1936-12-15 — Page 18

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By

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the streets if you could have voluntarily left the countries they have ruled.

call them streets of Harar In Whitehall and Harar, în Rome, on the Red Sea-he has spoken with were turned into surging them about their friends and enemies, about their work, their hobbies

and their hopes.

rivers of mud.

Some of the Emperor's guests

new

(wearing dresses from Paris) arrived on mule-back. A mule is a more sure means of transport in Abyssinia than a

motor-car.

Here he gives personal close-ups of the men who once wore crowns- and may again.

if I had had to choose a pro- that cannot be described down two yet-but of course I shall fession, I would have selected, the Red Sea to Massowah.

go back." We called at Jeddah to take Amanullah is a pathetic figure

There is only one taxi in yours. You see, I run my own Harar, and into this prehistoric paper at Addis Ababa, Light and aboard pilgrims returning from today. His smile is sad, the

and I frequently contri- unsigned non-political articles to it.".

Andrews,

bute the British Vice- Consul, Mrs. Chapman Andrews, Phone 27778-9 Stubbs Rd. Evans (surely the only valet who has dined with an Emperor) and myself.

DEATTI.

HANDS.-On 13th December, 1938, us the result of an accident, Albert Douglas Harold Hands,

ways Limited.

aged 24 years, of imperial Air-

The

An old piece of tarpaulin was stretched above us to keep off the fury of the tropical down-

pour.

where Ras Makonnen, the Em- The Vice-Consul's house,

peror's father, was born, is only

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Tother meetings (and I had the privilege of occasions) we talked about war. talking to the Emperor on many

became more

It was then that his manner grave and his speech took on a sterner note. Failure

"If war should come and we about two miles from the new shall do everything in our power palace of the Duke of Harar (the to prevent it-then we shall Emperor's second son) but the fight to the last man. I shall

other side of the Red Sca. his heart. Like Haile Selassie, There was unwonted activity he is a hundred years before his noon, and the captain, the first aboard the Cagliari that after time. officer, and the chief engineer He is the most unhappy of the At 44 he looks old and tired:

white drill suits. Nobody seem- all appeared in *resplendent ex-kinga. ed to know why. Amanullah

He lives very quietly in Rome, not far from Ex-King Alfonso.

Sometimes Mussolini remem- A small piece of faded red bers him and invites him to his.

box to see a football match. carpet had been placed from He has been an estate agent, a the top of the gangway to the farmer, and an antique dealer, interior of the saloon.

Hongkong Telegraph. Journey took us nearly an hour. be at the head of my troops self appear like a city of white

Tuesday, DecEMBER 15, 1935

WHO ARE OUR

FRIENDS?

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as our kings have been in the past.

but all to no avail.

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The mirage made Jeddah it- marble floating in the clouds. ALFONSO has suffered more than Amanullah, WE E looked a strange

At long last a launch snorted but his smile is still fresh and "We shall fight, not only for alongside, and a murmur went his step as light as that of a company as;we des- cended at the gate of the palace our beloved country, whose soil along the deck. "Le re" and young man of 25, to be conducted

within by for the rights of every small

is sacred to every one of us, but "Sa Majeste," I caught. stately Abyssinian footmen in nation. We place our trust in ed like a king. A swarthy face, about Spain. Abyssinia, polo, I was his guest at the Vill I could see nobody who look- Tutto Ruffo, and scarlet coats, while breeches, the League of Nations, but in half hidden by dark glasses, Bellsha beacons, Japanese shirts, We talked silk stockings, and patent leather the last resort we know that God gazed up at me from a form the shoes, holding scarlet and gold will scatter our enemies."

National Government umbrellas above our heads.

concealed by the folds of Arab every subject under the sun. attire. I seemed vaguely to recognise it.

An overpowering smell of in- cense greeted us inside, and it

was difficult at first to dis tinguish the faces of the other guests.

God, guns and Genova. They

all failed.

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I asked, of course, the inevit- able question that every ex-king It is only a year ago that the Emperor spoke those words to

FEW minutes later I your Majesty expect to be re- expects you to ask: "When does A me as we watched a display of King Amanullah of Afghanis

was talking to ex- called?" officers. infantry trained by his Swedish tan. We had many talks and

Practically without exception, everybody in Britain, now con- cedes the necessity of national re-armament. Where differences arise, they are mainly on the question of the speed at which the programme shall be carried out. An aspect of the subject

King Alfonso smiled and lit which may possibly have been

amusing-little adventures be another cigarette. He amokes tion struck a discordant note in overlooked was recently stressed that strange African setting. carrying with him the sympathy Massowah.

To-day, sick at heart, but fore we parted company at 60 Turkish cigarettes a day.

"Who can say? It may be by Sir Norman Angell, who The rain had abruptly ceased, of every Christian-minded man

two years, three years, even "Does your Majesty expect to longer. They may decide in I asked.

bad as the kind of governmenta they have had since I left Spain.- The time will come, yes. Bul when-who can say?"

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"What about Abyssinia?" I

asked.

question in national defence is they roamed about the streats salem. not military but political, Brit- outside,

The struggle is over, a page ain cannot say what defences Inside, we partook of an ex- of history, dripping with mus- would be adequate in the "next quisite French meal prepared by 'tard gas, has been written. But most in the mind of every ex-

After all, the thought upper war" until she knows who would the Emperor's Swiss chef, with the name of Haile Selassie will king must always be "Shall I

a footman standing behind each be remembered with honour for ever return?"'- ̄ ̄ ̄ be with her and who against her chair and a menu, printed in all time.

