MOBILISATION ORDER
Every AbleBodied Man l WOMEN TO CARRY FOOD AND COOK A DRASTIC THREAT Wnited Press Association.-By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.! , (Received 10 a.m.) KHARTOUM, October 23. A copy of the Abyssinian mobilisation order of the southern front, belatedly received in Khartoum, says: “All boys old enough to carry a spear, and all men will be sent to Addis Ababa. “Married men will take their wives to carry food and to. cook. Those without wives will take any woman without 1 husband. Women with small babies need not go, but the husband of each of these, women must take another woman. “The blind and those who cannot walk or carry a spear, namely thpse, without a hand and a foot, are exempted. Anyone found at home after. the receipt Of this order will be hanged.” Abyssinian criminals are punished for a first offence by the -amputation of a hand, and, for a second, by the amputation of a foot!
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Northern Advocate, 25 October 1935, Page 7
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158MOBILISATION ORDER Northern Advocate, 25 October 1935, Page 7
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