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TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22,
1936.
"I SHALL NEVER
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ABDICATE' THE NEGUS.
"WOULD BE
COWARDICE"
By Geoffrey Harmsworth
THERE is no question whatsoever of my relinquish
ing the Crown of Abyssinia, either now or at any future date: To abdicate would be an act of cowar- dice towards my native land and the gallant people who, whatever the Italians may say, are still loyal and faith- ful to their rightful Emperor."
In these words, spoken in Amharic (the principal Inngunge of Abyssinin] and translated by an interpreter into French, the attitude Negus summed up to me at a private audience his towards the present Italo-Abyssinian situation.
It was the eve of the lifting of sanctions, and to my question, "What would your Majesty's attitude be in the event of the British Government repudiating sanctions?" the Negus replied:
THEY BUZZED-
1. PHONES 2.-BEES
3.-OPERATORS
A swarm of been outside
the
telephone exchange in West Indla
Dock Rond, London. E. cleared the pavement of pedestrians and pre- vented the girl operators leaving the exchange.
Officers from Limehouse palico station were sent and hantires were lit, but the bees did not move, Finally, Police-Sergeant Mackenzie nrrived with a cardboard box, picked up the bees in handfuls, placed them in the box and took them to the police station.
They were placed in a cell be- fore being taken to the Zoo.
"It would not be fitting or proper for me to criticise the polley MURDERER'S
of your Government, any more than I should expect a stranger In
my own land to criticise the polley of my Government.
"If the League members decided to abandon the sanctions policy may mena the fall of Geneva. 1 hesi that the present tension in Europe would then became very much more serious.
*The policy of rullective security is only capable of bringing a lasting pence
if it is honestly applied by all members of the League,
the
"Any modification of the Covenant without a prior settlement of this pre- sent contlet is destined to failure from the outset, for it would merely be an attempt to evenge the dehuste respons
ibilities Revolving at the members;
of the Lengu.”
In aecuritater with the usund ens tamus, before seeing the Negus, I had) submitted a questionnaire the pre- vinus evening to Ata Lorenzo Tazaz, one of his clasest, advisers,
CHANGED DAYS
Shortly after his attival in Lo- don the Segus sammanned ae to his house in Prinechiarate, and expressed | his appreciation of the manner in: which I had stated the Abyssinian east in my recent look, "Abyssinian: Adventure!
It was our first meeting since I had spent a week as the Negus's guest atj Harar, a tle more than a year] ago. There had then been dinner pârties, reviews, religious festivals,
$ pleasant orcasions when I had talked about happier subjects than the coming war.
In those days Haile Solusie had uh. shakeable faith in Brain and the League of Nations
There were some with whom I talked, however, whe believe that it would be wiser to arm as quickly as
possible
When I was summoned to hear the Negus'o reply tu my questionnair. 1 found him quiet, preoccupied, and the strain of the last row"
w months apparent in his manner and appear- aner than at our first meeting.
who was
TOTT
There was nothing bitter a or resent- ful in his attitude, although there is no one more entitled to be bitter and rewolful to-day than Haile Selassie,
It was Haly
responsible ! for Abyssinia joining the League of Nations. 11 Great Britain who the Negs to place his faith in Geneva and to continue his resistance when some part of his country might still have been saved to him.
ured
WHS
I asked the Emperor if it whe trus that Tas Kasen and Ras Segum, two of his principal generals, had failed to carry int his commands and work in unison on the northern front,
Haile Selassie replied that both had worked together on the most friendly basis, and that the states ments were not correct that Hay Seya hai submitted to the Italians.
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parents, walked police headquarters here inte last night and calmly invited the ser- geant in charge to Accompany him to a flat in a fashionable sec- tion of the town where, he said, he had murdered a young woman named Blanch Cousins.
Since I was 14." he said. "I have hated women and have done everything in my power to injure them,
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A pergeant necompanied him to
Mrs. Pamela Brickson, wife of the the flat and discovered the nut
the Finnish harque body of the girl under a tousled "Herzogin Cecille" whies was wrecked array of blankets and pillows. She on the rocks off Cornwall, helped with had been strangled with one of her the salvage work on board. The silk stockings. picture shows Mes, Erickson busy in the rigging during salvage operations,
THE KING'S DISCRETION
London July 15.
A Second Lieutenant. Peter Cedric Gunter, of the Royal Tank Corps depot, has reason to be thankful for the right of the King to exercise his power of intervention after the finding of his court martial last week.
Mr. Gunter was convicted by courti martin of behaving in a seandalous manner giving cheques, knowar he had not reasonable, nestunde tu suppose They would be hunianerd.
"I WANT TO BE HANGED"
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"It was all the result," Walker said, of a lot of pent-up emotions, which Just broke loose. Though I am not Insane beenme terribly mad with her and lost my head."
He described how he met the girl
RA.F. plane crushes) recently on foredeck of great French liner Nurman- dir, nnchored off Ryde. Front wing hit tall derrick unloading a motor- ent: npped it. Där fell on deck-rails, half overboard, Plane, meantime, K. And crashed, ripping anderenrriage to pieces. Pilot-Lieutenant ( Horsey, R.N.--was shaken; unhurt. Normundle proveedel to Havre, bom- Ber still on bows like ginnt dragon-fly.
Countess's £5 For Slander: "Peace From
Poison
Tongues"
By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Bristol, July 15.
POISON tongues which, in his own words, "made life nothing short of heil," were denounced by Count von Ostheim, son of the late Prince William of Saxe-Weimar, when he talked to me to-night after an Assize jury here had returned a verdict for his wife in a remarkable slan- der suit.
