NEGHELLI FALLS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 97, 24 March 1941, Page 7

NEGHELLI FALLS

SUCCESS IN ABYSSINIA. STEATEGIC IMPORTANCE. OTJnited Press Association—Copyright.') (Eec. 10 a.m.) EUGBY, Mar. 23. (British Official Wireless.) The Imperial troops pressing l northward into the Abyssinian uplands have captured the important town of Neg'helli. This is the chief news contained in the latest Cairo headquarters communique.

It states that in Libya there- is nothing important to report. In the .Keren area of Eritrea the fighting continues. Yesterday our troops registered a number of local successes, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy and taking a- further 130 prisoners. In Abyssinia Neghelli has been occupied, and the operations in all the other areas continue to develop to our advantage." Neghelli lies 115 miles north of the Moyalo frontier post and some 90 miles east of Yavello, the capture of which was recently announced. The importance of "Neghelli lies in its position as a well-defended Italian post on four crossroads on the Strade Reale (Royal Road) from Mogadishu (capital of Italian Somaliland, which was recently captured) to Addis Ababa (capital of Abyssinia)-. Its capture may be regarded as significant in the sequence of tactical and strategic operations which the Imperial Fortes are conducting intensively from Italian Somaliland bases. It is interesting to note that the Marquisate of Neghelli was conferred on Marshal Graziani in 1936.