The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-07
Italian Troops Are
 Nearing Holy City
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 , the Italian territory in Ethiopia captured on the northern front since the zero hour last Thursday to an area about 30 miles wide and 25 deep.
 The left wing of the three Italian columns was first to enter the town, moving in from the east. It was this wing that captured Adj grat.
 War Engines Crash Airplanes, tanks, field guns, ma chine guns prepared the way for the infantrymen and made real stand for the town impracticable even if a last-ditch defense had been planned by the Philippians under veteran Ras Seyyoum. 5
 The left wing was some six miles from Aduwa when the days opera tions began, and the central corps on the north, and the right wing corps to the west were in position. At the last moment the northern column met firm resistance by be- tween 5000 and 1000 Philippians 12 miles north of the town. Their resistance was overcome and the left wing entered the town from the east, 39 years after the slaughter of an Italian army whose memory Benito Mussolini adopted as 8 principal reason for his cam- paign.
 ESect Monument
 As soon as the Italian mopping up squads had assured the evacua- tion of all Ethiopian fighting men, the troops erected monument to the men killed there in 1896. The monument is a temporary one. It bore the dates March 1, 1896 and October 6, 1885.
 There were no authentic casualty reports and no estimates have been made by the only men quali- fled to make them. Rumors were circulated that some 2,00O Ethio- plans were killed and several hun- dred taken prisoners. Of those actually killed, it was indicated that many were victims of airplane bombs.
 Now the Italian northern army in this area is on line extending from Adigrat to Aduwa and work men already are building a road along the 30-mile line.
 Meets Wounded Soldiers
 In the brilliant sunlight near the spot where the first Ethiopian re. siStance was encountered l met the first Italian soldier I have seen whc was wounded in battle. He was more than six feet in height - a thin, erect black Askari, wearing a khaki uniform with @ red waist- band. He was barefoot and his black face was serious and tight tipped.
 The wounded soldier was walking with a limp, holding one hand against his right side and the other arm over the shoulder of a dark short white Italian infantryman, stockier and stronger but smaller in appearance than the lengthy Askari around whose neck was 9 startling white bandage stained red.
 Behind this composite illustra- tion of war marched two stretcher bearers carrying between them an- other wounded Askari, lying face down but not complaining.
 First Wounded Officer
 Fifty feet up a hillside from this moving group I stood with Italian soldiers, white and native, at the feet of the first Italian of1cer wounded in this war. He was the commander of the wounded Askari I have described. He fell with Q bullet through his breast when, with his men, he attacked Q strongly fortified Ethiopian post barring the road to Aduwa. His Askaris carried the officer from . field hospital to tents where IS As. karis were receiving careful atten- ton from Italian white surgeons. Meanwhile a Catholic chaplain in hospital unit had offered the first military mass celebrated on Ethio- plan soil on an altar prepared from boxes and covered with an altar cloth surmounted by . cross and lighted candles.
 Their First Sunday
 It was the Italian army's first Sunday morning in Ethiopia and troops, marching or riding in cam ions along the road beside which the mass was being said made the sign of the cross.