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THE prax "Special to the Telegraph"

MUSSOLINI PUTS THESE PLACES IN THE NEWS

Who earth

on

could want Jibuti?

by

0. D. GALLAGHER

Magic of Dalmatia

THE

OLEANDERS, the, From the se, perhaps, the Dal-

JIBUTI is the town that 1, for one, have been most happy to the middayres in What little vinde formene closet, and

out of.

purest white and the deep-matian coast looks monatenous. A great line of pale mountains, spotted cat pink in the brilliant sun, will there and there with the faint green still be out in Dalmatia. Over of pine woods, goen on for ever down the cafe tables in Sibenik, Dubrov-the const from Sibenle to the bar-

of Albania. The Islands nik, Hercegnovi (It is not very polite ders in these Yugoslav daya to use the Hvar, Korcula, Brac, Lopud-are old Italianate mones. Sebenico, made of the same limestone, and but the fin, Castelnuovo), the raisins Dalmatia is nothing Ragusa, and the grapes will be ripening. On barren-seeming strip running up from the beaches and terraces the Austrian the 'sen to the mountain crest. It is nad English holiday-makers will be a land, someone has wittily said, in getting blacker and blacker, with which you can only walk sideways. It is trans- hundred degrees shade

Terrace elses upon térrace of vine It festera-there is no other word for it at the southern end there may be.

For cruising there is no better and olive; cypresses stand up, not Ira of the Red Sea. Guide-books any it is a "Characteristic French

on the Hallam in Europe. Yachts move ones or twos town." Don't believe it. It is characteristic of nothing but that const

but in clumps and mut Riviera, through the still water like awans on woods. Every inch where 'sall can: part of the world.

a lake. Even when a sirocco is When the Italo-Abyssinian fight was on, Jibati was estim-blowing, the long islands which leather in the hot limestone is cul-

tivated, and here and there streams: the coast ated to have a population of about 650 whites. In the old days down

protect the deep, of pure, clear water burst out from it was a port of call for all kinds of adventurers-slave-traders, with chanter of exg-shell blue, in the limestone wall and cascade down gun runners, dope smugglers, anything. They have stopped the und slavers, it is generally agreed, but the others? Mysterious tri- nld with bands of silver in the morn-m or two before they and wack -

ing and evening light, becomes so to angular-sailed dhows still sneak in and out on unknown business. motionless on quiet days that the the sea. Dalmatia always seems:

line dividing

it from the sky dis-silent and unpopulated by birds save

*** for a few that slip with sharp, shy- appears.

fur- In the evening long rows are

eut in the smoothness by notes in and out of the grey olives, but where one of these streams falls the boats which standing oarsmen down from the mountain, ' swallows row out to the tishlog grounds with collect, doven con in the wild figs.

THERE are four hotels and

elrema in Jibuti. The

hotels took on the central square, the Place Menelik. It is here that the cosmopolitan population collects when the sun goes down, allowing them to creep out of their bed- room where they have lain swelter- Ing all afternoon.

They

sit in round the

square,

fly-infested cafes Rossiping and listening to radios that Glare Jazz the African and propaganda into

They are night. Now

asking why anybody could want such a place.

You have to be a strong man, or elaborate

is used by the "Hongkong Telegraph to one rich enough to buy indicate news which is strictly copyright comforis, if you are to survive a long under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinanco, 1936. Such newE, AR

stay there.

bears the indication "UP" is received lo I remember Hongkong on the date of publication by the_linized Prose Associations, who the

serve all rights and forbid republication, either wholly or in part without previos Arrangement.

The B.W.O.F.

fresh fellow one from Europe, who developed hypo- Chundim. If his hand avoidanially touched a skinny, half-naked Sonali native in the street he had to rush back to his hotel and smother it in disinfectant. The leprous begurs and scabby hawkers that hung about the cates scared him so badly he even had special baths in disinfectant

oil,

ans,

ADDIS ABABA

ABYSSINIA

MITREI

ITALIAU ZOMAL

KOGADISCIO

"Jibuti in a tough, tight little hazelnut wedved in a pair of big rutcrackers."

,

warm

from the Adriatic;

the through

05

work a

strokes distinct to the eye two miles; away; and the sea, very often, enough without ripples at night for remind one of Cornwall, fly round dɛher:non to prowl round inshore,

Is

and dippers and grey wagtails, which

the falls,

:

Apearing everything that swims un- der the powerful petrol temps fixed over the bows.

**

And the cities of Dalmatla—these pre perfection, in miniature. In the northern cities, Sibenik, Trogir, Spill,

sinia's capital, Addis Ababa with there are due things to be seen. At

Jibuti.

The French are chic!

and in

Split, for example, which is a lively port having cement works share- railway from Zagreb and Belgrade holders in the railway, which is the and Central Europe, there are the only one in Abyssin-the Land of ruins of Diocletian's palace, which Prester John, as old-time Portuguese Robert Adam adventurously ex- wrongly called it- land as big plored in 1757 for measurements and Britain, France. Belgium and Hol-details he was to use in building the land together.

slummy Adelphi, Rather

houses Tulis, are built llow France came to Occupy complete with her

into the Romári. walls. But French Somaliland makes

in-high teresting tale. The

Compagnie Split and its fellows are drier, dus- tích in gardens and Nanto-Bordelaise sent a ship away tier, and less to buy a port somewhere in the Red delights then the Dalmatian elles above and below Dubrovnik, which is the Queen of them all, and the Pearl, as the travel literature says, of the Adriatic,

Dubrovnik, with a great wall sur-

207

Sen. It was as umple as that it those days.

