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...stranger to other shores is Dr. John Hathaway Spencer, 28, Grinnell '29, who has just taken up residence in Addis Ababa as new adviser on international affairs to the Ethiopian government. He was born in Rome, son of Edward B.T. Spencer, professor of Greek at Grinnell since 1916. Twice as his father's assistant he made European tours. After postgraduate work at Harvard, he received fellowships that enabled him to study a Paris and Germany...
Marshall Badoglio still had no miles farther to advance before he would capture-as Lieut. General Napier did for Queen Victoria-malodorous Magdala, which was then the capital. Addis Ababa is 170 miles still farther on. The total advance last week was about 120 miles from the Eritrean border...
...Kassa's army in the Tembien region of Ethiopia, northwest of Makale, has been destroyed. He himself is fleeing for his life with a few followers. Now between the Italian forces and Addis Ababa all Northern Ethiopia lies open and almost defenseless. Only Emperor Haile Selassie's private army can offer resistance, and it is not expected to be serious...
...Kassa may now return to Addis Ababa, the Italians hope and believe, not as the Negus' supporter but as his superior and perhaps even his enemy. The Italians look for profound developments within the unoccupied parts of Ethiopia within the near future. . . . The enormously important Galla tribes are friendly to the Italians and bitterly hate the Shoas and the ruling Amharas. When news of the defeat of Ras Kassa and Ras Mulugheta spreads, as it must, through Ethiopia, it is expected there will be profound repercussions. For this and other reasons the world may expect startling developments within...
...vacationing in his native New Zealand, the lively Panama American has been edited by a Chinese newsman named Winston Jay Lung. Acting Editor Lung soon found that his most tiresome duty was supply headlines to run above completely contradictory reports on the Ethiopian War dispatched from Rome and Addis Ababa. Fortnight ago, when a United Press dispatch arrived from the Ethiopian capital describing the death and burial of "15,000 white Italian troops and more than 5,000 native Italian fighters," Acting Editor Lung came to the end of his patience. Entirely discarding headline type, he ran the story...