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APARTMENT FLATS

IN CENTRAL DISTRICT.

SOMETHING NEW IN RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION IN HONGKONG.

THE HONGKONG- TELEGRAF

TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1935.

MORRISON PIANOS

WEATHER MAY AID TRIBESMEN

IF WAR COMES

TO AFRICA

İMAY DRAG ON FOR MANY YEARS

Addis Ababa, Aug. 18. War in Abyssinia, in the opinion of military obser- vers, will not be a matter of weeks or months, if it comes. * In fact, the complete sub- jugation of this wild and rugged country, defended by a potential million fierce and One, two and three-roomed up-to-date furnished and unfurnished loyal "soldiers" might prove apartments, each with kitchen, pantry, bathroom, and detached to be a virtually impossible servants' quarters, will be available, at moderate rents, in the new task, some experts believe. modern 8-storey re-inforced concrete building-known as "DINA

Discussion of the obstacles HOUSE"-now nearing completion in Duddell Street. The confronting Italy's highly train furnished flats will be fitted with furniture of modem type. Aed armies, equipped as they are telephone and frigidaire will be provided in each apartment. Automatic lifts Waygood Olis). These apartments are bright and airy, the majority of them facing towards the Gardens or the harbour,

Those who have already booked flats, and persons wishing to view the premises, are informed that lifts have now been installed and that they will be shown over the building if application is made at Messrs. H. Ruttonjec & Son's offices next door-No. 7 Duddell Street.

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with every modern device for warfare, developed a general be- lief that Mussolini might have on his hands a war of attrition, in which guerilla fighting, am- bushes, and the weather clé. menta may combine to prevent any wholesale conquest of Ethio- pia.

On the other hand, the war-if it comes-will provide a vivid feat of aeroplanes, bomba, and gas, as an effective means of waging moun- lain warfare, and the most optim- iatic Ethioplans recognise that Mus- sulin is not likely to engage in any undertaking the outcome of which would be doubtful in his own mind. Fierce Loyalty

The tribes of Ethiopia, giving feudal loyalty to Inlle Selassie, are considered rugged, courageous and during.

They are not men until they have killed a man or a lion, some tradi- tions hold.

And since lions are becoming Searce in Ethiopia, the flags By- ing In certain areas from the tribesmen's tent poles like notches in a gun-may signify a human victim.

Ethiopia, save for the railway line from Djibouti to Addis Ababi, and in the vicinity of the capital, is a country without modern roads and without cities, Part of its terrain is similar to that of the American southwest It has desolate, cactus-studder frontiers, and a natural barrier of highlands, plateaus, bleak penks, chasms and canyons. It could afford hiding places for a scattered army of a million man, Most of the tribesmen are hell In a type of serfdom by the 3,000,- 000 "pure" Ethiopians who boast their descent from the tribe of the Queen of Sheba, and who have mixed Semitic, Asintie and Negroid blood. The Abyssinians themselves are usually armed with rifles and pistols. Their subordinate races, Pagans and Somalis, Arabs and dark tribesmen, bear lances, knives, spears and bludgeons.

At least one gun is said to be in the possession of every Amharic

(Ethiopian) man or youth.

There

is therefore a ready-made army of 100,000 personally equipped men, which Haile Selassie could, if neces sary, bring into a conflict.

The Amharica, sometimes.crude, savage and unpolished, have no in- feriority complex, and clings to the conviction that of all races they are the most favoured. Thus there is the basis of a strong nationalism, an obedience to the ruling powers and an acquiescent, feudal loyalty to the emperor.

- An Old Quarrol In the annals of the country, the defeat of Italy in 1896 stands out In native memory, In that year, the nation forgot ita inter-tribal feuds, joined to oust the invader and with an army of 150,000-and with inferior weapons-thrust the invader from the land.

The quarrel with Italy is not new, and the question of a boundary line between Abyssinia and the two Italian protectorates, Somaliland on

SALESMAN SAM

THANKS FER THE AUTOGRAPH,

MR. HERRING!

Abyssinian tribesmen are unceasingly working throughout the country, 'preparing underground coaches of grain, upon which they can draw In the event of war with Italy. In care impending fight becomes a long- drawn out war of attrition, Abyssinia is seeing to it that she will not

suffer from hunger.

the south-west and Eritrea on the north-east, has been froublesome for more than 40 years. In Italian school-books maps there is no sach thing as a boundary--"Italina ter- ritory" reaches into the heart of Ethiopia.

