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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1936.

BRITON'S QUEST FOR SHEBA'S MILLIONS Treasure Caves Carpeted with Rubies, Emeralds and Diamonds

Leaves From An Ethiopian 'Note Book

By H. R. Ekins

United Press Staff Correspon dent (Copyright 1936 by United Prass)

Harar, Mar. 23.

I met the most indignant of! Ethiopians when I talked a! length with Dajazmách Masibu, governor of Harar and com. mander-in-chief on the southern

front.

He was mighty sore, for he had; just received reports from

the

Dojazmach Habte Michel, in com- mand at the getuni fighting line,j that Italian airplanes were using gas bombs.

"I suppose that Is Italy's first contribution to the civilisation of Ethiopia," the governar sald after- ire had announced primitive, feudal Ethiopia's first experience with the weapons of modern warfare.

Naalbu is one of Emperor Haite) Selassio's most trusted officials. Tall, dignified, at home in the French language and un able nd- ministrator, he was Ethiopian con- sul general at Asmara, Eritrea, and Mayor of Addis Ababa before' be- coming governer of Harar, the En- peror's own privince.

When I saw him he was, suffer- ing a painful earache His head

was bandaged. He wore a military

tunic, the inevitable white jodhpurs of the Ethiopian gentry and-un-

usual among his countrymen

Nh005.

"Why are you taking molen?” the governor naked after he had told us about the gas bombs,

We explained the deep Interest of the world press in the Italo-| Ethiopian conflict and the interes! in the struggle between mediaeval and modern armaments.

Then he became bilter. His eyes. flushed.

NEW ETHIOPIAN C. IN C.

Han Gabria Marcus has fueroded Rav Det

commanderde elvari

"

the Alyednjan quotheca šimy, Fax Mariam formerly engomuoted the Emperor's personal bodygamed.

First Woman To Cross Africa On Foot

MRS. Mansfield, traveller and

authoress, wife of Lieut- colonel W. R. Mansfield, died at her home in Tulse Hill, S.E. last month after a long illness.

to

She was the first woman' eross Central Africa on foot from the Cape to Cairo.

Bold

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GEMS DROPPED INSTRUGGLE

AN Englishman who holds the secret of the treasure caves

of the Queen of Sheba li awaiting the end of the Abya- sinian war..

He is Mr. Frank E. Hayter, who lives near Hereford. He claims to have visited these caves, which he found carpeted with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds, and to have filled a haversack with the gems.

of

These treasure caves are at present within the Northern fighting aren, but as soon as an; waters must lie the source armistice is signed Mr. Hayter Queen Shebn's treasure." will set forth to claim the jewels.

Much of the valuable information i collected by Mr. Hayter was placed at the disposal of the Foreign Office,

AMPERE

WAR

the

Mr. Hayter says that he was who have been able to make much when hunting big game in Abyssinia more accurate mape of a country French mathematician, Andre-Maric

A century has passed elneo A mining engineer (an which had previously been Englishman) showed him a map known to white men.

un-Aupere, was born, lie

tho 'first to revent which purported

propound the electro-dynamic explored gold country, about 300

theary and on this occasion the state miles west of Addis Ababn. “

of France han published a postage- stamp, shown above.

un-

Mr. Hayter decided to join the engineer in the search. The trek inated almost a year,

Gavorns "Find"

After a series of adventures they found themselves in alght of the Titin Peaks of the mountain of Tulu Wallel.

openings in the face of the cliff.

Here they found a number

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2 P.M.:

A Father

3 P.M.:

Heavyweight Champion

Grandfather Of Heavens

2. p.m. Polico Constablo Cambridge, Mass., Mar. 16.

of Charles Schneider is called into A new heavyweight champion the commissioner's office at of the heavens-weighing 420 Cedar Grove (New Jersey). octillion tons--has just been dia- "At first," he says, "I thought they were natural caves. But, His chief saya: "Congratula-covered by a former pupil of when I drew nearer, I found that tione, Schneider. Nursing home's Prof. Albert Einstein.

The champ la twins-a double they were stone doorways which just phoned to any your wife has had evidently been fashioned by far an hour, father, and take

given you a fino son. Off you go stor, which has been christened men in the distant past.

a "29 Canis Majoris," meaning that peek at 'em."

it's the 29th in the constellation of The next day I went back with With a native escort, she fol one of my boys," who carried a

the great dog. lowed the route planned by Cecliflaring fibre torch. We reached a Schneider returns to duty, pockets in the southern sky, under Sirius 3 p.m.-Police Constable Charles Plainly visible to the naked eye Rhodes, and underwent privations. She has

severe cave through which ran a shallow filled with cigars for distribution V near the constellation Orion, its story

thestream, and this led us into a grotto among of her journey

his colleagues. Those existence has been known to as- stalactites hang.

gravely, then inform him that he only now has Dr. Sergei I. Gaposch- "Suddenly my torch-bearer gave ioner's office.

ie wanted again in the commis kin of Harvard Observatory estab

lished the fact that it is both the a cry. 'Look, effendi!

