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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY

FOREIGN OFFICE

EVIDENCE

1938.

LIKELY IN HAILE SELASSIE CASE

A representative of the British Foreign Office will probably be called as a witness in the claim which Mr. Leo Chertok, an American financier, is bringing against Haile Selassie in the London High Courts.

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The witness will have to provide an answer to the question:

Is Haile Selassie still Emperor of Abyssinia?

As announced last month, Mr. Chertok is claiming £23,000 from Haile Selassie for expenses and commission.

Mr. Chertok, 30-yeurs-old American Jew, declares that he dnanced an appeal to the United States for money to help Abyssinia during the Italian conquest.

Through his solicitor. Mr. J. M. Isaacs, of Shell-Mex House, Victoria Embankment, Lundon, he issued a writ against Haile Selassie,

SERVED ON SOLICITORS

An attempt to serve it on Haile Selassie binself was made recently by Mr. Isaacs, brother and managing clerk to Mr. Chertok's solicitor.

Mr. Isaacs, accompanied by a detective, went to Haile Selassie's home In Bath, rang the bell at the iron gate, and was received by a member of

Haile Scalssic's staff.

He asked the visitors to wait. Half an hour later he returned to say the Haile Selassie could not see the solicitor's representative.

"Here is The name of the Emperor's solicitors in London," he said. handing over eard bearing the names of Wordsworth, Marr, Johnson, and Shaw, of Lombard-street, London, E.C. 3.

The next day Mr. Chertok's legal representative served the writ upon the solfeltors, who, It is understood, will move to have the writ dismissed on the grounds that Balle Selassie is a reigning Sovereign and therefore cannot be sued in Britain.

It is unlikely that the court will decide this preliminary issue without evidence from the Foreign Office.

MYSTERY PLATEAU

New York.

Another lost world expedition has been sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History. The site of the operations this time là in Central Venezuela, on an isolated tableland in a remote part of South America.

The objective is the recently dis- covered mountain, Mount Auyan- tepuy, just north of the Brazilian It is not marked on try frontier. map

and is cut off by such deuse) jungle that the only approach is by 'plane.

Mount Auyantepuy, which is 0,00ort. high, is topped by a table- land. It is believed to be part of an! ancient plateau that has been euts and dissected by the crusion of cen-1 turies into a series of detached peaks,

Dr. Tate, who is leading the ex-i pedition, is now at Clutad Bolivar, on the Orinoco River. He expeels o ninke 121 early start. His head- quarters will be established on the slopes of the mountain at the 5,000rt.. level. From there the party will try to reach the tableland, where in- teresting discoveries of wala,j birds and fossils are expected to be

rande.

Many people will recognise this district as the background of Conan Doyle's romantic story. "The Lost World."

-The-American-Museum-cf. Natural History in September sent an expedi-j tion to the Shiva's Temple plateau, 9,000rt. high, in the Grand Canyon ot Arizona,

Nazi Ban On

Mendelssohn

Mendelssohn and Helse are among the latest to be pillorled by Nazi anti-Jewish propagamula.

"There are a few songs by Jewish composers and Docta which still appear in school- books, but which we can easily do without," declares thr Poli- tical Educator (oMetal organ of tho Nazi Teachers' Union in Saxony),

This Journal, reports the Ex- change, names "The Lorelei," by Heine "Lift Up Thing Eyes," by Mendelssobn; "God Is My Shep- herd." by Bernhard Klein: and

others,

Germans Executed For Worship

Sabotage

Six dockyard workers at Kiel lave been executed for sabotage. according to the Kiel correspon- dent of the Parls newspaper Le Suir. He says the men were ue- the with cused in connection

the 26,500-Lon launching of battleship Geisenau In Decem

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Cow & Gate Bables' Christmas Party held at the Cow & Gate Baby Welfare Centre at No. 6, Caine Road, Tea, Gifts and a Cinema Show were provided. The Clinic was beautifully decorated, including a lighted Xmas Tree and fresh floral decorations at the entrance,

Ming Yuen,

"Plane's New Tail Gives Swifter Climb

By CAPTAIN NORMAN MACMILLAN

Around The Empire

BENGAL GOVERNOR

RETIRES

Calcutta.

Remarkable tributes were paid

to Sir John Anderson, who made

years'

He

State departure from Calcutta, recently, at the end of 5 Governorship of Bengal. handed over to Lord Brabourne

in Bombay.

were

A

of

succession There fare-well functions at which the res- all pect and lasting regard felt by

who has the communities for made a name for himself in the his- tory of Bengal have been clearly de- monstrated.

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Sir John Anderson gave a farewell broadcast from here recently and spoke of the problems which had en- grossed him during his period of office. He had a wide and keenly appreciative audience.