£2,500 In

The Rev. J. R. Higgs and his

The captain made a treaty, with public spirited supporters, We JIBUTI began to be a centre Italian Eritrea (to the north) and the Danukils of a pince called dd, are happy to note, are losing no

for propagande just before Italian Somaliland (to the south) and paid them £120 for the village rounding it hulit out into the ata, is:

piece of hinterland, Appacone of those rare, obstinate cities that time in furthering their initial the war. The Abyssinian Consulate This simile does not take into ac-and a

big stone wallding which the count less importan; British Somali-ently this was not a suitable place, will not yield their independence to effort to stimulate Hongkong's French refused to hand over the fund, which may also be likened to for it was incorporated quietly into interest in the war effort. A tallans-contained many Abyssini- mat, but it is not one that anybody Eritrea some years later. Oft went the tourist. I accents the tourist, would be likely to crack at the mo- the Frenchmen again, and bought a grows rich by the lourist, yet pre- The tourists live second public meeting has been

Not far nway was the tallan ment.

place called Obok from come Danakil serves its own life.

Gutside the wall among the plane 1802. It lay arranged for to-day week, June Consulate, inspired by a similar de-

trees and An awkward proportion for the chiefs for

und oleanders of the palms sire to keep the colony, informed. 21. in the Rose Room of the Fihen one pinned a typewritten state- Italians is Jibuti, because it prevents idle for twenty years.

It seemed there were possibilities suburbs: the only visitors who share closing the jaws of

the city on equal terms the Peninsula Hotel, at which thement or the notice board outside its hom

with that Abyssinian trade might And citizens are the swifts, which twist outlet to the world through another iz

Eritrea, about and scream in the sunlight above the The Italian nut is Abyssinia, place called Assab

squeeze seventy miles north of Obok. The Placa Kralja Petra, where Francis- are wedged open by upshot was the French made treaties men and their Indies, all the city, with Somali sultis and established stroll up and down when the sun no the colony, Cole Francaise des longer glares from the limestone

walls and paving. of Somalis-French Somaliland.

Bata sella his smart shoes in the Jibuti's other source of revenue Pinca Kralja Petra, but time still

is the refuelling of

public will have opportunity of door, word was quickly carried to Ecographical nutcrackers.

The resalt was that s the other,

airing more views on the best conflicting reply immediately went and quickest methods of raising up on the enemy board,

coconut. But they cannot

nutcrackers

their

funds for the B.W.O.F. We And in the cafes, bazaars and the trude juice out of if because their Italians were busy in Assab. The can monks, Yugoslav officers, business carnestly-and-heartily commend this meeting to our readers.

streets there was always a contus- Jibutl. ing variety of reports. The strengthy

of it all can be judged by the cable received in London from Jhuli early

in October 1935. It said: "Big

IN other

which

words, "most Abyssinio's trade, pusses out to the world through sinla's trade)

It will be seen from the official notice of this meeting, published military concentrations in Abyssla, the Italians were trying to develop, (besides her participation in Abysmoves slowly in Dubrovnik is the 1 elsewhere in this issue, that Widely believed war will break al- Jibuti, humid. unpleasant port of French Messageries Maritimes lingemusle of Verdi and Bizet, gently

In-

town,

Most of Dubrovnik was destroyed suggestions for increasing Hong-most immediately."

French Somailland, And the French, bound for Indo-China, and any other played in the cafes. kong's war effort are advanced. three days....

The war had been under way sitting pretty down there. collect Red Sea freighters that pop in.

the in the earthquake of 1887, but not a to monopólice heavy tolls in the way of Customs, dians seem

house seems to have come Into it For example, funds might be

ordinary

commerce in the dues on coffice, hides, wax, ivory,]

since. The city of the ancient re- carmarked to provide an acro-

Somulis seem to da the donkey pubile is built throughout, battle- Of course, Mussolini has musk and a few other things. plane, on ambulance, a tank, or

work. reasons for wanting such

churches, cloisters, On top of this, the French take But if I

were French ar Italian ments, palaces,

fountains. shope,

paving, plump motor torpedo-bont. These a place from France.

tight little hazel-a ut off Abyssinia's trade with the for Somalt), Jibuti la not a pince bollards in the Old Harbour, of the Ilbuti is ideas are worthy of fuller con-

of their crazy, pair of big help

I should willingly fight for. For Turn to Page 9. First Columna wedged in * sideration, for they enjoy the nutcrackers, the jaws of which are long toy railway that connects Abys- anybody who wants it can have it. virtue of practicability. taking the discussion from the realm of academic patriotism into the fields of applied action.

