ETHIOPIAN SAINTS
ORGANISERS OF VICTORIES ARKS OF THE COVENANT LONDON, Nov. 6 The Daily Tolograph's Addis Ababa correspondent states that tho Emperor Haili Selassie will take his father, Gahreab, to Dessie as a personal confessor, also two famous Arks of tho Covenant, one of St. Gcorgo, reputed to havo been tho organiser of the victory of Adowa in 18S)6, tho other of St. Gabriel, u'lio gave tho Emporor victory against Has Michael, father of ' the rebel i,i j Kynssu, in 1916. Abyssinian warriors assort that they Baw St. (ioorgo riding a white horso at Adowa and leading King Menelik's hosts to tho conquest, thus repeating ithe Roman legend of Castor and Pollux at tho battle of Lake Rogillus. They declare that St. Goorgc and St. Gabriel w ill prove more than a match for Signor. Mussolini.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22261, 8 November 1935, Page 11
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136ETHIOPIAN SAINTS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22261, 8 November 1935, Page 11
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