AWFUL SUFFERING.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13104, 12 November 1935, Page 5

AWFUL SUFFERING.

TROOPS IN “ YELLOW HELL."

CHOLERA, MALARIA, LEPROSY.

“MUSSOLINI WILL NEVER WIN.”

United Press Assn. —Hy Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ADEN, November 10. Mr Noel Monks, the SunHerald’s special East African correspondent, says that, “carrying out a plan formulated at Addis Ababa with a young Belf£iaii gun-runner, 1 posed as his assistant and succeeded in penetrating 100 miles beyond Jijiga into Ogaden—‘the yellow hell.' “When our caravan reached the last civilised outpost, Jijiga, I had my first glimpse of Ogaden’s horrors. In a small hospital 1 saw 400 Abyssinians dying from every sickness from malaria to leprosy. “One lone medical man, Dr. Hackman, an American, was fighting heroically for their lives. Two days before I arrived 50 died from cholera. Fifty miles beyond Jijiga there is nothing but a desert of sand and stones for 300 miles into Italian Somaliland. \\ e pushed on in terrific heat to N\ arroh, which is the last connecting-link with the front line, which is 150 miles further across the desert. “Six weeks ago the Warroh outpost numbered S<JOO men, but 1 was shown the graves of 1200 who died irom sickness. “Giant buzzards swarmed black over sandy mounds where lay some of Abyssinia’s fittest, bravest and 3 oungest men who had never oven fired a shot in the war. .young Abyssinian officer who refused to allow us to proceed further told us the Italians were dving m even greater numbers than ' the Abyssinians. 1 was told that the Abyssinians had surrounded all the known water holes within an area of 200 miles, and that what thev co *~dd not hold they would poison. Jhe Italians have- definitely not advanced any further than in the first week’s hostilities. ‘‘Returning to Jijiga, I passed through British Somaliland and embarked at Zeilah, arriving here to-day. I will return to Australia by the Oriord. 'I am satisfied Mussolini will never conquer Abyssinia.” RISING FOOD PRICES. r ... ROME, November 11. I be most active part of Italv's anti-sanctions campaign at present is the fight- to prevent an increase in food prices for which everv Fascist group has initiated a vigilance committee to visit shops and ensure that goods are not sold above regulation prices even to the extent V.-1I- "n 11 ? 1 ot a penny in the shilling The Government is publislinig a blacklist of profiteers whose shops have been closed. Despite the authorities’ reassurances most people who are able to afford the expenditure are laying in stocks of provisions leading to fears ot panic hoarding. Mussolini’s economy timetable in Government offices for saving electric- light has produced a curtailment of shopping hours. Theatres and cinemas are also advancing their hours, finishing at 11.30 p.m. instead of 1 a.m. Conforming to this early-to-bed movement while doing theiir normal work necessitates the Italians sacrificing their siesta.