STRENUOUS EFFORT, BUT FUTILE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 72, 18 December 1935, Page 11

STRENUOUS EFFORT, BUT FUTILE

Italian Army’s Failure POSSIBLE INFLUENCE ON MUSSOLINI’S POLICY By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received December 17, 0.30 p.m.) London, December 17. “The Times,” in a leader, emphasising that the war operations are at a standstill, points out that the Italians, despite 10 weeks of strenuous effort, have gone but a little way toward serving their problems. Their limited achievements have seriously diminished the prospects of adequate progress before the rains return, accentuating the difficulties and loneliness of the soldiers on outpost duty through whose blood a chill must run every nightfall. Such conditions may well influence Italian statesmanship with its tradition of realism. ' TROOPS FOR ABYSSINIA What Suez Canal Statistics Show London, December 16. Though fewer troops are proceeding to Africa, November statistics show that Italy’s military passengers south* ward through the Suez Canal during 1935 exceed 300,000.. Cash payments in canal dues totalled £1,250,000. Eight thousand sick and wounded are among the 20,000 men who have returned. The aircraft carrier Miraglia, with bombers stacked as high as the bridge, passed through the canal at the weekend.