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...North Front there was little doubt that Italian forces had either been driven from Tembien Province north and west of Makale or had withdrawn voluntarily. Repeatedly Addis Ababa claimed that Makale had fallen but Italians held it strongly entrenched and Ras Seyoum, Ethiopia's hulking northern commander, was not fool enough to storm it. He had. however, a splendid present for his Emperor who was temporarily mudbound in Dessye-four white Italian prisoners, footsore and ragged but otherwise in a fine state of preservation. Instead of having them mutilated in the oldfangled Ethiopian" way, newfangled Haile Selassie, according...
...neck in trouble in the South was Haile Selassie's "Good Son-In-Law," spunky little Ras Desta Demtu. After repulsing an Italian advance with 60,000 men, he suddenly found himself facing a much stronger Italian column that had advanced unexpectedly several miles in 24 hours. Frantically he signalled for help...
...Emperor Haile Selassie ordered 5.000 troops from Addis Ababa to suppress a mutiny in Gojjam, where the rumored death of Ras Hailu, deposed as Governor two years ago, was attributed to His Majesty. The Emperor's spokesmen said Gojjam's mutineers had been duped by Italian propaganda...
Near Dolo on the Italian Somaliland border of southern Ethiopia, a Swedish Red Cross unit was operating with the tribesmen of energetic Ras Desta Demtu, the "good" son-in-law of Haile Selassie. Italian aviators knew they were there, for only that morning copies of // Messaggero of Rome reached Stockholm, containing a paragraph from Italian Somaliland saying that Italian aviators flying over the southern front had seen people on the ground near hospital tents waving Swedish flags to call attention to their position. Yet last week a squadron of Italian planes circled over the Ethiopian camp to which the Swedish...
Corrections. The story that alarmed all Sweden had gone out of Dolo un verified because Ras Desta Demtu's field radio was temporarily broken. It was not correct. But the miracle was that the story brought to the world emerged as accurately as it did. None of the Swedish doctors was killed. A Dr. Hylander was shot through the side, and his assistant, Gunnar Lundstrom, later died of wounds. Copies of the Italian leaflets that preceded the bombardment read: "You have killed one of our aviators who was made a prisoner. You have cut off his head in violation...