Addis Ababa, Sept. 24.
Preparations to resist' an italian attack are proceeding apace. Up to half a million horses and mules and large number of camels will be. bought by the Ethiopian government, and a special department has been established for this purpose, Twenty expert judges of horseflesh have been sent to different parts of the country to carry out the put-chase, for which the Government is paying cash, as forcible expropris tion would anger the farmers and Peasants and render them unwilling fo go to war.
In Addis Ababa, a good horse costs the equivalent of £4, a mule £7 and camel £10. In the provinces, the prices are lower, though the quality Inferior.
The majority of the animals wil! be sent to the Tigre "front," in north Abyssinia, but 39,000 camels will be concentrated in Ogaden province, in the southeast corner of Ethiopia, All available veterinary surgeons have been mobilized and the score for so Ethiopians studying veterinary work abroad have been hastily' re-war Courier Seized Addis Ababa, Sept, 23.
Seizure of a consular courier tr velling between Gendar and Adows was reported by the Italian Legation, to-day. Ethiopian military forces were said to have made the seizure, Meanwhile, the Italian consular staff at Gendar was to-day given orders to depart Saturday, with oF without the permission of the Ethio-Plan Government, Legation oMcials complained recently that permission for Italian consular officials to leave the country was being withheld by the Ethiop! Authorities, but Government of replied that the personnel of all Mahan consulates would be escorted to the border when the occasion arose-—United Press,
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