THE MAKALE PUSH

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 112, 7 November 1935, Page 9

THE MAKALE PUSH

ITALIANS CONSOLIDATING

NO ORGANISED OPPOSITION EXPECTED

OCCUPATION OF VILLAGES

ABYSSINIANS LURING ENEMY ON

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received November 7, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, November 6. A report from Asmara states that the Italian advance will be resumed tomorrow. ■ ■ Reports from Rome and Addis Ababa state that a small advance party of Italians reached Makale last night. It is claimed in Addis Ababa, however, that they were expelled during the night, ten being killed. \ The Abyssinians also claim that they brought down two aeroplanes on the southern front. > An Asmara message states that the Italian First Army Corps captured Agula and occupied the adjacent village of Enda Maria Daha. The Second Army Corps, in consolidation of the Shire Mountain position, is completing the occupation- of Abi Addi, 20 miles west of Makale, preparatory to the main advance to Makale at dawn. No organised opposition is expected to be met during this second stage of Italy's big push, despite rumours that the Abyssinians are manning pill-box defences hastily erected under the guidance of Colonel Kornavaloff, Ras Seyoum's Russian military adviser. The Government spokesman at - Addis Ababa, however, declares that the .commanders of the northern army are strictly obeying Haile Selassie's orders to retire slowly, luring the enemy on.'