Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ethiopia arrived last week 105 Italian colonists, each the father of a family waiting anxiously in Italy. The most capable expect to receive, gratis, an Ethiopian farm of 66 to 125 acres, but for the first two years the colonists (and others who follow them) will farm communal tracts...
...encouraging for the families of the colonists was the news printed last week by Armed Forces (Benito Mussolini's official military paper). It gave an account, presumably not exaggerated, of the difficulties of pacifying Ethiopia. During the rainy season (mid-June to mid-September) 113 Italian bombing planes were kept busy supplying isolated Italian outposts. Armed Forces described as "characteristic" the "episodes" of Lalibela, Bilbala Gorgis, Debra Brehan and Debra Sina...
...Paris, was taking photographs and sending articles from Spain to Newsweek and The Spur. The other fatality was Ernest Richard Sheepshanks of the British Reuters News Service. A superior young British bachelor, he was once captain of the Eton cricket eleven, followed the armies of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia, and won the awed admiration of Italian aviators in Salamanca by dressing for the war in a shepherd's plaid shooting jacket and ponderous suede shoes...
...side was the third casualty, hulking, grey-haired Edward J. Neil, 37, whose boast it was that neither he nor his father had ever worked for anyone but the Associated Press. Long-time a Manhattan sports writer, he won a medal and the title Commendatore from Marshal Badoglio in Ethiopia, went on night raids with Arab sharpshooters in Palestine, reported King George's Coronation, and scooped the world on the Rightist capture of Bilbao by filing his story under fire...
Hustled to a base hospital at Santa Eulalia and then to Saragossa beside his wounded friends, it was found that Correspondent Neil, who nearly died of a chest hemorrhage in Ethiopia was suffering from 34 shrapnel wounds. A Catholic priest gave his blood for a transfusion during the night and none other than El Caudillo Franco took time off from the greatest battle of his life to telephone about his condition. But gangrene had set in. Not realizing the seriousness of his wounds, worrying about his typewriter and still hoping for a glass of beer on the morrow, Eddie Neil...