ABYSSINIAN CIVIL WAR.
■■■:■ ■■: c THREE THOUSAND KILLED.: V ' ; A SICK' EMPEROR AND' A POWERFUL. : 'y'-;: ; V EMPRESS/-., ... .:'-.- ; (By v Telegraph-Prcjs ; As'sociation-OopyrlshU ■ "; ■■•■..■■.; ■■'...•■■ ■• ■■ : ■■).•■Berlin,"'-November .11. 'The /'Cologne Gazette" publishes details of a fight between two minor Abyssinian princes —Abrasa and Abete.,. The.battle lasted three days, -and. threo. thpusand men were killed on. both: sides.; :■ : '.;'.. . . : -.' :"■/. ■■!. , The.Empress Taitu aided.'Abete,,the 'victor, in devastating: his ; rival's country. The: reported death of Emperor Monelik is contradieted..-.,; ■■ ;.;,-,-; •' ; ./' : ; .S V ;-,.[A; telegram to.-the, "Cologne;:. Gazette" .from Adms.Abeba, sent in July, reports that "the Emperor -: Menelik is seriously ' ill, and : that the (jovernaient/is in the hands of--the'Eni"-press, laitu. Tho Empress has,'under, popular pressure, reluctantly consented to allow tho ■iMuporor;;.to ■■• receive medical' treatment,' but refuses to guarantee that no further attempts shall bo_ mado/.upon his life.' : Those.of the wmrt who were devoted to the Emperor havo ■been the;north of Abyssinia' a battle, in which the killed;numbered 150, is ?W taken.,placq,botweon the followers and the partisans of the Em.preps."],.. ■*■:;.-.-;V. ; ;,.•-,:, ~: i. .,,:. ~:.7.-..v.- ■[■
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 663, 13 November 1909, Page 5
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160ABYSSINIAN CIVIL WAR. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 663, 13 November 1909, Page 5
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