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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1936,

"I SHALL NEVER 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 Ambaric [the principal language of Abyssinia] and translated by an interpreter into French, the Negus aurhmed up to me at a private audience his attitude towards the present Italo-Abyssinian situation.

It we 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:

"It would not be fitting or proper for me to criticise the polley of your Goverment, any more than 1 should expect a stranger in my own land to criticise the pulley of my Government.

"If the League members slepoded tar abandon the sanctions poding it any menn the Tull of Geneva 1believe that the present tension stage would then became very much morej

serious.

"The policy of rejective security is nly capable of bringing a lasting | peace if it is' tonestly saphel by all the menthers of the League

"Any m

mentifients of the : Coveront without a prior settlement of the pte sent conthes as deest med tu facture from the outset, for it would netoly be an attempt the avenges the definite respons hilith devolvitie arpass the arında s of the League"

In aerorilanes with the stand co tom, hefur seeing the Segar, I hat submitted a questionnaire the pre- vigne venting in Ain Legrenzo Tavuz, Set of helmet malvisits,

CHANGED DAYS

Shortly atter his arrival in 1on1- don the Nogus sammutsed me to his! house in Princelmeste, and expressed, its. his appelation the manner which I had stated the Abyssinian case in ing recent book, "Alys sina?! Adventure,”

It was our first meeting since I baul spent a week as the Negue's guest n Hnrat little mene than a year ages. There had then been damer parties, reviews, religious festivals,

ming, pleasant dccasions when I had talked about happler subjects than the coming war,

In there days Haile Selassie had in shukrable faith in Britain and thei League of Nations, There were some with whom I talked, however, who

THEY BUZZED-

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Dock Road, London, E. cleared the pavement of pedestrians and pre- vented the girl operators leaving the exchange,

Officers from Limehouse police station were sent Απε bonfires were lit, but the bees did not move. Finally Pollce-Sergeant Mackenzie arrived 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,

MURDERER'S

“SUPREME VENGEANCE ON WOMEN”

San Francisco, July 15. LBERT WALKER junior, aged 28, the son of wealthy Boston parents, walked into police headquarters here Inte,last night and calmly invited the ser- geant in charge to accompany him to a flat in a fashionable acc- tion of the town where, he said,

he had murdered a young woman named Blanch Cousins,

Since I was 14,” he said. "E thave hated women and have done everything in my power to injure there.

" have rui: -- 74 READA could and knes Ewonki achieve #ny supremo vengeance that wontal ill oste.

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Mrs. Pamela Erickson, wife of the the fat and discovered the node thes Finnish Tanquebody of the girl under ik touslei

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R.A.F. plane crashed recently on foredeck of grent French liner Norman- die, muchord off Ryde. Front wing hit tall derrick unloading a meter- car; snapped it. Car fell ont deck-rails, half overlord. Plane, meantime, bad erased, ripping umf:rgarringe to pitves, Pilot-Lieutenant G. K. Horsey, R.N.-aras shaken; unhurt. Normandie procceded to Havre, bem- ber still on bows like giant dragon-By,

Countess's £5 For

Slander: "Peace From

Poison

Tongues"

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Bristol, July 15.

OISON tongues which, in his own words, "made life PO

nothing short of hell," were denoumeed 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

erzogin Cecille" which was wreckert array of blankets and pillows. She had returned a verdict for his wife in a remarkable slan- in the rocks off Cornwall, helped with bad been strangled with mae of herder suit.

Like salvage work on buarth. The silk stockings.

picture shows Mrs. Brickson busy in i the rigging during; salvage operations. ;

believed that it would be weer. THE

THE KING'S

arm as quickly s

possible.

When I was summoned to hear the Negus's reply to my questionnaire -found-him-quiet; - pomen plonk,-unel the. strain of the last few months more apparent in his mamer and appear-j ancy than at mur first meeting.

There was nothing bitter or resent ful in his attitude, although there is 1 no on more entitled to be nitfer and resentful to-day than Baile Selassie, It was Italy who was responsable for Abyssinia Joining the League of Nations. It was tirent Bitain who Bred the Nogus to place his faith in fieneva and to centimine his resistature when some part of his country might still have been saved to him.

1 asked the Emperor if it was true that Bo Kases and Ras Soyum, two of his principal

earry out his d

Failed

and to work

in unisun on the northern front:

Half Selassie replied that bath had worked together on the wist Trionally basis, and that the state ments were not Forrect that Ras Seyum had submitted to the Italians.

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DISCRETION

London, July 15,

"I WANT TO BE HANGED"

*It was all the vult," Walker said, -“of a lot of pent-up emotions, which

· just broke loose. Though I am not insane herume terribly mad with her and lost my hend."

