FRENCH GARRISON

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22210, 10 September 1935, Page 9

FRENCH GARRISON

REINFORCEMENTS SENT COLONIAL REGIMENT (Received September 9, 11.45 p.m.) PARIS. Sept. 9 A regiment of colonial infantry has left Brest to reinforce the French garrison at Jibouti, French Somahland. AFRICAN FRONTIERS RIGHTS OF THE UNION MONROE DOCTRINE URGED PRETORIA. Sept. 8 " Britain and South Ai:ri(sa are entitled to state that they will not tolerate new and large armed forces indefinitely on their frontier," said Mr. H. Abercrombie in moving a motion at a meeting of the Pretoria Chamber of Commerce requesting the South African Government to .formulate a Monroe Doctrine to preserve the status quo in Africa. The motion was carried and is to be submitted to the congress of Chambers of Commerce on September 16. Mr. Abercrombie stated that territorial changes would mean a loss of trade to the British Empire. South African mines and citifis Could be bombed by airmen from Abyssinia. South Africa could not allow the transfer of mandated territories to other Powers.

PATHETIC DESPATCH DISTANT CHIEF'S MESSAGE "WE WILL FIGHT FOR YOU" ADDIS AIJABA. Aug. 30 Borne in a cleft stick —in the manner of the Queen of Sheba's messengers of thousands of years ago—a pathetic despatch reached the Emperor to-da.v at the hands of an exhausted runner, says the Addis Ababa correspondent of the Sydney Daily Telegraph. Bent by Has Fitwawriri Allmmayuo, a chieftain near Asmara, in Italian Eritrea, five weeks ago, and carried by relays of runners through jungle and over raging rivers and mountains, it contained an answer to the Emperor's appeal to all foreign-ruled Abyssinians for help. The correspondent was at the palace w hen the messenger arrived, and later Was able to obtain a translation of the Uessajre. It read: — 'To our Emperor and our people, whom we lone ago lost: "For 40 years myself and my peoplo have been sad. We sleep little and prav a lot. Your letter asking for help has Wade us all new people. If it be God's we men, women and children are J e ady to share your trouble. Come and our families and goods and we fiftht for you till we die." (A ,<\a day passes but a powerful ras yssinian chieftain), with hundreds Ah l m&i re^a ' uers * calls at Addis a to swear allegiance to the peroi Y then goes back to his district.