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...Wassan had returned to Addis Ababa to take over the Government under orders from his father. Remnants of the Imperial Guard drifting back to the Capital still had their rifles, bags of dried peas and the capacity to put up a fight. In the south things were different. The bloodiest battle of the entire War was raging last week around a collection of water holes and mud huts known as Sassa Baneh. There lean, wily Ras Nassibu had stationed legions of his best men, entrenched in an elaborate series of fortifications dug under direction of the onetime Turkish General Wehib...
...reported that "a real disturbance" seemed imminent before the 50 maitres were accommodated to their satisfaction in Justice's Palace. Twenty months ago two French Cabinets were unseated in succession by the Stavisky Scandal; the riots in the Place de la Concorde on Feb. 6, 1934 were the bloodiest in 63 years; and the present trial of Stavisky accomplices bristles with political dynamite. Since most Frenchmen believe that Swindler Stavisky did not commit suicide but was shot by agents of the State detective force to shield men who were high up two years ago and have never been arrested...
...Italo-Ethiopian dispute is not a thing we can regard as just another incident. There is a new spirit abroad in the world today. I believe that the world is entering a long, and if we must judge from what has gone before, one of the bloodiest and cruelest periods it has ever known...
...General Joseph R. Hayden was far north in the Igorot Country on an inspection tour. Major General Frank Parker, commanding the Philippine District, was vacationing in China. A better opportunity for an uprising could scarcely have presented itself to disadvantaged Filipino hotheads. Last week they took it, with the bloodiest consequences of any Philippine revolt in the past 15 years...
...days were built some of the first U. S. locomotives. There Inventor John Holland built a submarine in 1875. There today are the biggest silk mills in the U. S. And around those mills on the unsavory banks of the Passaic have been waged some of the bitterest and bloodiest strikes in U. S. history...