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Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, JAN. 13, 1930.

They are waiting to

This article was sent by mail from London War Correspondent, O. D. Gallagher, just before he left for Dessye, aub- sequently bombed.

be bombed

station is

never

Addis

We have opened the sluice gates for a golden flood' into the THE

THEY have the feeling in Emperor's coffers his radio

silent. Al- Ababa, Addis Ababa that it though no messages will be ac- can't go on much longer. cepted after 7 p.m. the transmit-

One of these days a fleet of ters 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

town,

inhabitants to escape before the news have been ticked out of stands still

bombs begin to drop.

Addis Ababa's year-old radio

Not that there is much to station in the last two months, and nobody

cares.

rose, and an ancient portable gramophone

was produced. Dancing began. Our partners were Belatengeta Heroûy's two. supple daughters, the wife of Ato Lourenzo Tezar, director of the Press Bureau, and four- other Abyssinian women.

Fifty-three journalists be- came wall-flowers.

"Grand Hotel" has just come to Addis Ababa. Special pamphlets have been sent to all journalists announcing this coup of local cinema manage-

described ment. It is.

Triomphe de l'Ecran," just as it was a triumph of the screen at home.

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bomb in the rambling, ram- And the average cost of each shackle capital' that looks like a of these words that make news. mushroom town belonging to is one Maria Theresa dollar, or, the Wild West of the old silent at the present rate, 1s. 6d. That consider quite crazy, the jour- me these two sophisticated stars

le double the cost of messages-nalists play poker, entertain have developed

፡፡

We had that old Crawford- Gable classic here a few weeks ago, "Possessed." And believe

A new talent.

Abyssinian officials to dinner, They speak French like and talk about previous stories. Parisians. Work out the Emperor's pro- Collectively, they are about as Most of us had a good laugh widely travelled a bunch of men over another film, "The World capital would have become giving him money for arms.

Addis Ababa's three guas you could select. China, and the Flesh." Do you remem

Japan, Alaska, Greenland, ber it? Wallace Beery was the

goods

then

Ababa.

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ten

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It is like a glorified suburban

After two tedious hours we peans,

films.

reversa direction, So far, however, the capital sent the has been invaded only by four- London to Addis Ababa, nalists. Sixty of them..

Without them Abyssinia's fits for yourself. News

Rd.bankrupt, for, all business with

the outside world had ceased, smiths are doing record bui We have opened shuttered ness with the journalists. The Europe, America North and simple old professional wrestler. shops, bought

which colony of white-skinned scribes South, and Central Africa: What did we laugh at? Why 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 violence

"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.

And so are the spear-makers. "Sino-Japanese war! Why sitting room. There are rows of NOTES OF THE DAY Welder members of the pr of even Turkey has nothing on this chintz-covered easy chairs, and

With the exception

place I"

That's the burden of liberal aspidistra decorations. colony, every man has two or

the comments. OIL NUISANCE

three double-pronged

Directly opposite Mon-Cine is spears There is little social life put- Chez Gleyze, where 16 mm.. with eight-foot shafts. Not so side the Press colony.

The films are Another important step forward fantastic as it seems; they are various foreign legations are too is the Empire. The last screen Acreened. The third has been taken in the long struggle used for Addis Ababa's only out- busy to entertain, they seo acoop there was "Tarzan." of the League of Nations to abate door sport-hyena hunting. enough of the journalists dur- News reels hore aro stalo; NON-SKID ROADS the evil of the pollution of the sea

ing the day, anyway. by oil waste, The question was These hunts are arranged on

they vary in age from three to Recently the Minister of six months. Their great fault The fact that an increase in taken up as long ago as 1926, at the spur of the moment, when

Affairs, Belatengéta is that torrential rain appears the number of road deaths at a Conference of the main maritime things are quiet. It usually Foreign Home recently coincided with a powers, which catablished a general happens at dinner in the Hotel Herouy, invited us all to a ban- to be falling all the time, due prolonged spell of wet weather principle that Governments becom-Imperial, where most of the quet in his home. It was the to severely scratched flims.

dullest evening I have ever ex- The curse of Addis Ababa is journalists are living. 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-

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

within lian journalist.

