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Show ZAUDITU ASCENDS ABYSSINIA THRONE Succession Marks Victory of Native Christians in Long Comtiat As-inst the Bloslems. WASHINGTON. Jlaroh 22. Accession Acces-sion to the. throne o Aoyssinia by Em-pvoss Em-pvoss Zanditu, sticeoeJins Meuclik II, v:is reported in L titoolamatiun from Korean Ministt'r (."'aLina'mateh Iininm1 ii'ini'r, ilale.l A.lclin-Atieba, Januavv 12, which toilay rearheil tho stato depart-nirnt. depart-nirnt. 'i'lie proi'himation reads: "Hv order of my co'ernnient I have tho honor to inform yon thn! our annst so-ore.in Xauditn, wlio hy the f,'raeo of tJod sni'foeded tuir reat lamented Km-nernr Km-nernr Me lik .11, will 1'.' crowned on Sunday, 1-Vhrnnry 11, at it in the liinni-iiiU, liinni-iiiU, at her eapiial, Addis-. heha. "On this same occasion 1 will an-uouucj an-uouucj to you lliat itia jiniiorial liich- noss, Kas lafarl, is heir to tha throne." The :u'.cossion of tho onipress is the final act in a long religions and court conflict in which a Jl oharamedau at- ; tempt to overthrow the world's oldest Christian country was defeated in a hit- , ter revolution. - Recognition of the new government isi now before the stato department. t . I |