MOUNTING TENSION
ABYSSINIAN PREPARATIONS
GLOOM AMONG FOREIGNERS
"^Received August 24, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, August 23.
The Addis Ababa correspondent of "The Times" says that gloom is increasing among the foreign population. Merchants complain that there is no business, and threaten to depart.
Missionaries of all denominations have begun a four days' prayer meeting on behalf of Ethiopia.
The excitement over Baron Falconi's injury, which proved to be very slight, exemplifies the mounting ten-
Along the.lines of the expected Italian advance the Abyssinians are digging pits like wild animal traps, over which is placed a wooden framework covered nvith turf and grass. Many villages are constructing aeroplane traps.
A long-disused ammunition factory at Addis Ababa is being reconstructed in the greatest secrecy. The guards have been ordered to shoot anyone entering the precincts.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 48, 24 August 1935, Page 9
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