Evening star., 1936-01-06

Italv's afr raids 0boue Ethiopia
brought crists in SUeden last tpeek
pheB bomb killed SUedish Red
Cross tDorkers at Dole. Last No
pember. In 0essye, II Duce's planes
damaged American hospital. These
tho movements haze been high
points OF the warfare. Mussolinis
efforts of conquest haze been sloiu
TOR the most part. His generals
find 1t difficult moutng oper the now
swampy, now mountainous terrain
OF the African empire.
BY the Associated Press.
Italian war planes. engaged in an
intense bombing campaign over many
sectors of Ethiopia, claimed a second
Swedish life today.
Phe British Legation in Adds
Ababa reported to London and Stock
holm that second Swedish Red Cross
worker had died as the result OF last
Mondays bombardment Of Swedish
Red Cross unit in the South.
The French government, 1t was dis
closed, Is investigating a suspected
plot to divert 5000 army rifles and
machine guns to Italy.
Carload Of Arms Disappears.
A carload of arms disappeared from
the Toulouse freight yards on Janu-
ary 4. After hasty check-up, 1t was
learned the car had been routed to
the port of La Nouvelle, where, au-
thorities said, the load could easily
have been transferred to q ship.
Ofiicials suspected the unauthorized
routing was perpetrated by persons
seeking to get the arms to Italy.
Belated reports Of hard fighting
also came out Of Southern Ethiopia
as Great Britain began reinforcing its
African military position.
Air bombing, in which several hos
pitals and Red Cross units have been
struck or destroyed, Is being resorted
to on both the northern and south
ern fronts Of the Italo- Ethiopian War
in an attempt to halt advances by
the defenders. Ethiopian authorities
said.
In the Mediterranean, where in
ternational tension was relaxed for
weeks incident to the advancement
Of peace proposals, Britain used COM
mercial liners to carry troops to Brit
lsh posts near the areas of greatest
uneaSiness.
The destination Of one Cunard-
White Star liner, the Scythia, pressed
iy.tn troox% fro pcporf s.vx,ia> ,,os ,asl
by authoritative sources to be Alex
andria, Egypt, just east of Italy's
North African possession OF Libya
and northwest Of the Ethiopian war
Sone.
At the front. Fascist aerial squad
rons were reported officially at Adds
Ababa to have destroyed Daggah Bur
and an Egyptian Red Cross unit on
the southern front, where three
columns under Ras Desta Demtu
have been moving slowly against the
Italian Army Of Gen. Rudolfo Gra-
Ziani.
Cities Troops Air Targets.
On the northern sector, where
400, ZOO men under War Minister Ras
Muiugheta and four other command
ers have been waging q campaign,
ofncial Ethiopian communicates said
renewed Italian air raids we're di-
rected against important cities and
troop concentration centers.
Italian armies. thraisting forward 10
determine the strength of their enemy,
encountered Ethiopian raiders in a
dense jungle IS miles north of Dolo
and fought two-day battle, with $50
Ethiopians believed slain and ] white
Italian soldier killed.
The battle was fought near Areri
In the valley Of the Ganale Dorya
River.
Fighting was hand-to-hand until
Italian reinforcements rushed up with
armored cars and machine-gun squads,
routing the Ethiopians.
Ethiopian sharpshooters harsssed an
italian tank which had been unable
to move in the desert sand, but the
Fascist reinforcements, in a wild
counter attack, rescued the stalled
tank.
The battle. military observers said,
was important because the Italians on
the Somaliland front had recently
been on he defensive.
Several deaths in patrol actions on
the northern front also were an
nounced.
Though moving to strengthen Its
military position, the British post
poned for the moment any decision on
proposals to extend the League of
Nations sanctions against italy to in
clude embargoes on oil, coal, iron and
steel.
AdHces received in London from
Paris said French sources were dis
cussing q possibility of new peace plan
being devised soon to interrupt again
consideration Of the oil embargo plan.
In Washington, the United States
Senate Munitions Committees inquiry
into wartime finances Of j. p. Morgan
6x Co. will open tomorrow,