Rome, Jan, 31.
It is denied' in authoritative quarters that the Italian Government has given an undertaking to respect the Djibouti-Addis Ababa Railway in the course of military operations.
It is stated that, in time of war, military, considerations must predominate, but that this "does not neeessarily mean that the railway will bbe destroyed to-morrow."—Reuter, fin the Tembien district, states that over 3,000 Tialians were killed in January. Tt does not give separately the casuatiles for the Tembien battle Mahan Positions Impregnable Makale, Feb, 31.
'A Havas correspondent who visited the front lines in the northern war yesterday reports taken by Tatian ie impregnable, The Hallans are flanked with fort-esses and small forts which are connected by barbed-wire entanglements.
Military activity has been confined artillery bombings principally into the region of Amba Aradam, where many Ethiopian groups are located.
'The Amba Aradam front, on which the Tlalians are located, is a moun-{ain 3,000 metres. high,' which over-oaks the Gatat and Huis valleys.—Havas,
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