MUSSOLININ CONFIDENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 64, 16 March 1936, Page 7

MUSSOLININ CONFIDENT

NO PEACE IN ABYSSINIA Heceived Alarch 15. 5.5 p.m. ROME, March 14. Confident of shattering the remaining Abyssinian defences, Signor Alussolini will not meawhile launch peace negotiations. Prince Umberto, of Piedmont, has boen promoted to the command uf the Naples Army Corps. Lieutenant Vittorio and .Sergeant Bruno, Mussolini’s sons, have been awarded siher medals ] for gallantry. UNRESISTED ADVANCE ITALIANS IN THE NOPvTH Received Alarch 15, 6.50 p.m. LONDON, March .14. Asmara telegrams confirm reports of an unresisted Italian advance through submissive tribesmen on a 230-mile front across northern Abyssinia. The first corps on I lie left are moving from Amba Alagi towards Lake Ashangi, the third corps in the centre towards Socota and mixed columns on the right along the Soudan border towards Nogara, 30 miles south of the Sotit River and flanking the advance of the Fourth Corps through W’oldenoa, west of the Takazze. The second corps is in Tsellemti north of Scmien ranges. ITALIAN CONSCRIPTS MORE MEN CALLED Up Received Alarch 15. 9.5 p.m. ROME, March 14. Italy has called up the 1915 class of | 260.000 conscripts. The total under ; arms is now 1.250,000. ABYSSINIAN FORCES Received March 15, 7.50 p.m. ADDIS ABABA. March 14. Ras Ebaba, ex-Governor of Dessie, has taken ever the command and reorganising of Ras Mulugheta’s army-north-east of Amba Alagi. Jesus Afework, after a conference with H.n’.e Selassie, has gone to Geneva on a secret mission. AIR ACTIVITY FURTHER VISITS TO QUORAM T.ONIDON, March 13. As message from Dessie states that the Italian aeroplanes have twice bombed Quoram in the last 24 hours. Rome announces that a communique issued by Marshal Badoglio reports that troops advancing n the northern front have reached the Alkadra region. The air force bombed important concentrations of Abyssinians south of Quorani. .Air activity also continues on the Somali front.