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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, Tuesday, DECEMBER 16, 1936.

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IN

EXILE

Geoffrey Harmsworth

To few come such opportunities as Geoffrey Harmsworth has had of meeting on intimate terms the monarchs who have been exiled or who the streets if you could have voluntarily left the countries they have ruled. call them streets of Harar In Whitehall and Harar, in Rome, on the Red Sea-he has spoken with were turned into surging them about their friends and enemies, about their work, their hobbies rivers of mud.

and their hopes.

Some of the Emperor's guests (wearing new dresses from Paris) arrived on mule-back. A

Here he gives personal close-ups of the men who once wore crowns- and may again. mule is a more sure means of transport in Abyssinia than a if I had had to choose a pro- motor-car.

fession, I would have selected

British

There is only one taxi in yours. You see, I run my own Harar, and into this prehistoric paper at Addis Ababa, Light and vehicle we scrambled. Chapman Peace, and I frequently contri- Andrews, the

bute Vice

unsigned non-political Consul, Mrs. Chapman Andrews, articles to it.' Stubbs Rd. Evans (surely the only valet who has dined with an Emperor) and myself.

DEATR.

HANDS-On 13th December, 1936, the result of an accident, Albert Douglas Harold Hands, aged 24 years, of Imperial Air- ways Limited,

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1930

WHO ARE OUR FRIENDS?

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

The Vice-Consul's house, where Ras Makonnen, the Em- peror's father, was born, is only about two miles from the new palace of the Duke of Harar (the Emperor's second son) but the journey took us nearly an hour.

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T other meetings (and I had the privilege of talking to the Emperor on many occasions) we talked about war. became more grave and his It was then that his manner

speech took on a sterner note. Failure

shall do everything in our power "If war should come and we to prevent it-then we shall fight to the Inst man. I shall be at the head of my troops as our kings have been in the past.

that cannot be described down two yet-but of course I shall the Red Sen to Massowah.

go back."

We called at Jeddah to take Amanullah is a pathetic figure aboard pilgrims returning from to-day. His smile is sad, the Meccu to their homes across the smile of a man with an ache in other side of the Red Sea.

his heart. Like Halle Selassie, There was unwonted activity he is a hundred years before his aboard the Cagliari that after time. noon, and the captain, the first At 44 he looks old and tired. officer, and the chief engineer He is the most unhappy of the all appeared in resplendent ex-kings. white drill suits. Nobody seem- ed to-know why. Amanullah

A small piece of faded red carpet had been placed from

interior of the saloon. the top of the gangway to the

The mirage made Jeddah it- self appear like a city of white marble floating in the clouds.

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

Sometimes Mussolini remem-

bers him and invites him to his box to see a football match. He has been an estate agent, a farmer, and an antique dealer.. but all to no avail.

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ALFONSO has suffered more than Amanullah. E looked a strange

At long last a launch snorted but his smile is still fresh and WE

company as we des. "We shall fight, not only for alongside, and a murmur went his step as light as that of a 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.

I was his guest at the Villa stately Abyssinian footmen in

I could see nobody who look- Tutto Ruffo, and we talked scarlet conts, while breeches, nation. We place our trust in ed like a king. A swarthy face, about Spain, Abyssinia, polo, silk stockings, and patent leather the League of Nations, but in half hidden by dark glasses, Belisha beacons, Japanese shirts. shoes, holding scarlet and gold the last resort we know that God gazed up at me from a form the' National Government-

will scatter our enemies."

concealed by the folds of Arab every subject under the sun. umbrellas above our heads.

God, guns and Geneva. They attire. I seemed vaguely to

recognise it. all failed.

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

WALS difficult at first to dis-

tinguish the faces of the other guests.

The tinkle of cocktail glasses and the buzz of light convergu-

tion struck a discordant note in

It is only a year ago that the Emperor spoke those words to me as we watched a display of infantry trained by his Swedish officers.

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I asked, of course, the inevit- able question that every ex-king expects you to ask: "When does

asked."

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

A FEW minutes later 1 your Majesty expect to be re-

was talking to ex- called?" the programme shall be carried

King Amanullah of Afghanis out. An aspect of the subject

We had many talks and

King Alfonso smiled and lit which may possibly have been

amusing little adventures be another cigarette. He smokes To-day, sick at heart, but fore, we parted company at 50 Turkish cigarettes a day. overlooked was recently stressed that strange African setting. carrying with him the sympathy Mussowah.

"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 S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. points out that the ultimate could hear the howl of hyenas as Pnt woman the world over, the return to your country soon?" the end that a king is not so

Patriot King is now in Jeru I asked. question in national defence is they roamed about the streets salem.

bad as the kind of governments. they have had since I left Spain... not military but political. Brit-outside.

