ABYSSINIAN DELIGHT
RECOVERY OF CAPITAL
(British Official Wireless.) (Received April 19, 1.10 p.m.) RUGBY, April 18. Stories are beginning to come through of incidents connected with the dramatic recovery of free Abys- j sinia of its capital after five years of Italian occupation. One story tells how a British general was mobbed by delighted' Abyssinians when the flag bearing the Lion of Judah was again hoisted over Gebi Palace, in Addis Ababa. There were remarkable scenes at the ceremony, and the feeling of the people was expressed by one chieftain who declared: "If I were to die now, I would not mind, for life can hold nothing equal to this moment."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 92, 19 April 1941, Page 9
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111ABYSSINIAN DELIGHT Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 92, 19 April 1941, Page 9
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