London. Feb. 23, Following a sharp engagement in Abyssinia, the enemy retired leaving 150 dead in the field, state the latest reports received here. The engages ment was fought between a combined patrol" of British and Abyssinian troops and a vastly superior enemy fore which attacked them, The Sudan's frontier" battalion, specially recruited for service outside the Sudan, was in action for the frst time when one company. attacked strongly entrenched Italian encamo> ment on the Abyssinian Blue Nile.
ies Reuter's special correspondent on the Abyssinian frontier.
The engagement resulted in 90 o¢ the enemy being killed, including 30 white troops. There were no casual." ies among the British force.
Before dawn, the frontiersman received orders to attack from three sides, and the action lasted half an hour, in which fierce hand-to-hand Aghting took place, With the first Impact the enemy retreated in confusion and Hallan officers were seen shooting a number of their Meeing native troops in an attempt to stem the rout, After ihe successful engagement, inhabitants of the enemy area placed themselves under protection of the British forees-—Reuter,
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