'An international incident is prospect if the Italian armies attempt fo cut the railway linking Addis 'Ababa and Djibouti. A. contingent of 100. white colonial soldiers, veterans of France's campaigns in' Morocco, have left for Diredawa to protect the tne, and at the same time 090 Senefgalese sharpshooters assumed new Stations on the frontiers of Eritrea and Ethiopia.
The Italians estimate the Abyssinian losses at 2,500 dead, while on the Taallan side only two officers have been killed "and 100 affeers men wounded. About 500 Abyssinfans have been taken prisoner. Owing to the difficulties of communication. accurate figures on the losses are not available.
'The raid into Eritrea is confirmed bby an offlelal report in Addis Ababa, which announces a "brilliant operation" carried out by a special fying cavalry detachment' of 15,000 picked fiders, who succeeded in penetrating 40 kilometres into Italian territory. It fs claimed that 31 Italian offers, among them one colonel, were taken prisoners.
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