The countess, who was formerly Miss Isobel Neilson and is a daughter of Mr. Francis Neilson, former MP. for Hyde (Cheshire), was awarded £5 damages against Mrs. Cecily Edith Pinker, wife of her head gardener, who was alleged to have implied that the adopted son of the countess's mother was in reality the countess's illegitimate child.
I spoke with Count von Ostheim, who lives at Rudloc Park. fortnight ago after deserting his Box, near here, a few moments after he had heard the words of wife, whom he had only recently the foreman of the jury which meant the lifting of a shadow
married in New York.
Miss Cousins, he said, had been from the lives of his wife and himself.
a mire in Idaho, and was travelling to San Francisco to attend a business college.
"I went to her dat for dinner on
Tuesday night," he said. "We sat on Longest Cable
a couch and started petting.
"I made violent love to her, but she repulsed me: so I started to chake her with my hands. "just choked her until there was She was in slacks and resistance,
wenter. I disrobed her and at- tacked her. I don't know whether she was still aliva or not; bat to Jamke, sure she was deind I knotted a
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San Remo, July 15.
The King confond the fading, stocking around her neck and tied it What Italians claim to be the but instead of the young man being to a bedpost." cashier. the sentence was rommateri
vice.
Walker wandered all the next day to one, of being "dismissed the Ser-through the streets of San Francisco Finally, he said. "I decided to give myself up because I want En be Gunter, who was a Rugger, blue, hanged-to get it oker with." said in his defence that he was i "stupid and foolish" with regard ta! his banking account.
longest suspended cable railway in the world is scheduled for inauguration here Oct. 28th.
The railway will carry tourists" to dizzy heights overlooking the Gulf of Olives and the Village of
"The countess has been made too
ill by the knowledge that poison tongues were at work against us, even to face the short ordeal of coming to court," he said.
"She will be as happy as 1 when she knows how we have surveeded in stopping the slander and mischief and in clearing our good name. It will be a wonderful tonle for her."
"We did not bring the netion for for money. The amount awarded dainages was of no importance; we wanted the verdict--and peace,
"We were thinking, too, of the little boy, Raymond. He is only six years old, and, of course, has known nothing of what has been said.
"But such statements would have damaged his future irretrievably if
British Officer Killed In St. Romulus. It will extend for they had been allowed to continue." I understand that while the case more than seven and one half was being heard the countess, who FIRST LINE OF
Indian Bus Accident kilometres from San Remo to the is some years younger than her mid- was resting, in According dle-aged husband," top of Mt. Bignone. DEFENCE IN WAR
Lucknow, July 1.
to Italians no existing railroad private rooms at an hotel here. Lieutenant, R. J. B. Kelly, of the of this type now exceeds five
In the course of to-day's slander 'WILL BE POLICE 1/9th Fat Regiment, who
action, Mr. Robert Fortune, for the was kilometres. seriously Injured in a motor ac-
countess, said that soon after she and Dorchester, July 15. Police forces will be the first line
cident here yesterday, died this
her husband went to live at Rodloe Park there was trouble with the ser af defence in my future war, declar-morning in hospital. ed Major L. W. Peelyates, Chief' Lieutenant Kelly was stationed
vants, and an atmosphere of hostility Constable of Dorset, t a lunchon at Lucknow.
and contempt was noticeable.
Eventually, a pr
a private detective, Mr. before the Dorset Police. Sports at Dorchester to-day.
from Arthur Fry was engaged, and in Octo ber 1935 he had a conversation with
His home address is "Stroud," Freshwater, Isle of Wight.
He added: "Police are becoming He was travelling in a bus when the fighting forces of the country."it overturned.--Renter.
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KING'S MARRIAGE “RISK”.
LLOYD'S underwriters, following instructions giren ufter the disclosure of the Budget leak insurances, are carefully scru- tinising every application for speculative insurance.
Brokers have been unable to obtain insurance rates against the possibility of the King marrying before his Coronation next, Maj. The underwriters require proof that the insurances are genuine and not spcendations before quoting premiums. ·
Pottery and other manufacturers are now beginning to make thousands of Coronation souvenirs. Two portraits instead of one will be necessary should the King marry before the Corona- tion,
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Numbers of them kavejusked Lloyd's for their insurance rate, This is not being given until proof is furnished of the actual losses of material and work that would be incurred if the King marrics.
Three terminals are included in the Fun, one of which will be located at height of 1.200 metres. The cable system will be supported by 10 steel towers constructed on three moun-
dns. Their height soven to 35 metres.
runges
In announcing Imminent Inaugura- Mrs. Pinker, saying he thought of tak- tion of the line, sponsors of the pro-ing employment with the count and jeet pointed out that it represents, a countess.
Mr. Foriane sait that during the significant industrial victory for Italy;
conversation Mra, Tinker said: "They since construction was carried out have a boy. It is supposed to be entirely with materials and machinery fabricated in the fatherland at a time adopted, but it is hers. She is fond wen sanctions were in full effect of a gay life, and often leaves the eld
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London for a pay time.
Mrn. Pinker, in evidence, denied shy had said anything detrimental to the countess. The claim against her hus hand, Mr. Frederick Pinker, who was also sued, was struck out at the end
Thaelmann Gives
Evidence In Prison of the countess's case.
Berlin, July 12.
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Ernst Thuelmann, Gerinin Com Haile Selassie munist leader; who has been in prison since March 1933, was heard to-day as a witness in con nection with the trial at Hamburg of Edgar Andre, a local Com- munist lender. A judge question- ed Thaelmann in hila prison, and
Going To Scotland
Haile Selassie is going to Scot- land "for rest and fresh air."
Said an official at the Ethiopian
the report of this examination was Legation: "The Emperor is a little rond by the judge at to-day's tired. He needs a few days of henring-Reuter.
rest and change of air.".
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