The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-21

SOiQlCIS dTlHcQ Wlgti lnico, hAoO ouO- mitted. Most important was the chieftain Halle Marian, whose father is still with Ras SiyouIn Mariam's father controlled 600 sol- diers in the Essta region and aft erward on the March river, which forms the frontier.
 The priests were dressed in pur- pie, green and pink robes, embroid- cred with gold and silver, with head pieces like black loaves of bread, carrying bishop crooks with gilt Bysantine crosses they offered to the Italian authorities. The Italians kissed the crosses. Some priests were accompanied by boys who held gaudy parasols over them, and swished away the flies with goat-tail swishers.
 When the Italians have penetrat- ed 100 miles into Ethiopia they will commence to meet problems never before confronted by any army in modern times.
 Maps Do Not Help
 Even in Italian detailed maps perhaps thousands o square miles are blank, and the Italians are finding that these maps, based on various explorations during the last century, are often widely incorrect ly marked.
 Trails are often inaccurate by scores. of miles.
 Europeans tell me that the Ital- ians, north and east of Lake Tans, the heart of the Nile irrigation pro- ject will meet the legendary tribe of black Jews whose origin is a mystery. In their tradition there is no mention of times before their flight from Babylon. They retain many physical and traditional char acteristics and customs of Jews, but yet are black.
 The occupation will be concen- trated at selected centers, strategi- cally important, and trails, as France did in Morocco for years.
 Natives in Adigrat greedily &C., cept Italian money because there have been long commercial rela- tions. Difficulty is being met in other places where the natives only idea of money is the Ethiopian Ma ria Theresa Thaler. A few shrewd traders at Aduwa are selling Ger man beer at 80 cents 8 bottle and wine at $3.20 a bottle, making no distinction between still and spark ling wines.
 Learn For First Time
 Camel caravans, which have fol- lowed the trails for centuries, still are arriving in the Italian lines and learning for the first time of the invasion. Daily, bands of Ethio- plans from the back country stream single file into town with white flags, stupef1ed at the new roads damned with laundering trucks motor cycles and tanks.
 They perch on knolls and chatter excitedly in their curious higi pitched voices the like of which nev had heard anywhere. They arr rembarkably eloquent in gestures They throw out their arms and the! love to argue and talk. The Ital' ians have given them something tt talk about. Illustrative of the haphazart Ethiopian assortment of arms, A P. G. Vivian, 8 British ex-soldiel examined rifles which Ras Gugsa' men carried when they surrendered ] Besides modern Japanese rifles witt ; bayonets, he found old German } Mannlichers, French Martinis anc Schneiders. Some dated back 3( or 40 years and there was even one old Flint lock musket for which the soldier owner had ammunition twice too big.
 Some rifles had home made and refilled cartridges with two bullets in them.
 Not So Many HI Regarding rumorS abroad o1 cpl denies and sickness among the Italians, it is officially announced that the hospital ship California : sailed home with only PIP officers and men, repatriated because o1 sickness. They represent one months repatriation.
 It is announced also that 12t wells have been sunk in occupied territory and 112 miles of road built or improved. 5- Contingencies discussed abroad which have not occurred include
 no poisoned wells, no emasculatior , of prisoners, no indiscriminate kill r ling of prisoners, no use of gas ol chemicals, no indiscriminate bomb 5 ing of civilians. l The Italians have more than 50(
 prisoners in concentrated camps }, Enclosed with barbed wire. It is ad' 9 mitted that it is difficult to differ. 2 entiate between civilians and war. rriors in country where every ablt bodied man carries a rifle and few s warriors are dressed differently from civilians.