Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1935, Page 13

. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 15, 1935—PART ONE. ts no more than the Mediocre priced—is a promise fulfilled in every purchase you make. A—13 LAWRENCE ALIVE, DECLAE ARABS Briton Reported Seen op Way to Eritrea and Abyssinia. BY LINTON WELLS. SUEZ, Egvpt.—Lawrence of Arabis is not dead. So say the Arabs. Here, as in Alexandria, Cairo, Is- mailia, Port Said and elsewhers in Egypt, this correspondent has found & definite conviction among the Sons of the Prophet, and not a few “in- Courtesy Parking fidel” foreigners, that the fabulous —for our customers while . D ; S}?:WT'[ = Sha‘z—m; umaliate . 0 ! % —is alive and “a again.” shopping here—in the Capi- Wherever the followers of Mahomet tal Garage. congregate, be it in the seething ba- oW season with a collec- hnd Floor Coverings— ps—which has been Much of it from our astercraftsmen. 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Draw-top table with turned legs and bracing stretchers; corner cabinets; rush seat sides and arm chairs. Trestle Tables_.__ $29.50 Saw-buck Table__ Butterfly Table_ Draw-top Table_ Corner Cabinet China Closet.-- Side Chair-.- Arm Chair_. ... -----§20 zaars of the cities or about the quiet desert oases, the story is told and retold that the Uncrowned King of the Arabs is somewhere in Eritrea or Ethiopia, rallying the true be- | lievers to the Anglo-Abyssinian cause in an effort to thwart Premier Benito | Mussolini and preserve the water rights of Great Britain in the ancient | realm of Sheba. An Agence d'Orient dispatch, cabled from sacred Jeddah and published | widely in the Egyptian and Near Eas! press, supports the belief by saying: “The rumor has spread that Col Lawrence has crossed the country | (Soude Arabie) on his way to Eritrea | and Abyssinia. The denials of the authorities have had no effect upon | the belief of the population.” Perfidious Albion, say the Arabs, | again is living up to its name. Months | ago, they aver with gusto, Whitehall | foresaw the need of Lawrence's mas- | terly services in Ethiopia and adjacent territories wherein the sulky and in- creasingly refractory Moslems must be humored and allied with the Brit ish rather than with the Italian cause, | Conflict of Purposes. On the one hand was Mussolini, offering them tangible Italian silver in return for at least non-support of Emperor Haile Selassie if not active | support of Roman aggression. On the other hand was Great Britain, | forced to overcome oft-broken prom- |ises to the Arabs by simply making | more promises in the hope of main- taining an integrated Ethiopia with the consequent probability of preserve ing vital English “rights” country, chiefly the right to the Soudan and Egvpt m Lake Tana via the Blue Nile. Who bettcr than Lawrence, ask the Arabs, could persuade Mahomet's followers to be- lieve once again in Perfidious Albion? | Lawrence, they point out, of course could not undertake such a mission openly. So, having had experience with Great Britain's oblique diplo- matic methods, the Arabs have be- come convinced that it was not Air- craftsman Shaw who was killed so tragically on the Essex Downs in a motor cycle accident last May. They believe that the leader of volt in the desert™ was prevailed on to take advantage of a fortuitous acci- dent and to disappear, and that to- day he is continuing his romantic career in East Africa as a British secret agent “The world may believe Lawrence | dead, but we don't,” they say with cynical smiles. When reminded that | government officials, medical officers | and even Lawrence’s brother were in attendance at the “king's” death, they shrug indifferent shoulders and assert that these persons became par- ties to the deception for the welfare of the British government “But have you seen Lawrence?” this correspondent has asked per- sistently. Depend on Hearsay. “No.” they admit, “but we know those that have.” And then, to clinch their point, they will tell another story concern- ing British diplomatic ulldugzery in Ethiopia and affirm “by the beard of the prophet” that it is true be- yond contradiction. That is the story of how England manipulated the deposition of the Emperor Yasu, predecessor of the pres peror Haile Selassie and youthful grandson of the great Emperor | Menelik II, who died in 1913. | , As events subsequently proved, one is reminded, Lej Yasu's departur | was of no great loss to any one but himself, so no tears are to be wept for him. It was in 1915, say the older Arabs with amused and somewhat reminis- cent smiles, that the British became excessively annoyed over a tendency on the part of Lej Yasu to coquette with the Germans. This was, of course, & most heinous offense, for an alliance between Ethiopia and Germany at that time not only would have had disastrous consequences in British East Africa, but conceivably would have wreaked havoc in the Sudan and Egypt. Any diversion of the precious waters of Lake Tana | from the Blue Nile—well. the British | still shiver over the possibilities. Whitehall decided, say the Arabs, that Lej Yasu must go. But how? He was on fairly good terms with his Christian tribal chieftains and was making strenuous efforts to mol- lify his Mohammedan tribesmen. There didn't seem to be much of a chance or an uprising until some one | dusied off the age-old formula of | playing religions against each other. Ethiopia is the oldest independent nation in the world, its history dating | from about 4470 B. C. It is also the | oldest Christian nation in the world. | It was in 1915, as it is today, domi~ nated completely by the Coptic Chris- tian Church. A large proportion of its 8,000,000 population are priests, enjoying the benefits of tithes and | other protfiable perquisites. Development of Unrest. So British agents, the Arabs relate, began to circulate among the priests, dropping a hint here and a thought there to the effect that Lej Yasu, their Christian emperor, was about to be- come converted to Islam. It didn't take long for the news to get around that the nation's most cherished insti- tution—the church—was threatened with destruction, with a consequent loss of soft jobs. Unrest began to de- velop, but it came slowly, so the coup de grace was administered. A photograph was taken of a noted Mahometan chief presiding at a re- ligious festival. A clever bit of super- imposition followed, and soon copies of the picture were being circulated | to remotest sections of Ethiopia. But | instead of the Mahometan chief’s face | and figure, those of the Christian | Emperor Lej Yasu were to be seen | presiding at a Moslem religious cere- | mony. Here was incontrovertible proof that the direct descendant of Solomon and Sheba had embraced Islam. 80 say the Arabs, in recounting how British “rights” in Ethiopia were pre- served in 1916. And extensive read- ing of Ethiopian history will tend to bear them out. (Copyright. 1035.)