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ican consul, and his colleagues
dispatched kilograms to Wash
1ngton and other capitals.
Ministers from Great Britain,
France, Germany, Belgium,
Greece, Turkey, and Egypt par
ticipated in the move.
No Resistance In North
Dispatches from the northern
front, delayed for more than "A
hours by broken communications,
finally brought the news today
that both Aduwa and Adigrat had
fallen.
No resistance was offered to the
advancing Italians at either spot,
j; was officially declared.
A communique issued after the
news came through contained the
text of q telegram to the League
of Nations, obviously intended to
take the wind out of Premier Mus
solini'S triumph. The communique
said:
I'VE do lot appeal to the
League any more; we just in
form it Of every important
change"
Part Of the information passed
on to Geneva was the statement
that Ethiopia has not yet begun
to fight"
This was taken as an attempt
to create the impression that the
Emperor's original plan to evacu-
ate Aduwa without fighting was
carried out.
Without explaining the discrep-
ancy in the statement that Ethio-
pia was not fighting and previous
official accounts Of a battle rag
ing in the north, the communique
declared that Aduwa and Adigrat
had been evacuated voluntarily by
the EthiopianS.
Skirmishes Only
The only encounters thus far,
It stated, have been skirmishes of
frontier guards. It was declared:
ethiopian troops have not
vet gone into action"
AS trophies from the north,
nevertheless, Ethiopian airplanes
are bringing to Adds Ababa an
Italian major and two Italian ma
tive officers as prisoners, it was
officially announcde.
The prisoners, together with
several captured Italian machine
guns, are meant to show the En-
peror and the people the success
of the EthiopianS' bare-handed
valor.
Aduwa Cut Off
One or more Italian tanks have
also been captured, according to
reports.
Adds Ababa today was thrown
out Of all communication with
Aduwa. It was officially an
nounced that the telephone line
to the northern city, the only
means of getting news, other than
couriers, from there, is down.
According to ut h oritative
Ethiopian accounts. what hap
pened at Aduwa was this:
Emperor Halle Selassie from
the beginning ordered Ras Seyum,
his commander in that sector, to
fall back, not engaging the Ital-
ians, and let them take Aduwa.
Then, the Ethiopians were or
dered to occupy the surrounding
hills and harasS the Italians.
Men Poorly Armed
RaS Seyu mwas only given $4,000
men, most of them equipped with
come Of the Oldest rifles in the an
tique Ethiopian armory.
RaS Seyum, however, refused to
obey; instead falling back and
fighting hard, and, according to
Ethiopian accounts, held off the
Italians for four days.
The Emperor telegraphed RaS
Seyum several times, asking him
to obey, and finally sent him a
very sharp message threatening to
recall him.
Ras Seyum then yielded on Sat.
urday night, and the Italian forces,
noting the withdrawal, advanced
at dawn Sunday and occupied the
city.
Last Train for Capital
Whether Count Luigi Vinci-Gig-
liucci, the italian Minister, will
stay in Adds Ababa or leave has
not yet been announced, but to-
morrow a train which is regarded
as the last to leave here will pull
out for Djibouti and the outside
world.
Meanwhile Ethiopians were do
ing all possible to maintain the
most correct possible attitude, and
today the leading italian mer-
chants, the Ghanotakis, whose
store mainly supplied Europeans
and had been shut since the first
news Of the bombing of Adowa
reached here, were allowed to re-
open.
In midafternoon yesterday this
correspondent met the next-to-the
last italian consul arriving in
Adds Ababa. Five Italians,
headed by DR.. Vincuro Dagnino,
the Consul at Debra Markos, and
his wife mounted the crest of
Mount Entoto, overlooking Adds
Ababa, and were amazed at the
sight Of a group of American
cameramen waiting for them.
IA Days Over Mountains
Seventy-seven mules and 40
boys, 20 of them armed, came to
rest after a 14-day's trial over
the African Alps.
It was impressive evidence OF
the Ethiopian discipline to hear