A FABIAN POLICY

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 111, 6 November 1935, Page 9

A FABIAN POLICY

HAWARIAT'S ADVICE

REPORT TO THE EMPEROR

LONDON, November 4.

The Addis Ababa correspondent of "The Times" says that General Tekla Hawariat, former representative of Abyssinia at Geneva, addressed the Emperor and leading Abyssinians. for two hours. He described the European situation and the work of the Abyssinian delegation at Geneva, lauding British policy.

The Emperor paid the keenest attention.

General Hawariat then took from his pocket several 1000-franc notes and handed them to the Imperial treasurer, saying: "Here are all my savings since I began work at Paris. They are but the beginning of what I will give to my country. Why keep money and lose independence?"

Turning to the notable men present, he urged them to do the same, exclaiming: "My diplomacy is over, now I must fight. This money will buy arms." He concluded with detailed advice on guerrilla warfare, emphasising that a Fabian policy of warfare was vital to Abyssinia in order to prolong the campaign until the next rams, when a mass attack would be possible.

The "Daily Telegraph's" Addis Ababa correspondent states that Captain Rudloph Brunner, who served four months' imprisonment for participation in the Nazi putsch which resulted in the murder of Dr. Dollfuss, after which he was expelled from Austrin. has been engaged by the Emperor to reorganise the Abyssinian police force. Captain Brunner is reported to have brought 100 German machine-guns from Berlin.