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THE HONGKONG
THUNDER
LAWRENCE OF ETHIOPIA
MYSTERY
BRITON
IN ABYSSINIA
FRIEND AND HERO OF TRIBESMEN
A MYSTERIOUS Eng-
lishman whose acti- vities are reminiscent of
those of Lawrence of Arabia is reported to have appeared in Abys- sinia.
Wearing native costume, he travels from province.to province conferring with the tribesmen and chieftains, who regard him as a “friend and hero."
This romantic figure, whose name is given as Cap- tain Bremley a retired British Army officer, is stat ed to be on a mission to hearten the various chiefs and unite them under the sceptre of the Emperor Haile Selassie to defend their fatherland.
He is usually accompanied on his travels by a small band of warriors,
High praise is given for the success which his efforts have achieved.
Talks With Tribal Chiefs The existence of this! "Lawrence of Ethiopia" was re- vealed by "an eminent person-|' age" who has just returned from Абунаіпів.
OVER ETHIOPIA
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST
29,
1935.
PEEVED OFFICIALS
VULCANI,
Men waving from the decks of the Vulcania an the vessel loft Messina, Sicily, with further detachments of troops to swell the ever-growing ranks of the army that Signor Mussolini is massing
in Italy's East African possessions bordering on Abyssinia,
Royal Artillery Officer
In Ten-Minute Drama
SENTENCED TO PENAL, SERVITUDE LIEUT-COLONEL DENIS DALY,
D.S.O..
'M.C., officer commanding the 18th Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, stationed at Brighton, walked briskly between two brother officers into the court-room of Woolwich barracks a fort- night ago.
Ten minutes later he emerged plain Denis Daly, facing a sentence of penal servitude.
SANDERSINSULAR INTAKEN IN
In an interview at Marseilles with a correspondent of the ¦ Liberte, the personage declared:: "During June I MALAY in: Ethiopia going from province t province a man of the white race In those ten minutes his dis- 1 wearing a native costume and stinguished service had been! escorted by several warriors, wiped from the Army records,
"He stopped at the homes of His medals had been taken away. chiefs of tribes and governing He no longer had the right to Princes of the provinces and wear the King's uniform. held mysterious conterences, "Afterwards he would go on farther making the tour of the vast empire. Later he would
return and be received with great pomp by the chiefs and princes before specially convened meet- ings in the villages.
What It Means
When an officer is cashier. ed, he not only loses his com- mission, but” is disqualified from serving the State in any capacity. for
He wha sentenced to Be cashiered and to go to penal ser- vitude for seven yenry offences against men in his employ. Two years of the sen- tence were remitted.
The court-martial, which last-
"In front of this mystery emissary all swore to defend thejed three days, ended on July 24. sail of their fatherland and, if; The colonel was found guilty necessary, to die for the country lon ten charges and not guilty of and the Emperor.
This man two. had great influence over the
Abyssinians.
Speaks Local Dialects
"For nearly 20 years Captain
Bromley has lived
Colonel Daly was a distinctive, figure in the court.
the! 00
He was the only man not wear- frontiers of the Egyptian Sudan ing a Sam Browne belt and a and Ethiopia. Better than any sword. other he knows the life and mysteries of the desert,
"He speaks all the local dialects used by the natives, who know and like him well,
They were taken from him at the beginning of the general "court-martial. Hnd he been ac-1 quitted, his sword would have
been handed back.
Now he will never wCHE It again.
"From the first moment of the Italian-Abyssinian dispute Cap tain Bremley dressed himself in
Soon after the sentence had native garb, crossed the frontier, been promulgated the convicted and went directly to Addis
changed man
Ababa, where he began to carry clothes. out his difficult mission.
**The Government decidert
The use of the word in the Service is confined, to the dismissal of a commissioned officer for "behaving in scandalous manner, unbecom. ing an officer and a gentle- man."
a
or
It is derived from a Latin word meaning to dash break to pieces. 'TERNACIONALININ DELOCENENI TRENTAkin Daly is fifty-two years old.
He has served in the Army for
more than thirty years,
Two Million
Black Cats
A Little Grub With A Big Name
ENJOYS HONGKONG'S SUCCULENT PINE TREE FORESTS
DENDROLIMUS
Punctatus.
It's the name of a cater- pillar:
Last year over half a mil- lion of these cute little pests, which nibble at pine trees | and other succulent seed- lings planted so carefully by the Botanical and Forestry Department, were captured and destroyed in Hongkong by wrathful departmental officials.
Dendrolimus punctatus is Latin or something for the Pine Tree Caterpillar. The word caterpillar, by the way. derived from Chatte Peleuse, two Old French words meaning "hairy cat"!
is
According to the Annual Re- port of the Superintendent of the Botanical and Forestry De- partment. Mr. II. Green, Den-
For New York droimus Punctatus appeared in
FOR PEDESTRIANS WHO WON'T BE CAREFUL
many of the Colony's jealously |guarded plantations late in 1934, bring most numerous in the Fanling and Kowloon plurita- tions.
Four Tons Of Grubs
From June, when the De- pariment commenced its war on the Invaders, until the end of the year, over four tons of the) pests were captured and des- troyed.
