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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1935,

MAN WHO DIED IN DUNGEON MAY HAVE BEEN CROWNED EMPEROR OF ETHIOPIA

MARRIED AT 13: DIVORCED AT 14:

PRISONER

FOR 17

17 YEARS

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA HELPED TO

HURL HIM FROM A THRONE

IN a lonely dungeon at Fiche, 40 miles north of Addis Ababa, a handsome man of European appearance, aged 39, has suddenly and veniently died of general paralysis.

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con-

His name is Lij Yassu. His continued existence would have been one of the weakest links in the armour of the reigning Emperor of Abyssinia..

Lij Yassu has been imprisoned that the Emperor was secretly intro- since 1917, and had nearly beonducing Mohammedan customs which, forgotten, until the present widely advertised, would rouse the Italian campaign......

antagonism of such a fanatically Christian country.

The Italians' offered some. Lawrence therefore photographed Somalis £870 to kidnap his son, the young man in his favourite Lij Menelik. The Invaders, at Mohammedan costume and surround- least, were alive to the ex-circulated copies throughout the land, ed by his Mohammedan advisers. He Emperor's dynastic importance. and left the numerous dovont Coptic Ras Tatari sits on the throne Christian priests to play on the Kus- Holely by right of conquest, where- ceptibilities of their flock,

The story of the Emperor's romance hna been disclosed by a retired Sudan Government official who was for many

agreements with Abyssinia.

Lij Yasau traced his ancestry through his mother, Shosgash, second daughter of Menelik. II.,years responsible for the trading right back to Solomon, and the Queen of Sheba.

Official Heir

So long as Lij Yasau was alive, he was the natural rallying point for all the wild chlofs who gro discontentod with the fetters the Emperor's attempts to centraliso administration have put on their frocdom.

Flo would have been # trump card if he had fallen into the hands of the Italians,

His youthful indiscretions were

"Ydibli, a Cypriot pedlar, and his little daughter, who became a favour- te amongst the British officers, fol- lowed Kitchener's troops in their ad- vance to recapture the Sudan." he sald

In Great Style

"This pedlar prospered, and by an oversight was allowed to go trading in Kordofan, o provinco 011 the Abyssinian-Sudan frontier, which was officially closed to trade.

"He was turned out, but was well the Sudan lensed (and still hold) an compensated shortly afterwards whon aren in south-west Abyssinia Gambela on the Baro river.

at

"As he was friendly with the Bri-

buried in the past, und he was tish, he was the first merchant allow remembered, when he was remem-ed to go there. bered at all, simply as the indle putably rightful holder of the crown in so far as genealogy is of any account.

LIJ YASSU,

In a lonely dungeon ke vwaited the call to a throne,

Tricentenary Of Famous French Woman

"However, Ydibli identified himself with Abyssinian interests and got a concealon, started the Ethiopion! Rubber Company, and eventually SHE DID MORE' HARM found himself in difficulties.

THAN ANY OTHER

Lij Yaspu's career were one of the "Thereupon he came to London and most amazing. In the history of lived in great style at the ITotel

Cecil.

royalty. The son of Ras Minel, the powerful chief of the wild Wollo

tlon of his Ambaric names.

Fell In Love

Niort, France, Nov. 27.

Centenary Of Birth Of Carnegie

FAMOUS MILLIONAIRE WHO GAVE AWAY $350,000,000

A

Mud On The Anchor

Of A Ship

HAS NETTED A FORTUNE

FOR THE OWNER GOLD in the mud on

a

schooner's anchor, sealed orders, a mining party faced with death on the high seas and a last minute reacuo-these-aro the ingredients of a romantic gold quest story told by Mr. Bartle Ryan, a mining engineer Melbourne from the Australian who has just returned to

mandated territory of New Guinea,

New York, Nov. 25. THE 100th anniversary of the birth of An- drew Carnegie, steel king and philanthropist, will be observed by the different Carnegie

It began when a schooner was trusts in the United driven into the leo of Tatu States, Great Britain shelter. On raising his anchor, Island, off New Guinea, for and the British Do- the captain noticed specks of gold in the mud sticking to it. minions.

He told a few friends, among Carnegie during his lifetime them a planter who prospected gave away" approximately U.S.

