CHIEFTAIN’S BOAST
TROOPS SALUTE EMPEROR WILL TRY STRATAGEMS ON ITALIANS BIG GATHERING IN CAPITAL. - LONDON, October 25. “The Times” Addis Ababa correspondent says Has Getatchaw, of Kafa and Dedjazmatch Habte Mariam, of Wallega Mekempti, amid the thunder of war drums, led 15,000 soldiers to the Palace, accompanied by Red Cross women in white dresses and riding mules. They saluted the Emperor. Has Getatchaw, who in bulk and physiognomy, is reminiscent of King Henry VIII., exclaimed: “My father shoved the shells back down the Italian cannon at Adowa. I shall try my own stratagems on their sons.” He added that he had formerly wanted to fight Lid] Yassu, the dedethroned Emperor, now in captivity, and the traitor Gugsa, but was not allowed to. He was formerly Abyssinian Minister at Paris.
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Northern Advocate, 28 October 1935, Page 5
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129CHIEFTAIN’S BOAST Northern Advocate, 28 October 1935, Page 5
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