ITALIANS RESUME WORK
DANAKIL PLATEAU RIM
ABYSSINIAN CAMP ROUTED
MARSHAL DE BONO'S REPORT
United Pross Association—By Electric Tele.
praph—Copyright. (Received November 27, noon.)
ROME, November 26.
A communique from Marshal de Bono to the "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent says: "The Danakil column has resumed its work of mopping lip the eastern edges of the plateau, assisted by several hundred i armed men from Danakil villages, who have recently submitted to us on the Giuba section of the Somali front. "General Graziani has dispatched a light column to Lammascilindi, 100 kilometres north of Dolo, where on November 22 an Abyssinian camp was surprised. After five hours' heavy fighting the enemy was completely routed. A hundred dead were counted, including two commanders. Our losses were four dead, five wounded, and two missing, all the casualties being natives. "A squadron -from Somaliland bombed the Dagabur fortifications. Our aircraft have flown over the city of Harrar without taking military action."
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 129, 27 November 1935, Page 9
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ITALIANS RESUME WORK
Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 129, 27 November 1935, Page 9
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