Word: aduwa
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...object of British Lieut. General Napier was to punish a bad Emperor for having tortured some Englishmen. Benito Mussolini began his road-building and colonizing invasion of Ethiopia last October. Three days later Aduwa fell, followed by the fall of the Holy City of Aksum a week later. The emotional advance was stupendous. The territorial advance was 75 miles. Nothing much except road-building happened for a month. Then the Italians pushed their advance 65 miles by taking Makale (TIME, Nov. 18). Nothing of a victorious nature continued to happen for three months. Then under newly appointed Marshal Pietro Badoglio...
...their hour's chat, the Dictator spoke of the effect produced on Ethiopians when invading Italians set up at Aduwa the first cinema projector the town had ever seen, and invited the whole town to see the show. "I am not sure that was a work of Civilization," sardonically remarked Mussolini. "The natives fled to the hills as if from the Devil. Perhaps they were right...
...peoples of Ethiopia are very old but the Empire is very young. When Chief (Continued on p. 16) Justice Charles Evans Hughes was a youth of 18 there was properly speaking no Ethiopian Empire and the future Emperor Menelik ruled, as King of Shoa, the vicinity of Lake Tana, Aduwa, Aksum and Dessye. Three-quarters of the present Empire, including Harar and Ualual, he did not rule. Haile Selassie was born 44 years ago at Harar and in 1930 succeeded his cousin Menelik's daughter, Empress Zauditu, on the Throne...
...return Haile Selassie offered to cede to Italy most of the southern province of Ogaden and in the north the captured Aduwa-Adigrat section of Tigre Province but not the Holy City of Aksum. All this was also provided in Deal...
...Army's highest rank of Marshal and into retirement was goat-bearded, rheumy-eyed but able and sagacious old General Emilio de Bono. Under this Original Fascist the flower of Italy's hottest-headed youthful volunteers have gone out to Africa, avenged the 19th Century "Shame of Aduwa" and occupied some 10,000 sq. mi. The combination of young hotheads in the van with a very old Fascist behind them has been either extremely odd or touched with genius. Enemies of the Dictator have accused him of sending first to fight in Africa mercurial youths whom...