WAR IN ABYSSINIA

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 November 1935, Page 7

WAR IN ABYSSINIA

MOUNTAIN PASS BATTLE.

[BY CABLE-PRESS ASSN. —COPYEIGHT.] (Reed. November 16, 11 a.m.) ASMARA, November 15. A battle lasting all day followed a column of Askaris advancing upon Asbi, to join General Santinin’s column,’ being ambushed in a narrow mountain path by a. thousand Abyssinians, who enfiladed the column with machine guns. The Askaris eventually dislodged the Abyssinians, who dispersed, leaving 55 dead and many wounded: Four Italian officers and' twenty Askaris were killed, and 50 Askaris' were wounded. Colonel Mariotti then occupied Asbi.

An air squadron bombed a large encampment of five hundred tents outside Antalo, south of Makale, causing a panic among the Abyssinians. An official message says that Belfonte (reported killed) was only wounded.

BOMBS ON CHURCH

(Recd. Nov. 16, 8 a.m.). ADDIS ABABA, November 4.

Italian planes dropped fifty bombs fit Baggahbur, setting fire to a church and killing the priest.

BRITISH HOSPITAL RUGBY, November 14. The first British mobile hospital unit organised by the British Red Cross for service in Ethiopia left St. Thomas’s Hospital yesterday for Harrar. As the difficulties of the country are known to be enormous, and as nothing can be obtained there, they are carrying all the medical and other stores. More funds are being raised for another unit to follow' as quickly as possible. PARIS STUDENTS. PARIS, November 14. Students of the Faculty of Arts mobbed the Abyssinian Adviser, Dr. Jeze, and prevented him opening a course ot lectures. The police dispersed the student pickets. Free fights ensued and arrests followed, while colleagues yelled “Jeze resign!