The situation in Abyssinia has been changed by the intelligent use of mobility. 1 pointed out the General Staff opinion that results would not be achieved with the heavy Army Corps which Italy had put into the field. Since Marshal Badoglio started Aghting light he has made ground. He has carried fire power up to the defenders who made the mistake of opposing what looked like small forees. 'They paid heavily for abandoning the passive role for the active. 'The rearguard defeats appear to have' caused a dispersal of tribal forces as not more than 200,000 Abyssinians Gneluding the South) have _fought and 100,000 were mobilized. The Abyssinians remaining in the feld fare said to be concentrating west Addis Ababa to carry out a raid. ing campaign during the rains. To do this they need a De Wot and so far a "Man of the Moment" has not appeared on the scene. Ras Imru and Rass Kassq are potential raiders but have gone southwest. Nasibu another. To sum up, the defenders threw caution to the winds and faced modern machine gun fire. Although great numbers of Abyssinians were not engaged, the rearguard losses in the policy of falling back (really forward offensives by lack of cretion) shook the morale of the unfought, except in the south where Grazlani's movement towards Harar was resolutely opposed, modern girl be in thirty years? Still about twenty-nine.
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