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1936

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The Coast

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SPIES

BEFORE Djibouti was a town, traband than to

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

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Scratch the veneer of civili-

sation there and

More recently, during the you will find trouble years "of Abyssinia's men to whom history, following the death of the law is 靠 Menelik, a profitable trade in natura) enemy.

running arms into the interior

was conducted from that in-

are still

more

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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 good

money.

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

ever finds Its way the coast has known anything border country of the warlike into the more than a nominal white con- Danakils or that no sinves on trol, and the men who inhabit it their way to Hodeida or Jeddah attuned to the mingle their tears with the tradition of outlawry and con- waters of Bab el Mandeb-that work has many natural difficul- The country in which they

These activities, though main- narrow neck of the Red Sea, ties to communication, varying, ly concentrated there, are caus- whose Arabic name means, ap- as it does, from verdant moun- Ing something of a spy fever NOTES OF THE DAY propriately enough, "The Gate- tain plateaux, scored by in- throughout French Somaliland.

way of Tears."

credible ravines, to teeming Even in Djibouti anyone with DISPUTES OF THE HIGH SEAS

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 Maritime Conference re-

these men of salt deserts lying below sea organisation. The Abyssinian cently held under the auspices of profit has come to the International Labour Organisa: who have had to stand watching level, where, if any shade is to authorities, who have turned a 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- one which has a very curious his- Both sides in the struggle aro

age, make the closest scrutiny tory. The subject is entitled in anxious for military informa- Journeys of a few hundred of the credentials of anyone stately

even seeking to official language, "The tion, both are striving hard to miles take weeks and

use the bi-weekly. minimum requirements of profes-disseminate propaganda among these natural drawbacks the

months to accomplish. Add to train service to Addis Ababa. sional capacity in the case of border tribes of Captains Navigating and Engineer

fact that practically no arti- Officers in charge of watches on temper. board merchant ships."

ficial means of communication, THE tension in the interior is As an Who are better able to do the such as a international war once arose out work than the men who know granted, exist, and it will be markably cosmopolitan

European takes for filling Djibouti with {L re- business people and the com-

of an ear alleged to have been lost every avenue for smuggling out seen at

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

demand and it becomes difficult to say munity in general at the steps present deliberations are due in

the last instance to a collision They are

men whose network anyway meet these difculties, TCHAIKOWSKY—The "PATHETIQUE" Boston Symphony Orch. taken by the Government to which occurred, dear Mytilene in of contacts have been built up What was built up by the Strangers of all nationalities Conducted by Serge Koussevitzky.regulate the exchange value of 1928, between a French liner and through generations of lawless immemorial usage of slave flock in and out of the hotels.

a Turkish collier. The Master of enterprise. For With the the Hongkong dollar.

reason traders is now being turned to Some, are charming and genial the collier and the Officer of the their lines of communication new profits, which, if not DVORAK "FROM THE NEW WORLD" Royal Albert Hall. Orch.

as and some are not. Some are the French ship. The have always been shrouded in good as in the heyday of the waiting for boats and, again, Conducted by Sir Landon Ronald. Colony's currency latterly di- watch on

Lotus, were arrested by the vorced from silver and at the Turkish authorities and sentenced brous growth, right through quite handsome. No questions will turn up in his old haunts secrpey. They spread. like Arabian traffic, is nevertheless some are not. Sometimes a man SCHUBERT—THE "GREAT" C Major-B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra

MOZART-In G Minor (Pianoforte and Strings)

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Budapest String Orchestra.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

Schnabel-Onnou-Prevost and Maas.

Pro Art String Quartet.

FRIDAY, DEC. §, 1935,

A MANAGED CURRENCY

. Much relief will be felt by

BELA BARTOK-In A Minor...

FAURE-In C Minor

H. Merckel A. Merckel-Marchesini and Tenrock,

SYMPHONIES:—

that

uncertain

heit.

once what a

mercy of speculators, an intoler-10 imprisonment.' The French 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

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

mercenary intel- do not ask him where he has a French subject; HAYDN THE "CLOCK" SYMPHONY Philharmonic Symphony ness operations extremely diffi- further that it had been made clear

ligence service and those who been, becausé if you did you would not expect him to tell you Orchestra of New York Conducted by Arturo Toscanini. cult, if not utterly impossible, from the enquiry that the collision THE natural origin and centre pay best get the information.

the truth. Your guess is as was due to a wrong manoeuvre of this cancer is the arid, SZOSTAKOWICZ—No. 1 Op. 10

