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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1935.

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NOTES OF THE DAY

PRAISEWORTHY PROJECT

The offer of volunteers of the St. John Ambulance brigade to form a unit and proceed to Ethio- pla, there to serve behind the lines of the black armies, tending the wounded, the shell-shocked and the gnased, speaks well for the spirit

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African journey, deserve the more

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By Edward Beattie

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HAILE Selassie I, Elect of God, WHEN Haile Selassie went to blet, born in 1920, and Prince

King of Kings of Ethiopia, the League of Nations to ap Makonnen, born in 1924. Judah. Without him Ethiopia complete reliance. Some people heirs, designated. Mukennen's Conquering Lion of the Tribe of peal for fair play he did it with he Empress, herself without would never have amounted to say his reliance was too com- son as her successor,' and' he much.

plete, that he should have acted became Ras Tafari, and Regent With him, it is an Empire in carlier instead name rather than in fact, à place Italian troops pour into

of watching of the Empire. Yassou's father, of ramshackle civilisation mixed "Africa,

Enst resentful of the appointment, with deepest ignorance, a place

attempted rebellion and was with

credit. But those who wish to go for the adventure of the thing as well no with an altruistic motive, should heed a word of warning. They must remember that they will be working behind an army which does not possess the high degree of efficiency or organisation |

In March, this year, when the crushed. [L nondescript army announcement of universal con- The Empress died in April, or defensive strength which the leavened with

a few trained scription in Germany was rock- 1930, and Tafari became Haile British and their allies possessed troops, a place always near civil ing Europe. he was advised Selassie 1 on November 2, 1930, during the Great Wor; they will be war, ignorant of its possibilities either to declare war on Italy at a brilliant ceremony attend- behlad an army of wild tribesmen and generally hostile to pro- or to decree mobilisation. ed by visitors from all parts of who, unless we are much mistaken, gress.

Either, it was argued, would be Europe. But his road was not will

fighting

Without him, it would have enough to stop Italy's ambitions. clear. be

a running had nothing. There would have He preferred to trust the Lea- campaign, largely of guerilin

The next year Ras Gugaha, tactics, in country wilder and more ideas, to watch his chance and vised to act, and waited.

been no one to fight for modern gue. Later he was again ad. Governor of Tigre, revolted. dangerous from a point of view of introduce them while re- health, than anything in China.actionism looked the other way. Their work, nerve-wracking and ex-There would have been none of HAILE Selassie was born on the first time in Ethiopinn war- hausting, will have an element of the steady patience and per- danger not to be overlooked. They severance which began abolition genealogy

July 11, 1891, of a line whose fare, Selassic defeated Gugaha, commencEA with whose head was brought back will probably be succouring an army of slavery, brought an orderly Memelik I, son of Solomon, to the capital and cast at the. in retreat. The trials they must central government and a place born of the Queen of Sheba, and feet of the Emperor. Yessou face, the hazards they will en-of equality, in the family of na- which has continued without was returned to prison, where counter, and the unending sacrifice tions.

interruption to the present day, he still lives. which must be theirs, are not for Hia Empire was a second ratę His father was Ras Makonnen, the weak or faint-hearted. Should sort of place. It had no roads Governor of Harrar, his mother they go, should the necessary funds to speak of, and most of them Weizoro Achimeniet, a lady of

were either mud or rocks.. It noble birth children of BULLS AND INNERS be forthcoming and no hindrance had almost no communications. Makennen had died at an early put in their way, these volunteers His capital was a collection of If, as is hinted, there is to be will have the blessing of us all. ramshackle shops, mud huts, Emperor, was so sickly that his age and the eleventh, the future But they will need the strength of and ill-constructed government father did not expect him to

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Many a client with an overdraft

had plenty of champagne at the Bank on Thursday. The real pain may come when they ask for an

Tenth.

a General Election in Britain next month, the prospects are that the Baldwin Administration

But what paved roads his

The cooling system in the new will be given a fresh lease of

Empire has it owes to him. Makonnen gave his son all Bank is bound to be one of the life. This seems more assured

What development of resources advantages he could, including chief tropies of conversation next Italy, playing a dangerous game it has begun is traceable to him. the then unusual opportunity of summer. than ever from the fact that the in Europe, defying the League and Its reputation abroad is his learning French from a tutor, Labour Party is in full accord the sanctions of League Powers. work and its stand against for- especially imported for the pur- with the Government in the warning that a blockade will be|eign aggression his stand.

pose. At his father's death in 1906, the future Negus came policy it is following in the preconsidered an act of war and that sent international

to Addis Ababa with the protec- she will respond with war-like crisis. In this matter, the whole of Britain, réprisals, and finally, shipping the HAILE Selassie fought to im- tion of Menclik, who made him

pick of her troops' and a vast wor if we except a few isolationists, machine into East Africa, seems to and by willingness to take ad-

prove his country by patience Governor of Selaile, successive

ly to become Governor are united in full support of the become more reckless with each vice. Where his countrymen as Basso, Sidamo and Harrür, League Covenant. It is of inter-passing hour. For while the a whole dislike "ferangi" he In July, 1911, he married extension. est at the moment to draw atten-solidity of the League grown and imported foreign advisors to Woizoro Manen, granddaughter tion to the attitude of the the opposition to her coarse looms put his government in a work of the Negus, Mikael. Their

able condition. He sent young first child, Princess Tenugne When the next raid on squat- Labour Party on

the Italo- larger, Rome accelerates her pace

men of his country

to be Tork, was born two years later. ters at Wongneichong is carried Ethiopian dispute. This has towards the inevitable clash.. One

educated abroad, paying out of The good luck which had out, maybe some members of the been clearly stated in an official must wonder from whom she can

his own pocket when expect assistance in the event of

re- killed off his elder brother be party could take a look at the actionaries blocked the use of fore his birth stood him in good Road. declaration, which condemns the-an-economic-or-military-crisis_in

