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...Emperor was imprisoned in a fortress on Gara Mulata. There he was allowed luxurious furniture, rich foods and the run of his prison-but night & day he remained chained to the wrist of a guard. Even so he managed to escape in 1932 disguised as a woman. Since then Fitaurari Shimels, who fortnight ago was in Addis Ababa for orders, has been Yasu's special keeper...
Right in the path of the Italian advance lies the fortress of Gara Mulata. Therefore Emperor and jailer took good care last week that Italy should have no chance to rescue Child of Jesus, set him up on Haile Selassie's throne. Secretly their prisoner was moved hundreds of miles to the southwest, to Bako where he could contemplate life and his chains near the craggy shores of Lake Rudolf...
...teaching of English composition in Harvard College is now an invincible fortress. Of the attacks formerly hurled against it, some were foolish and abortive. And those that really told are now met by strong repulsion. In all probability the structure of the department was always firm. But whatever weaknesses there may have been are now stoutly reinforced...
Before the telegraph was perfected, the pigeon post enjoyed a great vogue among stockbrokers. It was used by news agencies to report yacht races before the invention of wireless. Its military use is today largely confined to fortress warfare, large flocks being maintained at the inland strongholds of Germany, France, Russia. Of late in the U. S., the military importance of pigeons has been recognized because of the ease with which telegraph and wireless facilities can be interrupted in modern warfare...
...Germans the Holy Land is not in Palestine but our Holy Land is the place, wherever it may be, upon which Germans have descended. Our holy places are certain castles on the Rhine, the good earth of Lower Saxony and the Prussian fortress of Marienburg...