The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-08
Italian Army Has
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morning to view Makale from the air. Natives, who never had seen an airplane before, were astonished at the roar of the thirty motors in the ten planes.
 It has been a most difficult oper- ation, remarkably well executed. The trails to the rear are MoraSSeS from the rains where they are not spiny rocks.
 Ready for Second Drive
 The formal occupation puts the Italian army at its objective on the second big drive of the campaign which started from the March River frontier October 3. The main front line has been advanced 50 miles into Ethiopia.
 It remains now for the right flank of the army, operating from west of Aksum on the Adigrat-Aduwa- Aksum front, to bring its new line down to the Takkaze River Valley, roughly parallellihg the Makale line from west to east.
 This has been an operation un- matched in warfare.
 Behind 8 confusing multiplicity of reports and rumors, of dry an- nouncements of the advance of the northern army through unpro- nounceable villages not on any map, there is picture of grand scale modern warfare in country where biblical conditions are contemporary history, where there never had been an airplane, motor car, 8 movie, a wheeled vehicle of any sort or an agricultural instrument developed during the Christian era. Tribute to Victors
 But men remained supreme in the operation. The bearing of the Ital- ians, boys and volunteers up to 55 years of age, has been a tribute to their spirit.
 They waited impatiently the word to enter Makale, a mud-hut blem- ish in the northern hills, after days of toiling over mountain trails or waiting on scanty rations for the almost unprecedented rains to cease.
 Patrols have been in the Makale area several days, and even south of it. Airplanes have reconnoitred all the area to the south for Ethi- opian concentrations.
 Tn effect the town was captured days ago, but the formal occupa- tion awaited the entrance of the Italians in the columns of General Ruggiero Santini and General AleSsandro Pirizio-Biroli
 Occupation of the Makale-Tak- kaze River line is likely to mean a period of about 8 month during which this new front will be forti- fled and consolidated and the roads, the veins of the army. widened and improved generally to insure com munication.
 Described by News Writer
 Rove, November 8 = (UP) - An Italian newspaper correspondent who entered Makale with the picked column of the northern army this morning described graphically the scenes of the occupation.
 His dispatch follows:
 The soldiers entered the city sing ing songs of the Fascist revolution, and ran forward to pour through the now crumbling walls built by the Italian defenders in 1896.
 They marched at double quick time through the main square and proceeded to Fort Enda Jesus, mean the Hill of Jesuh. (This is the fort officially called Fort Makale).
 General Ruggiero Santini's troops entered from the rear and the left. Other columns charged into the village from the center and the front-the south.
 Native women waving white cloths and Italian flags and carrying bas- kets of fruit and native bread made from dura welcomed the invaders.
 Then came the flag ceremony. A salute was fired from artillery in the surrounding hills. As the flag was raised, the troops in the picked column divided into four groups regulars, Bersaglieri, Black Shirt miutiamen of the March 23 and October 28 divisions, and Askari native troops and the Ethiopian scouts of Ras Gugsa.
 Makale, the correspondent said, is one of the foremost points ever occupied by the Italians in Ethiopia even before the war of 1896. The only other important center ever held, he said. was Alba Alagi, some 70 miles south, which is to be the next objective. There $500 Italian soldiers and 18 officers under Major exa--.ala -. leiIina l.a 1Qna