EMPIRE REVIEW

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3811, 21 September 1936, Page 7

EMPIRE REVIEW

COMMENT ON CURRENT NE(WS.

Major E. W. Polson Newman, who recently visited Abyssinia, describes conditions in that country. Mt W- A. Hirst replies to those Italian critics who have defended their country’s aggression against Abyssinia on the ground that the British Empire was built up by conquest and aggression. Captain M. D. Kennedy denies that Japan has fortified the Pacific islands she holds under mandate from the League of Nations. Professor L. F. Rushbrpok discusses the next step in the federation of the States of India. Mr Henry W. J. Stone surveys the changes in the House of Commons during the past twentyfive years. Mr V. B. Metta describes the progress of Albania since she became an independent State twentythree years ago. Mr G. Wearmouth describes cattle ranching in Alberta. Mr Russel explains how tea drinking by the natives of Egypt has become a curse. The fellahin boil the leaves in water, and when the liquid is removed, add more water and leaves and boil it again. They repeat this process, which “extracts all the heavy elements in the leaves, especially the astringent acids, and produces a heavy brown bitter mixture, which through its constricting properties is very deleterious to the stomach.”