ITALIANS REPULSED.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13100, 31 January 1936, Page 5

ITALIANS REPULSED.

RELENTLESS ABYSSINIANS.

DISSATISFACTION REPORTED United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 29. The Times? Addis Ababa correspondents says Ras Ka.-sa reports that the Italians are striving to recapture the lost positions and are employing heavy artillery but the Abvssinians repulsed their assailants, Ras Kassa covers the southern, area near Alakale, while Ra« Seyomn is prosecuting guerilla, warfare across the AdowaMakal'e communications with Gheralta.

A Dessve message asserts that the Abyssinians with antiquated rifles fired on Italian aeroplanes which were bombing churches in Tembien and brought down a ’plane- in flames. One occupant used a parachute but was caught in a tree in which he was hanged. The other occupants of the machine were incinerated.

Four thousand Italians are reported to have occupied Negelli an the southern Iront, but, the Abyssinians believe the February rains will endanger their supplies from Dole. Meanwhile reinforcements for Ras Best a, who may have to explain to Haile Selassie why he lost Negelli and submit to an imperial rebuke, are advancing from Sidamo. The Daily Mail’s Addis Ababa correspondent- gives prominence to rumours of ; i revolt in Abyssinia and points out that the Gojjam uprising against Selassie rook 5000 picked troops a month to subdue.

The correspondent adds: “130.000 troops of a. different race from the disaffected tribesmen, are moving under tile three Dedjasmatehe s southwest from Harrar ostensibly to cut off the Italian army between 8010 and Sidamo, but the actual route traverses the centre of the disaffected areas. Betty local jealousies are asserting themselves now that the first flush of patriotism has subsided. Aim-cover, peasant cultivators feel tile strain of supplying and transporting gratis food for the troops.’’ IT ALI AX BLUFF. NOTE T.G EGYPTIAN CABINET. (Received 11 a.m.) CAIRO, January 30. Italy has sent a Note to the Egyptian Government, protesting against the application of sanctions and declaring that Italy reserves the right to demand indemnity for moral and material damage that Italian subjects have suffered. AIUSSOEIXUS MONEY GRAB. REPORTED ITALIAN PROJECT. » ROME, January 30. Alussolini is reported to he considering a ten per cent. capital levy. “NIGGER IX THE WOODPILE.” LONDON, January 30. The Daily Express says Customs officers seized 400 eases of Italiangrown lemons allegedly landed in England contrary to the League embargo on Italian goods. This is the first seizure since sanctions were enforced against Italy. Each lemon was wrapped separately and the wrapper bore the words, “Produce of Syria,” but expert examination revealed that they were grown in Italy and not Syria. The lemons will he sold, the money going to the Crown. The importer, who is ail Austrian, will get nothing.