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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1936,

BRITISH RULES FOR SAFETY

Shorter Hours; Stricter Surveys

GLAMOUR

OF FIRST NIGHTS

EVEN TRAGEDY CANNOT STOP PERFORMANCE

A

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

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

Sir Thomas had promised to conduct the new work, Mins Rosina Backman was cast for the title. role, and the big theatre was crowded from floor to roof.

Sensation No. I was a wire from Sir Thomas saying he could not appear. Then shock.

came £

greater

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

A desperate position developed. Out in front some three thousand people ABL walting. Behind the scones the prima donna, upon whom everything depended, lay prostrate with grief.

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

On her frst stage entrance the sympathetic murmurings of the audienco were husked to a tense silence? Would she get through?

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

Gradually the tremers cuased And the glorious notes flowed stronger and clearer. It was a grim battle between the artist and crue! circumstance. The artial won.

Right to the end she carried her exacting role. Then the Vast audience rose en masse and shouted Thunderous approval · of Rosinu Buckman-herofne!-H.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 as a private in- dividual to enter Westminster A- boy 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 came direct- ly under the King, who had full Jurisdiction.

The magistrate upheld the night of the authorities to excludo Colej or any one they likod, but dismiss ed the obstruction case, Cole gave notice of appeal.

The summonses against two policemen were dismissed with

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.

AT SEA Of Ships

DESSYE SEEN AS ETHIOPIAN ARMAGEDDON

Mountain Town

Marked

For Last Stand It 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 seamen.

Changes in the manning regulations,

The definition of what is on "eficient deckhand."

More stringent rules regarding the use of the "rod-and-chain" type of steering gear in ships over a certain tonnage.

Stricter surveys of shijia by the classification societies (rück 28 Lloyd's).

Inquiries conducted by Lord Merrivale into losses at sea led

ital when the Emperor arrived.

Natives think the ultimate de- fenoe of Ethiopia will be fought No one remotely near here. dreams the Italians could advance this far but if they do, the last- ditch fight will be just north of here.

the Board of Trade to set up committees which are now investigat-mountain surrounded by moun ing the problems.

Their reports will be received by

This definition has been the sub- Mr. Runciman in a few days' time, ject of many controversies.

The Merchant Shipping Advisory At present it la possible for any Committee met last Friday to dia-one who has been to sea for twelve months to be called "an eficient cuss its draft report.

deckhand."

It is understood that it was The committee is to advise that then announced that a decision the term should be applied only to had been reached regarding the seamen who have been three years term "efficient deckhand."

on the deck.

This dramatic photograph of survivors of the British steamer, Silverhazel, wrecked off Luzon was taken from U.S.S. Peary just be for the weary sennien wero taken aboard.

Ras Gugsa Still Works For Italy

Asmara, Jan. 28. Reports that Ras Gugia, the Emperor of Abyssinia's son-in-law, who, submitted to the Italians in October, had either been executed or impri- Honed because of treachery to the Italians, are emphatically denied by Italian military headquarters.

Ras Gugan, it is announced, is, at present playing the minor role of keeping the natives in the occupied terri- 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.

Dessye Is built upon a high

tains. In the early warring days a village's saftey depended upon Its, height and the ability of ita guardians to see the enemy while far. No one could approach Dessye unseen, and the Low trails leading to it could be blocked so easily as to make conquest well- nigh impossible.

Location Is Strategic

even

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

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

nsleep.

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 ace covered with tents. ́ Men spend their time talking, riding Bleck mules, dashing madly on wild harsas lances raised for combat. Women do the work and children (spend their time gasping at the

foreigners.

|PRIEST AT A wonders of the city and looking at

PARIS DUEL

One Man Wounded: Unknown Antagonist

Paris, Jan. 28.

Guards On Alert

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

in any direction. Guards are

waya on duty,

These will pass on, but daily

M. 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

Stories of war's suffering `al- priest stood by in case there were ready are scoping through to need of absolution

Dessye Men, women and children go to war. The Parc des Princes, tradi-There is no

No age is exempt. commissariat, often tional dueling ground of Paris, thero 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 place, children have been left to starve, the two men standing on the mark-along the roadside,

others arrive in one long caravan to take their places. From moun- taln; plain and desert, all trails lead to Dessye, and here they come, all hoping to see the Emperor be- |fore going into battle.

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 woman, cloaked in furs, walked up and down, When anyone approached her she covered her face.

Others have been taken sick and are left to die. There are relatives at home who do care and would help but they are far away.

An. épidemic of, smallpox has broken out in the army. There is Red Cross,, but it isn't function. ing in the north. Wounded are left to recover or dis 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 dressed in black, were seer to crazed by, pain and almost dend enter the park from opposite from suffering, their wounds in

fecbod.

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

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

entrances.

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Two Exchanger The duel was conducted by the

was despatched post-haste across famous duel maetor, Jean Joseph the street, which happens to bo Renaud. Bourke Stroot, and searched systematically among the crowd.

But most terrifying of all is the.. story of the 45 Mammassans who desorted Italy's colours to join the Ethiopians. They crossed to the Ethiopian Hnes with guns and ammunition and expected to find friends. Instead they met Dejaz Haile Selassie Gugsha and his re- bellious Wajorat who then were on the point of desorting to the Italians. They attacked the 45 with 600 men, took their weapons to be returned to the Italians, kill- ed soven, and broke banes, crippled and mutilated the rest, according to stories hore,

Tho arrangement was that there He found the right Lady in should be two exchanges of shots; Black and exactly at 4.13 p.m. but only one of these was fired, for handed her the wire. Sho read in the first exchange a bullet hit It hurriedly. Then with a fol. Dourdain in the hip, glance at the rings in the jeweller's:

The survivors managed to reach window she walked dejectedly It was quite Impossible to do

anything on the apot to extract the Dessyo hospital, and duly away, DM,

But, the Post Office, says Austral the bullet, which was deeply im received treatment, but were told News, had unquestionably dong its bedded, and the wounded duellist that they would be crippled for

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