LONG CAMPAIGN

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 113, 6 February 1941, Page 7

LONG CAMPAIGN

Patriots In South-west Abyssinia

LONDON, February 4. Activity by patriots in south-west Abyssinia is increasing and successful ambushes of convoys and clashes with Italian detachments have involved considerable Italian losses.

The patriots report that Italians and native irregulars are terrorizing and murdering peasants, looting villages, and seizing livestock. ■ More Abyssinians are coming into Kenya for arms and training. It is now revealed that the Ethiopian flag was first hoisted in Abyssinia when 800 uniformed Ethiopian refugees. accompanied by forces of the King’s African Rifles, captured on July 13 Namaraputh. a small Italian outpost on Lake Rudolf. The refugee regiment went on, intending to make contact with friends and then disperse and foment unrest, but the regiment returned weak and disappointed a month later because it had entered uninhabited country and was unable to contact friends or obtain food. It was also bombed. It now has British officers and has been reequipped. Several successful actions have been fought by the regiment, the most important of which was the capture of the frontier post of Dukana.