CABLE NEWS
DEFEAT ADMITTED
ABYSSINIAN ATTACK
MAKALE DEFENCES TOO STRONG
■ United Press Association—By Electric Tclcsraph—Copyright. (Received February 11, 2.15 p.m.) ADDIS ABABA, February 10. A communique admits, the first defeat that has been acknowledged by cither combatant, an effort by Ras Scyoum to recapture RlakaU being repulsed after a day's fight* ing owing to triple six-foot barbed wire entanglements against which the Abyssinians flung themselves being mown down by machineguns.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 35, 11 February 1936, Page 10
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