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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1936.

THEY KNOW SECRETS OF OIL FROM COAL NO TIME FOR

SOUTH WALES

PERSONALLY, feel more encouraged than I have

done at any previous time to think that in the more distant future we may see an oil-from-coal plant establish- ed in the South Wales coalfield.”

Mr. Baldwin said this in a speech at Cardiff recently. He also said that he had been in touch recently with those engaged in examining the oil-from-coal question.

There are not many more than

six experts in the country

capable of establishing an oil King George's

from-coal hydrogenation plant in

South Wales.

There are other difficulties in Ue way of a South Wales plant.

Workers would have to be trained before strange machinery could be bullt find the new plant properly handled.

South Wales, Nay Imperial Chemical Industries experts, is one of the most dilleult areas in which to put down a plaat such as the one nt Rillingham, because South Wales coal is not suitable.

Examination

Photograph

In Addis

GAZES DOWN ON CONQUERORS

Addis Ababa, Aug. 20.

In the old throne room of the Imperial Palace of Addis Ababa

The stars of Hollywood who lend the trend in fashions in America have begun to go French. The photo shoes Olivia de Haviland. whom you saw recently in film "A" Midsummer Night's Dream," wearing a costume taken from the time of Nnuolcon.

there still stands silent and dusty Ban On

Members of the Research Com-lin an abandoned corner the fam- mittee of the South Wales Industrial ous clock which the late King Development Board have already George of England donated to the examined the problems of carbonish-former Emporer Haile Selassie. tion and hydrogenation.

The throne room has been trans- Mr. Waller Runglman, President of formed by the Italian Command the Board of Trade, also mentioned into a civil office and the supersti. oil-from-conl plants in the House of

tious native clerks employed in Commons last week.

Hitler

Moustache?

From A Political Correspondent

demands for a ban on political

He said that the scheme for such the office cast frightened glances THE Home Secretary, investigating a plant at Jarrow-on-Tyne would be at the clock because word has uniforms, has discovered unsuspected looked on with sympathy by the spread among them that it bears difficulties. Board of Trade, though the first step the "evil eye". must come from elsewhere.

"I am

The clock, which once used

afraid Mr Runciman's simultaneously to mark the statement is a pious hope held out hours of all principal capitals of

for want of something better to say

to Jarrow in its bitter disappointment the globe, still bears the inscrip- at the death of the steel schane," tion "Presented by King George was the comment of Sir John Jarvis, V to King Tafari Makonnan in originator of the steel works scheme. 1928."

Mr. Baldwin. On Recruiting

In 1820 Selassie received an ambas

One WAS encountered by A Continental Government which docreed by legislation that members of a particular organisation should sacrifice their distinctive shirts.

The members thereupont main- Lained their identity by wearing moustaches closely resembling that of the lender of the Nazi party in another part of the Continent.

Sir John Simon is considering sador from degiak Burru of the Uollega regions who strongly pro- information supplied at his request whether Mr. Baldwin, in his speech, replied tested against a raid which Adilis by offelals and others an to a statement by Mr. Attlee, who had Ababa warriors had conducted in the disturbances at public meetings have sald that, as Leader of the Opposi-Uelinga, returning to the capital with been provoked by organised marchés

heads of one thousand

eattle. tion, he would not support o recruit- Selassie promised that the culprits of uniformed political organisations. ing campaign by the present would be punished and in sign of If he decides that political uniforms friendship, presented the degiak with in themselves can be regarded as an the-regal-clock-which he had re-incitement to partisan feelings he

will consider the question of a ban.

Organisations in this country whose members wear distinctive shirts are opposed to Government action.

Government.

Mr. Baldwin said: "I admit.we ureceived from George of England. not an easy people to understand, but Means of transport left much to be we are people who love peace, who desi ed in the old Ethiopian Empire want peace, who seek peace, and who and the clock arrived at the Ghobbi are not easily provoked but who of Burru in sed condition and out of

will fight to the last man'if our liberties are encroached upon by any nation upon earth.

"The Opposition has a perfect right to disapprove of methods adopted by the Government, but I will never be lieve that these words represent the real views of that body of working

order.

An official of the British Union of Burru however possessed a wrist. Fascists said: "We are in favour of watch which had been donated to him political uniforms and see nothing by a French explorer: he strapped the wrong in them. Under the existing law watch on the wrist of a clave who there is nothing to prevent us wearing used to stand by the Emperor's clock day and night and move its hands them. every half hour.

"If the Government introduced a That way degiak Burru heard the Bill we would naturally oppose it. men who support the Labour Party. clock sound the hours with a concert But if it became an Act it would be of silver bells which reproduced the the law of the land, and we would "But remarks like this are calcu-chimes of the three major towers of have to accept it. In Manchester we have been refused permission by the lated to make other countries wonder England: Westminster, Whittington

Watch Committee to march to ono what the real spirit of this country--and St. Michael.

of our meetings because the Com- one of the only countries now that.

mittee considered uniforms prove-

now given stand for democratie freedom--really

cative. They have is.

permission to march in mufil."

UK

An official of the Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Green Shirts) sald; "A Government ban on uniforms is most

That year a drought struck the Uollega region. Witch doctors spread the rumour that the want of rain was caused by the "chiming clock, bearer "No wonder we are accused of of the evil eye" and deglak Burrti weakness. No wonder some people supersilious na his subjects,

sent in Europe think ur power is de- the clock back to the Emperor. elining."

At any rate, declared Sir. Bald-! win: "Taking the United Kingdom gal clock in a corner of his throne to force such m organisation 'un- as a whole and certainly as com- room, where he used to convoke the torground, A uniform, like any distinctive political party. pared with any other country you rases for monthly palavers, and there other ilke in the world-even Russia and it stands. The clock had rubles as markings, does make it possible for eren the United States-life is big as wahtits which were robbed by the authorities to know what parti- better for all 'sections of the com- phundering bandits before the Italian cular organisation is responsible for munity."

specific propaganda and activities." ¡occupallon of Addis Ababa.

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