Propaganda in the Jungle

Haile Selassie, whom the British now call Highly Satisfactory, pushed on into Ethiopia last week with a new weapon --propaganda. Even in the Ethiopian bush this proved to be a potent factor, for the area into which the Negus was pressing was Gojjam Province, long a hotbed of native revolt against the Italians. Haile Selassie's organ of propaganda was a newspaper written in Amharic, called Bandarchen ("Our Flag"), bordered with the Ethiopian Imperial colors, mastheaded with the monogram of the Lion of Judah, and bristling with nationalistic slogans. Sixty camels, with armed escort under a British officer, carried this peripatetic newspaper's printing plant as its editorial offices moved from jungle to jungle. While this strange propaganda rallied more & more blacks to the cause, Haile Selassie and his forces took Danghila, south of Lake Tana and only 200 miles from Addis Ababa. Djibouti, the capital's port on the Gulf of Aden, was reported crowded with Italian refugees, and British military spokesmen began to predict a hasty Italian withdrawal to Addis Ababa for a strong last stand.

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