London, 9th March, The latest details of the Italian disaster in Abyssinia augment its gravity.
One brigade was annihilated after a heroi¢ resistance, The. number of the enemy is given as.one handred thousand men, General Baldissera is unable to: relieve Adigrat which is completely surrounded. Che garrison consists of four thousand men, and is provided with one month's supplies.
[Adigrat is in the north of Abyssinia, about 35 miles east of Adowa.—Bp.
THE ITALIANS IN ABYSSINIA, London, 10th March.
General Baldissera has cabled that the situation is not desperate as he has thirty thousand men.
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