ABYSSINIAN WAR

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 May 1936, Page 2

ABYSSINIAN WAR

CAPITAL ATTACKED ! [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. COPYRIGHT.] ADDIS ABABA, April 30. Italian ’planes machine-gunned the hangars and aerodromes. Dr. Melly has returned to the cappital with the British ambulance unit. SASABANEH FALLS (Recd. May 1, 10.30 a.m.) ROME, April 30. Marshal Badoglio reports the capture of Sasabaneh. The enemy was routed and is being pursued by the Italians. FURTHER ITALIAN GAINS. (Recd. May 1, 1 p.m.). ROME. April 30. Marshal Badoglio’s communique states: “General Graziani’s troops carried at the bayonet point the whole of the Sasabaneh line. The Italians advancing from Lake Tsana occupied Debratabor, Ras Kassa’s former headquarters. The Italians were held up by rain, but lesumed the attack at dawn on April 29. General Agostini descended suddenly on the Abyssinian flank at Bullaleh, resulting in the eventual capture o the objective, including Nahbur, attei ten days’ arduous fighting. 111 the Abyssinians resisted until tne last. Machine-guns mounted on lorries, assisted by thirty bombers, heavily punished the retreating columns. The Italians, advancing towards Addis Ababa, captured Debrebrehan, later capturing an important position at Mount Tarma, which was held by 350 Abyssinians, under the Swedish Captain Tanin. Thousands of hastilyraised reinforcements from the capital did not arrive, owing to lack ot food, which some quarters attubute to treachery. EMPEROR’S RESOLVE TO FIGHT. ADDIS ABABA. April 30. The Emperor's statement about fighting to the bitter end, was communicated by the Emperor to “The Times’s" Addis Ababa correspondent, who says. “It is his answer to a London newspaper report, stating that he had acknowledged that Abyssinia could no longer resist the enemy employing every device in modern warfare. “The Times’s” correspondent adds: “The Emperor has never acknowledged the t the country’s resistance is broken. On the contrary, he has repeatedly stated they would fight on to the end, whatever it might he. for a system of collective security, the destiny of which was now inextricably interwoven with theirs."

ARCHBISHOP’S PROTEST (Recd. May 1, 8 a.m.) LONDON. April 30. “It was never more difficult to restrain language than when I considei what is happening in Abyssinia,” declared the Archbishop of Canterbury. “The impotence of Christian Europe while a professedly Christian people use every barbarity in the name ot civilisation is lamentable.” DESERTERS IN KENYA.

(Recd. May 1, 1 P-™.) LONDON, April 30.