The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-07
ADUWA TAKEN,
FASCISTS MOVE
ON HOLY CITY
AkSum Is Next Objective
of JubiIant Invaders
of Ethiopia.
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manner as were the capture of Adj
graf AND Aduwa.
Three columns are expected to
invest it, reaching it simultaneously
for the final assault.
A stubborn defense seemed pos
sible because of the veneration in
which the soil of the old city is
held.
1t lies high on the plateau at an
altitude of 1900 feet II miles west
by south of Aduwa. 1t is thousands
of years old, much older than Ethio-
plan history. Two thousand years
ago it was the capital of the old
Aksumite government to which the
present government is heir. In its
oldest church is supposed still to
rest the Ark of the Covenant de-
posted there by the son Of Solmon
and the Queen of Sheba who
founded the dynasty.
LulI Expected to Follow
With the fall of Aksunl, waiting
period of about two weeks is ex-
pected on the Aduwa front.
During these two weeks laborers
will thrust roads through the coun-
try from the northern frontier.
Water supplies will be assured, pro-
vision and munition dumps will be
laid out, thousands and thousands
of new troops, regulars, Fascist
militiamen and black Askaris, will
arrive. Artillery will be brought up.
Then will come new thrust.
Ethiopian sharpshooters were busy
throughout last night and early
today, firing from rocks in the hills
surrounding Aduwa. but the Italian
positions were we'll protected,
The advance on the northern
front may have Makale, an i'm
portant caravan route town SIS miles
south southeast Of AduWa, as its
next objective.
Thence parallel columns could
move southwark to menace Gundar
and the Lake Tana area on the
west and Dessye, important strategic
town 100 miles south of Makale, on
the east.
Troops Jubilant Over victory
There was wild enthusiasm among
the troops when they entered
Aduwa yesterday. It's occupation
brought the Italian territory in
Ethiopia, captured on the northern
front since the zero hour last Thurs
day, to an area about 80 miles wide
and Is deep.
The left wing of the three Italian
columns was first to enter the town,
moving in from the east. 1t was
this wing that captured Adigrat.
Airplanes, tanks, field guns, ma
chine guns prepared the way for the
infantrymen and made a real stand
for the town impracticable even if
last-ditch defense had been
planned by the Philippians under
veteran Ras Seyyoun.
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.
Invaders Erect Memorial
At the last moment the northern
column met firm resistance by be-
tween 5000 and 1000 Philippians II
miles north of the town.
Their resistance was overcome and
the left wing entered the town from
the east. 80 years after the slaughter
of an Italian army whose memory
Benito Mussolini adopted as
principal reason for his campaign.
AS soon as the Italian hopping
up squads had insured the evacua-
ton of all Ethiopian fighting men,
the troops erected a monument to
the men killed there in 1895. The
monument is a temporary one. 1t
bore the dates March l, 1896 and
Oct. 6, 1885.
There was intensive preparation
for the advance by aerial bombing
and then the infantry, working with
it's baby tanks ana machine gun
units, advanced on the town through
passes in the hills, converging in
the bowl-like plain on which AduWa