Alfonso leaned forward. in the struggle. The nation's gold and embossed with the Im-

The reply came back with a with the Riffs?"

"Do you remember my war: task would certainly be much each of the thirty guests.

perial arms of Judah, set before WHAT of the other flash.

kings who spend the

I nodded, | simplified if it were known how

twilight of their lives in lonely have a tremendous following in for eight years. We calculated

"Of course I shall go back. I

"Well, that rulbous war lasted the Powers would align them- selves in any future conflict.

I HAVE said nothing of My mind goes back to an fast realising that all the re- in a year. It dragged on for Afghanistan still. They are at at the start that it would end the Emperor himself, occasion last year when I was forms their present king is year after year, costing Spain Under the League of Nations So much has been written about making my way with desperate carrying out were initiated by staggering sums of money. But Covenant as its authors intended him since that memorable night. slowness and in temperatures myself. It may be a year or we had put our hand to it and it to function, there would have high priest of the Old Testament His picture, suggesting more the been no doubt; the aggressor than a twentieth century re- would have had every other na-former, hus flickered across a thousand silver screens and tion against him. But now that gazed solemnly from the pages an infallible, all-powerful, and of countless all-embracing League has been world over. given up as, in the present state of the world, an unworkable ideal, there is no means of tell- ing with certainty who would be four friends and who our enemies

And yet Haile Selassie is First of all, any blank spaces sometimes referred to as the in the rows where seeds have in the next war. But if the Black Emperor. He is no failed to come up should be filled question is obscure to Britain it blacker than you or I after we by fresh seedlings or, in the Brussels is not less obscure to the Con-have spent a fortnight in the case of potatoes, by planting a

few. more tubers. tinental. Powera. None of them

newspaperS

In

Your Garden

the

To-day he is almost as

couldn't turn back. Unless I am mistaken, Italy is going to ex- |perience the same na Spain.”

Alfonso, like everybody else, was wrong..

But "Europe's best dressed. monarch" is an example to all the other kings who have lost their thrones. He carries his cares with an indifferent air. No Martyr

familiar to the man in the street THIS is one of the busiest phates, oz, nitrate of sodu, us Charlie Chaplin.

months in the vegetable and oz. sulphate of iron per Not Black

garden as most of the growing square yard will be helpful." crops need attention.

He has no desire to be con- BEANS

sidered a martyr. He is wel apart in double rows.

Runner beans can be sown 1ft, comed in every capital in Europe. He has not the incans, Seedlings of kale, broccoli, still less the inclination, to keep sprouts, cabbages, up a mock court Hke the ex- and savoys,

be Kaiser at Doorn. planted out.

He does not consider his lot. knows, for example, how Great of the dreamer, the delicate

He has the sunsitive features be thinned out early.

Seedlings of root crops should-Seedlings dislike overcrowd-nor that of his colleagues in Britain would net in an emer-hands of an artist,

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A space of 2in. should be lofting, and large varieties of Brus-exile, so hard. between each plant at first; Inter sela sprouts, cabbages, etc., they can be thinned out to Gin. should be allowed 2ft, cach way, apart, and for beetroots, par variatios 18in, apart,

savoys, coleworts, and small snips, and turnips, to 10in. upart.

PEAS.

the

gency, British people them- He possesses that very rare selves do not know; the Foreign kind of charm that makes you

TRUE, they have been

hurled from Office has steadfastly declined to feel, when he is talking to you, hat you are the only person in

Marrows grown under glass heights, but they have not been commit itself to hypotheses. whom he is interested. But this much can be said, that

Peas must not be allowed to made bed, but they must be fined on a lonely island beyond can be planted out in a specially cut off from the world and con- BEST QUALITY

"I always think the life of a want for stakes. If tall sticks covered at night with flowerpots. the reach of civilisation. In the business of making journalist," the Emperor re- cannot be put in at once, small

Ferdinand of Bulgaria still friends abroad the British Gov-marked to me that evening after twiggy pieces can be used to be regularly hoed.

Rows of broad beans should has riches as well as his birds.. DOWN QUILTS ernment has not been as slack as dinner, "must be one of the most help seedlings.

and his, butterflies. ANSWERS ATTRACTIVE some domestic critics, assert, fascinating of all. I believe.that Drawing up the soll round the

Prajadhipok of Siam can have There are foreign chancellories

plants affords some support, and

Manor Park. To prevent as many cars and mechanical a dressing of 2oz. superphos. pacony drying up or dropping, gadgets (his pet hobbies) as he that still attribute to Britain a willing to uphold the "collective phates per yard will be a useful water with 402. each of sul pleases at his peaceful home in Machiavellian skill in this im- system in collaboration with tonic.

phate of iron and superphos. | Surrey. portant aspect of diplomacy those nations which are willing should have the earth drawn water. Give half a gallon of to Greece and Mr. Fu Yi has Potatoes showing through the phate of lime in 2 gallons of King George has gone back Despite the failure of the to adhere to its fundamental up to them. League in the Manchurian and principles. The task at tho

this to each clamp when the become an Emperor for the STORE OPEN FROM 8.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. SATURDAYS to 5 pim. Ethiopian crises, Britain has moment is to ascertain who will where growth is backward, a when they show colour.

Break up soil thoroughly, and buds first appear and again third time... made it clear that she is still come in and who will not.

It may be two years, three.. dressing of 1oz. superphos

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