His chief asks: "Say. Schnei-heaviest and hottest known object "We belleved flussolini was

"Ahead of us were what lock- der, you're having bluffing. Now we know he was

in the Universe. a joy-day. ed like hundreds of angry red aren't you? Your son-in-law rang not. Now we know that he In-

eyes winking back at us in the [up ten It was while she was in South

ninutes tended to do everything he said

ago. Your flickering light of the torch. daughter's presented him with a he would do. He has belittled Africa that she first met Lieut- and humiliated the other nationsried in 1918 on returning to Lon- towards the floor. Immediately a

colonel Mansfield, whom she mar- "I grabbed the torek and swept it off... grandfather ! "

baby girl. Better take the day of Europe and Ethiopia with them.

He was then an engineer in myriad points of light leaped to the diamond mines, and after the life, and I realised that I was atand-second distribution of cigars.

Schneider did, after making wedding they returned to Afriening on a carpet of rubies. and lived at a mine.

Tired of League "We are tired of seeking support abrond." he said. "We delayed de fending ourselves becavac pinned our hopes for peace in thej League of Nations.

we

"Now we know that we must fight nione. Our only hope for salvation lles in our

awn guns, our own courage and our own sacrifice. But look at these reports on gas bombs. They are disheartening,

"If this were not a one-sided war we could win. But the enemy uses weapons we know nothing about. He burla bombs from airplanes fly ing so high we cannot shoot at]

them.

"That, I suppose, is what you call civilisation. We are confront-

ed with an enemy we cannot reach, although every man among us is craving to fight in defence of his

homeland."

Dum-dum Bullets

Governor Nasibu also an- nounced Italian use of dum-dum bullets. But he was not so angry about them as he was about gas bombs, for he knew there were dum-dum bullets in the badoliers of his own soldiers. Unlike most of his followers he hua been abroad. He lived in

France. He knows what his sol- diers hordes of blacks shuffling off to war with stout hearts-must face in resisting conquest by a modernly equipped Italian army.

He la about to leave for the front; to establish field headquarters at Jijiga. The war has disrupted his scheme of things. Until some, other day if he survives-ho must shelve his plans for reform; his efforts to work with the Emperor to change the old and strange cus- toms of Ethiopia and fit the nation for membership in the family of

books and lectures. in many from the ceiling of which great gentlemen accept hin offering tronomers for 2,000 years, But

She was bitten by insects and snakes, and it is believed that the illness from which she had suffer- od for many years was the result of what she went through.

doli.

Handwriting Export

Colonel Mansfield is now well! known-as-a-scientist-and--hand-- writing expert. In his laboratory

"There were hundreds of them, I

i ranging from tiny speeks to stonesį

bigger than peas.

-Fight-For-Life

at Tulse Hill. a few years ago, he "Everywhere were signs that discovered that by using ultra-human hands had bored the honey- violet rays he could photograph comb centuries before. At last writing long after it had, to the turned to retrace my steps, but 1 naked eye, been erased,

was puzzled to find my feet sinking. in soft mud.

On one occasion during her

•

travels In Africa Mrs. Mansfield the sandy edge

"I had to struggle hard to reach!

found her

of the stream, progress barred by wumps caused by heavy rains. I heard a menacing booming sound. where the walking was easier, when In order to continue, she was classed as "mail," and with native

"It was followed by the noise. bearers was sent "by post" across

of rushing waters, and then a the swamps,

huge wave rolled on me from behind.

POPULATION OF U.S.A.

NOW 127,521,000 -

Washington, March. 24. The 1935 population of the United States to-day was officially estimated by the census bureau at 127,521,000.

NO FIRST CLASS

IN LINERS

NORMANDIE AND

QUEEN MARY IN SAME GRADE

He estimates it is:

40,000,000 times as heavy in the earth.

70 times as heavy as the sun. 4,000 times greater in diameter than the earth,

10,000 times na bright as the sun, with a surface temperature of 65,000 degrees fahrenheit.

20,000 light years Capproximately 119 quadrillion miles) distant from the earth.

Paradoxically, discovery of the heaviest of all stars was made through_one.of.the.smallest photo- graphic telescopes used by selen- tista, one equipped with a half inch lens,

Of the eclipsing type, it was this property of the star that enabled | Dr. Gaposchkin to determine ita

ano

an-

He also found the twins playful, revolving about one other, hiding each other at regular intervals of three and one half days The North Atlantic Passenger and shooting off black jets of flam- Conference in Paris has ended in (ing helium.-United Press.

triumph for the Canard-White| Star line.

