LED BY TWO SAINTS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 22, 7 November 1935, Page 5

LED BY TWO SAINTS

BELIEF BY ABYSSINIANS.

“MORE THAN MATCH FOR IL DUCE.”

PREVIOUS INCIDENTS RECALLED

(Received Thil Day, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, November 6. The Addis Ababa correspondent of the “Daily.Telegraph’’ says that the Emperor Haele Selassie will take Father Gabreab, also two famous arks of the Covenant —one of Saint George, reputedly the organiser of tlie Abyssinian victory over the Italians at Adowa in 1896, and the other that of Saint Gabriel, who gave Selassie the victory against Ras Michel, father of the rebel Lij Eyassie, in 1916. Abyssinian warriors assert that they saw Saint George riding a white horse at Adowa Reading Menelik’s hosts to conquest, thus repeating the Roman legend of Castor and Pollux aT the battle of Lake Regillus. They declare that St. George and St. Gabriel are more than a match for Mussolini.

WELCOMED BY COPT PRIESTS.

CLAD IN WOMEN’S GARMENTS

CHURCHES HEWN OUT OF ROCK

(Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, November 6. The Rome correspondent o? “The Times” says that General Riroldi’s native troops encountered , in Asilo Valley, due north of Makale, a remarkable collection of Copt churches of some architectural merit, excavated out of the hard rock.

The resident priests received the troops with full liturgical ceremony, carrying crosses and many coloured umbrellas, but they somewhat detracted from the dignity of the occasion by wearing women’s garments propitiatorily given them by the troops. The sight of 100 venerable black : bearded hermits draped in gaudy petticoats and gay bodices, solemnly chanting psalms, sent the soldiers into shrieks of laughter.—“ Times.”

LEAGUE NOW A REALITY.

THE FLEET IN MEDITERRANEAN

ANXIETY TO MUSSOLINI. LONDON, November 5. The League recently ‘ was almost mockery and now lias become a reality, said Mr Winston Churchill at Hull. The real explanation was the British Fleet in the Mediterranean, where its pres<#ice raised the whole life of the League to a, higher plane and made the great experiment of future government by law into a reality, which was a far greater cause of anxiety to Signor Mussolini than the Abyssinian army.

EUROPE LOOKING TO BRITAIN.

HiELP AND ADVICE NEEDED

ESSENTIAL FOR PROSPERITY.

LONDON, Nov. 5

The Prime Minister (Mr Stanley' Baldwin), in a speech at Liverpool, said that not only did Britain need a strong, tried Government, hut he believed also- that Europe was looking to this country for help and advice, as she had never done before there. Undoubtedly throughout Europe there was a strong, resolute desire for peace. Britain must do what she could to pursue peace, and in regard to the present war they must try to find some solution agreeable to Italy, Abyssinia, and the Xeague, realising that if they failed to prevent war their next duty was to bring that war to an end, not by isolated- action, but by all sharing the risks and all sharing the honour of settlement if it were obtained. Peace in Europe was a necessary and essential preliminary to the re-starting of international trade, which was essential for the • prosperity of all Europe.—British Official Wireless.