SWEDISH HOSPITAL CAPTURED

Northern Advocate, 30 January 1936, Page 7

SWEDISH HOSPITAL CAPTURED

STALEMATE IN WM SITUATION

ABYSSINIANS’ GUERILLA TACTICS

f United Press Association.-By : - Electric Teleyravk.-' ■Copyright. ] (Received 10 a.m.) ROME,. January 28. COMMUNIQUE ' FROM MARA SHAL BADOGLIO ANNOUNCES THAT IN A RECONNAISSANCE AT WADARI, IN THE SOUTHERN FRONT, AN ENTIRE SWEDISH RED CROSS CAMP HOSPITAL WAS CAPTURED, INCLUDING FIVE LORRIES ONE OF WHICH CONTAINED ;'27 CASES OF AMMUNITION.

Other booty, at Wadari included-large enemy depots of grain and coffee. , Although Signor Mussolini enthusiastically congratulated Marshal Badoglio and his troops, Marshal Badoglio’s own summary of the situation seems to indicate a statcmate. A communication from Harrar -says the Italians are still striving''to;. reCdVer lost positions.

Gerazmath Takla is pursuing guerilla tactics, and carried out a night raid on an Italian post at Akabela, in which he killed, 10 and wounded 5, 'but was compelled to abandon two wounded warriors, whom, he alleges, the Italian reinforcements buried alive.

Abegaz Nagatch’s warriors captured five Italians in a surprise attack near Adowa. De.djazmatch Sailie, ambushed 300 Eritreans in Tembien and killed an Italian ca'ptain and "50 Askaris, The remainder fled. " Dedjazmatch 'Shale killed 300 Askaris and their leader. AH these raids preceded the four-day battle in Tembien, after which Has Kassa 'and- Ras Seyoum’s troops divided into hundreds of small troops and resumed 1 harassing the invaders, who were ineffectually resorting to mountain guns. '• ■ ■■■■ - The bitterest press ' "attack .yet launched in Italy a'gainst foreign state, since the beginning of- the. war, 'has been prompted by ».fhe reported discovery of boxes of ammunition, .in captured Swedish Red Cross, lorries.

Newspapers openly charge; Swe*

den with the deliberate use of the ’ protection of the Red Cross: in order to supply Abyssinia with arms and ammunition.

The Abyssinian Red Cross denies the allegation that the captured lorries contained ammunition.