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Emperor Haile Selassie, now dwelling quietly in the English countryside near London but insisting that a most warlike Ethiopian Government is on the rampage in "Western Ethiopia" against the conquering Italians, has created a keen news market for dispatches about this invisible "Government." Last week U. S. newsorgans began to carry stories dated overnight from "Gore, Western Ethiopia." They appeared to have originated by radio from Gore, referred to "the provisional Government here," declared that quantities of ammunition captured from Italians have passed through Gore in recent weeks, and named as the Gore Government's military leader Ras Imru...
...Imru was said to have raised an army of 60,000, to have spurred Ethiopian patriotism with tidings that the Italians had executed Ethiopian Coptic Bishop Petros. Just as "Gore, Western Ethiopia," was becoming an accepted date line, however, it was discovered to be a fake. Cunning correspondents in Egypt had rightly guessed that U. S. editors would prefer dispatches from the seat of the "Gore Government" to the mess of rumors about it which today is all they can genuinely...
Taking advantage of the rains, now drenching Ethiopia in earnest, Ethiopians last week set fire to an ammunition dump near Massaua, attacked Dessye in force and even hurled themselves against the capital, Addis Ababa, in a two-day series of suicidal infantry charges against machine guns and light artillery...
...Ethiopian Government is abolished as such and becomes a German consulate, its diplomatic functions passing to the German Embassy in Rome. Amid ensuing international jitters, State Department officials in Washington intimated that it will now be "difficult" for "embarrassed" President Roosevelt to avoid recognizing Italy's conquest of Ethiopia...
...Rain. Following Italy's successful war to conquer the Ethiopian Empire in a single dry season, there began the war of pacification which may well last years. With it came the awful rains which turn much of Ethiopia yearly into a swamp...