Ethiopia Eyes
Eritrea
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LANDLOCKED COUNTRY
SEEKS A WAY
TO THE SEA
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By FRED KRIEG
iff*) Newsfeatures
CAIRO—Almost unheard in the i
mad scramble to remake the map
of the world since the defeat of,
the Axis is the small voice of Ethi
opia, first overrun by the armies
of Mussolini ten years ago.
This landlocked country, nearly
half again the size of Texas and '
with a population nearly that of
New York State, has entered its i
formal bid for the return of Erit- j
rea and Somaliland “to the Em-1
pire,” declaring the primary con
sideration is the “right of access
to the sea.”
But already Egypt, through its!
Foreign Minister, Abdel Hamied
Badawi Pasha, apparently refer-,
ring to Egypt’s demands for unifi
cation of the Nile Valley under
exclusive Egyptian control, has
voiced the opinion that Eritrea is
“essentially a complement to an
other state.’’
Ethiopia bases its claim to the
territory bordering the Red Sea to
migrations from Asia "in the sec
ond and first millenniums before
Christ." when, it says, "the result
of those migrations was the estab
lishment of the Empire of Ethio
pia which for many centuries in
eluded the territories now known
as Eritrea and the various Somali*
lands."
Ethiopians deny that their coun
try seeks “reparation against Italy
but simply the rectification of a
wrong which for 60 years has de
prived Ethiopia, on the one hand,
of the oldest part of the Empire,
and, on the other, of access to the
sea.”
The disputed territory once par
tially was held by Egypt, but un
der a tripartite treaty with the
British Egyptian garrisons were
replaced by Ethiopians in 1884.
Italy first entered the area under
a commercial treaty in 1859, and
from then on, the Ethiopians
claim, followed a period of “grad
ual Italian encroachments” wind
ing up with the Italian invasion of
Ethiopia proper in 1935.
The Ethiopian government, in a
formal memorandum to the recent
Conference of Foreign Ministers
in London, claims the country is
"paying for the lack of access to
the sea" because her commercial
life is under the control of foreign
powers.
The memorandum asserts that
former British Foriegn Secretary
Anthony Eden, viewed “with sym
pathy” her aspirations for access
to the sea, and that this assurance
was renewed by former Prime
Minister Churchill during a meet
I ing in Cairo in February, 1945. It
adds that the late President Roose
velt and former Secretary of State
Hull “have formulated similar
statement of attitude.”
The memorandum blames the
I lack of a route to the sea for Ethi
opia’s failure to receive arms or
dered from abroad “for the prose
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j cution of the war against the Ital
ian invader,” and that instead
arms had to be shipped by camel
caravan from Berbera, Gulf of
Aden port, "which the British
government generously made
available.”
! Mixed up in this intricate pat
tern of North-East Africa politics
$100,000
For Quacks
By FRANK ECK
(£*) Newsfeatures Sports Writer
NEW YORK—The first peace
time duck hunting season was
quite spotty in general, but Ray
E. Benson, executive secretary of
Ducks Unlimited, Inc., still be
lieves the end of the war was a
boon to DU’s work of increasing
natural production of waterfowl
on their most important breeding
grounds in Canada.
“Construction materials for
dams, as well as labor, have been
released from priorities and we
i plan to double our efforts during
1946,” says Benson, who operates
DU’s national headquarters here.
“The Saskatchewan govern
ment, in cooperation with DU, has
set aside an area of over 1,000,000
acres on the Saskatchewan River
as a permanent wildlife reserve
for waterfowl nesting. DU is ear
marking a fund of $100,000 for de
velopment work, mostly stabiliza
tion of water levels in great
marshes bordering the river to
protect duck nests from being
is the question of whether the
Ethiopians are capable of admin
istering the territory they so much
desire. The Ethiopians emphatic
ally say that they "are. and further
more are "fully prepared to as
sume all the responsibilities of
such administration."
washed out by periodic floods.”
In some drought years millions
of young ducklings perish when
these great marshes dry up.
| During the season recently con
i eluded guides were booked solid
in most of the popular gunning lo
' : alities.
i
The Dakotas had particularly
good hunting while in Iowa the
shooting fell off . . . Arkansas,
l however, reports its best duck sea
son in many years with a notable
increase in mallards.
Minnesota, which has more
duck hunters than any other state,
reports an increase of diving
ducks.
Candlestick Maker Has
His Day—At Night
WARSAW, Poland —f/P)— Busi
ness is booming for hundreds in
Warsaw, who earn their living
making candles. The city must do
most of its night work by candle
light.
The reason is simply stated by
the manager of the Russian-re
. built electric power plant: He
, turns off the power.
Since there’s virtually no coal
I in Warsaw because of the lack of
railway cars and trucks, thousands
of families have purchased elec
tric heaters. The result is that
when people are home at night
there is more demand than there
is current.
Turbines that replaced those re
moved by the Nazis are of lim
ited power and must be turned off.
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