Rea

Ninety per cent. of the territory over which Aussolini's troops must labour lies 6,000 feet above level. On a vast plateau there are peaks which rise 14,000 to 15,000 feet.

The lowlands are real lowlands. There is the Somali desert where trouble with Italy had occurred, and there are jungles, hot and malarial. and, in the south, salty lakes. There are swamps to the north

Grim Find

Made By Soviet Drillers

TSAR'S TORTURE CHAMBER UNDER MOSCOW

'Moscow, Aug. 5. The secret subterranean

For three months in the summer torture chamber of Ivan the these regions are turned into moras Terrible, lost for nearly four ses by continuous rains that effect- centuries, has at last been ally choke off all movement in und found by tunnellers on Mos- out of the crude villages. But thereafter the valleys are said to cow's new underground. become the most fertile and most It is not far from the cellars beautiful in the world..

of the Comintern's central offices.

There is a vast latent wealth in Ethiopia. Many inhabitants have lived by the profession of slavery.

It was there, in that so-called

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ACROSS

7 The last wicket.

one it must be

by some trade, by agriculture and "Henchman's Court," in the particularly the cultivation of greatest "terror" of past ̈times," 8 and this completes the score, coffee, described as the finest in that the real founder of the 10 To remind the world. Also there are great Russian Empire had his police 11 West Indian islands.

punctual salt beds and water resources.

But higher up. in the undeveloped cute them in the most abomin

examine political suspects, exe- 14 Short and sharp. Give poor

nothing. regions, there are believed to be vast stores of minerals, metals and able ways, or make them fight other natural resources.-United with bears for their sport.

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In 2.1/2 Days

A twenty-four-year-old ́Eng- lishman, Mr. John Leslie Damp- nay, who is planning a non-stop fight from Australia to England, Aailed from Southampton for Australia Inst wesk in the liner Jervis Bay

with his

wife, who will pilot on the flight. Mr. Dampney intends to My D. twin-engined Pass-Moth mona plane fitted with wireless and with floats, in cRED of A forced dascent on 302.

He will refuel the machine from the air.

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“I am making arrangements in refual by faxible pipe from an other machine at five or six stations on the route," he said.

HEY, HERRING|| GOSH | WHATTA LET'S HAVE. WALLOPIAN ITS

MY BALL!

SILK SOX

THAT PILL

A MINUTE!

Identified By Sand

of

14

mploy-customs with a pro- nounced difference.

15 Not prisoners though we are in

cak slangily. jug, 10 speak

18 What is there to tell about the

church dignitary?

AVhen the Metro drillera cume upon the crumbling casinga

20 Extras that do not reflect on the what had once been a low but vast

wicket-kreper

(hyphen, 3, 4), underground vault, no objects 20 He got the worst of the bargain were found to identify it as Ivan's and was fed, if

if not fed up. "Chamber of Horrors," But Mos-21 She played her part in sending cow geologists have now proved 26 This may remind you of a reptile

wartime messages. its identity by the white Band found there.

A contemporary chronicler men- tions that his "Henchman's Court" being damp, the Tear had white sand brought from a great distance to cover the floor.

The subterranean passage which Ivan is known to have had tun- nelled in 1565 from his Kremlin fortress to his torture chamber has also been brought to light.

The discovery of the "Hench- man's Court," emptied even of its instruments of torture, seems to ¡destroy once and for all the legend of Ivan's treasure of untold wealth, in gold and gems, that was sought for In this spot for centuries.-

Nice Going, Sam

LOOKS LIKE ITS OVER TH' FENCEI

caught in the storm.

20 Vegetables used to some extent

by tinsmiths.

30 Drink this, with ice, as

medicine.

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31 The thing about daring is it will

result in defent. 32 Affectionate dir:inutive used by

house-breakers.

DOWN

1 The stenographer

always keep a secret.

2 Mail coat anag.).

who can

3 To take a bird at a gulp does

seem greedy, doesn't it? and

4 not at all safe.

& Gives power tu age, or looks for

an alternative.

6 Study French: or. If you'd rather

THAT WAS A SWELL KETCH, KIDI

20

72,

not, English will do,

Tel. 24048.

This boy is peculiarly American. 13 English river: don't let it vox.

you.

18 The twelfth month of the Jewish

civil year.

17 The man who comes in for the the property naturally gets machines as part of his In- alienable inheritance.

11 Undignified name for a simple

meal.

21 Knaves of Diamonds and Queens

of Spades in alliance.

23 Lowering for everybody. 25 Mass book.

27 Nothing to do with anyone.

28 There are a hundred, on board

the bont, but all silent.

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