The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-02-11
ITALY TO ATTACK
 ABYSSINIANS
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(Continued from Page l.) deaf ears by the Abyssinian gov- ernment.
 We shall get satisfaction. We cannot permit our forntier to be violated"
 It was planned to speed the re. Inducements to Eritrea and Soma liland, the Italian colonies stretch ing down along the east coast of Africa. ready for any eventuality
 There was talk here and abroad of possible war, and from Geneva and other capitals there was talk of another Manchuria--an Italian thrust into Ethiopia or Abyssinia, q land of fabled wealth since long before Christ was born.
 War Among The Wild
 A war would mean the advance of tanks, armored cars, motorized artillery and infantry into the dark continent under the protecting wings of airplanes, to wage war in q country where elephants and rhinos, hippopotimas and wolves, roam the lowlands and crocodiles infest the waters, up into the Queen of Sheba's realm and her capital Addis Araba at 5000 feet altitude behind q protecting wall of inountains.
 Against the Italians would be ranged some scores of thousands, Ethiopians of often proved courage and fortitude, most of them armed with modern rifles and machine guns, and with some training from foreign military instructors.
 If xUnttII hn n tnVnlVVnO Che last stronghold of native Africa. All the rest of the dark continent Is plotted out into colonies or spheres of influence.
 Ancient Ethiopia alone. aside from the little negro republic of Li- beria coloniZed by American slaves survives really independent under Emperor Halle Selassie I, King of Kings, lineal descendant, in Abys- sinian history. of Menelik. the son of Solomon and the Queen of She- ba.
 Involved, in the end, would be the fabled wealth of the kingdom, as 1t is rather than an empire gold and platinum and such things vital to the life of the modern world as iron, coal and potash.
 No Date For Troops
 No date of authorization was announced for the men Il Duce called to the colors last night. They are likely to assemble at Ma ples and in Sicility, and sail as ra- pidly as contingents of a few thou- sands can be formed.
 They will reinforce Italian native soldiers under Italian officers. and an undetermined number of men who have be nsent to Eritrea and Somaliland since two previous clashes brought the name of Ual- ual, or Walwal, into headlines over the western world. Ualual is town in an indeter- minate area between anrrow So. maitland on the coast and inner Abyssinia. Both Abyssinia and Italy claim 1t. The territory is the stamp ing ground of rowing tribesmen who hate peace. There were two fights there in December, in both of which Italian native soldiers were killed. Italy planes Abyssinia for the clashes.
 Abyssinia appealed to the League of Nations of which 1t, a Kingdom | long Christian, is a member. It de' manded the invocation of penalties
  fighting which followed the firs outbreak at Ualual. Subsequently | Abyssinia, angry and alarmed. as serted that Italy was trying to>fo' ment war. But the League Of Ma. | tions council last month decided that Italy and Abyssinia must try to settle their difficulties by direc' negotiation.
 OnlciaI COmmuniquc The first word since then wa. | the announcement that, troops hat been called to the coiors, an officia communique said:
 on the morning of January 29 troop of armed EthiopiaDs at tackled out outpost at Afdub, soutf of Ualual. There was an exchange of fire which caused losses on both sides. Five of our native troops were killed and six injured. The | Abyssinian losses were greater. (In a previous clash 1t developed long afterward that the Abyssiniar killed were many times those oi the Italian).
 The royal legiation at Addii Abaaba has received instructions | to present to the Ethiopian gov ernment a formal protest against this new incident"
 It is regarded here. though no' | expressed officsially. that there ha been, if Italy wanted to make ! one, a "casus belif' a cause of Wal because the raids originated on thu l Abyssinian side.
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