Word: harar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British at Geneva succeed in having League Sanctions applied on schedule. It was queer, dispatches from Addis Ababa observed, that Italian bombing planes, now well within operating range, not only had not bombed Ethiopia's Capital up to last week but had not even bombed Harar, where the local Ethiopian satrap was having suspected traitors flogged to death. Repeatedly second-string correspondents jumped the gun with rumors which produced last week such headlines as "350,000 ETHIOPIANS DEFEATED IN BATTLE...
...borders of British Somaliland. Fierce nests of Ethiopian sharpshooters and unseasonable rains that bogged tanks and trucks hub-deep had held up the southern advance for days, but now Italian troops, moving again in three columns, had crossed over half the Ogaden Desert, were drawing closer & closer to Harar, chief stronghold of Ras Nassibu, commander of the Ethiopian armies of the south in Ogaden. Scouting planes zooming high over Harar found the inhabitants already streaming off to the hills, only a few squads of soldiers in the streets. Fifty miles south of Harar, southern Ethiopians shot down their first Italian...
Almost unnoticed in the crowds of bearded, bedizened chieftains hurrying through Addis Ababa with their yelling followers fortnight ago was one Fitaurari Shimels, trusted adviser of Haile Selassie. Up from Harar, he stayed two days in the capital closeted with the Emperor, then departed. His powwows with the King...
...Ethiopia promised to transport no munitions on it. Haile Selassie appeared to leap at this idea. Since the League lifted its arms embargo against Ethiopia, guns and ammunition have been coming into the black empire, not by way of the railroad from Djibouti but by motor truck to Harar, 125 miles from the British Somaliland border...
...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...