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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1936.

BRITISH

Shorter

GLAMOUR

OF FIRST NIGHTS

EVEN TRAGEDY CANNOT STOP PERFORMANCE

AL

LL first nights are glamorous; when sen- sation is added they be- come memorable.

I recall the premiere of Isidore da Lara's opera "Nall," by the Beecham Opera Company, at Manchester Opera House on a February evening in 1920.

Sir Thomas had promised to conduct the now work, Miss Rosina Duckman was cast for the title- role, and the big theatre crowded from floor to roof.

Wak

Sonsation No. 1 was a wire from Sir Thomas saying he could not appear. Then

greater abock.

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When Miss Buckman arrived, smiling and radiant, I saw the stage doorkeeper hand her a cable. It was a message of tragedy, Her mother had died suddenly.

A desperato position developed. Out in front some three thousand people sat waiting. Behind the scenes the prima donna, upon whom everything depended, lay prostrate with grief.

Realising the sterlousness of it all, Miss Buckman nerved herself for a supreme effort.

On her first stage, entrance the sympathetic murmurings of the audience were hushed to a tense silence? Would she get through?

Falal tremors in her opening number told of the strain-the terrible heart-ache behind the stage smile.

Gradually the tremors coaned and the glorieus notes flowed stranger and clearer. It was Д grim battle between the artist and cruel circumstance. The artist Won,

Right to the end she carried her exacting role, Then the Vast audience roso en masse and shouted thunderous approval of Rosinn Buckman-heroinel-II.C.L.

SIXTY BARRED

PEOPLE

WHO CANNOT VISIT HOUSES

OF PARLIAMENT

Nearly sixty people are barred from the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

This was revealed at Bow-street: Police Court recently, when Henry Cole, a guide, was summoned for obstruction.

Cole, who said that he wanted to defend his rights na a private in- dividual to enter Westminster Ab .bey or the House of Commons to

see his M.P.. summoned four) policemen for assault.

An official of the Abbey said that; under a statute of Queen Elizabeth, the Abbey camo direct- ly under the King, who had full Jurisdiction.

The magistralipheld the right. of the authorities to exclude Cole or any one they liked, but dismiss- od the obstruction case. Colo gave notice of appeal,

The summonses against two dismissed with policemen were

RULES FOR SAFETY AT SEA Hours; Stricter Surveys Of Ships

Hours;

AN "EFFICIENT DECKHAND"

MUST BE THREE YEARS AT SEA

INSTEAD OF ONE

MR RUNCIMAN, President of the Board of

Trade, will shortly announce in Parliament important new regulations governing safety at sea and the working conditions of seamen.

DESSYE SEEN AS ETHIOPIAN |ARMAGEDDON

Mountain Town Marked For Last Stand If Italians Advance

Dessye, Jan. 25.

The placid town of Dessye has [overnight become one of the most important cities of Ethiopia and

The Sunday Express is able to reveal that the suddenly found itself acting cap.

new regulations will provide:

Shorter hours for scamen.

Changes in the manning regulations,

The definition of what is an "eficient deckhand"

More stringent rules regarding the use of the "rod-and-chain"

type of steering gear in alips over a certain tonnage.

Stricter surveys of ships by the classification societies' (such as Lloyd's).

The Merchant Shipping Advisory

Their reports will be received by Mr. Runciman in a few days' time.ject of many controversies.

At present it is possible for any Committee met last Friday to dis-jone who has been to sea for twelve cuas its draft report,

months to be deckhand."

ital when the Emperor arrived.

Natives think the ultimate de- fence of Ethiopla will be fought

No noar here.

remotely dreams the Italians could advance

one

this for but if they do, the last-

ditch fight will be just north of

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here.

Dessye is built upon a

high

Inquiries conducted by Lord Merrivale into losses at sea led the Board of Trade to set up committees which are now investigat-mountain surrounded by moun- ing the problems.

This definition has been the sub-tains. In the early warring days a village's saftey depended upon its height and the ability of its guardians to see the enemy while one could approach Dessye unseen, and the few trails leading to it could be blocked so eastly as to make conquest well- nigh impossible.

It is understood that it was

then announced that a decision had been reached regarding the term "elcient deckhand,"

called "an efficient

The committee is to advise that the term should be applied only to seamen who have been three years on the deck.

This dramatic pholograph of survivors of the British steamer. Silvorhazel, wrecked off Luzon was taken from U.S.S. Peary just be- "ford the weary scamion "wero" taken aboard.

Ras Gugsa Still Works For Italy

Asmara, Jan. 28.

Reports that Ras Guga, the Emperor of Abyssinia's son-in-law, who submitted to the Italians in October, had either been executed or impri- soned because of treachery to

the Italians, are emphatically denied by Italian military headquarters.

