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Haile Selassie's field general outside his; captive country, charged with rousing and arming Ethiopian exiles in Kenya, the Sudan and the border hills, is Ras Birru, a, fierce, black-wooled little general who fought the Italians under Haile Selassie's late War Minister Ras Mulugheta and refused to surrender even when urged by Haile Selassie's turncoat son-in-law, Ras, Gugsa, who still governs the Tigrai region in the north...
...their advance 65 miles by taking Makale (TIME, Nov. 18). Nothing of a victorious nature continued to happen for three months. Then under newly appointed Marshal Pietro Badoglio came the Battle of Enderta and the capture of Amba Aradam (12 miles) with Italian boasts that the Ethiopians under Ras Mulugheta were "in headlong rout" (TIME...
...perhaps even his enemy. The Italians look for profound developments within the unoccupied parts of Ethiopia within the near future. . . . The enormously important Galla tribes are friendly to the Italians and bitterly hate the Shoas and the ruling Amharas. When news of the defeat of Ras Kassa and Ras Mulugheta spreads, as it must, through Ethiopia, it is expected there will be profound repercussions. For this and other reasons the world may expect startling developments within the next few weeks...
...Ethiopia, after the great Italian victory of Marshal Badoglio on the North Front (TIME, Feb. 24), the routed Ethiopian army of Ras Mulugheta was retreating in moderately good order across Tigre Province last week, but the fate of stragglers was hard...
...whole development of a modern military engagement as few men have ever done. About ten miles straight before them was Amba Aradam, the mountain that was Italy's immediate objective. Skirmishing parties and repeated airplane flights made it obvious that one of Ethiopia's greatest chieftains, Ras Mulugheta, was entrenched there in force. Sprawling sidewise to the Italian advance, Amba Aradam was of two parts: a jagged ridge known to the Italians as "The Herringbone" and, at the extreme right, a flat-topped peak called "The Priest's Hat." All the land at its base was known...