The struggle is over, a page

Many Jobs

The time will come, yes. But ain cannot say what defences

Inside, we partook of an ex- of history, dripping with mus After all, the thought upper. when-who can say "?" would be adequate in the "next quisite French meal prepared by tard gas, has been written. But most in the mind of every ex-

I 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. in the struggle. The nation's gold and embossed with the Im- task would certainly be much each of the thirty guests.

perial arms of Judah, set before

simplified if it were known how the Powers would align them- selves in any future conflict. Under the League of Nations Covenant as its authors intended it to function, there would have been no doubt; the aggressor would have had every other na-former, has 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 newspapers the all-embracing League has been given up as, in the present state of the world, an unworkable

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"What about Abyssinia?"

Alfonso leaned forward. "Do you remember my war The reply came back with a with the Riffs?" WHAT of the other flash.

I nodded. kings who spend the "Of course I shall go back, I

"Well, that ruinous war lasted twilight of their lives in lonely have a tremendous following in for eight years. We calculated

exile?

Afghanistan still. They are at at the start that it would end I HAVE said nothing of

My mind goes back to an lost realising that all the re- in a year. It dragged on for the Emperor himself. occasion last year when I was forms their present king is year after year, costing Spain So much has been written about making my way with desperate carrying out were initiated by staggering sums of money. But him since that memorable night. slowness and in temperatures myself. It may be a year

His picture, suggesting more the high priest of the Old Testament than a twentieth century re-

world over..

To-day he is almost

our friends and who our enemies sometimes referred to as the And yet Haile Selassie is in the next war. "But if the Black Emperor. He is no questión la obscure to Britain it blacker than you or I after we is not less obscure to the Conave spent a fortnight in the tinental Powers. None of them

He has the sensitive features knows, for example, how Great of the dreamor, the delicate Britain would act in an emer-hands of an artist.

Bun.

In Your Garden

A space of 2in. should be left between cach plant at first; later they can be thinned out to 6in. apart, and for beetroots, par- ships, and turnips, to 10in, apart.

or we had put our hand to it and couldn't turn back. Unless I am mistaken, Italy is going to ex- perience the same as Spain.'

Alfonzo, like everybody dise,

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

the

familiar to the man in the street THIS is one of the bualeat phates, oz, nitrate of soda, as 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.

He has no desire to be con- crops need attention.

BEANS

sidered a martyr. He is wel- in the rows where seeds have apart in double rows,

First of all, any blank spaces Runner beans can be sown 1ft.comed in every capital in Europe. He has not the means, failed to come up should be filled Seedlings of kale, broccoli, still less the inclination, to keep by fresh seedlings, or, in the Brussels sprouts, cabbages, up a mock court Hike the ex- case of potatoes, by planting a savoys, and so on, can be Kaiser at Doorn. few more tubers.

planted out.

He does not consider his lot, be thinned out early.

Seedlings of root 'crops should Seedlings dislike overcrowd- nor that of his colleagues in

ing, and large varieties of Brus-exile, so hard.

etc., should be allowed 2ft, each way, sels sprouts, cabbages, gency. British people them- He possesses that very rare

savoys, coleworts, and small- TRUE, they have been selves do not know; the Foreign kind of charm that makes you

varieties 18in, apart.

hurled from Office has steadfastly declined to feel, when he is talking to you,

Marrows grown under glass out, off from the world and con heights, but they have not been that you are the only person in

can be planted out in a specially fined on a lonely island beyond... commit itself to hypotheses, whom he is interested..

Pens must not be allowed to made bed, but they must be the reach of civilisation. But this much can be said, that- "I always think the life of a want for stakes. If tall sticks covered at night with flowerpots. BEST QUALITY

Ferdinand of Bulgaria still in the business of making journalist," the Emperor re-cannot be put in at once, small Rows of broad beans should has riches as well as his birds friends abroad the British Gov-marked to me that evening after wiggy pieces can be used to be regularly hocd.

and his butterflies. DOWN QUILTS ernment has not been as slack as dinner, "must be one of the most help

Drawing up the soil round the

Prajadhipok of Siam can have some domestic critics assert, fascinating of all. I believe that

plants affords some support, and Manor Park. To prevent as many cars and mechanical There are foreign chancellories | Page

a dressing of 2oz. superphos-patony drying up or dropping, gadgets (his pet hobbios) as he that still attribute to Britain a willing to uphold the collectivo phutes per yard will be a useful water with oz. each of sul-pleases at his peaceful home in Machiavellian skill in this im-aystem In collaboration with tonic.

phate of iron and superphos- Surrey.

King George has gone back LTD. portant aspect of diplomacy. those nations which are willing tutors showing through to water Give half a galion of to Greece: and Mr. Pu

Potatoes the phate of lime in 2 gallons of Despite the fallure of the to adhere to its fundamental up to them.

this to each clump when the become an Emperor for the League in the Manchurian and principles. The task at the Break up soll thoroughly, and bude first appear and, again third time.

"It may be two years, three STORE OPEN FROM 8.30 a.m. to 6 p.m. SATURDAYS to 5 p.m. Ethiopian crises, Britain has moment is to ascertain who will where growth is backward, a when they show colour.

made it clear that she is still come in and who will not..

years or longer, who can say?" dressing of 1oz. superphos when they they show colour.

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