Then too, Mr. Mills said, the Negus felt that the League of Nations and England had thrown Abyssinia over~ board, Finally the Emperor _undoubtedly saw that it was futile 10 continue fighting Italy with her tanks, "planes and poison gas and other modern equipment of warfare while the Abyssinian army was equipped only with old-fashioned rifles an spears.
Both the Emperor and Empress who are devout Christians hope to find peace in the Holy City, Me. Mills "said. "He believes that the Emperor will enter a Coptic mon: tery and the Empress will seek solace in a convent. He said:—"The 'King of Kings' is on his way to Jerusalem to find a peace and repose which he failed to find in Abyssini Chaotic conditions exist in Addis Ababa to-day and the situation is fall the more dangerous, the speaker told the A.W.C. audience, because the ignorant natives cannot distinguish Between the Ttallans and the other white foreigners. The natives, he aid, are fanatical and superstitious and' they have a deep prejudice inst white people.
American Legal The American Legation, Mr. Mills believes, is the most vulnerable because it is in the worst location, situated on the edge of the native city. It is foraly unarmed and there are only four marines to guard the Legation people and the missionaries. who have sought refuge there, Tt is four miles from all other Legations and absolutely cut off because roads have been cut off.
Mr, Mills mentioned the gaflani part played by the Ethiopian women and "he also pald tribute to an American woman, Mrs. A. R. Stadin, recently killed, who evacuated 0 hospital completely of all patients, three minutes before It was demolish-
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