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BELA BARTOK-In A Minor

SYMPHONIES:-

The

of

Coast

SPIES

BEFORE Djibouti was a town, traband thun to

and order,

Tajura and Obokh, which the reign of law lie on the other side of the Gulf of Tajura from it, were flourish- ing centres of the slave trade be

Scratch the veneer of clvill-

tween Abyssinia and Arabia. sation there and

will More recently, during the you

find trouble years of Abyssinia's men to whom history, following the death of the law is Π Menclik, a profitable trade in natural enemy. running arms into the interior

was conducted from that in-.

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1995.

hospitable north-west shore of EVEN to-day it would be a rash person who would say that the Gulf. In fact, it is only no case of arms or ammunition within the last few years that

into the ever finds its way the coast. has known anything border country of the warlike more than a nominal white con- Danakils or that no slaves on trol, and the men who inhabit it their way to Hodeida 'or Jeddah

tradition of outlawry and con- waters of Bab el Mandeb-that work has many natural difficul-

DISPUTES OF THE HIGH SEAS

heit.

/

Bo W. F. HARTIN

One of the

Corps of Special Correspondents in East Africa.

peaceful, That is the trump card in the hands of the men of the coast and that is why their work commands money.

•

good

re-

are still moro attuned to the mingle their tears with the The country in which they These activities, though main- narrow neck of the Red Sea, tics to communication, varying, ly concentrated there, are caus- whose Arabic namo means, ap- as it does, from verdant moun- ing something of a spy fever STUBBS NOTES OF THE DAY propriately enough, "The Gate tain plateaux, scored by in- throughout French Somaliland. credible ravines, to teeming Even in Djibouti anyone with way of Tears."

Now, with Abyssinia and Italy malarial swamps, and, perhaps, known sympathies is suspect of actually at war, a new source of even worse, to the deadly heat being part of the propaganda The Abyssinian The Maritime Conference re-profit has come to these men of salt deserts lying below sea organisation. cently held under the auspices of who have had to stand watching level, where, if any shade is to authorities, who have turned a the International Labour Organiaa- tion of the League of Nations had while authority gradually sup be found, the thermometer will number of people out of the before it, amongst other questions, pressed their unlawful activities, still show 140 degrees Fahren- interior on suspicion of espion- age, make the closest scrutiny Both sides in the struggle are

# Journeys of oue which has a very curious his-

few hundred of the credentials of anyone tory. The subject is entitled in anxious for military informa-

even seeking to

use the bi-weekly atately official langunge,

The tion, both are striving hard to miles take weeks and

months to accomplish. Add to train service to Addis Ababa. minimum requirements of profes- disseminate propaganda among these natural drawbacks the slonal capacity in the case of

tribes border

of uncertain

fact that practically no arti- Captains Navigating and Engineer Officers in charge of watches on temper.

ficial means of communication, THE tension in the interior is As an

European takes for board merchant ships."

Who are better able to do the such as a

filling Djibouti with Much relief will be felt by international war once arose out work than the men who know granted, exist, and it will be murkably cosmopolitan crowd, once what a demand and it becomes difficult to say business people and the com.of an ear alleged to have been lost every avenue for smuggling out seen at

by one Captain Jenkins, so the slaves or smuggling in arms? there is for people who can in who are genuine travellere.

men whose network any way meet these difficulties. munity in general at the steps present deliberations are due in

to collision They are

Strangers of all nationalities which occurred near Mytilene In of contacts have been built up What was built up by the

usage of slave flock in and out of the hotels. TCHAIKOWSKY—Thẻ “PATHETIQUE" Boston Symphony Orch.taken by the Government to the last instance

* Conducted by Serge Koussevitzky, regulate the exchange value of 1926, between a French liner and through generations of lawless immemorial

reason traders is now being turned to Some are charming and genial a Turkish collier. The Master of enterprise. For that DVORAK "FROM THE NEW WORLD" Royal Albert Hall Orch the Hongkong.dollar. With the the collier and the Omeer of the their lines of communication new protits, which, if not as and some are not. Some are Colony's currency latterly, di- watch on the French ship. The have always been shrouded in good as in the heyday of the waiting for boats and, again, Lotus, were arrésted by the secrecy. They spread, like a Arabian traffic, is nevertheless some are not. Sometimes a man Conducted by Sir Landon Ronald.

vorced from silver and at the Turkish authorities and sentenced fibrous growth, right through quite handsome. No questions will turn up in his old haunts mercenary intel-do not ask him where he has SCHUBERT THE "GREAT" C Major B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra mercy of speculators, an intoler-to imprisonment.

Conducted by Adrian Boult, able situation had been created, Government protested that Turkish the hinterland of Abyssinia and of loyalties or patriotism arise, after a few day's absence. You

Courts were not competent to pass throughout the coast of Eritrea. It is purely one.which made legitimate busi-judgment on a French subject;

ligence service and those who been, because if you did you would not expect him to tell you the truth. Your guess, is as HAYDN THE "CLOCK" SYMPHONY Philharmonic Symphony ness operations extremely diffi- further that it had been made clear THE natural origin and centre Day best get the information.

Orchestra of New York Conducted by Arturo Toscanini. cult, if not utterly impossible. from the enquiry that the collision

has forged in the name of probably will not be far wrong At the moment, the dollar is not executed by the collier, and that coast, backed by jagged hills THIS latest weapon that Europe good as anybody else's, and you Obakh good government may prove the if you surmise he has just re- SZOSTAKOWICZ—No. 1 Op. 10

stabilised, the Government being the French Officer who held n dis- and bleached colourless by the

lant Trade Mate Certificate could sun, where Tajura and

to sheet of blue water, on the other disposed to adopt a

cautious not properly be held responsible, stand, and the men who know most efficacious. It will mean turned in a dhow across attitude before reaching any The question of competence was these underground channels like much to Italy to be able

of her penetration and even of the Coast of Spies shows a final decision on that point. sent to the Permanent Court of the ordinary Londoner knows leave peaceful tribes in the wake side of which the jagged outline the International Justice, which held

customary the Tube system are busy there numerous factors that although it was

more to the Abyssinians to see mere dim silhouette in which dictate the necessity of that the Courts of a country to now with a new-found occupa that the tribesmen do not remain blanching aunlight.

which nship belongs alone deal tion for their idle hands.

