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...today of the tremendous preparations for Il Duce's drive into Ethiopia and found a new respect for the men working behind the lines. Il Duce's two flying sons, Victor and Bruno, were at the airport here at dawn today when the correspondent, flying from Khartum, in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, landed. Mussolini's kinsmen were screwing fuses into bombs, with comrades of lesser station but no less keen to begin the big show...
What was going to happen now to the Ethiopian concession developed this week when the leaky old French steamer Porthos limped into Suez bearing Promoter Rickett. If that Briton had been a crowned head, he could not have been received, according to local newshawks, with greater consideration by Anglo-Egyptian officials. Suez Chief of Police Frank Harvey took the promoter off in a special launch, assigned a squad of detectives to guard him as he hurried from the canal area to Egypt proper. At the barrier an Egyptian officer snapped to salute and Francis M. Rickett drove off escorted...
...Ethiopia, which is roughly round in shape, as the face of a watch. Then all of Ethiopia covered by a minute hand as it sweeps around from 12 to 8 is covered by the Rickett Concession. Not in this area is Lake Tana, vital water source of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. On the imaginary watch, Tana is at the tip of the hour hand...
...plane thundered out of sight Addis Ababa buzzed with rumors that Fat Chaps had also obtained a $20,000,000 dam and pumping station concession at Lake Tana, the object being to increase the volume of water reaching the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan...
...most Conference delegates discreetly praised its "frankness." Off the record, to correspondents of their own nationality, they said that Germany had been unmasked by her Minister of Justice in the act of creating a penal code which had little to do with Justice as that term is understood by Anglo-Saxons. The split between Germany and her penologist guests appeared to them so wide that a majority resolved informally to remain silent and enter no discussion. They noted with upped eyebrows that Dr. Gurtner called explicitly for "severity in the treatment of prisoners so that the punishment may be appropriate...