In 1935 or so, Haile Selassie's sent forth a call to arms during the Abyssinian Crisis.
But for the life of me, I can't find the document on the internet.
The short of it:
When Italy invaded Ethiopia, the Ethiopian emperor issued a proclamation calling all military aged men to report for duty.
I have only found
This:
and
this:
If you withhold from your country Ethiopia the death from cough or head-cold of which you would otherwise die, refusing to resist (in your district, in your patrimony, and in your home) our enemy who is coming from a distant country to attack us, and if you persist in not shedding your blood, you will be rebuked for it by your Creator and will be cursed by your offspring. Hence, without cooling your heart of accustomed valour, there emerges your decision to fight fiercely, mindful of your history that will last far into the future… If on your march you touch any property inside houses or cattle and crops outside, not even grass, straw, and dung excluded, it is like killing your brother who is dying with you… You, countryman, living at the various access routes, set up a market for the army at the places where it is camping and on the day your district-governor will indicate to you, lest the soldiers campaigning for Ethiopia's liberty should experience difficulty. You will not be charged excise duty, until the end of the campaign, for anything you are marketing at the military camps: I have granted you remission… After you have been ordered to go to war, but are then idly missing from the campaign, and when you are seized by the local chief or by an accuser, you will have punishment inflicted upon your inherited land, your property, and your body; to the accuser I shall grant a third of your property…
Neither one is of course the complete text, and I don't even know if they were part of the same or different proclamations. Late and incomplete, but I hope this helps.
EDIT: Found
another second hand source, it appears the first link with the very short proclamation may have been the entire text.
