SWEARING ALLEGIANCE TO THE EMPEROR An Abyssinian officer taking the oath of allegiance to the Emperor (on the right). The oath, taken with one hand upraised and the other touching the colours, is: "I swear as a soldier of my Emperor to remain forever true to him and to Ethiopia—never to give way in battle, and in war to die for Emperor and country only while attacking—l swear this before God and the sacred banner of Ethiopia."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22716, 31 October 1935, Page 13
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77SWEARING ALLEGIANCE TO THE EMPEROR An Abyssinian officer taking the oath of allegiance to the Emperor (on the right). The oath, taken with one hand upraised and the other touching the colours, is: "I swear as a soldier of my Emperor to remain forever true to him and to Ethiopia—never to give way in battle, and in war to die for Emperor and country only while attacking—l swear this before God and the sacred banner of Ethiopia." Otago Daily Times, Issue 22716, 31 October 1935, Page 13
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