CURAT CAPTURED
'ABYSSINIAN SUCCESS
HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING
BOTH SIDES LOSE HEAVILY
(Received February 12, 1 p.m.) ADDIS ABABA, February 11. It is announced that despite the silence of Rome communiques Abyssinians under Kas Nasibu and Wehib Pasha after heavy fighting expelled the Italians from Curat, fifty miles southeast of Sasabaneh, as the result of a surprise attack. There were'severe losses on both sides. The Addis Ababa correspondent of "The Times" confirms the capture of Curat, which commands important water supplies, by two hundred Abyssinians after a hand-to-hand struggle in barbed wire.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 11
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90CURAT CAPTURED Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 11
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