$350,000,000. More than U.S. the gold and won 200 ounces. $60,000,000 was devoted to library He thought it alluvial goll. construction work. He bullt They then formed a small 2,811 libraries. These, with the syndicate, keeping the location a 8,182 church organs made possi-close secret. Mr. Bartle Ryan was ble by his contributions, usually appointed engineer and sailed are regarded as the more personal from Melbourne under scaled of his benefactions.

orders which he opened at Kavleng. Finding where he had Principal ceremonies have been to go he found a small party of planned in Carnegie's nativo city whites and natives and began to of Dunfermline, Scotland, New prospect the place. He found that York, Pittsburgh and Washing the gold was not alluvial, but a ton. Public librarlos endowed by rich lode, says Austral News, the financler and philanthropist In various parts of the world also will mark the centenary,

On the way back to Kavieng to roport, across open BOA and through the teeth of a gale which The New York programme will amashed from the launch, and the had sprung up, the rudder was consist of a special choral-orches-party drifted helplessly for hours, tral performance in Carnegie Hall, jexpecting death from drowning at which the philanthropist built for any minute. Just as the water the cultural advancement of the in the launch was gaining on metropolis. Those associated with them, an island motor ship appear- Carnegio in carrying out his bene-ed on the horizon factions will honour his memory at taken only occasionally. a dinner the night of November 25 In New York.

One of the features of the con- Jackie

tenary observanco will bo diaplay of seven

illustrated

posters In

libraries throughout the country.

The posters display pithy state ments which cropt into Carnegio's writings. They reflect some of the philosophy which inspired his

Coogan's £200,000

on a course

numerous benefactions and em FILM BLONDE SHARES phasize his belief that popular BIRTHDAY HONOURS education to the foundation of a stable, progressive civilisation.

Some of the quotations follow: "Surely no civilised

New York, Nov. 5.

-to-day, and has come inta

The 300th anniversary of the in our day-can-resid community JACKIE COOGAN was 21 "When the ex-pelar returned he birth of Madame de Maintenon, sion, that the killing of man by an inheritance of £200,000 Gallas, he was christened "Mister became a favourite of Lij Yassu, and famous character of French hinternational disputes, is the foulest-the proceeds of his ap

man, means of settling in- Jesus," for that is the literal transin War and an vier inte province of tory, was celebrated here to-day. blot upon.

Harrar another district adjoining near the site of the prison where

human society, the pearances as the child film the Sudan.

sho was born.

greatest curse of human life."

prodigy → whom Charlie "Upon no foundation but that of Chaplin "discovered." popular education caa man erect the structure of enduring civilisa-

Reports and denials of his tion. This

engagement is the busls

to Miss Toby of all

Wing,

the actress, have of late been given prominence, but to-day he was seen escort- ing to luncheon Beckie Grable, blonde and, beautiful, who is with Radio Pictures,

In 1907 he was selected as the off- cial heir to the throne then occupied by his grandfather, Menelik II.

Crowned In 1914

cause Ras

"Lij Yasau fell in love with the daughter, who by this time had grown into a girl of surpassing beauty, and wanted to marry her,

Woman.

stability and underlies all pro-

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Madame de Maintenon is credit- ed with having done more harm to France than any other She had a colourful career which started in the Niort prison in 1636 Two years later, when he was 13, be

"The very den horrified the big where she was married to Princess Romanie, the chiefs, who had ambitlens for their d'Aubigne. She spent her child-

was burn Francoise gross," noven-years-old granddaughter of the daughters, and it supplied just hood in Martinique, West Indies, the state is the universal educa

"The most imperative duty of late Emperor John, thus uniting the tiun pending as a result of the Em-of her worthless father, was con-

the spark needed to start the revolu- returned to France after the death|tion of the masses." two main dynasties of Ethiopia dur-peror's Mohammedan intrigues. ing the previous 100 years.

verted from an

He is still a student at the Uni- ardent Protest- "I choose free libraries as the versity of Southern California, A year later he was divorced, be where he still lives, or did until re- and was married to a lame and de- masses of people, because they continued career on the screen by "Ydikli ernshed and fled to France, and to a still more ardent Catholic best agencies- for improving the where he is preparing himself for Tossomn, the Regent,cently, with his heautiful girl, who, formed poet named Paul Goarrok. give nothing for nothing. They courses in cinematography and drá- feared that little Romanie might bedor all Abyssinian enterprises, might but for the ill fortune which seems to exerting conjugal iruence in favour now be Empress."

Searron died in 1660 and she selves. They never pauperise."

only help those who help them-matic appreciation. of her aunt, the Dowager Empress

lived in poverty on her husband's Taitu,

The revolution broke out in 1917. Pension unt!! 1669 when she was six months after Lawrence's visit. given a post by Madame Montespan about the submerged tenth as

"I am not so much concerned Althougli Menelik had abdicated In Rae Tafari (and indirectly, the Allies) as governess to the two sons she am about the swimming tenth." 1909, ha did not die, despite many triumphed at the great battle of had by King Louis XIV. In five frovious reports of his death, until Dessie. December 1913, so that Lij Yasau had

years she had mado enough money Ho Fled

Carnegie built his first library to wait until 1914 before he was

to buy the estate of Maintenon and in his home town of Dunfermlino officially crowned, thus becoming

Lij Yaesu fled to the mountains, and by the king. Two more years and in 1917, but in that period he had in 1678 had it made a marquisnte in 1881. His library gifts censed technically 03 well AS virtually was captured after suffering months "Negue, Conquering Lion of Judah, of hardship.

she was made second lady-in-wait-built 1,940 libraries in the United Elect of God, King of Kings, Emperor of Ethiopia, ruler of 350,000 square was proclaimed Empress, the first ing.

