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Gugsa into Honey? A terrified, bug-eyed, berobed young man was Emperor Haile Selassie's son-in-law Ras Haile Selassie Gugsa when he went over to the Italians (TIME, Oct. 21). Swaggering about last week in a swank Italian uniform, puttees and sun helmet, Ras Gugsa was ready to be set up as a puppet ruler by Il Duce should occasion offer...
Word came through to the Italian lines that not only had all Gugsa's lands and property within the Emperor's reach been seized, but a large number of his kinsmen had been put to death in Ethiopian revenge. Announcing to his 1,500 warriors that not only his but all their relatives had been slaughtered, Ras Gugsa exhorted his numerous personal followers to avenge themselves. General de Bono took a chance and gave them rifles, and away they streaked far in advance of the Italian columns which this week were driving toward Makale, whose inhabitants hoisted white...
Since the "magistrates" of rural China are its rulers, General Shang, as the representative of Nanking, had agreed, in effect, to put a fat part in North China under men who are as much the puppets of Japan as is the so-called Emperor of so-called Manchukuo. Within 48 hours "The Deal" was followed by the shooting of Premier Wang...
...Emperor was imprisoned in a fortress on Gara Mulata. There he was allowed luxurious furniture, rich foods and the run of his prison-but night & day he remained chained to the wrist of a guard. Even so he managed to escape in 1932 disguised as a woman. Since then Fitaurari Shimels, who fortnight ago was in Addis Ababa for orders, has been Yasu's special keeper...
Right in the path of the Italian advance lies the fortress of Gara Mulata. Therefore Emperor and jailer took good care last week that Italy should have no chance to rescue Child of Jesus, set him up on Haile Selassie's throne. Secretly their prisoner was moved hundreds of miles to the southwest, to Bako where he could contemplate life and his chains near the craggy shores of Lake Rudolf...