Impenetrable

Thumbing a dozen photographs mailed to him by a Tokyo lawyer, wife-hunting, dusky Lij Araya, prince of Ethiopia, found very charming a picture of Miss Masako Kuroda, daughter of Viscount Hiroyuki Kuroda of Japan. There was considerable correspondence between Addis Ababa and Tokyo, and finally a match was arranged, hailed with glee by both the Abyssinian and Japanese Press.

Last week Abyssinia's Foreign Minister Gueta Herouy suddenly announced that "because of the machinations of a certain power" the match had suddenly been called off. These were weasel words to Tokyo's Nichi Nichi which frankly announced that the machinations were those of Bcnito Mussolini.

"Italy," wrote Nichi Nichi, "dislikes the prospect of Japanese penetration in Ethiopia."

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