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Show The End of Ethiopia Contrary to the opinion of the military experts of other nations Italian soldiers have overcome all organized! oppos'tion and occupied the greater part of Ethiopia in seven months, before the beginning of the heavy rainy season. Foreign For-eign military experts guessed wrong because several things happened hap-pened which were not on the program). pro-gram). In the beginning of the invasion invas-ion the Ethiopians ventured no pitched battles but only engaged in raids, gradually falling back to mountainous country. The Italian advance was slow and tedious until un-til Marshall Badcglio called more art'llery in use and, In addition, inaugurated a campaign of terror by wholesale bombing from air and using poisoned gas. Even with all this advantage of modern equipment and mach'nes on the side of the Italians, the Ethiopians could have probably resisted re-sisted longer had they not given battle with one army after the other, only to lose. Then, dlsaffec- tlon and rebellion broke out amono; various tribes, preventing any further fur-ther resistance. The f nal advance cf Badoglio's army was only a matter mat-ter of read construction. Dictator Mussolini in Rome announced an-nounced the formal annexation of the entirp empire, Which, united With pritrpa ar4 'PppppMffwA rnake,? tho. pn,t'rp MaipfrpastpTji porr ner of Africa Sfcallan aavfj' for the two little segments etill held by Great Britain and France. |