A MARKED MONARCH.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13182, 14 February 1936, Page 5

A MARKED MONARCH.

ITALIANS AND HAILE. DAILY AIR RAIDS. United Press Assn.—By Electric T elegraph—Copyright. LONDON, February 13. Sir Perclval Phillips, the Daily Telegraph’s Djibuti correspondent, states that the most important objective of the Italian campaign in Abyssinia at present is the Emperor himself. Aeroplanes are roaring above Makale and Dessie almost daily endeavouring to ascertain his whereabouts with the intention of bombing him. This was the real objective of the last Dessie raid of which the Emperor was tully aware. Italian headquarters in Eritrea believe the Emperor’s death would speedily end the war. This has become almost an obsession, but there is little danger of the Italians getting him. He is still in the Dessie area where six special bombproof shelters have been constructed securing him against attacks. He sleeps in a different one nightly while he only goes abroad in the daytime well -camouflaged from air attacks. FIGHTING IN MAKALE SECTOR. SONDON, February 12. The Italians are reported to have begun an extensive counter-attack in the Makale sector, and so far to have reached the neighbourhood of Scelicot. The Addis Ababa correspondent of the Times says that the Abyssinians claim that the Italian outposts west and south of Aksum have been withdrawn closer to the town. Both sides sustained casualties in an encounter at Wujelli, south of the Dawa Parma river, in which the Italian commander was killed.

IT All A N ESTIMATES INCREASED ROME, February 12. The Estimates for 1933-37 amount to £16,501,475. an increase of £2,346,400 over those of last year. The Italian Ex-Soldiers’ Association has sent to Signor Mussolini war bonuses and other policies totalling £155,9-50.