SURPRISE ATTACK
SORTIE BY ABYSSINIANS ITALIAN COLUMN ROUTED OVER 300 KILLED MENACE TO REARGUARD (Eire. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Heed. April 17. 3 p.m.) LONDON, April 16. An Addis Ababa message states that (.he Abyssinians, as the result of a suiprise attack, claim to have routed an Italian mechanised column advancing from Negelli. hilling 320 Italians and 19 Askaris and capturing* six lorries loaded with munitions, and 12 machine guns. The Abyssinian losses are stated to have been 17 dead. The Emperor decorated the victorious officers. It is still asserted that the Abyssinian northern armies form an appreciable menace to the Italian rear-guard,-which might be cut.- off from the spearhead of the ftalian advance.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18992, 17 April 1936, Page 13
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