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LOCARNO TALKS

IN LONDON

Italy Declines To Participate

Londen, To-day.

The arrangements for the three-

that

three

Here

There and Everywhere.

A tarantula spider escaped from

ETHIOPIAN ROUT & ITS CAUSES

WEHIB PASHA'S OPINIONS IN INTERVIEW

ESPIONAGE AND LIBERAL SUPPLIES

OF MONEY RESPONSIBLE

Cairo.

Notice To Contributors. All communications intended for Power meeting, which it is hoped UNBIDDEN GUEST -- Įpublication should be addressed toļto hold in London later this week the Editor, and be accompanied by are still under discussion between

a basket of bananas and dispersed the Writer's Name and Address the

Governments. The

a golden wedding party at the {not necessarily for insertion, but Foreign Secretary, explaining jas a guarantee of good faith. at Commons question-time, said Duke of Argyll public house, Lon- don, W. Mr.” J. Smith, a fruit the Italian Govern-

seller, was entertaining his guests

1. Speaking particularly of the iment were recently invited

when his son ran in to tell him EHIB PASHA, the Turkish southern front. Wehib Pasha by the Belgian Government,

WE could not withhold Pas that the spider had been seen in Geneva in accordance with the

This stall. A moment later the of Staff of the Abyssinian ment to General Graziani, the communique of July 3, to take

Commander-in-Chief. part in the conversations with the spider ran into the public house, Southern Army, has been mak- Italian

advanced tesutiously, Hong Kong. Thesday, July 21, 1956, British, French and Belgian Gov. and the guests ran out. The spider ing shrewd comments on the He said that from the first be

The Italain Govern was then chased across the road, Italo-Abyssinian war in inter-had ernments

traffic being held up for it. Final views bere But he had always making sure of his lines ment had declined.

It is known, however, that they it was killed when a crate of nothing but admiration for the of communication and never

fruit dropped on it.

Negus, who was on a plane leaving a loophole for the Abys above any of his countrymmen. Sinians to attack. Flight was the only thing pos sible in the face of open rebel But as he was kept fully in- To the direct challenge of the led with regard to the proposed

three-Power meeting, which is Neither Lord Crawford nor any lion.

formed by spies of the disposi- Hetter of MS., published in last

The use of gas by the tion of the Abyssinian forces, Saturday's issue, as to whether expected to lead in due course to other speaker in the House of

five-Fower conversations-British Lords debate on reading Parlia-Italians, he said, may have been he always had a great advan- or not we should advocate thei

Wireless Service.

mentary speeches mentioned

a contributory cause for the fage. Moreover, General compulsory prohibition of Com-

case of Sir William Harcourt. He rout in the north, but lack of Graziani made full use of his munist propaganda in England,

was an unblushing offender, both It is difficult to give a logical

can

The Communist

Challenge

Italian and German Governments. have been and will be kept inform-LORD BALFOUR'S SPEECHES

AT PEIPING

Protest To Japanese Government

investigations into

a local

platform.

the

aide

Kept Fully Informed

espionage, propaganda, and (of whom Wehib Pasha was not answer. We uphold the ab- CAUSE CELEBRE in the House and on the public food and war material, Italian Askaris and other native troops money were the downfall of the a great admirer), so that, apart stract principle of the freedom

Even a reading desk did not Abyssinians on both frouts. from Italian officers, white of speech; but absolute lack of

seem to interfere with the appar-

Gas undoubtedly had a de- troops were rarely seen. In discipline can only be carried to

ently extempore flow of speech moralising effect, but actually the last stages of the fighting the point where it ceases to

The artful old gladiator was up to it was not so effective as in on the southern front the safeguard the interests of the

every theatrical trick of pausing France owing to the nature of Italians suffered heavy casual- State and permits subversive

for the appropriate word and the country; it hung in the valties among their native troops, influences to operate to the

London, To-day. waiting for the unexpected laughleys, and troops could escape by and detachments of white State's jeopardy. This we hon-

Lord Balfour lost all interest in moving up the hills. The Foreign Secretary gave a]

In the troops were brought up as rein- estly believe the Communist creed. to do. The eventual issue Commons answer yesterday on the any man's speech, however good. same way air bombing had little fortents.

Of the majority of his own seems to boil down to this criticism of the conduct of the re- the moment he detected that it had effect. The General said that

Pasha the been prepared and learnt by heart sometimes for days on end the forces-Wehib

spoke One believes in the efficacy, as cent

отет countless highly. In the circumstances a social system, of either Com-charges against two British sol--so strongly did he feel that Italians sent

that quasi-demo-diers at Peiping made by officials speech to be effective must be im-planes, dropping tons of bombs, they gave a very creditable per- munism or

but there were no proper build-formance. Forday's they cracy which obtains in England of the Japanese Embassy in Pei- prompta.

Half-a-dozen words 25

ings to bomb, and no real] marched on nothing more than and America. Because the two ping and reproduced in

Mr. Anthony Eden memoires on a half-sheet of note- damage was done.

a handful of mealsed towards reconciled, newspaper. never be

The troops became so indif-the end of the war then food and there is no compro- said that His Majesty's Ambassa-paper or a long envelope, were all

ferent that it was only with dif- supplies became

more mise. The British demo-dor at Tokyo. had been instructed he allowed himself.

ficulty that they could be scarce and irregular, they often cratic-capitalistic system has to bring this matter to the notice

Your Daily Smile! forced to take cover.

went for days without any food been in existence for. say, of the Japanese Government.

at all and sucked pebble to re- 100 to 125 years. At the end British Wireless Service. of that time we have to show,!

