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HELP FOR THE HAVE-NOTS

Already it is clear that there will be no dearth of redistribu- Lion schemes if the nations should ever address themselves to the task of achieving n belfer apportion- mont of the world's visible' supplies af raw materials. The British Empire has been marked down first of all for dismemberment. True, the self-governing Dominions are controllers of their own destinies, and cannot be thrown

into the ring for competition among those who think themselves unduly short of territorial posser- sions. But there are the Crown'

Colonies, (of which Hongkong 18 one) which, Mr. Herbert Morrison has suggestel, should be handed over to the League of Nations, to be disposed of as it thinks it. even Mr. Morrison had to admit that Britain is the world's best

An

colonial administrator, it is difficult

Lorries in the main square at Harar before proceeding to the Southern front.

HARAR AWAITS THE

THE WAR

our Socialist de Scenes in Abyssinia's Second Largest City as the

to perceive the point of the pro- posed sacrifice. It would certainly bring no advantage to the popula- tions of the colonies themselves. Surely that is a point which ought to weigh with mocrats? The United Slatex Secretary of State has also been ex- pressing approval of the proposal that raw materials should be avail- able to all who need them, Presum- ably, therefore, the United States, which is one of the countries rich-

est in natural resources, would be

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But where

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As

Warriors March Through

By GERALD

Ethiopian section of the railway,

STANLEY

trouble them. There are 110

any

AT Diredawa, first town of should their country pass from cheap paint, the whole surmount-

on the their keeping. any importance

ed by a plaque, which might These men will know no cón- reasonably be one of a thousand contribution to the common pool.

a Prince of the country chatted ventions. War for them is stumped in Birmingham, depict. is the country that. with his aide. The Prince was war without embellishment. It ing the Lion of Judah, whose under present conditions, cannot dressed in European clothes, the is an occasion to injure, to kill; colours are plastered over the get all the raw materials it needs? lieutenant's uniform was of a cut to be injured, to be killed. The whole structure. Near it is the The supplies are there in over-that would not have disgraced manner of killing does not gibbet, empty. abundance. The owners are eager | the Guards.

The streets are dark, narrow U. S. NEUTRALITY to dispose of them at reasonable Seeing them, a traveller would rules that they can understand and windowless; the houses are The

prices. There

unattractive, and without the statements

has been a pro- believe that Western civilisation or recognise. made by nounced plut for years in the mast had reached Ethiopia. He would

With some

awe and amaze- usual courtyard screened from President Roosevelt and. Mr. useful commodities.

be deceived.

ment many of them halted near public gaze that the Moham- A correction Cordell Hull concerning the of

Instead, the the fantastically deranged The Prince, ruler of two pro- the parade ground. Below them medan prefers.

houses are little better than war- cavalry vinces, kin of the Emperor, some

manoeuvred, policy of the United States Gov-machinery of exchange seems to be educated in a famous university, cavalry of their own folk, well rens, whose every room contains ernment in the present crisis are present time than a reallocation of speaking several languages, has mounted and armed. The camel a platoon of men, lying in the timely and to the point. It is colonies, which, at the best, would share a common opinion; civilisa- fantry, ignoring civilisation in is not of incense, but of packed no illusions. He and his people corps rodo by. The regular in- dark, resting awhile. The odour clear, as Mr. Roosevelt points be like throwing a mass of meat tion can do nothing for Ethiopia their hearts, moved to the word humanity.

into an overcrowded cage of hun- towards its improvement. out, that as the Italo-Ethiopian

of command in French, and went On the street cartridge-sellers

war continues, opportunities for

Kry lions.

