ETHIOPIAN UNREST

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 183, 6 July 1936, Page 7

ETHIOPIAN UNREST

ATTACKS ON ITALIANS.

THOUSANDS ARRESTED.

MORE TROUBLE EXPECTED. (United Press Association.—By Electric: Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received July G, 11.35 a.m. CAIRO, July 5.

Thousands have recently been arrested at Addis Ababa following concerted onslaughts upon Italian soldiers, a number of whose throats were cut by night. Others attacked the Akaki aerodrome.

Many of the prisoners were subsequently released because the gaols were already full. Some were employed an forced labour and the others were, given the opportunity of enlisting. It is believed the Ltaiians intend to enrol fifteen battalions, totalling 45,001) men, in the course oi the year. Their garrisons are mostly conimed to the towns, not venturing far into the interior.

Only a few fugitive chiefs have surrendered. Tlie Aoyssinians claim to have killed an Italian captain and 70 soldiers an Garamulata, near Diredawa. Patriots of the westren provinces declare that they will make a nationwide effort in the worst week of t..e rainy season, but the Italians consider that they are l'nlly occupied with banditry and inter-tribal rai-.ng, particularly in Ankober and Termaber, though they admit .. that complete pacification may take some years. Tlie regular aeroplane services have been suspended owing to the rains turning the aerodromes into quagmires, and interfering with visibility, necessitating the use_ _of the Djibouti railway, for wnicli the French demand payment in foreign exchange, refusing lire.