First Boy: "My dad is so tall he But espionage was the decid-move the pangs of thirst it is true, an apparently

Of their equipment, Wehib per- In a short message issued from can look over our fence."

ing factor. Despite the Abys- manent army of unemployed Police Headquarters last night Second Boy: "Mine can, too, with sinians' inherent suspicion of Pasha could only speak with

foreigners, the numbering

2,000,000 Chan Yu-chuen, aged 28 years, a a hat on"

Government disgust. He said people. But there is also, on coolie of 35, First Street, is be-

service was full of spies in the majority were in possession of that at least half a dozen different the credit side, an ever-increas-lieved to have fallen into the har-

"I want a room with twin beds,"pay of the Italians, so ing general standard of living, bour near the O.SK Wharf, Con insisted the new arrival at the hotel every movement of troops was sorts of rifles and a similar There is security, personal naught Road, Central, at 2 pm on "Certainly," replied the clerk, "but conveyed to the enemy, in many number of kinds of ammuni- freedom of a sort (but far Sunday whilst attempting to smog-what an odd request for a man travel cases by the aid of wireless. tion. Consequently, when they transcending anything to be gle a bag of sugar from on boarding alone!"

In this way the Abyssinians did receive fresh supplies of found elsewhere), a high stan-the steamer Hong Kong Maru.

were outwitted at every turn. ammunition it was often found dard of art and culture, and,

Nevertheless, Wehib Pasha to be unsuitable or the many was anxious to point out that antiquated rifles in the posses- in his generalisation he did not sion of the troops. include the Swedish officers. A Disappointment

some

masses

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MAKING SURE

"Perhaps," returned the traveller, "but when I spent a night here last year I had only half enough bedclothes;

for one.

*

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OLD BUT GOOD First Bibulous One: "Isn't

Espionage

that the

most important of all, domestic security and happiness of the peace England exists as a

as obtain in England land where the individual still

the attached to the Emperor. He The Abyssinian Imperial to follow his individual bent so cratic-capitalistic regime. Nor English railway system wonderful?" said that they all gave of their Guard, from which great things has his rights, where be is free after 120-125 years of a demo-

this been accomplished Second Ditto: “I sh'd say so. I'm long as he does not come into has

They had direct conflict with the elabor-with such an appalling record going to London and you're going to best, and many of them distin- had been expected, proved a ate and in the main reasonable of misery and degradation of Glasgow and we're both in the same guished themselves with re-disappointment.

(Continued on Page 10) the individual as Communism train." dictates of the Stateswhere. in short, society is organised on slready has to show in 17 short a basis which, whatever its de- years of existence.

citizenship.

less

Cora-

For our part we have no he fects, offers the plain man sesitation whatsoever in holding curity of tenure and some tall that of the two systems ours, gible advantages of organised with all its patent defects, is

Moreover, even the problem the more desirable. The of the 2,000,000 unemployed, munist creed, in its fundamen which appears to be a regret-tals, has been proved to be im- possibly idealistic. The aboli- table con mitant of our sys-tion of class distinctions, one of tem, is not entirely disregard- ed; on the contrary, it is being its most fervently upheld te- tackled, undoubtedly with cour nets, has been patently aban age and a not wholly misplaced doned, even in Russia. Even in vision. We have a system of that ideal Communist State social services which is second there are leaders and led, skill- to none, and some effortined and unskilled workers, an adequate in many respects, but aristocracy of labour and the continually improving is be- masses. magnates and crossing there the ing made to make the condition sweepers for even

crossings have to be swept. (Or of these unfortunates some thing better than entirely hope aren't they?) Surely the ideal of any organised society is to while The Communist State has devise a system which,

that inevitable. been in existence since 1917. recognising Its avowed objects are broadly class-distinctions are bound to the same as ours. We are told be, does what it can to encour- that there is no unemployment age the various classes to live in Russia; and that may be in harmony. Nobody in his

advocates that true or not-nobody seems to senses know definitely. But there is should relax, for an instant our also behind the Communist constant endeavour to improve State an unparalleled record of the conditions of the less for- bloodshed, misery, violence and tanate brethren among us; and oppression-a matter which is we maintain, absolutely reso common knowledge. The indivi- lately, that prodigies have been dual is entirely subordinated to performed in this direction in the State; there is no such England, more especially in the thing as private or personal last 150 years the contin property in the larger sense tance of our system will un- the standard of living for the doubtedly bring the ideal near- common herd is extremely lower as time goes on, The Com- there is no semblance of free-munist creed may have some- dom of speech or opinion; the thing tangible to show in a country is held together, if that hundred years. Its accomplish- can be said of it at all, by aments up to the present have system of terror which is all-falled most lamentably to at pervading-except for those in tain to its avowed ideals.. More- authority What will be tize over, whatever it has accom- benefits of the system, if any, plished has been bought at a

we

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION at the end of 100 to 125 years terrible price, and we take leave

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nobody is in a position to say to doubt that it can ever be bat it will have accomplished held to have been worth it. The mach it, at the end of that introduction of the system into time, the Soviet State can point England would be a tragedy of

the first wateri to such conditions of

markable feats of bravery.

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