Marshal Badoglio has struck and struck hard with considerable success. The latest feat of the Italian Army ju Ethiopia will give much encour-jagament to Rome and will raise hopes an earlier termination of the campaign than was entertained few weeks ago. Until further reports indicate the exact significance of the victory st would be unwise to suggest that it does more than secures Italian freedom of initiative for an advance toward Dessie. It should prove Immediate relief to the situation at: Makale for the Investment of that place can hardly be maintained if the Ethiopian forces are in the danger depleted by the Ttalian communiques. How far the defeat has affected Ethiopian morale is also a matter on which light cannot be immediately obtained. Taking the Agurés of the @espatches at their face value it would seem that the defending army in grave danger of losing so. predable a portion of its effectives so much material that Its con-Adence must be sadly shaken. Yet the conditions are such that forecasts fon those lines may prove to be Premature, The most that can be said Just now Is that Marshal Badogllo has Justited his. reputation and the Tlalian troops the with placed in their powers of endurance and in the superiority of their equipment of all arms.
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