ITALIAN ACTIVITY
TROOPS MASSED ITALO-ABYSSINIAN DISPUTE. Press Association Electric TelecraDb—Copyright LONDON, Wednesday. The Rome correspondent of “The Times” says that a steady, trickle of men, material arid munitions continues from Italian ports to East Africa. The “Daily Mail’s” correspondent at Massowa, chief port of the Italian colony of Eritrea, says that there are at present 100,000 tons of shipping in the harbour. Every street is choked with the sinews of war from casks of chianti to cases of cordite, and thousands of yards of barbed wire. -All are hurried off to Asmara, the capital, 80 miles away, as soon as possible. It is reported that 20,000 Italians, much heavy artillery, 200- aeroplanes and 40,000 native troops are massed on the Abyssinian frontier. Larger forces are assembling in Italian Somaliland. Meanwhile Abyssinia is buying guns and material from Japan.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 11 April 1935, Page 5
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