The Sunday Mail
IN November 1934, Ethiopian territorial troops escorting the Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission protested against Italy’s incursion. The British members of the commission soon withdrew to avoid embarrassing Italy.
Ibo Foroma
Due to the stubbornness of the cretins, Italian and Ethiopian troops remained in close proximity. In early December 1934, the tensions on both sides erupted into what is known as the ‘WalWal incident’. The resultant clash left more than 150 Ethiopians and only two Italians dead and led to the ‘Abyssinian Crisis’, the final spark to ignite World War II.
France and the United Kingdom failed to intervene; fully and firmly sanction Italy with the same effort and support Ethiopia, for they wanted Italy on their side in case Germany was to raise terror, especially against the merciless Versailles Treaty.
This War was not a stroll in the park for Ethiopians and their God given Davidic Leader of the Solomonic Dynasty. What the world doesn’t know is that the Italians were acting on a directive to eliminate all traces of the Divine Deity, His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I.
The vampires of Rome drunk from papal wine, ordered their puppets to go and annihilate the Ethiopian Lion of Judah, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. They wanted this Lion of Judah to be Roman so as to reinforce their fables and falsified “white Jesus” indoctrination, which they have since endorsed on literary everyone the world over. While the Pope issued ambiguous statements, his bishops were quite vocal in blessing the armed forces of the Italian “fatherland.” In the book, The Vatican in the Age of Dictators, Anthony Rhodes reports:
“In his Pastoral Letter of the October 19 1935, the Bishop of Udine (Italy) wrote, ‘It is neither timely nor fitting for us to pronounce on the rights and wrongs of the case. Our duty as Italians, and still more as Christians is to contribute to the success of our arms.’
The Bishop of Padua wrote on the October 21: ‘In the difficult hours through which we are passing, we ask you to have faith in our statesmen and armed forces.
On October 24, the Bishop of Cremona consecrated a number of regimental flags and said, ‘The blessing of God be upon these soldiers who, on African soil, will conquer new and fertile lands for the Italian genius, thereby bringing to them Roman and Christian culture. May Italy stand once again as the Christian mentor to the whole world.”
Scriptures testify that they shall make war with the lamb but the lamb shall overcome them for he is the Lion of Judah. Emperor Haile Selassie I personally referred to the war as the “Armageddon”. The peace loving and God fearing Ethiopians had obviously not prepared for such a mighty confrontation.
The defenders of the motherland were not mentally and physically prepared. They also did not have the requisite equipment to fend away hostilities. A detailed comparison of the two different camps will suffice.
With an attack appearing inevitable, Emperor Haile Selassie I ordered a general mobilisation of the army of the Ethiopian Empire. His new recruits consisted of around 500 000 men, some of whom were armed with spears, bows and arrows.
A small number of these under trained soldiers carried more modern weapons, including rifles; but many of these were from before 1900, definitely old, out-dated and verily useless. According to Italian estimates, on the eve of hostilities, the Ethiopians had an army of 350 000 to 760 000 men. But only about one-quarter of this army had any kind of military training and the men were armed with 400 000 rifles of every type and in every kind of condition.
In general, the Ethiopian armies were poorly equipped. They had about 234 antiquated pieces of artillery mounted on rigid gun carriages, also a dozen of Pak 35/36 anti-tank guns. There were also 800 light and 250 heavy guns, and approximately a hundred of anti-aircraft guns; 48, 20mm Oerlikons, and some 75mm Schneiders, and Vickers.
For mobility, they only had 300 trucks, seven Ford A-based armoured cars and four Fiat 3000 tanks of the World War I age.
The serviceable portion of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force included three outmoded Potez 25 biplanes. A few transport air-crafts were also acquired between 1934 and 1935 for ambulance work. The entire Air Force consisted of 13 aircraft and four pilots at the outbreak of the war. The Ethiopian Air Force was commanded by a French pilot, Andre Mailet.
The best Ethiopian units were the Emperor’s “KeburZabagna” (Imperial Guard). These troops were well trained and better equipped than other Ethiopian troops. The Imperial Guard, however, wore a distinctive greenish-khakhi uniform of the Belgian Army, which stood out from the white cotton cloak (shamma) worn by most Ethiopian fighters.
Unfortunately, the shamma proved to be an excellent target. Again, the skills of the commanding Rases, and the generals, ranged from relatively good to absolute incompetent. Used to peace and harmony, fighting had never been their field of expertise.
Here now is the glorious Italian Goliath arsenal, those with a Roman and Anglican spiritual orientation must feel proud of and applaud. In April 1935, the build-up of the Royal Italian Army (RegioEsercito) and the Royal Air Force (RegiaAeronautica) in East Africa started in earnest. In a few months, eight regular, mountain, and black-shirt infantry divisions arrived in Eritrea and four regular infantry divisions arrived in Italian Somaliland.
Despite the mastodon army against the Lion of Judah, after returning back to his capital, H.I.M said at his Imperial Palace: “Even in the 20th century; with faith, courage and a just cause, David will still slew Goliath.”
