An army of 10,000 yelling, fuzzy-haired Ethiopians with ten machine guns and two cannons swept down upon the city of Zebit last week.
Zebit was ready for them. Twenty thousand loyal, fuzzy-headed, yelling soldiers under Minister of War Degiac Mulugheta smote the howling rebels hip and thigh, routed them, slew their leader, the Imperial Consort Ras Gugas Wali.
The Empress of Abyssinia, impotent little Zauditu, died soon after she received news of her consort's death. The real ruler of Abyssinia, whose puppet poor Zauditu was, is the Negus or "King" Taffari. He said that Zauditu died of "shock."
In Switzerland, a physician named Dr. Alexandre Garabedian who has been exposing certain Abyssinian matters before a committee of the League of Nations, said last week that when he was court physician to the Empress Zauditu, her nephew King Taffari twice asked him to poison her.
Anyone who has been to Abyssinia knows that its institutions, including slavery, are on a par with those of 10th Century Europe or worse. The relatives of a slain Abyssinian have the privilege of killing the murderer. Thieves are punished by cutting off a foot while the populace laughs.