* * * * There will be a great story
to come out of Abyssinia one of these days. The Emperor is back in his own country, and the tribes are rising everywhere against the Italians. Much of that s spontaneous, but the beginning of it was carefully and most skilfully organised, and most of it was one man's doing. e man in question began life as a professional soldier. He as in the Sudan Government Administration for three years re the last war, and for a short time British consul at Addis baba. Then he fought through the war, winning the D.S.O., d after it decided to settle down to farming in Abyssinia. is children were born there, and they speak Amharic fluently. en this war broke out he offered his services to the War ce, and they were immediately accepted. He went out at nce to Abyssinia once more, got in touch with his old friends re, devised methods of communicating with Khartum, cleated all the Italian attempts to track him down, and has done uch more, I suppose, than any other single wan to precipitate e coming Italian dibilcle in that country. His name is—not or publication at the moment. At any rate it has not, I elieve, been published, though the Italians can hardly be pposed not to know it.
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