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...problem still bothering confused British newspaper readers last week was the color of the horse Marshal Badoglio rode into Addis Ababa. Wrote E. V. Knox in Punch...
Fall of Harar. All the excitement was not limited to Addis Ababa last week, Doggedly Italy's southern army under General Graziani plowed ahead toward Harar, Jijiga and Diredawa, key cities of the southeast. Only nature opposed them. At Harar, second city of the defunct empire, news that its defender, Ras Nassibu, had also fled the country caused another outbreak of rioting and looting almost as severe as that which shook Addis Ababa. Soon the Italians marched in, put down disorder with a heavy hand...
...miles away, Italian General Bastico had set up the headquarters of the Third Army Corps, whose duty it is to protect the long Italian line back to the coast. In his tent last week he sat reading dispatches, wishing he were further south enjoying the fun in Addis Ababa. Up to his tent rode a bedraggled, bearded native on muleback carrying a twisted twig and a scrap of white cloth. Stiffly dismounting, the blackamoor bowed low to the ground in token of submission. It was Ras Seyoum, onetime ruler of Tigre Province, the "Black Fox of Ethiopia." ablest...
...valor against the black mobs of Addis Ababa, Premier Albert Sarraut's Cabinet last week voted to promote France's Minister to Ethiopia Paul Bodard from a Chevalier to a Commander of the Legion of Honor. Simultaneously Mme Bodard was made a Chevalier. These non-political honors went to the Bodards for corralling 2,000 frightened whites in the French legation in Addis Ababa...
This message severely reminded Italy of the 1906 treaty guaranteeing French rights in Ethiopia, notably the French railroad from Addis Ababa to Djibouti in French Somaliland.* Last week Italian soldiers were swarming all over this tidy French investment, giving orders to indignantly vociferous French engineers (see p. 23). Did Italy propose, M. Flandin asked, to maintain the "open door" in Ethiopia as France has done in French Morocco...