War Within a War

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 11, 14 January 1936, Page 3

War Within a War

NEWSPAPER RIVALRY From Ethiopia came a wireless dispatch from Harold Denny, correspondent to the New York Times, telling of the war within a war which has been raging at Harrar for six weeks. Three British journalists at Harrar protested to their .Consul that the British Consulate, on a mountainside overlooking Harrar, virtually had been taken over by two American correspondents. The.correspondents had moved in, along with half a dozen British photographers, on the invitation of the Consul, Mr E. A. Chapman-Andrew, when Harrar had its first bomb scare. Said Mr Denny: “They set up mess in. the Consul’s dining room, turned the consular office into a lounging room and prepared to dodge bombs. . . . “Nothing happened. Tho guests stayed on, however, for the Consulate is the most comfortable and companionable place in Harrar, and the food is excellent. They are still there. . . British “outsiders” say that the Americans have taken over the place and are “running the show.” When the Consul is away, as he frequently is, the Americans tell outsiders they have orders not to admit them. They beat British correspondents fo news, and tell them the Consul is away when he is at home. British correspondents accuse them of having written up a press conference before it happened, and then giving sleeping tablets to the Consul so that he could not appeal