REVOLT IN ETHIOPIA
PATRIOTS TAKE ITALIAN POST OPERATIONS IN BLUE NILE REGION. DECLARATION BY SENUSSI CHIEF A Cairo communique reveals, a B.EJ.C. broadcast states, that the people of Abyssinia are driving the Italians out of their strongholds in the Gojpim region, round the sources of the Blue Nile, northwest of Addis Ababa, the capital of Abyssinia. The patriot forces have captured an enemy post 160 miles north of Addis Ababa. J'lto chief of tiie .Senusbi. oiu 1 of the must numeroti'. and powerful of the .Arab sects announced in Cairo that over a million of his tribesmen in Tin key. I’alcstme and Syria were taking, up tin- fight o’"i the side of Britain He said that fur the Semissi !i:id waging '.var against Italy and '■mipsmed the tiiatic p<-rsecutlun J M.ihu.'iiiiicXin. by lii«< Italians with the svetiriU thm enjoyed m ’..he British Empire Britai::'' 'war against tile ‘i''lll1’uri« r ui of ,tS' r?\\ici• i?I ’<■ 5 v*» • f ' I-> ►«11 ’» «js *' ( H j ’:s.. * A:.--■ ".h-;u" i.atch <*f C.ood Itahaii psismjI . aft f. rd >n Bombay At. en<:i;;.y .tit' in id mi the Sue.’ Can.d area re;.' 'fled No casualties or damige were cairi-d
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 February 1941, Page 5
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193REVOLT IN ETHIOPIA Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 February 1941, Page 5
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