P.W.D. shacks abutting on Stubbs provocative and defiant altitude which Britain, France and other government funds. And when stead in 1914, when a boat in the danger of war came, these which he was travelling in Lake

= of Italy and pledges Labour sup Can she believe that Austria and powerful nations may be involved.

young men, doctors, engineers, Arrayama overturned, drowning port for action by the League. Hungary,

Lots of people saw double long smarting still

from teachers, who had been destined, his six companions. The future before their tenth on the Double But the declaration does not stop Trinnon, will add greatly to her to help him improve their Emperor alone, was saved.

Yessou, then Emperor, re-

O economic strength? Or that Spain, country, returned to help him still politically unbalanced. enn

defend it. future policy for preventing a steady her own tottering gait and

moved Tafari from his post to The little brown man with his Governor of Harrar. But Yassou cast by Italian." Mussolini, no "B.B.C. refuses to allow broad- recurrence of such crises. The lend an arm to Rome? Can she

soft beard, his semitic nose; his himself was leaning to Moham-doubt, has long wince banned view is expressed that it is neces Germany, or Yago-Slavian armies see sympathy stirring the heart of

sad ayes, his tiny hands and medanism, and desired to make Italian broadcast of popular Scot- sary to eradicate the evils and marching across the Balkans to his quiet, detached manner, it the state religion. The high tish air, "I love Selassic." dangers arising from the present suppress her enemies, and keeping forced himself into seventeen Military chicis, the clergy and

ᄆᄆ economie pasition, especially in open so.

the door to the Hungarian granary | hours work daily, first to im- the nobility deposed him, plac- that little Baptiste CAN prove his country and later to ing on the throne the Empress regard to the control of

"Speeches were made at open- raw have his macaroni? Can she anti-

Save it.

He submits to dozens Yuonitu, daughter of Menelik.ing of new. Bank by 10% Excel- materials in colonial possessions, cipate, help from Japan? In of interviews, hundreds of press It was in 1916, the year of the lency the

Yet there will

0.A.G. and others." credible, we any. and therefore asks that the Gov-be some who will find significance. photographs and countless in- birth of Asino Wassau, present Each employed a few well-frozen ernment should summon a world | in the hastened preparations for

vasions of privacy to place his Crown I rince of Ethiopia, words, economic conference for the pur-

opening n Japanese Legntion al country's case in the world There are two other children of Addis Ababa, and the admission | press,

the marriage, Princess Yechime- pose of securing international

from Tokyo that the Japanese dip- {control of such supplies, with the mats there may act for Rome in application of the principle of Ethiopia. There will be others who will point to the wedding of economie opportunity to all

Don Juani of Spain and the nations in the undeveloped re-

Princess of the Sicilian Bourbons, gions of the earth. This ques-of the two great Bourbon branches in Rome, who thus unite the claims tion is at the moment receiving considerable attention, and there is much in the contention that if raw materials were internation- ally controlled and made avail- able to all, according to world requirement, by purchase instead of conquest, ninety per cent, of the causes of war would be re- moved. In this connection. it should be borne in mind that the League system is based on the principle of pooled security; and the natural corollary to pooled security is the pooling of econo- mic resources.

Without this, no real system of international co- operation can be complete. This does not imply destruction of the British Empire, but it does nearer we shall be to the aboli- envisage a wider co-operation betion of war, since war usually tween that Empire and the rest springs from economic causes. of the world. There seems no Britain, in this matter, is in a other road to world peace than unique position to give a lead a recognition of the underlying to collective effort towards the principle of the suggestion now; achievement of the end desired put forward. The sooner this by those who wish to see the fact is realised and acted upon world freed from the danger of by the nations of the world. the future wars.

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with any hope of a restoration of their power in Spain. Is Italy playing for Japanese support by uffering concessions Is she playing

in Ethiopia? for the aid Spanish Royalists, the friends of the Bourbon line, the Royalist sup porters of the French Pretender, the loyal adherents of Prince Otto, claimant to the Hapsburg throne in Austria and the Crown that walts at Budn-Pest? Is this a rally of the long-hoping Royalists throughout Europe, a fling for Imperial Empire by Rome, the beginning of a fight for power on the part of those dispossessed by revolution following the Great War? Common sense will answer "No." But the times are ripe for even such wildly romantle conjec- ture, and, with other Great Minds, we think it best to "wait and sec."

"I've promised to marry him noxt Christmas, if I can't do any bolter in the meantime."

Congratulatory cable to LK. and Shinghai Banking Corpora- tlon from Robert MacWhirter: "Congratulationsmagnificontachieve ment."

Shirley Temple voted most po pular in star of 1935. Never- theless, her publiefty managers. will have to get a move on If she 14

maintain that position. They haven't managed even onc divorce for her yet

to

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Ex-King George of Greece re- fuses to accept the throne until the people vote in favour of re- storation of the Monarchy. Doubtless, however, he la prepar- Ing for a reigny day.

Police

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were recently pelted with pumeloes. They'll have to be careful in arresting cocoanut hawkers.

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A French professor says he has succeeded in-grafting-garlic-nnd: cabbage plants. But he doesn't say. why.