SOLDIERS LAUGH.
Priests Dressed in Bodices
And Petticoats.
A COMEDY OF ABYSSINIA,
(Received 2 p.m.) LONDON, November 6. "The Times" Rome correspondent reports that General Biroli's native troops encountered in the Asllo Valley, due north of Makalle, a remarkable collection of Copt churches, some of architectural merit, excavated out of hard rock. Resident priests received the troops with full liturgical ceremony, carrying crosses and many-coloured umbrellas, but somewhat detracted from the dignity of the occasion by wearing women's garments given them in propitiation by troops. The sight of 100 venerable, blackbearded hermits draped in gaudy petticoats and gay bodices solemnly chanting psalms sent the soldiers into shrieks of laughter.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 264, 7 November 1935, Page 7
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