Word: ethiopian
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...read in TIME, Oct. 28, under "International" the evidence gathered from the Italian white paper, about the Ethiopian customs, betraying Ethiopian atrocities. . . . It was added, "In nearly all parts of Africa the lash remains the usual punishment for natives...
Having publicly taken up knitting in Addis Ababa, as a strong hint that they feel themselves barred from all real news sources, correspondents clicked needles last week while the Ethiopian Government made by far the tallest claims they have jabbered since war broke...
...advancing with the troops. Last week Mussolini's flying son-in-law Count Ciano led the "Desperate Squadron" on a strafing expedition possibly meant to avenge Italian reverses which, as nominal Minister for Press-Information, he could not admit. After hurling an avalanche of bombs into the Ethiopian gorges of Buia, Amba Alaji, Lake Ashanghi and Mai Mescic, chubby Count Ciano guessed the squadron had killed 2,000 Ethiopians, counted in his plane holes made by three antiaircraft shells and 36 Ethiopian bullets, some of which struck his oil tank...
...exceedingly fleet "strategic retreat" last week, Ethiopian forces under redoubtable Kassa Sebat executed the "maneuver of luring" Italian General Ruggiero Santini into ordering a whole Army corps to separate from the main Italian advance on the Northern Front and chase Ethiopians headlong, risky in Ethiopia's wilds...
...deep gorge rang with battle. Three other Italian officers were wounded but fought on while the Ethiopians stubbornly resisted the Italian advance. At nightfall, with the battle line 7,000 feet up in the mountains, the Ethiopian line suddenly broke. Through field glasses General Mariotti could see the Ethiopians scrambling like goats still higher up the mountain, disappearing to the south. At dawn the Askaris rallied for a grandiloquent charge with bayonets and curved swords. That afternoon Azbi was captured...