ADVICE ON WARFARE

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 6 November 1935, Page 5

ADVICE ON WARFARE

GENERAL HAWARIAT’S TACTICS BRITISH POLICY LAUDED SAVINGS TO BUY ARMS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). LONDON, Nov. 4. General Tekla Hawariat to-day addressed the Emperor, Haile Selassie, and notables for two hours, says the Addis Ababa correspondent of “The Times.” He described the European situation and the work of the Abyssinian delegation at Geneva, lauding the British policy. The Emperor paid the keenest attention. General Hawariat then took from his

pocket several thousand franc notes and handed them to the Imperial Treasurer, saying: “Here are all my savings since I began the work at Paris. They are but the beginning of what I will give my country. Why keep money and lose independence?”

Turning to the notables General Hawariat urged them to do the same, exclaiming: “My diplomacy is over. Now I must fight. This money will buv arms.” He concluded with detailed advice on, guerilla warfare, emphasising that the Fabian policy of warfare was vital to Abyssinia in order to prolong the campaign until the next rains, when a' mass attack would be possible.

Captain Rudolph Brunner, "who served four months’ imprisonment for participation in the Nazi putsch "which resulted in the murder of Dr. Dolfuss, Austrian Chancellor, after w T hich he was expelled from Austria, 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.