The Washington times., 1935-11-02
TO OPEN
SOUTHWARK
OFFENSIVE
Rome Says NewAttack
To Be Started From
Eritrean Front

ROME, Nov. 2 Q.N.S9.-1taly
is preparing to launch a new Of
fensive southwark r o m the
Eritrean front. it was announced
officially today in a communique
also reporting sharp fighting on
the Somaliland front.
The communique, No. 35, an
nounced intensive scouting opera
tions under way in the north pre-
paratory to the new drive south
ward from the present lines.
"At Aramat and Gheralpa," said
the communique, "our troops en-
gagged in intensive scouting and
mopping up operations prepara'
tory to reSuming our advance.
"Pacification of the occupied
territory is continuing wi t h
alacrity. Due to the great number
of requests received from warriors
of the Tigre province area we
have formed a volunteer corps of
troops for patrolling the occupied
territories.
AIR FOrceS Active
Reconnaissance in all regions
by our aviation forces and espe
cially in the Danakil desert ares
continues.
ION the Somaliland front our
aViators have spotted heavy con
centrationS of enemy troops in
the zone about Gorrahei. Our
troops are on the move"
While Italy today steeled her
self to meet the economic sane
tions being rushed into effect by
Geneva, the press served the pub
lie with stories of trouble in Ethi
opia purporting to show the ETH,
opians are not having such an
easy time of the war.
The Adigrat correspondent for
the newspaper Piccolo reported
that RaS NaSibu, Ethiopian com
mander on the southern front.
had ordered three ordnance of.
ficers shot for distributing car,
tridges which failed to fit the
Belgian rifles being used.
On the northern front, the cor
respondent said, armed bands un'
der Ras Seyum were spreading
terror" among EthiopianS, ruin.
ing crops on a large scale. The
Ethiopian chieftains are unable
to control their men or to main
tain any discipline, according to
Piccolo.
Further, Emperor Halle Selas-
sic was reported to have SEN
fenced to prison his minister Of
the interior, Gabrie Marian, for
disloyalty, and to have replaced
Minister of War Ras Moulougetta
with former War Minister Birru.
Editors Note: Dispatches from
Adds Ababa have revealed plans
for placing someone over RaS
Moulougetta. The man has not
been definitely named yet, Bul
Tecle Hawriate, recent League OF
Nations delegate who has Just
returned to Ethiopia. has been
mentioned0
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In addition, several detach-
ments of Ethiopian troops have
refused to go to the front, this
correspondent stated.
Meanwhile Italy girded for the
economic war scheduled to begin
in two weeks-Italy versus a vir'
tually united world front.
Piccolo reported service on Al
passenger trains will be suspended
November 6 as a measure to COM
bat the economic sanctions. In
nearly every walk Of life, some
thing is being done to help Italy
fight this economic war.
Anti-British sentiment continued
to run high. The Hotel Eden, in
Rome, was nameless today. The
proprietress had erased from the
sign on the building the second
and last letters. They regretted
the name of their establishment
was like that of Capt. Anthony
Eden, British minister for League
of Nations affairs, who has been
cracking the whip over small ma
tions at Geneva to penalize Italy.
An American shoe company
erased the address of its London
branch from the sign on it's Rome
store, In all Italy there hardly
was a sign left in English except
those pertaining to American con-
Germs,