POLICY FOLLOWED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 244, 15 October 1935, Page 7

POLICY FOLLOWED.

Passage in Italian Liner Cancelled. U.S. SECRETARY OF TREASURY. (Received lo a.m.) • PARIS, October 14. • In deference to President Roosevelt's warning that Americans will travel in belligerent ships at their own risk, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary to the Treasury, has cancelled his passage to New York in the Rex, Italy's giant liner, and sails on the Normandie after calling Oil the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Bank of France. Aksum (Axum) is probably ooie of oldest cities, founded, according to legend, many thousands of years ago. It is situated 12 miles west by south of Adowa, at an altitude of 7226t't. It is referred to in documents of 67 A.D. as the seat of the Axumite kingdom, the successor of the more ancient Punt and the forerunner of modern Abyssinia. Aksum contains the famous church where, tradition relates, the Ark of the Covenant, brought from Jerusalem by Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, was deposited and is still supposed to rest. The church was burned when Aksum was sacked by Mohammed Gran, the Muslim invader of Abyssinia about 1535, and a new one was erected by the Portuguese shortly afterwards. The city is famous for its ancient inscriptions and its wonderful stone obelisks. Its highly finished monoliths appear to be connected with Semitic sun worship.