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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY

1936.

A British Correspondent Returned To Tell The AMAZING TRUTH ABOUT THE WAR

TEST

AIR SERVICE ACROSS ATLANTIC

Montreal, Dec. 20.

Survey flights for a North Atlantic air mail service will be made.next year. An ex- perimental service will start soon afterwards, leading to the establishment of regular Transatlantic flights with a minimum of two flights each way weekly.

This was announced to-day, when' delegates to a conference on Trans- atlantic airways which ended here last night loft for Washington to with United discussions .opon

States oficials to-morrow "with a view to securing the fullest measure of understanding and co-operation with the United States in the deve lopment of Transatlantic flying."

LONGER ROUTE

The Washington discussions re- call a tentative agreement between Imperial Airways and Pan Ameri- can Airways for a service between Great Britain, the Azores Ber muda, and New York, with British aeroplanes flying as far as Bermuda and American machines completing the journey to New York.

the

was

This is a considerably longer route between Britain and Canada than the "Great Circle" route be- tween North Sydney, Nova Scotin,

Ireland favoured by and Canadiane part of which flown by Sir Arthur Whitten Brown and the late Sir John Alcock when they crossed the Atlantic in 1919 and won the Daily Mail prize of £10,000.

Banks,

Sir Donald

Director- General of the G.P.O., to-day pre- dicted a service eventually carry- ing letters between Britain and Canada for three cents. (11⁄2d.) an

ounce.

About Your Dog

IDEA FOR A H.K. PARTY?

Mme, Edith Kristofly, Budapest society hosters, seeking for some thing new, turned to the directory and invited all persons bearing the Name name as herself to dinner. Eighteen came, and the party was a great success.

LIFE CONVICT IS A MUSICAL GENIUS

Sydney Dec. 31.

A man who in serving a life sentence in prison at Syilney for murder of his wife has proved to

be a musical penine.

After weeks of study in his cell. Alister Jenner Clarke han passed grade examination of the a first record number of points for Australia. He gained on out of a possible 100.

"He is a born musician, a pening," said the Conservatorium examiner, Dr. Alex. Burnardi, "Ilin

briller on counterpoint is

The examiner explained that Clarke has been teaching hintelf the theory of music from books supplied by his friends-Reuter,

HERE IS SOMETHING YOU DIDN'T KNOW

Dogs have a colour, complex. This is the view of a prominent member of the staff of the Royal Veterinary College, London.

"Where you get a case of a dog has failed to eradicate certain suddenly turning on its owner or natural prejudices of many breeds. suddenly attacking 'child it has protected for a considbrable time, there is more behind it than mere hysteria.

"In many cases it la due to some form of illness, some queor brain twist which turns a faithful ser- vant into a ferocious assailant.

"Colour, form, and environment cortainly affect the behaviour of doga.

For instance, black and tan dogs, particularly those with a sheep dog strain in them, defl- nitely have an antipathy to small white dogs.

MYSTERIOUS

STALEMATE:

WHY IT OCCURRED

How 60 Hungry Reporters "Captured" Makale: Muddle Of Wrong Maps.

FOR THE FIRST TIME THE TRUTH-THE INCREDIBLE TRUTH ABOUT THE WAR BETWEEN TALY AND ABYS- SINIA HAS BEEN TOLD.

THE MYSTERIOUS STALEMATE ON THE WAR FRONT, THE HOLD-UP OF THE ITALIAN ADVANCE, THE SUDDEN RECALLING OF GENERAL DE BONO AND HIS SUPERSESSION BY GENERAL BADOGLIO, HAVE GIVEN RISE TO WIDE- SPREAD SPECULATION AS TO THE REAL FACTS.ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN.

The correspondents, however, have been unable to tell the story because of the strict Italian censorship.

To break through this barrier of silence' Ladislas Farago, the famous London Sunday Chronicle war corres- pondent in Abyssinia, hurried home from the front to set out the true position. He described a remarkable state of affairs which include: ·

Inefficient Italian staff arrangements; Hopeless preparation for the offensive, in which staff maps were inaccurate and men were sent to positions which did not exist;

...

Roads washed away, leaving Italian troops and transport marooned.

Mr. Farago also told the story of the Italian advance jon Makale-a story which would be farcical were it not

tinged with tragedy.

Actually sixty Press correspondents were ahead of the Italian advance and reached Makale before the Italian troops.

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DREDGES GOLD.

To Miss Mary E. Smith, Lewis- ton Trinity County, Cal, goes the distinction of being the only feminine gold dredger in the United States. She operates her own company, working 90,000 to 100,000 yards of gravel a month,

Swiss Girl Spy Leaves Her Prison

ELABORATE precautions

wero

Paris. Dec. 29,

taken to-night to smuggle through France Lydia Oswald, the pretty Swiss blonde, sentenced on September 10 to nine months' imprison- ment for naval espionage and released from Brest Gaol to- day for expulsion to Switzer- land. pushed on and. arrived at!

wartime Makale ahead of the troops.