Menelik's older daughter, Judith, and she became first lady-in-wait-speaking countries.-United Press. Ing to the dauphiness, another year States and 865 in other English miles and 5,000,000 people.

woman to ascend the throno for over the Marquise de Maintenon, who The Queen died in 1683 and 1,000 years: in fact, since the Queen find already ingratiated herself of Sheba.

with the king, became his wife in a Ras Tafari, the "Black Napoleon," private ceremony in 1683. became Regent at the age of 30.

A Lovely Cypriot

He was a tall wall-formed young man of pleasing appearance, bearing no resemblance to the pronounced negroid type of his grandfathor.

U. S. Oil King

From the time of the marriage Leaves

By his marriage with. Menen, the most historians have credited her His skin was light brown. He had Menolik, he had already became in French politics of that time. ten-years-old great-granddaughter of with the most disastrous blunders lively, expressive eyes and a slightly cousin to Judith, but he had no royal On her falls the blame for the un- aquiline nose. Indeed, he might have blood in his veins, passed for a European.

He spoke French, English, and therefore to quell a huge rebellion of Succession and she influenced the When Judith died in 1923 ho had England, the war of the Spanish fortunato, support of James II of Gorman, and took hold of the reins (conservative chiefs beaded by Ras king to revoke the Edict of Nantes, of govermont immediately.

Kuksa, Judith's divorced husband, be- fore he was able to ascend the throne expelling 500,000 Huguenots from

France.

cause.

himself.

How seriously the Emperor regard-

As a woman,

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£5,000,000

Riverhead (N.Y.), Nov. 10 COLONEL HENRY HUD.

His

Birthday Party He is to remain at college, for she hopes that, despite his inherit- another year, and Mrs. Coogan says ance, he will live the same until now. pretentious life he has been leading

un-

"I feel surc," she said, "that he will not let this money go to his head. Ho is far too sensible. His chief friend is Charlie Chaplin. Jackie sees Charlic as often as possible when he is home with me from collogo."

Mrs. Coogan gave a large party fin honour of her son's coming-of- age. There were 50 guests-and Bockie Grable shared the honoura with Jackie.

GRETA NISSEN'S

ANNULMENT PLEA

PAPERS SIGNED IN LONDON

But, promising as he was, he proved

DLESTON ROGERS, the strangely lacking in his ancestral wie

Standard Oil magnate, who dom. The big chieftains with ambi-

died on July 25 last, left £5,- tions. for their daughters woro ed the clalins of Lij Yass was shown made a good wife to the aging From a personal standpoint sho alienated by an affair he had with in 1932, when 30,000 troops were sent Louis XIV and whatever cruelty or Rogers, is to receive only the In-her marriage to Weldon, Heyburn,

200,000, it is revealed to-day.

Los Angeles, Nov. 1. lovely Cypriot girl, and still more by to round up the former Emperor on harm she did toward France was

Greta Nissan, the Norwegian BON, Henry his favouritism of the Mahommedan the occasion of his escape disguised done

Huddleston im star, is seeking annulment of through misunderstanding fund,

come from a 600,000 dollars trust an American atago and screen How the Mohammedan intriguos

rather than selfishness, or mali-

actor, helped to bring about his downfall gorgo near the Blue Nile, whence ho

Li Yassıl was run to earth is a chousness. was as follows. Lawrence of Arabla hoped to escape into the Sudan. heard that Li Yassu was sending black troops to assist General Lettow Vorbeck In German. East Africa.

Enter Lawrence

Accordingly Lawrence paid a flying visit to Abyssinia, where he leamo

The couple wore married, ac- It was at Mr. Rogers' country cording to the petition which has To-day, when France has rell- house at Downington, Pennsyl His laat custodian until his death fanatical Intolerance of Madame de actress was found shot dead in after six months.

glous liberty for all creeds, the vania, that Miss Evelyn Hooy, the en fled here, In March 1932, in Tiajuana, Mexico, and separated this week was Kassa, who was the chief Abyssinian small town of Niort, her birthplace,

the formidable Ras Maintenon is forgotten and the bedroom on September 12. official attached to the Duke of Glou is making plans to celebrate the Mrs. Arturo Ramos, formerly the couple failed to observe the One million pounds is left to Nissen in London and, alleges that cester whon he attended Ras Taforl's magnificently barbaric coronation; in anniversary of Its most 1930,

famous Countess Salm, daughter of Co-technical, Mexican laws at the time citizen,

lonel Rogers.

of the marriage-Reuter-

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