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This article was sent by

mail from London War Correspondent, O. D.

Gallagher, just before he left for Dessye, sub- sequently bombed.

are waiting to

be bombed

We have opened the sluice gates for a golden flood into the radio station is never silent. Al- Addis Ababa that it though no messages will be ac

Addis

THEY have the feeling in Emperor's coffers--his Ababa,

can't go on much longer. cepted after 7 p.m. the transmit-

town,

One of these days a fleet of tors buzz throughout the night Crazy silver airplanes will come dron- clearing the decks for another where time

ing over-and may there be day. sufficient warning to enable the Half-a-million-words_of_war_ inhabitants to escape before the news have been ticked out of stands still

Addis Ababa's year-old radio,"

films.

much to

station in the last two months, and nobody

reversc

is

cares.

rose, and an ancient portable gramophone WWLS produced. Dancing began. Our partnera Wero Beintengeta Herouy'a two supple daughters, the wife of Ato Lourenzo Tezar, director of the Press Bureau, and four other Abyssinian women,

Fifty-threo journalists be-· camo wall-flowers.

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"Grand Hotel" has just come to Addis Ababa. Special pamphlets have been sent to all journalists announcing this coup of local cinema manage- ment. It is described "Triomphe de l'Ecran," just as it was a triumph of the screen at home.

We had that old Crawford- Gable classic here a few weeks And believe

ago, "Possessed."

A new talent.

bombs begin to drop. Not that there is bomb in the rambling, ram- And the average cost of each shackle capital that looks like a of these words that make news the Wild West of the old silent at the present rate, 18., 6d. That consider quite crazy, the jour me these two sophisticated stars mushroom town belonging to is one Maria Theresa dollar, or,

is double the cost of messages nalista play poker, entertain have developed

direction, So far, however, the capital sent the

Abyssinian officials to dinner. They speak French like has been invaded only by jour- London to Addis Ababa. and talk about previous stories Parisians. nalists. Sixty of them.

Work out the Emperor's pro-

Collectively, they are about as Most of us had a good laugh Without them Abyssinia's fits for yourself. Nowa

widely travelled a bunch of men over another film, "The World. capital would have become giving him money for arms.

you could select: Ching, and the Flesh." Do you remem- માઇ Addis Ababa's three gun- bankrupt, for all business with

Alnska, Greenland, ber it? Wallace Beery was the the outside world had ceased. smiths are doing record busi- Japan,

Europe, America North and simple old professional wrestler. We have opened Shuttered neas-with the journalists. The South, and Central Africa: What did we laugh at? Why, shops, bought goods which colony of white-skinned scribes shopkeepers had feared would is armed to the teeth; there is some have visited them all pro- Wallace's French, of course,

fessionally. be confiscated for Government fear of anti-European violenco

"It was difficult in the Sino- spoken with a German accent. supplies.

if the Abyssinians suffer a heavy Japanese war, but Abyssinia The best place is Mon Cine, defeat.

It is like a glorified suburban And so are the spear-makers. "Sino-Japanese war! Why sitting room. There are rows of NOTES OF THE DAY With the exception of hope of evon Turkey has nothing on this chintz-covered easy chairs, and place !" That's the burden of liberal aspidistra decorations. colony, every man has two or the comments.

Directly opposite Mon Cine is three double-pronged apears There is little social life out- Chez Gleyze, where 16 mm. with eight-foot shafts. Not so side the Press colony. fantastic as it seems; they are various foreign legations are too is the Empire. The last screen The films are screened. The third used for Addis Ababa's only out- busy to entertain, they see scoop there was "Tarzan.' door sport-hyena hunting.

enough of the journalists dur- News reels here are stale; ing the day, anyway.

they vary in age from three to Recently tho Minister of six months. Their great fault

OIL NUISANCE

Another important stop forward has been taken in the long struggle of the League of Nations to abate the evil of the pollution of the sea by all waste. The question was taken up as long ago as 1926, at

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of three of

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These, hunts are arranged on the spur of the moment, when

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NON-SKID ROADS The fact that an increase in the number of road deaths at a Conference of the main maritime things are quiet. It usually Foreign Affairs, Belatengeta is that torrential rain appears Home recently coincided with powers, which establishett a general happens at dinner in the Hotel Herouy, invited us all to a ban to be falling all the time, due

Imperial, where most of the quet in his home. It was the to severely scratched films. prolonged spell of wet weather principle that Governments becom-journalists are living.

dullest evening I have ever ex- The curse of Addis Ababa ia has given further point to the Ing party to the agreement there "What about a hunt?" asks perienced.

bribery. It is almost impossi- His house was bare of furni- ble to obtain the most trivial circumstance that numerous ac- concluded might establish areas a red-faced, well-built Austra-"

conste withiaįlian journalist.

ture, the floors were uncarpeted. privilege without crossing the cidents, fatal and otherwise, are adjacent to their

"Sure!" exclaim the Ameri. We were kept standing around palm of some black official with caused by road surfaces which which the discharge of oil might

about ten there were not enough chaira several pounds of (there are

Maria are not skid-proof. The prob-be prohibited. Unfortunately, no cans

-for an hour and a half before Theresa dollars—pounds avoir- Government adopted the Conven-Americans). lem is one which has long since'

Spears dre used only because dinner began. We all hoped for dupois. tion or took steps to ensure its

Violent protests meet with a been engaging the attention of

adoption. An attempt was then wide city limits,

shooting is forbidden within the strange Abyssinian dishes, but

suffered a severe disappoint- twisted smile and a shrug of the Ministry of Transport, high-made to solve the problem by the

Once out of the shopping area ment. The catering was in the the shoulders: way authorities, and private alternative possible method of in-

"We learned it from the horses are left with a hands of the proprietor of the In every case, says stalling separators on ships. The couple of syces,

The method is Hotel Imperial, of whose food Farangis"; which is Amharic for Redskins. Meaning Euro- the motoring corresponding of a difficulty here has been one of cost. to spot the hyenas by torch- we are all heartily tired.

