Prince and Princess Chichtbu, who afe representing Japan at the Coronation, arrival at Waterloo Station, London. crowded appearance which mars the former coinage.
Abyssinian Revelations Extraordinary revelations of the planning of the Abyssinian War are fiven In a book by Marshal de Bone C*The Conquest of Abyssinia") now published by the Cresset Press. describes, the preparations and first phases of the campaign, and as it opens with an appreciative introduc tion by the Duce himself, we may accept it as the truth, and not as the allegations' of an anti-italian pro-shows that in 1932 General de Bone, as he then was, was sent to spy out the Jand in Eritrea and that '5 early as in 1033 the war was being planned between him and Signor Mussolini.
Then came many months of the most strenuous preparations Eritres, building roads and quays, and then the sending of forces. Of which the Duce insisted on sending vast numbers more than de Bone wanted "or could conveniently accommodate. In such a congested a inhospitable area too many soldiers were worse than too few, but that the Duce, intent on his own ideas for victory, could not understand.
The book shows that de Bone was continually impressing it on Mussolini that the Abyssinians did not want to fight. So it. was decided that the Mallans must take the offensive. This effectually disposes of the idea, so much advertised in 1935, that' the Abyssinians were so bellicose that the Tallans were compelled to defend themselves. In plain words, the book shows, with cynical frankness, that the war was planned, launched and carried through as' a deliberate Tt does not appear that the Abyssinians have yet seen much of the place and prosperity which the Duce promised them. To-day's telegrams Speak of 1300 Abyssinians fleeing across the border into British Somallland, while a Caproni bomber flew over them into British territory, though it did not take any offensive there. The influx of Abyssinian re~ fugees into British Somaliland is so large and continuous, that great ditficully Is being found in. providing them with housing and food, and they are likely to cost the Imperial Exchequer a considerable sum.
Salaries for MPs Mr. Baldwin's announcement to the House of Commons that he himself
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