Ras Gugsa, it is announced, Is at present playing the minor role of keeping the natives in the occupied terr)- tory moving,

He is always accompanied by his bodyguard and extra precautions have been taken to protect him because of the price the Abyssinians have put on his head.

PRIEST AT A PARIS DUEL

M

One Man Wounded: Unknown Antagonist

Paris, Jan. 28. JACQUES DOURDAIN, aged 26, who is well known in Parisian Society, was severely wounded in a duel in the Parc des Princes this morning, while a priest stood by in case there were need of absolution.

afar. No

Location Is Strategic

. The town seemingly could not be conquered by planes, for even though bombed the wooded moun- tain offers abundant shelter. It is difficult to see how heavy guns could be brought over the moun- tains to bear upon it. If taken, Infantry must do it. atrategists say,

It might be a Quebec again, but It is more probable that its wary guardians wouldn't be caught asleep.

The soldiers somehow have pro- cured tents, and those who have none make them from any cloth, hay, straw, reeds, matting or what- ever is available. They are pitched Irregularly but the infinite variety of their design and colour gives a picturesque touch to the whole.

The meadows all around Dessye are covered with tents. Men spend their time talking, riding sleek wild mules, dnshing madly on horses-lances raised for combat." Women do the work and children spend their time gasping at the wonders of the city and looking at foreigners.

Guards On Alort

At night the plains are alight with the "watchfires of a hundred oncircling camps." From Dessye mountain fires can be seen for miles

in any direction. Guards are

ways on duty.

al-

These will pass on, but daily others arrive in one long caravan to take their places. From moun- tain, plain and desert, all trails lead to Dessye, and here they come, all hoping to see the Emperor be- fore going into battle.

Stories of war's suffering al- rendy are sooping through to Dessye. Men, women and children The Parc des Princes, tradi-Ho to war. No age is exempt. There is no commissariat, often tional duelling ground of Paris, there is a struggle for food, and contains a football ground, and it the weak lose out, Old folks and was here that the duel took placo, children have been left to starvo the two men standing on the mark along the roadside,

costs, and the case against the BROKEN ROMANCE?ings of the pitch. The name of

other two policemen was adjourn-

ed.

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But Post Office Made) No Mistake

M. Dourdain's adversary is being kept secret.

-

" Outside the park a mysterious,

Others have been taken sick and are left to die. There are rolatives at home who do care and would help but they are far away. woman, cloaked in furs, walked broken out in the army. There is An epidemic of smallpox has

up and down.

When anyonen Red Cross, but it isn't function-

; approached her she covered her ny in the north, Wounded are

face,

left to recover or dia as it may be. Some have made the ten-day trip Eight men in two parties of four, to Dessye in 20 days and entered dreased in black, were seen to crazed by pain and almost dead enter the park from opposite from suffering, their wounds In-

fected.

At 4 o'clock in the after- noon a week or two ago, a young man hurried into a suburban post office at Mel. bourne and handed in a wire! At 4.11 p.m. a telegraph clork nt the general post office scratched his head over it. It was addressed to, "A Lady in Black Waiting Out- side So-and-So's (A well-known being addressed as "Colonel." jeweller's shop), Bourke Street, Melbourne.

The clerk consulted his depart- mental manager. A telegraph boy

entrances..

One witness WAB overheard

Two Exchangos The duel was conducted by the

was despatched post-haste across famous duel master, Jean Joseph the street, which happens to be Renaud.·** Bourke Strect, and soarchod systematically among the crowd.

But most terrifying of all is tho story of the 45 Mammassans who deserted Italy's colours to join the Ethiopians. They crossed to tho Ethiopian lines with guns and ammunition and expected to find friends. Instead they met Dejaz Halle Selassie Gugahn and his re- bollious Wajerat who then wore on the point of deserting to tho

Italians. They attacked the 45 with 500 meu, took their weapons to be returned to the Italians, kill- ed savon, and broke bones, crippled and mutilated the rost, according to stories here,

The arrangement was that there He found the right Lady in should be two exchanges of shots; Black and exactly at 4.18 p.m. but only one of these was fired, for handed her the wire. She read in the firet exchange a bullet hit it hurriedly. Then with a final M. Dourdain in, the hip. glance at the rings in the jeweller's window she walked dejectedly It was quite impossible to do The survivors managed to reach away. O

anything, on the spot to extract the Dessyo hospital, and duly But the Post Office, says Austral the bullet, which was deeply im received treatment, but wore told. News, had unquestionably done its bodded, and the wounded ducilist that they would be crippled for ÷Ingonious`mmárt job..

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