maintain parallel to the Suez eral defence problem it made that same pace, still working 14 later

Prince Kemal El arrived at the dusk of one day Canal a land-line of communica- clear the anxiety which is bours each day, including Sundays Din, stood aside. In consequence in the palm gardens of Riyadh, tion through Arabia down to the felt regarding the adequacy He spends many hours a day on the Sultanate devolved upon the capital of Nejd. At nightfall Persian Gulf and to India. of the schemes for remedying his farm, and in addition works late King, who was the younger he and eight picked men of his Britain has safeguarded her

tribe scaled the palace walls communications to India. пок gen-many hours each day on civic brother of Hussein.

Repairing The Gaps In Our Defences

the short-comings

worked 14 hours a day

years

his 100,

erally admitted. Sir Thomas work, in which he has always been The founder of the family and There were flashes of steel The Arabian desert is stud- which aroused and then silenced ded with the dumps and landing Inskip took part in the debate. active. Mr. Smith, now $8 The Commons were specially old. has never taken a vacation in of modern Egypt was the wily Al-

the sleeping foe, and at dawn grounds of the Royal Air Force. concerned to know what pro his life and may be seen any day banian Mohamed Aly, whose mas-

they threw open the city gates The air and land routes to the gress he has been able to make on his farm in Montrose. Michi-que tomb dominates Cairo to-day-in their comrades. Riyadh had East now more or less start

a firman from the with

a new ruler! that co-ordination began. His 77 years of work totals He obtained

from Palestine, predominantly Sultan of Turkey securing the|| Ibn Saud is a remarkable a British interest, and, there- tween the services for which he more than 333,000. hours.

pashalik of Egypt to his family.

ļfigure în 2

remarkable land. fore, a counter to the French He is its king, protector of the control in Syria. Holy Cities and the Ka'aba, in Over all hangs the smell of

is responsible. There are known limitations on possible expan- The Trout Hypnotist - sion. The restrictions of exist-

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OVER-GRACIOUS

ing agreements cannot beHOMAS MacClure himself car- Following the Turkish system, the direction of which the Mos-oil and here again Britain has javoided. Under these we are?

not explain his strange however, the right of successionem world turns daily in its schemed to secure a major in- committed to send to the scrap power over trout in streams yet devolved upon the eldest male of prayers.

terest. heap five serviceable cruisers at he is able to stoop on the bank of the family..

British Moslems

British diplomats knew what a time when the shortage of a stream and grab a trout with

King Fead's father, Ismail Pas There are to-day something changed their backing from the they were doing when they cruisers for the convoying of his bare hands. It is 2n art

ander taught him in a secured the right of primogen-like 250,000,000 Moslems in the Sherifian to the Saudiar stable. our food supplies causes grave which his janxiety. The fact that we have Scotland many years ago. The

are but they make no mistake in tied our hands in one direction, Seets call it "Gaddling." Mr. Mac-it be also asked his suzerain for subjects of the British Empire their cautious regard of the so that we lose existing ships Clure fishes in this

Naturally, therefore, a united future. The Arabs themselves and only three new cruisers out for the pleasure of it, always re- As the then Sultan was named Arabia nder

have proved their own proverb turning his catch to the stream. Abd-ul-Aziz, which means Servant guidance of Britain means a lot offen enough: "If

an Arab of the Gracious, the Turkish to Egypt and India. There are horse is backed. he loses; so Government detected tendencious the all-important air and land keep thy cher !!

Lawrence backed the Hussein cunning in. Ismail's apparently routes which cross the desert

from Cairo to Baghdad.. Mosul stable, and lost not so much harmless request So it dug out

of the five voted by Parlia- ment can be laid down this year makes it imperative that more:

manner only!

rapid progress should be made NEW COLONIAL

in directions where we are free: to do as we please.

SECRETARY

Mr. N. L. Smith Appointed

iture. Wishing to enhance his dig-world, two-fifths of whom

the title of Aziz (gracious).

the benevolent

"sold" from the start

Another Protector?

an obscure Persian word, Khedive oil, the Red Sea communications because his entry was unreli- Both France and Italy have

(prince). This the Sultan solemn-and their connection with the able, but because the race was large-exceeded the submarine

ly bestowed upon his disgusted Suez Canal. tonnage upon which the quota

If there were ever any other vazzal,

powerful influence in the of British destroyers was based.

The royal family, for all the be Arabian peninsula other than This time the diplomatic han- and have thereby made it im-

His Excellency the Governor has nefits Egypt has enjoyed under that of Britain, Aden, our East dicappers may have blundered. perative that we should build

telegram from the its rule, has never been popular. African possessions and even Has the "dull" "stupid," "slow- beyond the 150.000 tons of des- received a

to which Britain was Right Honourable the Secretary of One reason for

this is that its those in the Middle and Farmoving"" British Government............ State for the Colonies stating that members have always thought of East willing to limit itself. If that

would be dangerously as some foreign observers, and Norinan Lockhart Smith, themselves as belonging to a Bu-accessible to such an influence. some Englishmen, will have it is one direction in which it is Mr.

Chinese defence Secretary for

Affairs, perior and ruling. 1800. possible to reinforce

They Britain's trunk sea route could-secured another and more without breach of any treaty. Hong Kong, has been offered and showed this by habitually talking always be menaced

abiding "protector" of her great has accepted appointment as Colamong themselves not Arabic but Arabia is Britain's new bridge vital Moslem interests? ¡even greater urgency car be pleaded for a rapid and large lonial Secretary, Hong Kong, in Turkish.

to the East, and France, Italy, (Continued On Page 10) expansion of the Air Force. Succession to Sir Thomas Southern, Great Britain has reduce her K.B.E. C.M.G.

trovers

self to the sixth position among

DARDANELLES

QUESTIONS

ITALY PROBABLY WON'T PLAY

the nations as regards air armaments. Whatever doubt: Imay be suggested as to the speed with which other Powers jare swelling their air feets, there is none whatever that were the full programme of the Government realisable to-

*CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL morrow, we should still be in a position

In of inferiority.

Geneva, To-day., building aeroplanes and train- Concerning the Dardanelles. Con- ing the men who can use them ference, which is to begin on June every week that passes is valu-22 in Montreux and if necessary able. The outstanding" lesson adjourned on the 26th until after of the Abyssinian war is that the League of Nations Assembly country without the means of and the League of Nations Coun- defence against air attack is cil sessions are over, the Italian doomed, and that the swiftness Government does not intend to with which assault from the participate, because it has made heavens can be carried through further co-operation in European gives no chatice of improvising affairs dependent on the previous ¡defence.

settlement of the Italo-Abyssinian

These are other matters, alljeonflict. essential to making our defences In League of Nations circles it good, upon which the House is declared that as the Montruex welcomed reassurance. Many Conference has nothing to do with [references have been made to the League of Nations, it would| the deficiency in trained man- not be wise for Italy to be absent. power. Unless that can be Trans-Ocean Service, lovercome expansion in material

would merely encourage a false.

belief in safety. Moreover, as

time has now become the most

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