Word: mescic
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...David while the Emperor conferred with his onetime Minister to Paris, modest General Tecle Hawariate, who, it was announced will be commander of Ethiopian troops in the North. The announcement promptly bred more rumors that Ras Seyoum, northern commander, had been killed in the aerial bombardment of Mai Mescic fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 2). Italian spies were unable to check it, while in Addis Ababa officials insisted that Ras Seyoum had sent definite word of his movements within the past few days...
...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...
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