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Renounces Germany

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Mrs. Mansßeld's last work ab-

"The wave swept on and the

Ships will be grouped in 19 or road vos in 1926 when, with her water receded. Then a second 20 different categories. husband, she toured Northern wave almost swept me off my feet. Queen Mary and the Normandie Spain and carried out researches

"I was in for a fight for life, will be in the first grade. into the history of Columbus. and I had to drop my haversack

A few months ago she began filled with gems. work on her memoirs, but just be- "The end was near, I thought, fore Christmas she was forced to but luckily I was swopt into the

The result of the redistribution outer passage, from where I stag of classes (states Reuter) is that stop owing to her illness.

Considerable material has been gered into the arms of my scared the rich prepared, it is learned, but her boy.

man раув work was far from complete,

less, the tourist class will pay a little more, "Somewhere at the head of those and the third class pays the same, author and winner of the Nobel Those will be the only three prize for literature in 1929, has- clanses in futuro.

renounced his native Germany be Rating of ships as cabin-class cause of Hitler's nazi regime. Instead of first-class has various year-old author wrote to the Fea- A bitter letter which the 60- advantages for the steamship ture section of the Neue Ruercher companies, such as that the port Zeitung has, in the belief of his dues are almost 108. less per friends, broken down his last tic passenger for cabin-class com with the Fatherland. pared with first-class, and that, whereas Arst-class cabins cannot in Germany during the three years His books have remained on sale bo converted there is a certain he and his family have lived at The official count is taken as of the middle of the year--July 1. elasticity about the qabla-class. The governor was rich. But

The leading categories will be: banned now. His wife in a Jewoan, Kuanacht, near Zurich, but may be now, he told me, he has placed all gain of 0.71 per cent, from 1934, ber of deaths in the same period,mandie (France).

The now figuro represented a tration, was 12,420,000. The num- (1) Queen Mary (Britain), Northe former Katja Pringahelm whom of his possessions at the disposal and of 4 per cent from 1930 when likewise allowing for under-regis-

the married in 1905: of the Emperor for the defence of the last actual census was taken. tration, was 7,423,000. The num-tain), Bremen and Europa (Ger: Jews, or the hate of the German

(2) Empresa of Britain (Bri- Ethiopia's 37 centuries of freedom,

"The German hate against the Many other major chiefs in the tinued at this rate until the end during the 54-year period exceed-

"If the increase should be con- ber of persons leaving the country many). country have done likewise,

(3) Manhattan and Washington against the Jews or at least not dictators is in reality not. directed Governor Naribu has one of the of the decade," the bureau said,ed the number coming in by 251,- (US)

(4) Britannic

against them alone," wrote the few modernly trained, equipped and "the nation's population in 1940 000.

Georgic (Bri-author of the "Buddenbrooks,' disciplined military units in the would be around 132,000,000.”

Subtracting the number

of Lafa), Champlain, Lafayette "The Young People", and a dozen- country.

Indicative, however, of a slow deaths and the net omigration from (France), Hie Galla rifles, recruited from Ing up in the nation's population crease of 4,746,000 between the classification ships of the United tellectual and moral nature of the

the number of births gives an in- It is understood that in the now!

jother widely read books. among Gaila tribesmen who were growth was the part that the 1930 census data and July 1, 1936. States lines will come about the Europe of to-day and against any "It is directed against the in- conquered by the late Emperor average annual Increase sinco Menelik many years ago, are ual- 1930 was 104,000, "which is only as of April, 1990, was 122,046.

The population, taken by count middle of the scale.

noble sentimonts of the Germans. formed, have machine gune, moun- a little more than one half of the Estimated population in the follow-arrangement should

It is considered that the now It has become more and more clear tain guns, and crack now Mausers, 1920-1930 average of 1,865,000." Ing years, as of July 1, was: 124, travel without the steamship com la directed against the Christian- encourage that the hate of the nationalism They are a dashing, courageous The rate of gain in 1935 was the 110.000 in 1931, 124,974,000 in pantes suffering losses through antique base of the occidental force. The Galla rifles were or highest since 1981 when the pam-1932; 125,770,000 in 1933: 126,-the abolition of the first class. ganised to be the governor's bodylation that year gained 0.83 per 620,000 in 1934, and 127,621,000, in

world. It attempts to shake off all guard. Now they have been sent cont, over 1980, 1986. The burenu said it hoped talls on the point are given in the

It is understood, though no de-obligations of civilization. off to fight in the front lines along with the feudal; LaviceUnited 1,1930, and July 1, 1986; includ- and the larger cities may be issued lowing all-round fare increases sant Garman autocracy has made.

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"The conviction that nothing Preps..

ing an allowance for under-regis-within the next few months: bave been agroed op ::

my keep away from my country.!!

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