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reans to the Ethiopian army was regarded as development of first rate importance.
 The United Press is informed that the assertions are being encouraged by intensive propaganda. Ras Sey- youm, commanding on the northern front, each day has sent trusted men out to penetrate the Italian lines, with such verbal messages as stick with your Ethiopian brothers instead of aiding the Italian slave drivers"
 It was asserted that the Eritreans who arrived to Makale had with them five machine guns, twelve mule loads of ammunition and cannon whose nature and amount were not specified
 The Communique asserted furth- CT that Italian attacking the Dolo district down where Ethiapia joines Italian Somaliland and Britain's Kenya Colony, had been forced to withdraw across their frontier.
 It was indicated, though not said directly, that Ethiopian residence caused the withdrawal and it was added that the Philippians declined to follow them across the border.
 There has been no real engage ment in the south, the Communique said
 Challenge to Italy.
 Whatever its outcome, Ras Sey- youm's daring exploit was a chal- lenge to Italy which Fascism was not likely to forget.
 It was timed perfectly both from the military and political stand points.
 From the military standpoint 1t was effected while all the world was awaiting the fall of AduWa while people were reading the re- ports of the irresistible movemnt forward of a grat Italian army on the two little towns of Aduwa and Agidrat who's capture meant to Benito Mussolini removal of the stain" of defeat 39 years ago, while the Italian authorities in Rome were waiting to announce Aduwa's fall as the signal for a national celebration.
 From the political standpoint Ras Scyyoum's thrust was not started until two full days after Italy pro- claimed to the world that it was moving it's army across the Ethio- plan frontier, this to start an "un- declared war" which has caused the League of Nations to declare it an aggressor and a violator of the league covenant.
 As the italian strategy is being developed, officials here are inclin- ing to belief that the italians will concentrate almost exclusively in the north in any real operations.
 Despite Knowledge of activity on several fronts, all the way around the country from the Sudan in the northwest to the Kenya frontier in the southeast, officials suggested that the real Italian advance will be in the rich northern provinces.
 Tanks Fall Into Traps.
 There is lively talk in the capital that four Italian tanks operating before Aduwa fell into giant lion traps, specially prepared all along the northern frontiers and camou- fiaged.
 IL was officially admitted, after the tersc Communique regarding the attack on Eritrca, that Ethio- plan troops were known to be in Italian territory. Officials would not discuss their number, and said that in any event Ethiopia was not at- tempting conquest.
 officials said that certainly Ethio- plan troops had not penetrated the country as far as Adj Kaie.
 It was asserted that Ras Kassa sent by the Emperor to command all forces in the north, is moving with 60,000 men on the Aksum area of the Aduwa front, while another strong force is moving northWard nearer the Sudan frontier.
 These men are expected to lead the defense, but not to attack posi- tions which the Italians now hold