Word: djiboutis
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...official name of the only railway in Ethiopia is Compagnie du Chemin de Fer Franco-Ethiopien de Djibouti à Addis Ababa. Between magnificent modern stations at either end of the line stretch 494 miles of rough, single-track narrow-gauge roadbed over which a collection of ramshackle second-hand French rolling stock normally makes bi-weekly trips. One of the few pieces of equipment which can compare in splendor with the two terminals is Emperor Haile Selassie's white private car. Because natives along the barren right-of-way are in the habit of prying up steel rails...
...lire ($2,000,000) paid by Italians after their 1896 defeat at Adowa and hoarded ever since by Ethiopians. That there is plenty of money at the Emperor's command appeared from the fact that huge quantities of munitions have been unloaded and spread over several acres at Djibouti in French Somaliland, terminal of the one & only railway to Addis Ababa. By order of French Premier Pierre Laval these constantly growing acres of munitions continued to be withheld from Ethiopia last week, constitute a major trick up the French sleeve which can be played either for or against Dictator...
...French Somaliland, next door to bristling Italian Eritrea, the French naval sloop Dumont d'Urville, mounting five and one-half inch guns, ominously arrived last week, anchored to command the French harbor of Djibouti, connected by rail with Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa. All week freight cars from Addis Ababa were jam-packed with goods shipped out by frightened foreign merchants in Ethiopia who closed their stores, hoped to keep their goods in storage on French soil until better times. French Premier Pierre Laval, realizing the extreme delicacy of French Somaliland's situation, appointed last week...
...Djibouti the French colony shrugged as onetime U. S. Charge d'Affaires at Addis Ababa William Perry George displayed a brand new. diamond-studded gold watch emblazoned with the portrait of Emperor Power of Trinity who had given it to him "as a token of exceptional friendship.'' The watch was wasted, Frenchmen opined, noted with fresh shrugs that the new colony of U. S. correspondents at Addis Ababa gathered around His Imperial Majesty last week and joined in a solemn toast to Peace drunk in weak...
...That is Massaua, port city in the Italian colony of Eritrea, as described today by one of the first men to reach Djibouti from Massaua, in several weeks. He is a citizen of a nation historically friendly and disposed to favor Italian aspirations...