ITALIANS PUSH ON
Within 100 Miles of Dessie LONDON, April 7. The “Daily Mail’s” Borne oorrespondent says that the Italians are swiftly pressing in pursuit of Halil Seilassie's army, and have entered Corbo, within one hundred miles of Dessie. Reports of the Lake Ashangl battle coming from the front show that Haiti Seilassie, during the first 36 hours, remained at headquarters directing the defence. Then, finding that the Italy ians were outclassing and outnumber* ing his troops he went to the front with the Imperial Guard machine gnn detachment and remained there for two days without sleep, handling a machine* gun. Asmara messages state that a black! limousine, believed to be the Em* peror’e, was captured by Askari flying columns after attacking and routing an isolated detachment of the Imperial Guard south of Quoram. Italian aero* planes afterwards bombed two motorcars moving southwards along the main Dessie road,
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 100, 8 April 1936, Page 5
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