"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

there were not enough chairs soveral

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

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

Spears are used only because dinner began. We all hoped for dupois, been engaging the attention of tion or took steps to ensure its

shooting is forbidden within the strange Abyssinian dishes, but Violent protests meet with a wide city limits.

suffered à severe disappoint- twisted smile and a shrug of the Ministry of Transport, high-doption. An attempt was

mado 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 hands of the proprietor of the our horses are left with a concerns. In every case, says stalling separatora 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. leading London journal, experi-Not only are separators, expensive light. There are thousands of Imenters have been faced with to Inatal, but Harbour Dues are these fierce scavengers in Addis

the same difficulty-that it is an often charged on tonnage space easy matter to put down a road occupied by them. In 1934 the which will be absolutely non-skid British delegate to the League AB

"Look out!" shouts a young, at the end of a year or two, but embly made another appent for wise-cracking Canadian from

International agreement on this Toronto, and he hurls his spear. WE are perturbed at a sinister move, moved by the 'Master it is quite another matter as to

subject, and the question was re- The eyes disappear with his whether this same road will be ferred to the League's Communica-ghout. There is a search for non-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 GovSometimes a hyena is span of a healthy road-anderaments for their views on the speared and there is a terrible should have a bath a day.. whether this virture of skidless practienbility

fight. Its savagery is demonia- Convention.

With the winter upon, unl cal as it tries to free itself from ness will be commensurable with The replies showed that the opposi- the long spear.

MUCH better to be re-ducoed. Plumbers may come and san! the general durability of the tion to the installation of sopara- The Abyssinian syces soon

twice a year. It is a well-tary inspectors may go,

have always with us. road at all stages in its life. Ators on the grounds of expense was kill it... They carry it home known fact that we breathe pore we

|(Classical quotation.) Government laboratory belong-still maintained, and that there was for food. The tail they use as through the pores, of the skin,

small hope of agreed solution on a fly-whisk.

Why should water be poured on ing to the Department of

which open and shat with mono- these lines. The organisation, in Scientific and Industrial Re-the Draft Convention which it has Apart from these

tonous regularity. How can the the poor pore every day? 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 ornments for their observations, has years" wear and tear on a road thus gone back to the old Washing- by intensifying normal condi- ton solution of prohibited zones, tions. One of the ways of doing with a separate Final Act recom- this is to have an automatically-Įmending the installation of soparà- contolled lorry, fully laden, con- tors and the establishment of a tinuously driven round a circular principle that separators should not track at a speed of 45 m.p.h. over be reckoned when calculating ton- specially prepared surfaces. Aage measurements or payment-of more lengthy, and less specta-dues. The countries ratifying the cular, mode of experimenting to take account of the recommenda Draft Convention will not be obliged

has been carried out near.

tions contained in the Final Act, Henley, where twenty lengths 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 aven of the Conven- They are all of the "carpet" tion without the act, will go some variety-thin surface layers of a way towards eliminating an evil, bituminous character-and some which, as the British delegato at "there of them are as fine as sandpaper, Geneva sald in 1984, .. while some others are of a is no reason why-maritime couin- coarse granulation. Every three trics should any longer tolerate". months skidding tests are carri-

of

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ed out on these trial stretches, Here in Hongkong, various types and the records carefully com- of road: have been laid down, pared. Another experiment has with particular reference to non- been made in Chelsea, where an akid 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 over- since it was laid down sixteen como, valuable lessons have been months ago. Concrete is being learned. Climatic conditions are used more extensively at Home totally different here from those as a rond material, and 15 obtaining at Home, and account proving most satisfactory from has naturally to be taken of this the non-skid point of view, while factor. It will be generally con- four years experience of an ceded that Hongkong has tackled fron-surfaced road in Isllugton the problem well, with the result has shown that, in a studded that the Colony's roads bear very form, it is skidless, keeps, re favourable comparison with markably clean, and does not ex- motor thoroughfares in any part pand in the heat of summe

Bummer.the world.

A pair of burning eyes catch the rays.

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hunts,

APPEAL FOR MODERATION

Plumbers' and Sanitary Engineers' Guild.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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

new car i

but the

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

We know a man named Albert. Fruggle, who got soap in his eye. 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 Gripps while the Galety Girls were there. Even more tragic was the case of Esteban Smith, who stood up to waah under his knees, slipped on the soap, and broke his, nocic, on the tap.

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

We mentioned something about sinister movements, earlier in the recitation. Get this into your skull:

There's going to be a civil war when the supporters of the Bath

a Day movement start wearing badges with the lettere: 'BA.D.” on them.

Wo foresee political unheavals at the Y.M.C.A.' when it is dis covered that trusted members have gone over to the B.A.D. sec tion.

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

':

We advise caution.

the.

oyes with one end of h towel.: Rufle the hair. Come out of the bathroom, panting. In other

"be"with the moderates, i

words, best ins

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

You can sing it in bed.