"Give us," he said, "your through the motions of a real have laid out their new old- profitable trade to certain indus-

ronds, your motor cars, and army. Two thousand troops at fashioned cartridges which may TITLE THAT TELLS

perhaps your medicine, and then drill welcomed the irregulars. A or not fit any rifle in the country. tries will present themselves,

leave us alone. Your politics, long, low building threw the Red That does not matter; they are cartridges, and little by little the but the American people are

the output of novels and your mechanisation, your build- Cross as a challenge to

hombing 'plane that might come

stock disappears. films steadily increases, the taskings, your religions and your

Reservists who have been likely to look with strong dis-of finding suitable titles for them morals say nothing to us that over, MILIZA KORJUS Invitation to the Waltz (Weber) No. C-2721 | favour on any attempt by small must become more and more oner-

we want to hear."

That Red Cross is, perhaps, passed as fit and trained stand The Little Ring (Chopin)

but powerful groups to enhance our All the good titles may have All the improvements that the the most and the least significant in the doorways of the tailors' shops, being fitted with their their business at the possible | stories have ten already told. There ternally there is a slight change, obedience to the letter of conven- flowing in the wind.

been already sit, as all the best eye can see are delusions. Ex. of all Ethiopia's signs. It shows khaki shorts, their shirt-tails cost of prolonging the war and will be sympathy, therefore, with and the Ethiopian, loving dis- tion, but the spirit is not there. womenfolk looking on admiring- the suffering it is likely to en-

what George A. Birmingham has/Play, dresses when he can is the It cannot be there. The Duke ly. Khaki makes the complete fashion of Europe; but his mind of Harar may have given his tail. The Government is keep caused sleepless nights-to-many-a-

been saying on a subject that has is still unchanged.

palace to be used as a hospital, soldier, not equipment, not drill, the traders in the city may have not ability to use his rifle. The ing a strict check on all exports, novelist. To write a tale is easy,

submitted to a levy for the pro-

colour is the budge of service, and if voluntary compliance; if one may judge from the number A strange, fanatical patriotism vision of medical services, but and should modern weapons fail with the Government policy is of persons who succeed in doing so, alike. Their country is their and stores do not exist. There

inspires Copt and Moslem doctors and nurses, ambulances use of the knife and spear.

then he will revert gladly to the

but to find the perfect title, one only real love, and, though they is the shell; empty. not forthcoming, we may expect that is what the Americans call refuse to use it themselves, they to see appropriate action taken. "snappy" and at the same time will die rather than permit the

ΑΝ The recent embargò imposed by accurate, attractive, and inoffen invader to turn it to his own ac-11 about 30,000 people. It is faces are not welcome. Only the HARAR is a city normally of spy has been arrested. White the United States on the export

sive, is a very different matter. count. The Ethiopian is content the second city of the Empire; assurance that the whole man is

a little ground, to but it has one qualified doctor, British calms the suspicions. of arms to the belligerents Rim. The absurdity, in- raise a few patches of maize and and he is in charge of the leper

name might or might not affect either appropriateness, or misleadingness millet and some cattle. He has colony, and will have no time for in the streets.

There is the sound of singing LEAD party seriously, Ethiopia prob of many picture titles seen to-day few desires, and few disappoint the wounded unless he deserts young maidens parades, graceful A group of seems to suggest that the Holly-ments. Financially he has that ghastly colony of the doom- of bearing, chanting prayers for ably not at all. The significance wood or Elstree or other depart-ambition whatever, but he will ed. CRYSTAL of President Roosevelt's action

the rains, or perhaps for peace, that deal with this vital, fight for a well till he drops. nients lay in his addendum, in which he part of the talkie business are at the valleys, toiling down the educated, cultured at least super- hands and flowers in their hair. The Governor of the province, bearing leafy wunds in their From a thousand villages in warned American citizens who their wits' end--which. some

rough paths, all the able-bodied and Paris, depends on the ser- might be under healthier condi- ficially, familiar with London The suggestion is of what Harar to say, is no might seek to trade with the cynies will hasten

men in the province were making vices of an unqualified practi- tions. great journey. Canon Hannay their way to the capital, Harar, belligerents that they would do mentions that he missed one of the at the call of the Emperor Haile

tioner. so at their own risk. This was best of recent films because its Selassie, King of Kings.