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is, the comparative uncertainty law on this subject is not fixed. uniquely equipped for espionage The Turkish authorities could not and propaganda, but it lies safe China's

future monetary therefore

be said to have acted from the spheres of either com- policy. The Colony's economic contrary to international law. The batant behind the sheltering GAZING out of our window at daybreak this morning-we relationship with China is so Judgment was of considerable im- frontier of French Somaliland.

The organisation is principal-are always up to see the sun rise,

Going Wrong portance to sailors, since it opened close that a false or precipitate up the possibility of their being ly made up of Somalis, Danakils, as it is usually 6 am. before we step in the matter of stabilisa- liable to criminal persecution after and Arabs, with here and there got to bed-we thought how minded us how brilliant we were at school. We were so brilliant, in fact, tion might easily have dis- collision not only in the country a European working under the wonderful it would be to have that the rest of the class had to wear

to which their own .vessel be-

smoked glasses, and they used us to astrous consequences. But if no longed but also of that of the other respectable guise of a merchant, our childhood back again.

Usually about that time we feel light up the school on dull winter. definite exchange value has vessel. They could also be arrested The benefit of what knowledge

the ports in been placed on the dollar, then,

other countries they can glean, or what rumour like a nonetity, that is to say, some evenings,

where in the nineties, everybody who

We got our first roal start in ilfe which recognise the ex-territorial they can spread, to an invading reads the papers knowing that when

when we were kicked by an army Government will now, for the competence of their Courts in re- or defending army is hard to you're an oxygenarian you're eighty,

mule, it giving us the start of our life. first time, be in a position to regard to foreigners. The legal as-over-estimate for the ramifica- and when you're seventy you're

vegetarian, and when you're sixty move the danger of wide fluctua-pects of the question are obviously tions of their system know no you're a sexegenarian and so on.

beyond the competence of the In- tlons. This it will accomplish ternational

And thinking of our childhood re- barrier of frontiers. Labour Organisation, through the secret operation of but a step forward will be taken the Exchange Fund, either by towards safeguarding the position of maritime officers if, international buying or selling. As was pointed rules with regard to their provi out in the speech introducing the sional qualifications can be drawn Ordinance, it will be possible for up and generally accepted. the note circulation, after the trol. The value of the dollar calling in of all silver, to be ex-will now be decided by the panded or contracted as may Government, and not, as hither scem desirable, against certifi- to, by the operations of cates backed by the assets of the interested speculators.. If ac. Exchange Fund and the respon-{tual stabilisation is not pro- sibility of the Government. In (mised, the Ordinance will at any brief, Hongkong will, so long as rate definitely tend to stability,

It's the most conspicuous thing the Ordinance is operative, have the lack of which has been the

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a managed currency, just as principal obstacle to legitimate China has. The steps taken business operations in the recent have of necessity been under con-past. From every standpoint, sideration for some considerable the control schome is to be wel- time; such a schame could not be comed. It will be good for the put into operation at a moment's business man, for the resident notice. But, with the advice of who may have regular sterling bankers, the Government has obligations to meet, and for the reached the conclusion that the Government in drawing up its time is ripe for action. Obvious-Budget, the framing of which ly the Government would not will be less a matter of guess- embark on the schome without work than hitherto. Assuming full confidence in its ability; in the rate to be kept at about the

level, co-operation with its advisers, to present

the Colony's fulfil the objects for which it has financial, arrangements for next been designed. In this regard, year, based on a 18. 8d. dollar, the measures, have been drawn may have to be revised and cuts up with meticulous care, and made In, expenditure. But there seems no reason to fear eventually, in this matter au in that our currency will not hence others, the Colony will adjust forth be kept under strict con- itself to the new conditions.

con-

"Say, when I was your age I couldn't wait to get to school."

But we made our real beginning in

CA.

the financial world in which they new call us the financial wizard ("The man must be a wizard the way he capes those shroffs month after month") when, at the age of twelve, we had the astonishing good luck to be knocked down by the S.P.C.A. van as it was tearing down Nathan Rond to stop a dog fight.

After

elght months in hospital, we were awarded damages, which we had re-. ceived when wat were knocked down, in any case.

The

Then came the Great War, Kellys were ever a proud race, and after we had been landed 36 fb, of white feathers our wife stuffed the bed with them, and, wa Joined the colours under a misapprehension that we were seeking protection from her at a police station, and so we sailed away.

The rest is history. After we had had eighteen months of glorious freedom from her eternal nagging, they caught us and sent us to re- Join our regiment, We were treated for shock and allowed to return to Hongkong, where we spent the rest of the war in the comparatively arduous task of defending the Colony against its enemies-mostly mos- quitoes and shroffe-and got covered

most of which we won: [ with medals, nt poker.

بار

When we were invalided our, of the army our wife wanted us to become a water divinar, but wa could think of lots of things diviner than water, so we just loaf around the affics here and gut, all the kicks. Somsbody's got to do it. Romind us

to tell you some more

of our reminiscences the next time we are fooling a bit on the old side. After our next binge, before we make our New Year resolutions.

In the meantime don't go hoarding: up your silver dollar SS Às tha Colonial Treasurer was told whan he www.child: "Silver" should be seen and not hoard?