New York, Aug, 20. The metropolis will use: 2,000,000 black cats during the next few weeks to cau- tion pedestrians that only Caterpillars are larva of the bad luck awaits the jay-Lepidoptera ՈՒ scale-winged walker.
jinseels, including butterflies and moths. The head of a cater- These omens of ill are pictured į pillar is hard, being protected on stickers to be widely distri-with an armour of chitin, and bated throughout the city. The with six pairs of eyes. labels portray black cats perched The mouth, to which officials on back fences, silhouetted by a of the Botânical and Forestry rising moon and voicing this Department chiefly object. is warning:
"Watch your step as I watch Imine-You have one life. I have
nine,"
armed with powerful jaws, and during the whole time it is caterpillar — otherwise during the larvae stage before it be comes a moth the grub occupies Toll Reduced Slightly
itself eating and storing up a Statistics for the first half of reserve of nourishment for the 1935 show that 15,000 persons succeeding stage, when no food have been killed and 300,000 in-'is taken. jured in molor car accidents. This figure is two per cent, lesy - than in the same period last year. The decrease in fatalities in "Now York City is attributed to an in- tensive safety,campaign of the police department, aided by civic organisations.
The black cat" labels will be
any
Ank
respectful Den- drotimus Punctatus what food it prefers, and it will tell you, between mouthfuls, that there's nothing like the leaves of the Pine Trees planted by the Hongkong Forestry Depart
ment.
supplemented by 2,000,000 book ARE YOU
of safety matches. Even if the superstitions avoid having a mil He was posted to the Royal lion or two black cats figuratively Artillery in 1902, promoted lie-cross their paths, it is argued that tenant in 1905, and cuplain soon at least one is certain to appear after the outbreak of the war. when a cigarette is lighted.
CERTAIN?
Below are published a dozen questions. You should be able to Three years later he was pro- . A run is expected on Harlem's answer at least half of them. If moted to the rank of major. supply of "left rabbit's feet, cured you give correct answers for / during the perigee moon?" to nine, consider yourself at the top Colonel Daly served with dis-serve as antidotes for the black of the class. The answers áru tinction in France and Flanders,¡cats during the campaign.
on Page 12.
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into civilian
He was awarded the M.C. and mentioned in despatches.
Handed Over
The warning stickers will be distributed by the city motor veh-
1. What Apostle killed him- self.
2-The American Statue of In 1919, when he was a majorele bureau, the police department į that, impossible though it seem-
Liberty holds in her left hand a: He said good-bye to the officer in the Royal Garrison Artillery, and owners of large fleets of
torch
copy of Marr's ed, the uniting of the country of equal rank who, according to attached to the 17th Brigade, trucks and taxicabs, Caution no-
"Das Kapital" WAS the great Lask to be military law, must guard him Royal Field Artillery, he wag tices, signed by Police Commia.
driver's licence book represent- achieved. Captain Bremley has until the sentence has been pro- awarded the D.S.Q, for his war ioner Lewis J. Valentine, have
ing the law. performed his task perfectly." mulgated.
been displayed prominently ré-j
3. The New Territories The paper adds that it takes
cently throughout the city's vast Hongkong are owned by Then he was handed over to no responsibility for its in-warders from a civilian prison..
transportation system. formant's statements.
SUR
services.
where he will serve his sentence. Youth May Drown
In Hospital Bed
CHINESE ART TREASURE
MANILE WITIS CAEM
How the boxes of Chinese Art Treasures were landed in London from H.M.S. Suffolk, which oprried them from the Far East,
Kansas City, Aug. 28.
A powerfully built, young barber
If You're Over 40
One of the appeals is directed lo persons post 40, warning them to be more cautious because their reactions are not as swift as those of younger persons,
These public notices aroused remarks
in apparently winning a fight for life against an ailment which turns its some mildly sarcastic
victim's blood to water and drawns from persons, just turning the twoj him by Bauding his lungs.
score mark, General Hospital physicians
re
ported that the pativni, Fred Green, The police department has is- 22, had gained so much strength since sued eight "Don'ts". They are: his miniittanee to the Hospital that oxygen administratines have been stopped.
So much of the 250-pound young man's lungs was covered with water
1. Drive carefully for your safe
ty and the lives and safety of others.
2. Slow down at street crossings.
that physicians had to give him 3. Obey traflle signal lights. oxygen to prevent hing from being J. Give the vehicle on your left! asphyxiated. Although Green Is breathing at twice the normal rate of the right of way.
speed, without medical attention his 6. Give pedestrians the right to
Jungs would be filled with water in cross.
in
Britain
Japan China
Kwangtung 4.Where was the first Prince of Wales born?
5.What father and Ron were both Prime Ministers of England? 6.The word "anga" is used correctly in one of these sentences: He gave her a saga on the jaw. The drought has ruined the saga cro}
Haptly they listened to the old Nursu saga
One look told him the suge was broken
7--The first round-the-world flight was made by:
-
Kingsford Post and Wiloy Smith Galty
Post U. S. General G.W.A. Army
Balbo
Scott 8.What is the nearest foreign capital city to Hongkong.
a short time and he would be drowned, 6. Immediately pull car to right Mussolini Ramsa Physicians repentedly tap the curb at sound of siren or bell, to cumulation of fluid on his lungs and give the right of way to drain it away.
Pulmonary
lances, police
The ailment, known as Edema, was in an acute state when apparatus.
Green collapsed and was brought to
cars and
ambu-Henry
fire Ford
9.-One of these persona la un- married:
Helen MacDonald Wills Hitter Amelia Einstein Earhart 10-Anthony Eden is: 7. Saving lives and protecting Dickone
a famous horso Minister for League of Nations 8. If you see a crime committed Lord Privy Seal
noted Nuzi Balstance,
telephone 11-What were the highest and lowest temperatures over recorded in Hongkong?
the hospital. He has been too weak your property is their job. Help character to talk, but physicians learned that thom to help you.
he suffered a severe pneumonin al-|
tack several months ago and they or reed believe the Edema reeulled from that Police Headquarters at once.
The allment usually exacta a high
( percentage of fatalities and physicians Special emphasis is placod on refused to prognosticatoj Green's the safety of children In the chances of recovery.-United Press. campaign.
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