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Only 17 miles from Aduwa lies the holy city of Aksum, whose capture was the next step in the Italian advance. For days Italian forces had this mecca of the Coptic Christians practically surrounded. Scouting planes made hourly flights over it, could see no trace of Ethiopian troops. Still no attack was made, for in the centre of small Aksum stands a little crenelated stone church, holiest in the empire. There Ethiopia's earliest kings are buried. In it was supposed to lie the true Ark of the Covenant. Before such a Christian shrine Italy dared risk no accident...
...undergraduates are eligible to take part in the debates, and candidates are asked to prepare a speech of not more than five minutes on either side of one of the following questions: "Resolved" That Italy is the unjust aggressor in the Ethiopian dispute," "Resolved: That the Roosevelt Administration deserves the confidence of the American people", and "Resolved: That the greatest problem of our national society is constitutional reform...
Problem Two: Even more complicated than newsgathering was the problem of communications. The Ethiopian Government's wireless station at Addis Ababa is open twelve hours weekdays, five hours Sunday. To get press messages through to London took one to four hours at first, later as much as 48 hours. Correspondents were limited to 200 words a day; the rate was boosted from 26? a word to 68?. Should the wireless station be destroyed by Italian bombers, correspondents can use the telegraph line which follows the country's only railroad into French Somaliland. Should both wireless and telegraph...
Dispatches from Italian GHQ go by Government wireless to Rome, are subject to rigid censorship at both ends. Thus, while the reporters on the Italian side had plenty of news, censorship kept much of it bottled up. Reporters on the Ethiopian side faced an opposite situation. They had no censorship problem, but they also had practically no news. At Addis Ababa most of the reporters are crowded into the barnlike Imperial Hotel. Nights are so cold, sleeping bags are indispensable. Best description of life in Addis Ababa was sent last week by the New York Herald Tribune's Linton...
...treated as officers without rank. They ate at the officers' mess, billeted with the troops, were furnished transportation by motor, horse, mules. Toughest assignment was handed UNIPressman Herbert R. Ekins. Newshawk Ekins, who covered the Manchurian War in a battered Ford, was last week riding muleback with the Ethiopian army in the East. By means of courier to the wire-less station at Harar, he reported that he was full of quinine, covered with flea bites, that Ethiopian soldiers all around him were catching malaria...