ITALY IN ARMS
NEARLY 1,000,000 MEN
MORE DIVISIONS FOR AFRICA
EEPLY TO ABYSSINIA
Cnited Press Association—By Electric Tele'
graph—Copyright. (Received June 1, noon.)
ROME, May 31.
Signer Mussolini, the Dictator, has ordered more troops to Africa, and has stopped the leave of members of the 191S class.
The navy has dispatched further ships to the Red Sea. Signor Mussolini has ordered the mobilisation of four further divisions, estimated at 55,000 men, for service in East Africa.
A communique says that Abyssinia's partial mobilisation and the arrival of additional Avar material compels the adoption of new defensive measures in order to guarantee the security of Italy's colonies. The mobilisation brings the Italians under arms to nearly 1,000,000 men.
ITALIAN MAIL COURIERS
(Beceived June 1, 12.30 p.m.)
ROME, May 31
Italian mail couriers, it is alleged, have been imprisoned by the Abyssinians.
A Czechoslovakian machanic and his two sons, it is also reported, were assaulted by Ethiopian troops, who thought he had ignored their orders.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 9
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