WYLE diplomatic conversations are proceeding Rome and Paris for the early termination of hostilities in Ethiopia, the stream of Italian troops from Naples for East Africa cent es unabated, states Reuter. A total of 16,000 men sailed for the front during the week-end, and a further 20 ships are loading in Naples for East Africa.
The Ethiopian campaign is costing Italy an enormous sum of money.
According to Treasury returns issued in Rome on Monday, the three months before the begi of operations alone cost Italy over £22,000,000, Twenty thousand Ethiopian sollers and 6,000 Italians have been killed and wounded in the East, Afcican war thus Ababa correspondent "News Chronicle" reports. Two-thirds of the Italian casualties have been native soldier The Italian offensive, which was reported to have started at Wadi Shebeli has come to an early standstill, owing to the sodden character of the country after the recent heavy rainfalls, which in some parts still continue, contrary to all seasonal precedents. Tanks and lorries are stuck fast in the swamps, so. that only aeroplanes. are employable at the moment, but they also are ham-apt to An official Italian communique declares that Gen. De Beno has initiated operations on the Eritrean front, west of Adowa. Native army corps are doing used, Successes were won by the southern Italian army, above all in the Webbe Shibel valley, Kallofo, the chief town of the Shibeli region, has been captured.
'Two Abyssinian outposts in Ogaden have fallen" into. Ttalian' hands. Chelanko and Ferekatam. track by picked Italian native troops known as Dubats, led to the capture on Friday of the stronghold of Callafo, the principal city in the Shibeli trict of Abyssinia, on the southern front, Reuter reports further, Widespread successes already have been won by the invading troops in the course of the advance in Ogaden, states the United Press. Italian casualties were relatively smal while the Ethiopians suffered heavy 'The battle was spectacular rather blood use of the' fact that the Italian replanes and artillery did most of the work,
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