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It is all unusual, but it is not And what need there is, with- encouraging in beauty. This held to mean that the United him a totally wrong impression of armed with spear and knife, the geons is visible at ever

A pitiful procession, pitifully out war, for doctors and sur city is an error man has made; yard; far better for him to have left it what he might expeel. It is a for its part, attempt to uphold | pertinent criticism.

men carrying nothing save their at every inch, if truth be told. unbuilt and to have stayed even The minkers arms, their wives

Leprosy and venereal disease are in his remote village with his carrying the rights of neutral commerce of films have a strange conception water-bottles and provisions for so common that even a European wooden plough and his water- in the case of cargoes bound for of the mentality of the average the journey trudging alongside, quickly becomes hardened to the bottle. Italy or Abyssinia. Those who patron of the cinema. He is a prepared to follow their men not such things as part of their in- ing, the crowds gather india- sight; the Ethiopians accept Outside the gate again, return- remember the long and delicate crude person whose emotions are only to enlistment but into the

heritance, an essential and ir- criminately around the mosques controversy that was waged be always in the raw, and with whom line of action.

remediable fact of life.

and the churches, which are the tween Britain and America on

the only safe course is, "The mix- They will be the commissaria More people seem to be sighted goal of an unending multitude. the same issue during the ear-

before." Even when They will be, should occasion de of one eye than of two, and Facing them, also bearing the something new in film-making la mand, nurses and stretcher- blindness is appallingly frequent, sign of the Cross, are the lier years of the Great War will achieved, it must be disguised un-bearers. And they, too, will die At the gate of the city, as on a canteens for Christian soldiers. appreciate the significance of der the old, hackneyed this step. The Lengue of Hence "One Night of Love" and Nations is now imposing sanc- other names that conceal rather tions on Italy, and it is some- than declare the appeal thing to the good to know that films to which they are attached. it will not be hampered in the When will the mighty ones. of measures it is taking by Ameri- finland awake to the fact that can resistance to the economic their public is not composed ex blockade. That is the interpretively of simpletons whose sole tation reasonably to be put on Amerlea's policy. American hentiment la apparently with States or any other country, of 12thiopia in this war, and it neutral rights. The latest de would be distinctly anomalous if clarations from

Washington the Lenguo were to be obstruct- i suggest that the American Gov- ed in its efforts to bring the ernment is determined to "play aggressor to reason by a meticul- the game" in the present delicate Lous assertion, from the United situation.

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village green in England, crowds As night falls the recruits end collect to hear the news, while their drill. They have been' LITTLE chiefs, afoot or riding one who can read recites what working without apparent fa-

mule or horac, and followed the Emperor has had to say. of the

tigue from sunrise to sunset. bearer, led the contingents from parent fervour, for no immediately by a proud gun- There is no excitement, no ap- The detachments jolt along the the man is rough road in trucks to horde that thronged the road; a do. Beyond death no man can as the unbridged rivers, then to the villages, to fall in with the doing more than he expected to Gijiga gate, to be carried as far · horde which, it seemed, could go, and the Emperor has the lift their transport on their offer no resistance whatever to a lives of his subjects at command. shoulders and wade breast high handful of men with a machine- It is a strange, eerie but un- in the stream with it. gun, a horde to be massacred beautiful town, this capital of From Gijiga they will march should war actually come. the province, Mohammedan in or be taken to Wal-wal, to the.

The immediate emotion they architecture and essentially line of wells that make the lower stirred, despite their obvious Ethiopian in neglect. The main reaches possible grazing grounds disease, was one of pity. But gate in the drab, dilapidated wall for the nomads of the country. they asked for no pity, none at is gay to the eye and grotesque They are the key, The all. They were confident in to the intelligence. Its gwing Governor of the Province, the themselves and in God. Of doors are, as usual, of corrugated Deriazmatz Nesimou Z'Emanuel, death they had no fear whatso- iron, its facing is of sheet iron, is concentrating his forces there:

For life they had no use, petrol tină, shingle boards and He is confident of his success.

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