No diplomatist on a

as the fascinating hidden away

By Ladislas Farago

Let me that has descended on the whole | Italo-Abyssinian conflict.

lift the veil of mystery sistance and the 60 reporters, feeling

hungry.

When the Preasmen Bent back

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The world has read of spectacular messenger to General Santini asking/Mission will have boen so carefully for permission to enter the town to Lydia from the time she left prison buy som chickens, he turned down

Italian victories, of road building feats by Italian engineers and labour corps, and of clever staff work by the

Italian General Staff.

The true state of affairs is far otherwise and is a terrific anti- climax Lo the flag-waving and bravado spirit with which the cam- paign opened.

One of the most revealing features has bean the lanecuracy of some of the Italian maps.

the request. "First, the troops; then in the dark hours of the morning. the reporters," was his reply.

until she

So while Presentatives morrow.

waited

from all over the patiently but hungrily at the walls of the town up marched Ras Gugsa with his woldiers, clad in a pictures- que mixture of Abyssinia and Italian uniforms, They

good subjects for the Before the campaign

photographer, whose canteras began Italians Bent a number of agents to click. Then the troops entered the under the guise of Greek merchants town, and the Italian Army could into Abyssinia in order to prepare report "Makale Fallen." reports and details of the country to be incorporated into the General Staff's maps.

began the

In other instances the agents had Their fur bristles, their teeth be-marked the positions of various white dog. come bared at the sight of a springs where good drinking water could be obtained. But when the The reason for this is traced thirsty Italian troops arrived at the back into the history of domestle promised sites they found that thore doga.

were no springs at all.

arrives at Geneva

to-

She was not allowed to say good-bye to the man she loved, Lieut. Count Jean de Forceville, | sac who, with another naval officer, was acquitted of being concern- ed in her espionage.

It was known at Brest that abe was due to be released shortly, as the term spent by her in prison Eventually, the hungry reporters awaiting trial counted as part of could buy their chickens tool.

her sentence, but she left prison BRIBES GO WRONG

with only 4s. 6d. In her handbag, Many of these men forwarded completely-Inaccurate details of the Another, instance of the erroneous the rest of her money having been

on which the Italian taken from her. country they were supposed to have information Burveyed. The result was that General Staff based their carly plan Every police official in Paris, and when the campaign began it was of campaign is the fact that they were at every other station on her route discovered that in several instances assured by their own secret agents denied all knowledge of Lydia. the maps were not even in accor- that the moment the war started prac dance with the actual landscape, tically all the chiefs of Northern But a correspondent ran her to Soldiers were ordered to march to Abxasiniu would desert to the Italian ground late to-night just as she was places which did not exist,

being secretly led to a second-class For months before the war started compartment of the 11:20 express the tailans had been paying their for Geneva, in which a seat had chiefs big monthly sums to secure been reserved for her. the allegiance.

She had arrived in Paris like an What they did not know WES that the Chiefs were simply taking ordinary passenger, accompanied the money with one hand and hand-by two discreet detectives of the "If one took the trouble to find

ing it over to the Emperor with French-Belgian service, both of Landmarks and other detalls on out and trace the origin, it would

the other to buy: arms.

whom spoke English admirably, The white breeds, the terriers,

whteli there should have been no be found in nearly every case that

Further inefficiency, in; respect to but who professed that they knew the bulldogs and bull terriers, grounds for mistake wore frequently the equipment and arrangements for nothing whatever about Lydia a puppy had wittingly or unwit-i

wore always fighters, and the found to be fictitious.

the troops is revented by the fact that Oswald. tingly been ill-treated.

These inaccuracies were responsi- |they are badly equipped, for colonial

They carefully hid her away "Then some, malady affects it, resentment of the coloured dog is and all the training is forgotten traceable to an ancestral distrust ble in part for dolaying the early warfare.

stages of the Italian advance, for the

"somewhere in Paris," as only of the white fighting dog,

But there are other types with areas had to be mapped out anew

the secret polico know how, itself when circumstances appear pecullar characteristica familiar air.

and only half an hour before FARCICAL "VICTORY" “That is to say, a child playing | to dog breeders.

the Geneva Express left the Gare de Lyon did they turn up unobtrusively with their charge.

in the natural Instinct to protect

to it to be repeated.

with a puppy while dressed in red may have unwittingly in-t jured it.

· NERVY

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Despite the fact that the tempera- byture during the day time may reach 130 degrees Fahrenheit, and at night niny drop to 60.ts.55 degrees, soldiers have only; the ana set of clothing.

thousands from pacumonia. In Her baggage had been sent to

TROOPS -

took a snack at the station res- taugant, complaining that she felt hungry and cold.

