SEEKING COVER
ABYSSINIANS KNOW HOW Small Effect of Air Raids ST. GEORGE & THE DRAGON (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 4, 1.25 p.m.) ADDIS ABABA, Dec. 3. The Crown Prince attended a service at the Basilica of St. George, who is the patron saint of Abyssinia. The people are expecting St. George to. slay the dragon, meaning Italy. Dr. lloekman, who has returned from Dagabur for supplies, says that the entire population has learned to seek the shelter of the bush, which is never hit by bombs, lie estimates the total Abyssinian soldiers killed in recent fighting in Eastern Ogaden at 40 in battle and four from the air. Dogs always give the first warning.
Poor old Dagabur, consisting originally of mud huts, received hundreds of pounds of bombs from Signor Mussolini. Nothing remains to be bombed. The Abyssinian forces are being liberally equipped with portable wireless sets to enable raids to be coordinated. Many sets broken in transit from Europe were repaired at Dessye by the sons of Mr. Martin, former Ethiopian Minister in London.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 299, 4 December 1935, Page 7
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