It is announced that the Italian Government has “decided to thoroughly subdue the Abyssinians,” and that within the month of January, Italy will have 50,000 troops in Erytherea. The other day the Italians had a conflict with the Abyssinians, and “poured volley after volley into them with terrible effect.” At the same time another column “surprised the Abyssinians by attacking them on the flank, and completely routed them.” The Abyssinians are one of the two primitive Christian peoples of the east. The Armenians are the other. The Christian powers of Europe can not spare a man or a gun to save one of these Christian races from extermination, with every form of agony, at the hands of a horde of veneered Apaches maintained in power to serve European interests, but a single Christian power can send 50,000 men to crush the other Christian race, which has maintained for fifteen hundred years the traditions of the ancient faith, of which, through all the ages of pagan and Moslem darkness, it was the only guardian left in Africa. The Soudan is still in the hands of the savage Dervishes that killed Gordon. The Abyssinians are their enemies; they rendered useful services to the European adversaries of the Mahdi, and with their help it would be possible now to reclaim the lost provinces of Egypt for civilization. But their country stimulated the European lust for land, and as France invaded and conquered the only African kingdom that has ever been converted to Christianity by modern missionaries, Italy is invading and trying to conquer the only African kingdom that has retained its unbroken allegiance to the primitive church. Meanwhile the religion of Mohammed is making excellent progress in Africa, and contributions for missionaries are still taken up in Europe.—San Francisco Examiner, January 16.