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...Tigre tribesmen apparently considered that the authority of Emperor Haile Selassie in their province had been shattered and that any of his soldiers not natives of Tigre were fair game. As an exhausted straggler would stumble into a village last week, angry spearmen would rush out to ask "Ane men? Who are you?" If the straggler answered in any Ethiopian tongue except the Tigrean dialect he was killed...
...circle the front. Monotonously their radios droned directions: A body of Ethiopians had gathered behind such & such rocks on hill so & so. Within ten minutes Italian gunners had the range and were dropping high explosives on those same rocks. But it was hard going. Not irregular white-robed tribesmen but regular drilled and uniformed troops were opposing the Italians. They, too, had artillery and knew how to shoot. For the first time since the war started, Italians had the uncomfortable sensation of shells bursting on their side of the line...
...sergeants stalked about impressively. Sweating squads of half-naked soldiers unloaded dust-coated trucks, then for no apparent reason loaded them up again. Field ambulances rolled through the town. Swarms of airplanes took off for mysterious destinations. Something big was happening over beyond the Shibeli River where the black tribesmen of Ras Desta Demtu, hard-working little son-in-law of Haile Selassie, were hiding in the thorn trees...
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...
Because British warriors on horseback have not lost their effectiveness against Indian tribesmen, the Indian Army will retain cavalry until 1939, but elsewhere British cavalrymen will exchange their bridles for handle bars or steering wheels, their whips for monkey wrenches, as fast as the whole new program of creating "mechanized cavalry" can be put through. For swank British cavalrymen that meant no more polo, unless they switch to motor-cycle polo. The social implications of this order burst last week like so many bombs in the messes of cavalry units slated for almost immediate mechanization: the King's Dragoon...