After two tedious hours we peans. leading London journal, experi-Not only are separators expensive light. There are thousands of menters have been faced with to instal, but Harbour Dues are these fierce scavengers in Addis

Ababa. the same difficulty-that it is an often charged on tonnage space

A pair of burning eyes catch easy matter to put down a road occupied by them. In 1934 the the rays....

British delegate to the League As- which will be absolutely non-skid sembly made another appeal for wise-cracking Canadian from "Look out!" shouts a young, at the end of a year or two, but international agreement on this Toronto, and he hurts his spear.

Concerns.

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APPEAL FOR MODERATION

Plumbers* and Sanitary Engineers' Guild,

SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark

J

but the

(Classical quotation.)

Why should water be poured on

the poor pore every day?

Consider soap. Stand back a bit and have a look at it.

it is quite another matter as to subject, and the question was re- The. eyes disappear with his We are perturbed at a sinister move, moved by the Master whether this same road will beferred to the League's Communica shout. There is a search for mon-skid at the end of twelve.ortions and Transit-Organisation: the unblooded spear.

The association "suggests that the populace of British Empire fifteen years--the normal life This Organisation circularised Gov- Sometimes 1. hyena is span of a healthy road-andernments for their views on the speared and there is a terrible should have a bath a day. whether this virture of skidless-practicability of a

Convention. cal as it tries to free itself from

fight. Its savagery is demonia- With the winter upon us! The replies showed that the opposi- the long spear.

MY ness will be commensurable with

[UCH better to be re-ducoed Plumbers may come and sani- the general durability of the ton to the installation of separa- The Abyssinian syces soon twice a year. It is a well-tary inspectors may go, road at all stages in its life. A

tors on the grounds of expense was kill it. ... They carry it home known fact that we breathe pore we have always with u Government laboratory belong-small hope of agreed solution on a fly-whisk.

still maintained, and that there was for food. The tail they use ns through the pores of the skin, ing to

the Department of these lines. The organisation, in

which open and shut with mono- Scientific and Industrial Re-the Draft Convention which it has Apart from these hunts, tonous regularity. How can the search has been trying to pre-drawn up and sent round to Gor- which Abyssinians generally pore breathe under water?.. cipitate the results of twelve ernments for their observatluns, has years' wear and tear on a road thus gone back to the old Washing- by intensifying normal conditon solution of prohibited zones, tions. One of the ways of doing with a separate Final Act recom- this is to have an automatically-mending the installation of separa- contolled lorry, fully laden, con- tore and the establishment of a tinuously driven round a circular principle that separators should not be reckoned when calculating ton- track at a speed of 45 m.p.h. over |

nage measurements or payment of specially prepared surfaces. A

dues.. The countries ratifying the more lengthy, and less specta-Draft Convention will not be obliged cular, mode of experimenting to take account of the recommenda has been carried out near tions contained in the Final Act, Henley, where twenty longths of but there will be a moral obligation trial surfaces, each an eighth of upon them to do so. In any case, a mile long, have been laid down. the adoption 'even of the Conven- They are all of the. "carpet" tion without the act, will go some varloty-thin surface layers of a way towards eliminating an evil, bituminous character and some which, us the British delegate at of them are as fine as sandpaper, Geneva sald in 1934, ...

"there while some others are of Is no reason why maritime coun- coarse granulation. Every three tries should any longer tolerate". months skidding tests are carri-|~

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ed out on these trial stretches, Hero in Hongkong, various types. and the records carefully com- of road have been laid downl pared. Another experiment has with particular reference to non- been made in Chelsea, where an skid qualities and durability, and example of asphalt surfacing has whilst it may be true that skid- proved skid-proof in all weathers ding has not been totally overa since it was laid down sixteen come, valuable lessons have been months ago. Concroto is being learned. Climatic conditions are used more extensively at Home totally different here from thosp as a road. material, and is obtaining at Home, and account proving most satisfactory from hos naturally to be taken of this the non-skid point of view, while factor. It will be generally con- four years' experience of an coded that Hongkong has tackled iron-surfaced rond in Islington the problem well, with the result has shown that, in a studded that the Colony's roads bear very form, it is akidless, keeps re-favourable comparison with markably clean, and does not ex-motor thoroughfares in any part pand in the heat of summer.: of the world. -

"For the crying out loud! Can't you see this is a brand- new car?!!

We know a man named Albert Fruggle, who got soup in his oye and was only just saved from go- ing blind by a specialist, who re- commended a course of dinners at the Roof Garden of the Grippa willo the Galety Girls were there, Even more tragic was the case of Esteban Smith, who stood up to wash under his knees, slipped on the soap, and broke his neck the tap.

on

(Poor old Esteban....but this is no time for grief.)

We mentioned something about sinjeter movements, carllor in the recitation. Got this into your skuli

Thore's going to be a civil war when the supporters of the Bath a Day movement start wearing badges with the letters "B.A.D. on them.

We foreste politich! unheavale £ho Y=M.CIA: whun, it visudies covered that trusted mombers have gone over to the B.A.D. sec. .tion.

We did not wish to cause alarm, but it seems to us that the bath day suggestion is just the thin and of the wedge, which will lead on to a cold shower.overy morning

We advise caution. Wet tho eyes with one end of, h towel. Ruffle the hair. Come out of the

other bathroom, panting. In words, be with the moderatos.

If you MUST sing. REMEM- BER...sheet music.

You can ging. It in bed.

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