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Died. Empress Zauditu (Judith) of Abyssinia, 54, "direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba"; at Addis Ababa, Abyssinia; of "shock" on hearing that her husband, Ras Gugas Wali, had been killed in battle near Zebit...
...Commoner Mussolini enlisted the aid of King Vittorio Emmanuele's smart cousin, the Duke of Abruzzi. With pomp and panoply, the Duke and a suite of Royal proportions crossed the Mediterranean, sailed down the eastern coast of Africa, and then struck inland to Abyssinia and its remote capital, Addis Ababa. Of assistance in thawing the suspicious Regent's reserve was a huge, shiny Issota-Fraschini limousine, a de luxe Italian product which sells in the U. S. for some $18,000. This limousine and many another gift did the Duke of Abruzzi bestow...
...corridor through the Italian colony of Eritrea to the Red Sea, and the port of Assab; 2) Under an Italo-Abyssinian "Treaty of Amity and Arbitration" Italian financiers enjoy an option of financing any concessions which may be let along the new trade route from Assab to Addis Ababa; 3) A railroad to serve this route will be built, partly by Italian and partly by native capital. Persistent rumors hint the discovery and projected Italian exploitation of oi. lands in Abyssinia...
...tearing out the entrails of a living cow, that they may be gorged raw by old and young, washed down with brimming cups of mese (mead) or bousa (beer). A yard- wide French-operated railway climbs from French Jibuti on the Gulf of Aden 500 miles inland to Addis Ababa, the capital of Abyssinia. From this glorified dung hill, seat of an Imperial House which claims descent from the biblical Queen of Sheba, a formal protest reached the Secretariat of the League of Nations last week. Prince Regent Taffari of Abyssinia declared in the name of the retired Empress Zauditu...