SUBMISSIONS TO ITALIANS
PEASANTS AND PRIESTS IN TIGRE REWARDS FOR MAIMED ASKARIS (Received October 22, 5.5 p.m.) ' LONDON, Oct. 21 Messages from the Italian headquarters at Asmara, Eritrea, state that there is nothing new on the Eritrea front except reconnaissances. It is reported that 1 2,000 natives of the Tigre province, mostly peasants, have submitted! to Italian rule. Apparently only 3000 of Gugsa's 12,000 followers are willing to join the invaders as fighting men. General de Bono has rewarded with money eleven Askaris who fought beside the Italians at Adowu. in 1 896. They had all lost their right hands and feet, which ttheir Abyssinian captors had cut off after the battle. Fifteen others will be rewarded later. The clergy of 200 Coptic churches and 15 mosques in the Tigre province have collectively submitted to the Italians.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22247, 23 October 1935, Page 13
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