The greyhound Tor instance, Lot me now deal with the reports They are not equipped with extra cannot resist the impulse to of big. Italian victories. Actually blankets and extra clothing to guard against the chill. Conse chage, small dogs and cats. there have been no real battles fought in Northern Abyssinia, where They have been known to worry the bulk of the Italian Army in

quently they are going down in "A dog may have been acciden-

golis, especially white goats. situated. tally trodden on while young by its

Botapen October 20 and November the station in advance consisted owner. At the time the incident nother myth exploded by this

When the Italiansmarched into 10 I was told that approximately of three suit-cases and one black passes, because the dog is impert is that bloodhounds do not Adawa photographs were published 2.000 were remorted sick from this varnished leather hat-box bearing a all over the world showing, the tanica caure alone. Preumonia and chills, labels of hotels in the United States mediately petted and consoled. generally believed, enjoy

man hunt.

which were said to be in action in infact, nocount for the greater pro and Canada, as well as Switzerland But the incident remains in tho

It is on record that when in the the taking of the town.

portion of slakness among the Italian and Italy. mind.

But actually the tanks did-hot forces. There' bad ol days bloodhounda

wore

is practically no Lydia had not dined, and she Imported to the West Indies to

artine until seven days after the malaria, at all, "Circumstances, arise in which hunt down escaping sinves, they,aling occupation! They walted TROUBLES WITH NATIVE

the roads were built before the dog is nervy just as human proved a fallure because they they moved up boings become on edge. Then an would not savage their victims Then when Makale was taken. jan In all their so-called victorios the attack is made, and the dog is when they had caught thom. November B Rome celebrated it de a Italiaik have followed their habit of denounced as a vicious animal, A cross bloodhound and lurcher "Great Day of Victory."

a making the fullest possible use of whoreca It is merely reacting to had to be employed for the pur faree from start to finish I was an white agjdig Usually, the Askari

The truth is, the attack was ma natfee, troops so go on ahead of the its natural instincts."

pose. And even these had to be eyewitness of this so-called great their own native soldiers; Toad the Another, point made by the ex-gonded to carry out their in-l

victory

advance. pert is that domestication of doge human task,

ΤΟ all intents and purposes akala Actually, despite the praise which was captured by 60 reporters who has dech showered on the valour of arrived there before the tallin thesodroops the tailans are having troops,

dood deal of trouble with them. This is what

really happed

Rep freqident....behind the minor rebellions by The

reconnaissancenes hav reported no enemy, in sight, Gongesl Santial ordered the nubabes to Makala on November 5.

260 m. p. h.

'PLANE

FIRES

4,800 SHOTS A MINUTE

Britain's newest fighting airplane is a single-seater capable of travelling at 260 miles an hour while the pilot fires a stream of 4,800 machine-gun bullets a minute.

Just above the engine is mounted a small gun, capable of firing 5-ounce shells at the rate of 300 a minute.

This airplane is one of a number designed by Britain in the race with France and America for the airplane market.

Official trials are now begiming. Two of the four machine- gune of the British shigle-seater aro synchronised to fire through the propeller.

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She was dressed in the same clothes as those she wore when. she appeared before the naval court martial at Brest-a brown toque, and brown- checked cloak-and as soon as she and her escort perceived that they were recognised, they left the restaurant, hurriedly and mingled with the crowd Frost, and one report which it was walking to the train, djang impossible to confirm stated that Lydia looked pale' and tired, and they had turned on, their own when she reached har compartment the blinds ward closely drawn and

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officers and shot there was locked in

But the greatest failure.

The troops moved up, but on theo following day something Happened which was unknown in the history of and the greatest thern in the Halling other dotellivos were wait Abyssinia. for the rain Suddenly besides their failure to bringing in adjoining compartment to gan again. It rained all the day and Abyssinians to battle oa, biascort her as far as Geneva and no also the next day,

For Beveral weeks) tig troops dissolved

Roads in front do behind the

troops have actually been no narer one was allowed to approach her. aquagmire

tinn 160 mller teilhe, math, Aby- The strictest orders had boon. under the drenching #logonour, St sinian forces In Le morible Buch given in this respect,, for, although animals and guns underc, in the hare merely been, ith mars ng moment she signed her release at Transport bocan, Chogged.” Mon, "minor aŭrays as Fire taken" (neo technically she was Trea: from, the

bands of raiding en besmen,

the naval prison at Brost gho was becked" Then Je own opinion, from what I ave marched on, headed by Ras, Gugte, Abyssinian math: body the Iustians order until she passed, the Swiss the weather cleared and the fallana roen Jes that when they do me the still the object of an pulsion

the deserter. But "wna, no rod will: ght n zavoro, sobek.

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