Ten miles outside Addis Ababa one morning last week one hundred Abyssinian policemen lined the road at stiff attention. In front of them stood an Armenian commissioner and two native chiefs. Down the dusty road came a U. S. automobile flying the U. S. flag. Inside, erect and dignified, sat Addison E. Southard, U. S. Minister to Abyssinia. Smartly the commissioner, the two native chiefs, the policemen snapped out a salute. The automobile stopped. Out stepped Minister Southard. In a loud voice the commissioner read to him the Abyssinian Government's apology...
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