Ile described how he met the girl

The countess, who was formerly Miss Isobel Neilson and

is a daughter of Mr. Fruncis Neilson, former M.P. 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.

14 for night ngo 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 Second Lieutenant. Peter a nurse in Idaho, and was travelling Cedrie Gunter, of the Royal to San Francisco to attend a business. Tank Corps depot, has reason, to college. be thankful for the right of the King to exeréise his power of intervention after the finding of his court martial last week.

Tuesday night." he said. "We sat on went to her fat for dinner on a couch and started petting.

"made violent love to her, but she repulsed me; so I started in chake her with my hands. "just choked her until there was resistance. She was in slacks and 1 disrobed her and at- sweater.

Mr. Gunter was convicted by court- mortiul of behaving in a seandamas marmer giving ebeques knowing hold barl not reasonable grounds to suppostacked her. I don't know whether she was still alive or unt; but to (make sure she was dead I knotted a

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San Remo, July 15. The King confirmed the finding, stocking, around her neck and tind it What Italians claim to be the but instead of the young man being to a bedpost" cashiered, the sentence was commmutext!

Walker wandered all the next day longest suspended cable railway to one of being "dismissed the Ser- through the streets of San Francisco, in the world is scheduled for vice"

Finally, he said, "I decided to give inauguration here Oct. 28th. myself up because I want to be Gunter, who was Rugger blue, hanged-to get it over with." said in his defence that he was "stupid and foolish" with regard to his banking account.

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 I when who knows how we have succeeded in stopping the slander and mischief and in cleaving our good oame It will b

a wonderful tonie for her.

We did not bring the action for for awarded money. The amount damages was of no importance; w wanted the verdict--and peave."

"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 statement. 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 ense 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- top of Mt. Bignone. According dle-aged husband, was resting in 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 'WILL BE POLICE 1/9th at Regiment, who was kilometres.

Dorchester, July 16,

seriously injured in a motor ac- Police forces will be the first-line rident here yesterday, died this of defence in any future war, declar-morning in bospital.

d Major LW. Prelyates, Chief Lientenant Kelly was stationed Constable of Dorsel, at a lunchon at Lucknow, before the Dorset Police Sports at. Dorchester to-day.

His home address is "Stroud," Freshwater, Isle of Wight.

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He added: "Police are becoming! Be was travelling in a bus when the fighting forces of the country," it overturned-Reuter.

LLOYD'S REFUSE

KING'S MARRIAGE "RISK"

LLOYD'S underwriters, following instructions given after the

disclosure of the Budget leak itsurences, are carefully seru- tinising every application for speculative insurance.

Brokers have been imable to obtain insurance. rates agains! the possibility of the King marrying before his Coronation next May, The underwriters require proof that the insurances are genuine and not speculations before quoting premiums.

Pottery and other manufacturers are now 'beginning to make theusmuds of Coronation souvenirs. Two portraits instead of one will be necessary should the King marry before the Corona- tion.

Numbers of themi 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 bo incurred if the King marries.

Three terminals are included in the run, one of which will be located at a height of 1,200 metres. The cably system will be supported by 18 steel towers constructed on three moun

tains. Their height runges seven to 35 metres.

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In the course of to-day's slander action. Mr. Robert Fortune, for the countess, said that soon after she and her husband went to live at Radioe Park there was trouble with the ser vante, and an atmosphere of hostility and content was noticeable,

Eventually, a private detective, ME. Arthur Fry was engaged, and in Octo. ber 1935 he had a conversation with Mrs.

Pinker, saying he thought of tak- In announcing imminent Inaugura- tion of the line, sponsors of the pro-ing employment with the count and Jeet pointed out that represents. a countess, significant industrial victory for Italy conversation Mrs. Pinker said: "They

Fortune aid that during the

Mr.

since construction was carried out entirely with materials and machinery have a boy. It is supposed to be fabricated in the fatherland at a time adopted, but it is hers. She is fond. when sanctions were in full effect. of a gay life, and often leaves the 'old stick nt home while she foes to United Prese.

|London for a gay time,

Thaehmann Gives

Mrs. Pinker, in evidence, denied she had said anything detrimental to the countess. The claim against her hus hand, Mr. Frederick Pinker, who was also sted, was struck out at the end

Evidence In Prison of the countess's case.

Berlin, July 12.

Ernst Thacimann, German Com- Haile Selassię

Going To Scotland

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

Haile Selassie is going to Scot of Edgar Andro, a local Com- munist leader. A judge question-land "for rest and fresh air." ed Thaelmann in his prison, and Said an official at the Ethiopian the report of this examination was Legation: The Emperor in a little. rend by the judge at to-day's tired. Ho needs a few days of hearing-Reuter,

rest and change of air."

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