May 4
Marshal Badoglio has won hi race against the rains, His advanc ing troops will enter Addis Ababa at their leisure, The Emperor has fled and the rest of the Ethiopian Government has retired to Gon, a town in the wilds south-west of the Capital. It is judged that the campaign is at an end, for with the Emperor's departure the prospects of galvanizing the—_shatlered Ethiopian forces into organized resistance by guerrilla operations must be remote, Thus the invasion which began on October 3 and was subjected to considerable and not altogether unsuccessful resistance up to the begining of January has rapidly developed. By the use of all the available weapons of modern warfare, the products of mechanical and chemical science, Marshal Badoglio has overcome the formidable obstacles presented by the difficulty of the terrain, the asperities of the climate and the undoubted bravery of the ill-equipped Ethiopian armies. As soldiers charged with a specific task, Marshal Badoglio and his forces have met the demands made upon them. Whether the campaign be approved or not, they have the: methods f gas warfare, increases the destruction which the armed argument invariably creates. Good service to international understanding cannot be rendered by retaliatory wrath. The proper course is to recognize the causes which gave it birth and soberly apply such remedies as may be suitable when the opportunity of-fors.
Whether that time has come is 'a matter for the interested nations to eceide, The reactions to the [drama of the Ethiopian collapse Lave yet to declare themselves. Those who believed that a "colonial expedition" could be kept outside the orbit of major international issues. will probably modify their views. The complexities of the European situation have been accentuated events which have directly arisen out of that crossing of the Moreb River in the first week of Octsber. Pessimism may assert that the "law of the jungle" has been, definitely accepted and that the catastrophe of the next world war brought tragically nearer. © The junior subailern's attempt to write an appreciation, may be recalled:
Our ammunition is running low; forces are depleted and demorized; cur position is plainly unten~ fable—but our cause is just, Heaven is with us, and we are certain to win Supérior authority, commenting on this statement objected:
Your last three remarks, though relegate polities to the background. Yet it would be ungracious—indeed remies—to allow.the present rejoicings to pass without paying tribute to the fine sense of unquestioning discipline and patriotic fortitude with which the Japanese people marshal themselves behind their Emperor in devotion to the national cause. Taking an im= portant place in the international structure of Shanghai, the Japenese community deserves' special consideration on this day when it makes its bow to the Emperor who is now in the tenth year of his reign. Both he and his Empress are the objects of unswerving solicitude at the hands of their subjects. They also command the respectful admiration and esteem of the world at large. To them and to their family, including the young Crown Prince who is the subject of such unwearied attention and care, sincere good wishes are tendered.
"Great Lords have their pleasures, the people have joy"—Montesquiew's apophthegm 1s peculiarly applicable to the day on which a nation forgets its immediate troubles and tribulations and sets itself to make merry and recall the folklore on which its genius is based. In the process the Lords find pleasure by merging their personalities in the common delight of the moment—the people, for the nonce, become lords of themselves: and get away from the drabness dulge in pageantry and make-believe on a holiday braces the adult temperament and pi ntly assists: to inlake rough places even, crooked raths straight.
This desire common to all nations, In mediaeval England-ind the same spirit is to be found in the England of the 20th Contury—it was said of a national festival: fond place suggests that the th {hat that colt is not a stayer may to be revised, although the D Will ask a sterner question then Proposed last. Wednesday. market. 'Thankerton's. bromine fof interest to Shanghai in that Manna colt from Verdict, 3 are. who, as a theee-ya fchioved 'a' dramatic victory i Cambridgeshire © of 1923 when When bonfires great, with torly Beat 2 much-fancied French, amar in every" Cone oe date, Bpinard by a short DR. SCHACHT'S Positi And young men round about with maydas doo dance On the face of it the decisl street, invest General Goering with With garlands wrought of mother-ordinary powers in dealing with wort, of else of vervaine sweet, materials and foreign exchanét$ And many other flowers faire, with to affect the position of Dr. 4 violets in their hands, considerably, although it is state Whereas they all doe fondly think General Gosring will "merely that whosoever stands the Reichsminister for Eco! And threw the flowers behold the Affairs.
At this distance it flame, his eyes, shall feo! no possible to assess the exit!
paine, ance of the change, bul When thus til night they danced Schacht's membership of the have, the a they through re] Government undoubtedly maine important implications in est With striving minds doe run, and Germany's credit abroad. It all their herbs they " cast assumed, therefore, that therein; will not be inclined to alloy Ané then with words devout, and $0. forceful a colleague as, prayers they solemnly begin, Goering to render Dr. Schachts Desiring God that all their ilk ies tion. untenable. The rumours may there confounded be: British Joan to Germany, in whereby they think through all denials, are revived. The 4 that year, from agues to be fr ce [mentioned seems in itself That happy blend of merriment fantastic and there to believe that the denials, with "devotion affords the true index to the significance of these national days, in whatever land they command celebration. May the Japanese residents of Shanghai find to-day's enjoyment similarly fruit-founded, The reports leat dicate, that the economic post giving the German Governmey for uneasiness and it ce) should be borne in mind i866 the political possibilities next fow weeks, right to recognition of the efficiency of their conduct of the operations just the stuff to stiffen an exhorta~ tion to the troops, are misplaced in is inseparable from the task ful in its benign influence.
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