We hope too that this second meeting will not only be much better attended than its forerunner, but that several of the suggestions advanced lust Friday will again come up for discussion. We are particularly impressed with the proposal for saving newspapers and empty tins. That there is a ready and profitable market for these dis- carded commodities is indicated by the eagerness with which amalia and cook boys seize and make use of them. Indeed, we are aware that quite fancy prices- are being paid for old newspapers and used tins in Hongkong. There is no reason why the B.W.O.F. should not receive the benefit of this market.

Direct service to the Allied cause may be a trifle difficult to offer from this great distance, but money we can give, and hero seems to be at least one sound and convenient method of raising some of that money. Few people are aware of the fact that second-hand newspapers are |

nut

500-mile-

The tower itself became on Janu-

grundiose incrédible work, received certain height. But a metal con- go until December 31, 1894, to the the congratulations modestly, touch- struction opened up new possibilities, constructor, ed, yet filled with pride. He was Eiffel's project was net with mis- an eklerly broad-shouldered gentle- trust by many experts. Would the ary 1, 1880, the property of the City. - man with

a round brown beard, steel bars be able to withstand the of Paris. To-day already streaked with white, and wind pressure at such height? of State. sagacious, earnest eyes..

Would the workmen.be able to work Eiffel lived and worked long after at such a height? -

the erection of the Elfel Tower-he was then already 57 he died only

in 1923. But the red jower of steel

in the Champs de Mars remained the

is the property,

The Eiffel Tower was indeed the Kreat

sensation of the World Exhibi— lion. Some were amazed at its height, but the experts admired it. for its superistive technical execu-

The commission which examined tion. The public flocked to see it.. great work of his file, with which the plan, however, thought other At the restaurants in, the first (185 he entered the history of building for wise. They had full confidence in feet) and second

all time,

(487 feet) 'plat— ElTel's ability.

forms It was diMeult at certain hours But when the public learned about to find a place. Gustave Eiffel, the of the day, the project a sturm of Indignation most popular man

laboratory for himself on Iis tower, for the construction of broke in the art circles of Paris, A greeted which 9,000 tons of steel were used, protest was published which was top of the tower, where he sludleck surpassed in height not only all the signed by the leaders of the art aerodynamic problems..

The Eiffel

buildings of those days...the Cheops Pyramid of 474 feet or the Washing- ton Memorial of 507 Icel-but it has held the record till now for the high-

Is

were

Tower 50

But fate had prepared a bard blow for this man who at one stroke had reached world fame. As direc

Years

Old

est building. The New York sky world of Paris of those days. Among lor of the Panama Canal Society he scraper, the Woolworth Building, Is

others

the scandal, that Maupassant, Sardou, was Involved in 227 feet lower.

Huysmans, Sully-Prikihonime, Fran- destroyed that. Il-fated company. When in the spring of 1880, cels Coppée, Chiarten Gounod. They In 1892, together with Ferdinand. Gustave Eiffel handed over the plans protested against the barbaric de Lesseps and other leading officials of of his gigantic tower, which was to formity of the appearance of the the Panoma Society, he appeared in be the main attraction of the 1889 clly, they talked about the death of the dock. Although one of the best World Exhibition, be had already # the world-famous Parisian · taste. barrinters of the day pleaded, his was in March, 1880, when respected nume as a daring construc But this protest, which might have case, Eiffel was sentenced to two on the highest point of the ter in steel. Railway bridges and been effective, was sent too late. Not years' imprisonment and a heavy line- contract with Eiffel was imposed on him. A re-trial'ben.

imported into Hongkong and Eiffel Tower, on the round viaducts introduced his name to his unly was the

profession. In wider circles his signed and the first part of his fees fore the Supreme Court finally catab

China for re-sale for various balcony above the Lantern, a name was not unknown, as he was the already paid to him but work had fished his complete innocence and he purposes, chiefly from the small society of gentlemen builder of the pavilion of the City started on the foundations and the wan liberated.

United States.

of Paris at the Parla World Exhibi-

Nearly every gathered for its solemn in- tion of 1875. This, owing to the factories were in full swing, home in Hongkong subscribes to auguration.

at least one Hongkong newspaper

novelty of its steel construction, had In the contract which had been caused a sensation,

signed on January 3, 1887, a sub- The Eiffel Tower has long hince and to one or more English,

Eiffel had dreamed for a long time aldy of 1,600,000 francs was granted, become part of the city. It has be-- American or Dominion journals.

The Tricolour was hoisted by M. of a colossal building of steel and the income from the entrance come a sign for Paris, like the from the letting of Towers of Notre Dame, the donis of 1toyen a fraction of these papers Francois Carol-on of the and feet high i had for long charges and

been general knowledge to all build premises in the towered he Pantheon, Use groen-Tool.pl the

the Arc de wore saved, the B.W.OF. might French Prestdant: high, wasted top ing engineers that a stone building enveral restaurants and esfer a Opera, and ille aree Trompe benefit to the extent of some huts were waved, and Gustave Alex- could not because of the weight of branch office of the siguro and Walter Angel

andre··Elftol, the creator of this the material be extended" above a Inmitinerable souvankristalswREDEO)

thing like $10,000 a month.