SOUTH AFRICA

FEW SETTLERS FROM BRITAIN

Cape Town. South Africa has gained only 1,030 British subjects by Immigration during the past 13 years, but the in- crease of foreigners has been 33,000. This fact is disclosed by the Director of Census in a report issued recently. The number of British settlers last year was 3,531, but 2,385 Britons de- cided in the same period to leave. South Africa for good. The settlers from Germany, 3,431: Holland, 2,058; Lithuania, 250; Portugal, 221; and from Poland. 172,

Cape Town's New Harbour...With the exception of two Dutch concerns, all the firms tendering for the con- new struction of Cape Town's great harbour, have learned that their Lenders have been rejected, Al- received, together 10 tenders were three from Holland, two each from England, Belgium, and South Africa, and one from France. It is under- |stood that the prices quoted ranged

from £1,200,000 to £1,600,000,

Heavy Imports from U.S.-By spending £14,640,000 in the United States in the Best nine months of the year, South Africa has set up a new record as a customer of that country. American purchases in the Unlan amounted to. £1,030,000 in the same period, leaving South Africa with an adverse trade balance of £13,000,000.

The take-off of the latest model of the De Havilland 86 four-engined passenger aeroplane NEW ZEALAND (similar to the type employed on the Bangkok- Hongkong service) has been greatly improved without any increase in operating tasks. now nearly three times as good as is required by the Empire the international regulations for civil aircraft.

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RISING PRICES

Wellington. Tempers are rising with prices.

claim New Zealanders

that the country is already the highest taxed

Recent

reveal that statistics groceries, dairy produce and meat have increased in price by 9 per cent.

Furniture has This Improvement has been obtain-in the last 12 months. ed solely by increasing the size of the risen 20 per cent.

Most tail plane and incorporating two

hardly hit of New Zealand cities is Dunedin, where many Scots- auxiliary outer fins on the tail unit.

With this additional stabilising men live. Oatmeal has gone up by surface the pilot can employ the full 30 per cent. power of all four engines from the instant of starting, whereas formerly it was desirable to open up the engines two at a time.

With full lond in still air the D.H. 86B (as the new model is called) has a starting run over the ground of 200 yards, 50 yards less than before.

The initial climb is better, too; 650 yards from the starting point the D.1. 8GB reaches a height of 176ft., against 100ft, achieved by former models.

MANY ORDERS

At a recent meeting of Dunedin unemployed it was maintained that the absolute necessaries of ilfe were costing 10s, id, a week: mon! thun they did six months ago.

21 YEARS MISSING

Edinburgh Soldier Who Was Killed on Somme

Shortly after the War broke out in I understand that the great im- 1914, a young Edinburgh man, James provement in take-off was first re- M. Wilson, 27 Royal Park Terrace, ported upon by the Inte Mr. R. J. joined Sir George Macrae's 16th Waight. But publication of the new Dattalion The Royal Scots. Wilson figures has now been sanctioned by was then only 18 years of age, und the company's technical department. he went on active service with his

The reason for this delay in mak- battalion of Edinburgh ing the improvement generally known training. was the desire to establish a similarity of result in a considerable number of machines. Now, tests on machines have established standardi- calion.

Production of this latest model has been accelerated to, meet orders from home and overseas.

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men after

On July 1, 1916, be Was posted "wounded and missing" in the Battle of the Somme.

Since that day his relatives 121 Edinburgh have been in almost con- stant correspondence with the War Offer endeavouring ind out with certainty what had become of him. A number have been delivered for its identification disc was forwarded service on British_International air some time later to kla sister, who routes. Recently four were deliver-resides in Edinburgh.

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ed fur service on the Turkish State No further information as to his air routes. Three more will in- | whereabouts was forthcoming until nugurate the air route from Sydney|recently, when his sister received a to New Guinea via the east coast of letter from the War Office, informing

Australia.

her that Private Wilson's remains had Of all D.H. 86 models made to dute, been found, along with those of soine approximately 00 have been deliver-other British soldiers, and had been ed. They operate 20,000 miles of reinterred in the Longueval Hich publie routes and have flown some Wood Cemetery extension, near Al- 8,000,000 miles.

Stage

RIED WITH OTHER SOLDIER When seen by an Evening Dispatch reporter, Private Wilson's slater re-

Show Is counted the story of the correspon-

'Disgusting'

Roosevelt's Son Rages

New York.

dence with the War Office as to her brother's fate.

"I think." she said, "that they only managed to identify him through his being buried along with another sol- dler, for we already have his identi~ ficution disc. The letter from the War Ofee said that his remains had been found und reinterred with all

Undergraduate John Roosevelt reverence.

took his debutanic fiancee, Anne "They told me that they would Lindsay Clark, to see the musical erect stone at his grave and send comedy "I'd Rather Be Right," which me further information when it was lampoons lila father, the President. In position, so that I could go and

He boiled with rage, said the fun see it if I wanted to." made of his father was "raw," that words used on the stage were dis-

Kusting.

In answer to a question, she said that she might possibly go to France to see her brother's grave.

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