Beleaguered Addis Ababa
QUARRELS AND JEALOUSIES AMONG ITALIANS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, September 4. The “Guardian” publishes a dispatch from Addis Ababa emphasising that the capital so far from being the paradise it was officially claimed has been almost a beleagured city since July. Defence works have been carried right into the centre of the town and every two or three days there was a panic caused by shooting." The food supply is critical, flou", sugar and salt being unobtainable. Many of the troops complain that they are half starved. The Italians have not yet established an efficient administration, though they show plenty of goodwill. The situation has been made worse by quarrels and jealousies between the Fascist militia and regular army.
Renegade Chief Honoured by . Mussolini Received Sunday, 9.50 p.m. ROME, Sept. 5. Mussolini received the renegade fbyssinian chief Ras Gugsa who handed over his medals, decorations and lion’s marro headdress formerly received from the Emperor Selassie. He extolled Fascist Italy.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 211, 7 September 1936, Page 7
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