ABYSSINIAN PATRIOTS
GUERRILLA WARFARE IRISHMAN AS LEADER (Rec. 7 p.m.l RUGBY, May 13, Riding on a charger and wearing a blue cloak fastened round the neck with a gold clasp embossed with the Lion of Judah, an Irishman, Captain Thomas Henfrey, is leading an army of Abyssinian patriots who are conducting intense guerrilla warfare over the Abyssinian mountains and marshland and around the lakes. Captain Henfrey has seen service in the Khyber Pass and Saudi Arabia, and later in Italian Somaliland after going on a mission in Africa. His irregulars are called “ Henfrey's Scouts,” The only Europeans with him are his second-in-command and one n.c.o. His chief-of-staff is an Ethiopian, who was trained for three years at Saint Cyr, the French military academy.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24607, 15 May 1941, Page 7
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