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...steaming city of Addis Ababa last week prepared to welcome home its conquering Lion of Judah, Emperor Haile Selassie, King of Kings, who was ousted from his throne by the Italians five years ago last week. Houses were decorated with the national colors (green, yellow & red) and native artists were busy painting pictures of the Negus as St. George slaying an Italian dragon with help from the British Army. Togaed Ethiopians massed in the main square and cheered as a radio announcer read out the names of the first 250 Italians to be sent to internment camps, while some...
...dress parade than war. Some of the Eritrean force swept down into Ethiopia and took Aduwa, scene of the famed Italian debacle in 1896. The South African detachment which had taken Italian Somaliland, had swept up across the Ethiopian savannas and had cracked Harar, now drove up the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad at the rate of 25 miles a day. There was a brief, sharp action at the Awash River. Then the British pressed on and took Addis Ababa without meeting any Italian resistance...
Thus, at the age of five, died Benito Mussolini's infant colony. There was still probably a battle to be fought. Italian troops from Addis Ababa fled north to meet the Italian troops fleeing down from Eritrea. Presumably the two forces planned to join for one last stand...
...Addis Ababa, the Italian commander, the Duke of Aosta, left behind a note to the British commanders, General Wavell and Lieut. General Alan Gordon Cunningham, a remarkable but pathetic document of defeat...
...Royal Highness, the Duke of Aosta, wishes to express his appreciation of the initiative taken by General Wavell and General Cunningham regarding the protection of the women and children of Addis Ababa, thereby demonstrating that strong bonds of humanity and race still exist between our nations...