Paris, Jan. 19.
Eight or ten thousand Italian native troops have of late been concentrated along the Diredawa-Djibouti section of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway, M. Jerome Tharaud, member of the French Academy and special correspondent of the "Paris-Soir" reported today.
He pointed out that that special section of the railway offered the only possible base for attacks against French Somaliland. in hostilities because in all other regions, the French frontiers are protected by mountains.—Havas.
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