LATEST FROM WAR ZONE

Northern Advocate, 3 January 1936, Page 5

LATEST FROM WAR ZONE

ITALIANS CLAIM SUCCESS IN SOUTH LUnited Press Association.-By Electric Telegraph. — Covyright ,] (Received 10 a.m.) , LONDON, January 1. In consonance with the . earlier Italian policy of placing native levees on the forefront in battle, General Graziani, appreciating the possibility of the weakness of the junction ■■-.-. between the army under Ras Desta .and Ras Nasibu in the upper Webbe Shebeli region of the Ogaden Province, has ordered Olal Dinle, leader of the native troops, to direct , his efforts against this point, in order to break the Abyssinian liaison. Apparently his efforts at Gabba on December 30 were not decisive, his opponents withdrawing their camp further eastward. An Italian communique claims a success in the Bawa Valley. Here 'again the work was done by natives, namely troops under Chief Hussein Haili; who recently submitted to the invaders.

Denani stands at the . junction- of important roads. Therefore, it is strategically important to the Italians. .The latter estimates the enemy losses at 100 killed and 150 wounded, and the Italian losses at rather less.

ITALY’S INTERNAL SITUATION. The Rome correpondent of “The Times” says the newspapers are using the lull in political activities to reassure the Italian public and the outside world that Italy is perfectly content with the internal .situation and with the military position m Abyssinia.

The forty-fifth day of the “economic seige,” it is claimed, finds Italy as united and as determined as ever to pursue her present policy. All possible national and international steps, it is added, have been taken to meet the threat of an oil embargo, if that “false spectre” should assume concrete form.