THE INFANTRY ATTACK.
AFTER PREPARATION BY AIR.
FIRST ASSAULT REPULSED. - LONDON, October 21. The correspondent of the Associated Press with the Italians on the southern front says that fierce fighting, in which the Abyssinians are believed to have suffered heavy casualties, has occurred.
Air observers- reported that a.strong force of Abyssinians was marching south along the Tafan River. General Graziani, assuming that they were Nasibu’s flank, attacked with bombs and machine-guns from the air before dawn, preparatory to an attack by infantry transported under cover of darkness.
The Abyssinians, after repulsing the first attack, were routed by reinforcements and fled toward Gorahei.
REPORT DENIED FROM ROME.
LONDON, October 20
An official message from Rome denies the report that between 500 and 700 Italians, 0 who were cut off by Danakil tribesmen, are surrounded in the hill country 15 miles from the French Somaliland frontier.
The. message also denies reports that the Italians have used dumdum bullets.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 8, 22 October 1935, Page 5
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