Paris, 6 July - Colonel Lawrence is not dead. Daring rumours are spreading about Mrs Shaw, the strange passenger on the "Atenor", the ship that docked in Marseilles just a few hours before setting sail for England. No one has seen Mrs Shaw. She received a large amount of mail, and the reporters who wanted to know whether she was Lawrence's mother were in for a surprise. One wonders if the passenger was not Lawrence himself. This hypothesis is singularly supported by current incidents in Ethiopia. Those who have experienced the methods used by British Intelligence against French influence in Palestine believe that Italy is coming up against the same procedures. Lawrence's shadow hangs over Ethiopia. No one saw Colonel Lawrence die. No one saw him die apart from three or four Intelligence Service agents. Everything about his death is strange. It was on Monday 12 May 1935 that a motorcyclist suffered a serious fall in the south of England. Two days later the British newspapers reported that the motorcyclist was carrying papers in Shaw's name but that he was in fact Colonel Lawrence. During Shaw-Lawrence's agony the authorities kept silent about the patient's condition. On May 19, the newspapers announced Lawrence's death. The wounded man had been very well chosen and official indications were that "had he survived, the wounded man, whose brain was literally crushed, would not have recovered the use of speech and would have lost most of his sense of sight". He was laid to rest in the hospital, in a room guarded by civil servants with bayonets. The Colonel's funeral was extremely simple. And finally, why bury the colonel under the name of Shaw, if he was really dead? None of Lawrence's family, which consists of his mother and two brothers, one having attended the funeral, and the other being in China, is in mourning for the Colonel. These arguments form a singularly impressive whole. The hypothesis of a substitution of persons is entirely plausible. And now one of the sailors on the "Antenor", who had once met Lawrence, claims that "Mrs Shaw", the passenger on the "Antenor", bear a striking resemblance to the 'deceased' colonel. It was a disturbing coincidence that Mrs Shaw had travelled to Djibouti from Abyssinia, where women rarely travel alone as tourists, especially at the moment. Soon, perhaps, the Ethiopian affair will take an extremely dangerous turn : we can bet that we will hear more about Colonel Lawrence, dead or alive.