OFFICER WHO FLED
EMPEROR'S PUNISHMENT '
REWARD FOR BRAVE WOMAN
(Received November 23, 2.30 p.m.) [ LONDON, November 22. * The Hargeisa correspondent of th« "Daily Mail" says that one of the objects of Haile Selassie's, flight to Jijiga was to punish Fitarauri Shaffara, a well-connected officer who headed the flight of 700 European-trained Abyssinians from Gorahai " after Dedjazmatch Afework was fatally injured. High officers dissuaded the Emperor from hanging Shaffara, but the Emperor ordered him :to 7be . .flogged, chained, imprisoned, and deprived of his honours and estates. The latter were transferred to bedjazmatch Afe? work's* son. ■;••-::'. In order to reward thti heroism of a female follower of Shaffara in -working a machine-gun until it Jammed,' the Emperor decreed that she wear-a.Fita-rauri's robes, and that. Shaffara wear a woman's clothing,in ga01., ...j ..';;' ;
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 126, 23 November 1935, Page 12
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129OFFICER WHO FLED Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 126, 23 November 1935, Page 12
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