The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-11
The War in AbHssinia.


Mr.. Charles Beke, the traveller, gives some
facts of interest relative to the cause OF the
threatened hOstlliueS In AON sslnia. R9ferrns
to the statement that tremendous battle was
imminent between the Emperor Theodore, OF
Abyssinia and Gobazye, the Waagshum, or
hereditary Prince OF Waag, in Lasta, who aspires
to the crown, and that vt VAS calculated there
would be not less tnan 100000 combatants In
the field, he says:-
This news is quits in accordance with what /
heard when recently IN Abys~inIa, and, as 1t II
OF Importance that the actual state OF AFFAIRS in
that country should be known here, would
request you TO give publicity to the following
facts, which | derived from sources entirely
trustworthy. The various provinces of the
empire which have long been in revolt, seen
now to set the Emperor Theodore absolutely at
defiance. In the southeast, Menlek, or9udson
OF Sanela Selasy e, King Ot ShOa, mad been con-
quered and Imprisoned by Theodore and his
Kingdom alneXed. But last year he escaped aud
reasserted his independence, and 1t Is generally
considered that his subiugaton IS ppeless In
the south west Theodore has for several years in
vain attempted the subiugatlon OF Tadcla Gwalu,
the hereditary Prince of Godiam. In the centre
of AbysinIa female leader named Warkyet,
relative Of Ozoro MoLen, Ras ALPS mother is at
the head OF the po~erful tribes OF Wollo Gallns,
and threatens To wrest rom Theodore ali his
most valued and dearly-bourht conquest, In
GLIDING his principal stronghold Amba Ndgdala,
in which Consul Cameron aud the other Euro
peans were so long confined.
I'm the northwest, III the provlnc 9s OF wal
kait ana Samyen, and as lar south as bey Dad
GOndar, Tessu GObazle a. e., GObaZl c, the son
OF Tessu) has Tor long time past oeen virtually
independent Ii i, be whose troops stopped Mr.
Rassaui IL January last Nhcn not lar from Con
dar In the northeast, the Waapshum claims
dominion, ana his claim would seem TO be
favored by the French and Roman Catholics
who are numerous IN that part OF Alglers.
Towards the emo OF last February, Deras the
Waagshum's lieutenant in Tigre was defeated
in battle by Teka Georges, the brother and
deputy of Bas Baliau, Theodores lieutenant
hu I no nh hDI no pam nj no
DESTROYED a considerable number OF his troops
and dispersed the rest; and when / quilted
Abyssinia IN May last, Tekia Georgia had re-
tired into Shire, where he was endeayorlng 20
raise fresh army. Deras, on the other hand,
had united his forces at Adielat to those OF the
Governor OF Agame, Suohart, son OF Saba
gadIs, the friend oi the English in the time of
MIR. Salt and Bishop Gobat. Zebra Me1nin, the
Governor OF Okulekusai, the district in which
Halat is situate, had, when was there, col
lected an army OF some orce, and moved west
ward in the direction the river March.
"A correspondent says tlat this Chiet Yahro,)
MednaO had placed the province of Tgre under
contributions nt men, horses, animals OF all
kinds. provisions and money ,.ibut OF course,
this must apply to that portion only OF the eX
tensive province OF Tyre which is within the
jurisdiction of Zebra Aedhin himself. When ]
was at Halai that unfortunate village, now
almost depopulated was repeatedly placed under
contribution. On one occasion a petty chief
named Testardet, a near relative OF Zebra Med
hin, arrested me and my wife, and forbade our
departure under the penalty on the inhabitants
OF one thousand muskets and one thousand
carpets, with as many dollars as there are stones,
and as much gunpowder as thele is dust in Halal;
but Zebra Medhin on hearing this very sensbly
ordered the ban to be removed, 1t being sug
gested to him by friend (who got blamed for
troubling himself about persons who were
neither French nor Roman Catholics), that II he
allowed peaceabe travellers TO be imprisoned OF
arrested il would inevitably prevent Europeans
from visiting him and his country. All the last
named chiefs acknowledge the supremacy Of the
WaaSshum, between whom and Gobazye the
whole Of Northern Abyssinia is divided, with
the exception OF Shlre-Serawe and Hamasyen,
which are still held by governors named by
Theodoreu