IRISHMAN LEADS PATRIOTS
Intense Guerilla Warfare In Abyssinia
(Rec. 8.20 pm.) RUGBY, May 13. Riding on a charger and wearing a blue cloak fastened round his neck with a gold clasp embossed with the Lion of Judah, an Irishman, Captain Thomas Henfrey is leading an armv of Abyssinian patriots and conducting intense guerilla warfare over the Abyssinian mountains and marshland and around the lakes.
Captain Henfrey has seen service at the Khyber Pass and in 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 and one n.c.o. His chief of staff is an Ethiopian trained for three years at Saint Cyr French Military Academy.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21963, 15 May 1941, Page 5
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124IRISHMAN LEADS PATRIOTS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21963, 15 May 1941, Page 5
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