ITALIAN TROOPS

Southland Times, Issue 25310, 13 June 1935, Page 7

ITALIAN TROOPS

STEAMERS CROWDED TRANSPORTS ARRIVE IN EAST AFRICA TOLL OF- DISEASE (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, June 11. The special correspondent of the Daily Express at Massaua Harbour says: This tiny seaport where a few.months ago an odd steamer called occasionally is now crammed with Italian shipping. Many vessels are anchored outside and more than forty ships are in sight, many packed with troops and others with cargo. The men and materials were apparently shipped from Italy as fast as the ships could be loaded regardless of the lack of facilities for dealing with them here. One passenger and cargo ship wh'ich calls here regularly to land cargo had to wait three weeks for berth space. Still Italian transports continue to arrive, though sunstroke and dysentery are taking heavy toll of these raw Italian youths in uniform. The Hague correspondent of The Times says the Government refused Italy permission to enlist some thousands of natives in the Dutch East Indies for road building in Italian Somaliland, pointing out that it does not desire to depart from the policy of the last 30 years giving permission only on behalf of colonies where the enlistment of native labour is an old-established custom. BANNED FROM .ITALY ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, June 11. The British United Press correspondent at Rome says the Manchester Guardian, the Daily Herald, the Evening Standard and the Sunday Express have been banned from entry into Italy indefinitely, because of their comments on the Italo-Abyssinian situation.