At the moment, the dollar is not executed by the collier, and that coast, backed by ingged hills THIS latest weapon that Europe good as anybody else's, and you has forged in. the name of probably will not be far wrong |stabilised, the Government being the French Officer who held a dis- fand bleached colourless by the Leopold Stokowsky and The Philadelphia Orchestra disposed to adopt a cautious tant Trade Mate Certificate could sun, where Tajura and Obokh good government may prove the if you surmise he has just re

not properly be held responsible. stand, and the men who know

most efficacious. It will mean turned in. a dhow, nèrūss the attitude before reaching any The question of competence was these underground channels like much to Italy to be able to sheet of blue water, on the other final decision on that point. sent to the Permanent Court of

leave peaceful tribes in the wake side of which the jagged outline There

International Justice, which held the ordinary, Londoner knows

of her penetration and even of the Coast of Spies shows a are numerous factors that although it wAN Customary the Tube system are busy there 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 sunlight.. such caution at this juncture, which ship belongs alone dent tion for their idle hands."

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By Eddie Kelly, Born 1820 ·

Still Going Wrong

school, We were so brilliant, In fact,

We got our first real start in life when we were kicked by an army mula, it giving us the start of our life.

not the least important of which on the high seas yet international

Not only is the const thus is the comparative uncertainty law on this subject, is not fixed. uniquely equipped for espionage of China's future monetary therefore

The Turkish authorities could not and propaganda, but it lies safe he 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 relationship with China is so Judgment was of considerable im- frontier of French Somaliland. daybreak this morning-we close that a false or precipitate up the possibility of their being ly made up of Somalis, Danakils, as it is usually G am. before we portance to sailors, since it opened The organisation is principal are always up to see the sun rise, step in the matter of stabilisa- liable to criminal persecution after and Arabs, with here and there get to bed-we thought how minded how brilliant we were at tion might easily have dis- collision not only in the country European working under the wonderful it would be to have that the rest of the class had to wear astrous consequences.

vessel be- But if no longed but also of that of the other respectable guise of a merchant. our childhood back again. smoked glasses, and they used us to definite exchange value has vessel. They could also be arrested The benefit of what knowledge Usually about that thine we feel light up the school on dull winter. been placed on the dollar, the in the ports in other countries they can glean, or what rumour like a nonetity, that is to say, some evenings. Government will now, for the competence of their Courts in re- or defending army is hard to you're an oxygenarian you're eighty, which recognise the ex-territorial they can spread, to an invading where in the nineties, everybody who rends the papers knowing that when first time, be in a position to re-gard to foreigners. The legal as over-estimate for the ramifica- and when you're seventy you're move the danger of wide fluctuon-peets of the question are obviously tions of their system know no you're a sexegenarian and so on.

vegetarian, and when you're sixty tions. This it will accomplish ternational

beyond the competence of the In- through the secret operation of the Exchange Fund, either by buying or selling. As was pointed out in the speech introducing the Ordinance, it will be possible for the noto 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- seem, desirable, against eerlill- to, by the operations ΟΣ cates backed by the assets of the interested speculators. If 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,

Labour Organisation. barrier of frontiers. but a step forward will be taken towards safeguarding the position rules with regard to their provi- of maritline ollicers if international sional qualifications can be drawn up and generally accepted.

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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 scheme is to be wel- time; such a scheme 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 scheme without work than hitherto, Assuming full confidence in its ability, in the rate to be kept at about the co-operation with its advisers, to present level,. 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 mensures have been drawn may have to be rovised and cuts, up with meticulous care, and made in expenditure.

But there seems no reason to fear eventually, in this matter as in that our currency will not hence others, the Colony will adjust. forth bo kept under strict con- itself to the new conditions.

But we made our real beginning in

And thinking of our childhood rethe financial world in which they now call us the #inancial wizard ("The man must be a wizard the way he CA- cupies

those shroff's 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 Natha Rond to stop a dog fight. After eight months in hospital WU were awarded damages, which we had re ceived when we were knocked down, in any case,

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

The

Then came the Great War. Kellys were ever a proud race, and after we had been handed 36 lb. of white feathers our wife stured the bed with them, and we 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 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 shroffa-unif got covered with medals, most of which we won at poker.

When we were invalided our of the army our wife wanted us to become a water diviner, but we could think of lots of things diviner than water, so we just loaf.

round the office hers and get all the kicks. Somebody's got to do it. Repsind us to tell you some more of our reminiscences the next time wo. are feeling 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, dollars, As the Colental Treasurer was told when he was n.child: "Silver should be seen: and not hoard,"