PATRIOT ACTIVITY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 30, 5 February 1941, Page 8

PATRIOT ACTIVITY

SOUTH-WEST ETHIOPIA

LENGTHY CAMPAIGN

START LAST JULY

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received February 5, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, February 4. Activity by patriots in south-west Abyssinia is increasing and successful ambushes of convoys and clashes with Italian detachments have involved considerable Italian losses. The patriots report that Italians and native irregulars are terrorising and murdering peasants, looting villages, and seizing livestock. More Abyssinians are coming into Kenya for arms and training. ■ It is now revealed that the Ethiopian flag was first hoisted in Abyssinia when 500 uniformed Ethiopian refugees, accompanied by forces of the King's African Rifles,' captured on July 13 Namaraputh, a small Italian outpost on Lake Rudolf. The refugee regiment went on, intending tp make contact with friends and then disperse and foment unrest, but the regiment returned weak and disappointed a month later because it had entered uninhabited country and was unable to contact friends or obtain food. It was also bombed. It now has British officers and has been re-equipped. Several j successful actions have been fought by; the regiment, the most important of which was the capture of the frontier j post of Dukana. '' ' ■ I