Word: ethiopian
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...eclipse of the moon threw Ethiopians last week into the brief panic an eclipse always produces in Ethiopia, but they were soon boastfully exuberant again when good war news came in from both the North Front and the South. Premature "little rains," not due until next month, made them believe that Allah, Jehovah and their assorted pagan gods were sending the 1936 Rainy Season ahead of time to save Ethiopia. Italy's motor transport was immobilized in many places by the "little rains," wheels spinning impotently in sticky red mud. Sodden and soaked Italian bombing planes could...
...hulking northern commander, was not fool enough to storm it. He had. however, a splendid present for his Emperor who was temporarily mudbound in Dessye-four white Italian prisoners, footsore and ragged but otherwise in a fine state of preservation. Instead of having them mutilated in the oldfangled Ethiopian" way, newfangled Haile Selassie, according to dispatches, "showered his first white prisoners with food...
...Suddenly Ethiopian firing opened on all sides. Our officer was killed and the men leaped from the cannons and ran. The drivers of the leading tank were shot, and as that tank blocked the way of the other nine they, too, were forced to halt. Two of us were in the last tank. We saw men climb out of the others to be shot in short order. We remained inside and when the Ethiopians came they opened the door which we had forgotten to lock. We called out 'Friends' and we were not injured...
While Squire Laval rusticated, the British Admiralty and the French made world headlines by announcing that "routine maneuvers" will put the navies of these two Great Powers virtually on a war footing by Jan. 20-the day the League of Nations meets to deliberate the Italo-Ethiopian question further. Then 92 French warships and 156 British will invest the Mediterranean. Obliging M. Laval thus offered his countrymen their choice of war, and in effect dared the Chamber and Senate to say whether they prefer it to his policy of peace at Ethiopia's expense. Resolved not to fight, students...
...recent reports from Rome and the Ethiopian front indicate that the Italian campaign has bogged down completely. The heavy rains alone preclude, until next summer, the possibility of renewed aggression, unless it be from the Ethiopian side. Such a situation bodes no good for Mussolini...