DEFIANT ABYSSINIANS
ITALY’S TASK NOT YET COMPLETED. .?ress Association Electric Tploeraph—Convrieh’ LONDON, Saturday. The latest information casts doubt on the sweeping success of the Italian campaign.
A European officer in the Abyssinian army who has. arrived at Cairo asserts that Dedjazmatchs Habte Mariam and Makonnen are forming a provisional Government with tribal chieftains who are ready to resist the Italian invasion. Galla tribesmen me now realising that their rich lands are threatened, and will defend them at all costs. Ras Imru and Ras Desta are retiring on Gore with their armies in good order, in preparation for launching guerrilla warfare. They are aware' that the heavy rains now falling must hamper the Italian aircraft, Messrs George and Sirak Herouy, who were educated respectively as Oxford and Cambridge, and who are sons of the former Abyssinian Foreign Minister, will help to lead the tribes-" men. .
Djibuti dispatches announce that the Italians occupy only the principal towns, and that the greater part of the "huge areas between remain defiant and unconquerable. Shooting proceeds nightly even at Addis Ababa, where raids continue, despite continuous executions by the f Italians. Marshal Graziani admits heavy casualties and the destruction of army lorries on the Addis Ababa-Dessie road, and has warned the Abyssinian leaders who have submitted that this must cease, otherwise the Italians will declare a general annihilation. Local finances are chaotic. ABYSSINIAN RETURNING. TO RESUME COMMAND. PARIS, Monday. Dedjazmatch Makonnen has arrived from London en route to Gore, capital of the province of which he was formerly Governor, under instructions from Haile Selassie to resume command and to inform the Emperor of the extent of the army which is now massing, and also of the personnel of the provisional Government. EMPEROR SELASSIE. NOT WANTED BY SWISS. (Received Wednesday, 9.45 a.m.) BERNE, Tuesday. The Government has informed the - Emperor Selassie that it will require him to leave Switzerland as soon as thg League Assembly has concluded its sitting. . \
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 24 June 1936, Page 5
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