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First ashore went the dumpy Empress Menen, her two daughters, the 12-year-old Duke of Harar and Crown Prince Asfa Wassan. Then down the gangplank, to the mournful tweetle of the boatswain's pipe, stepped little Haile Selassie in a sun helmet and a long white cloak. The Carnaro's band burst into the Fascist anthem: Giovinezza! A British military band hurriedly sprayed the air with a brassy countermelody. With the little Emperor was his "good" son-in-law, Ras Desta Demtu, and Ras Kassa, who fought the Italians in the north. Sharp eyes could find...
...Fall of Harar. All the excitement was not limited to Addis Ababa last week, Doggedly Italy's southern army under General Graziani plowed ahead toward Harar, Jijiga and Diredawa, key cities of the southeast. Only nature opposed them. At Harar, second city of the defunct empire, news that its defender, Ras Nassibu, had also fled the country caused another outbreak of rioting and looting almost as severe as that which shook Addis Ababa. Soon the Italians marched in, put down disorder with a heavy hand...
...bearded chiefs at first said nothing at all. Finally they explained. There was only one effective army left in Ethiopia, that of Ras Nassibu, now fighting for its life against General Graziani's relentless advance on Harar. Tribes to the west were in as ugly a mood as those around Magdala. One after another the chiefs rose to tell how hopeless the situation was. There was nothing for the King of Kings to do but run for his life...
Lean, bemonocled Graziani had the only united army left in Ethiopia facing him, the troops of Ras Nassibu. The Italian General started bravely off for Harar, ran smack into trouble...
...four days the Ethiopians held out against tanks, bombs, planes, heavy field guns. Then they broke and ran. But General Graziani was still some 225 miles from Harar. He admitted the loss of two planes, ten officers, some hundred casualties...