UNCONQUERED ABYSSINIA
CAPITAL IN DEPLDRABLE STATE ITALIANS CONTINUALLY ATTACKED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, September 11. (Received September 12, at noon.) A Canadian, Miss Freda Collier, exsecretary to her brother, who was governor of the Bank of Ethiopia, has arrived in London. She w r as driven out of Ethiopia after nine years. She said anyone thought to bo unfriendly to Italy was told to go. Addis Ababa was in a deplorable state. Most of the native Abyssinians had got out, and those remaining did what they were told under threat of being put against a wall and shot. The country was by no means conquered. Italians in Addis Ababa were continually being attacked. Many Abyssinians who had buried their rifles during the Italian advance were now recovering them. The Italians intended to raise a large army in Abyssinia. The soldiers were being openly told that the next move was to the Sudan.
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Evening Star, Issue 22442, 12 September 1936, Page 15
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152UNCONQUERED ABYSSINIA Evening Star, Issue 22442, 12 September 1936, Page 15
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