ATTEMPT TO SPLIT TWO FORCES
ITALIAN METHODS IN DRIVE. NATIVE TROOPS IN FRONT. LONDON, .January 2. In accordance with the earlier Italian policy of placing native levies in the forefront of the battle, General Graziano, appreciating the possibility of weakness at the junction of Ras Desta’s and Ras Nasibu’s armies in the upper Webbe Shibeli, ordered direct efforts against this point in order to break the Abyssinian liaison. Apparently his effort at Gabba on December 30 was indecisive, his. opponents withdrawing their camp further to the east. An Italian communique claims a
success in the Webbe Shibeli area—namely, the occupation of Danani, in the Bawa Valley. Hero, again, the work was done by native levies under Chief Hussein Haile, who recently submitted to the invaders. Danani stands at the junction of important roads, and is consequently strategically important to the Italians. The Italians estimate the enemy losses at 100 killed and 150 wounded, and their own rather less.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 69, 3 January 1936, Page 5
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