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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 23, 1941
ITALIANS TURN AND FIGHT ON DESSIE ROAD
(By Reuter's Special Correspondent with the South African Forces in Abyssinia on the
Dessie Road)
THE BATTLE FOR DESSIE GOES ON. THE ITALIANS WHO HAVE TURNED AND GIVEN FIGHT ARE SHOWING MOST STUB- BORN RESISTANCE SINCE THE BATTLE OF KEREN.
South Africans are fighting in bitter cold at night and in tropical heat by day. Their clothes are torn to shreds by thorn bushes and they are frequently drenched to the skin by torrential thunderstorms.
Through all this they are an- XIOUS to get at grips with the remnants of the tahan Northern Army
The Italians occupy a strong i defensive position where a semi-
ridge amountain
Com- mands a straight stretch of road
the plateau. AUTOAN
A
Italian big guns in concrete emp acements on the top of the caddie back Mountain have barrage heavy furrows in the "Victory Way" over which South African troops have been chas
poured out a which has cut
ing
the enemy breakneck speed every hard won the 1935 campaign.
tearing at back milestone of
over
Sheth whistled overhead whil South Abican guns were rushed ahead in an attempt to silence the enemy batteries. Italian Are was controlled from Abyssinian posts cleverly concealed among the mountain peaks.
Artillery Battle
The battle is developing into a dong-dong artillery duel. Fre- quen thunderstorms
drown the of the battle and drench troops to the skin,
A few days ago one battle was Toght at the height of nearly 1,000 feet. The cold wie, Hitense.
The cufficulties in lighting an al- most invisible enemy, strongly, Centrenched in a country like t !,"$ མ།།༈༙* railway. 11lly probably slightly delay the Imperial advance but the dicers of the Imperial feners are confident that the ft- hang will be dislodged when their troops are able to get at closer grips.
Reuter.
Serious Casualties
A British G.H.Q., Cairo, com- munique states: As the result of action in which the enemy sus- tained serious casualties, our southern colunin yesterday UC- cupied On important position covering the approach to Dessie. The forward move of our northern column has again been hampered by extensive road demolitions.
In the southern areas, opera- tions are proceeding satisfactori- ly and a further 17 oficers ant 549 other ranks have been cap- tured-British Wireless,
NEW STAY-ON ARMY BUTTON
[BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT]
Experiments are being made with plastic buttons to be used instead of the brass ones on bat- tle-dress.
Soldiers complain that the sharpedged holes of brass buttons
cut the thread after a few weeks' wear and the buttons come off.
"And the girl-friend's not al- ways handy to sow them on," they say, remembering that a battle-dress hae more than thirty brasa buttons.
The new plastic buttons have smooth holes which will not cut the thread.
"We are considering changing over to them," the War Office told
me.
CO., LTD. the sum of $500 at the Kowloon
St. George'e Building, Ice House 8tract.
Tel. 20135.
Hang Hong
SERIOUS CHARGE Captain Walter Harold Powles land Chattey, of the Middlesex was allowed ball in Regiment,
Magistracy yesterday, when he appeared before Major A. N. Mucfadyen on a serious charge.
Det. Sgt. N. E. Frazer charge of the case..
is in
CODES FOUND IN RAID
Lee Wan-hoi, manager of the Shoom Woo Fat Firm. No 31. Bonham Strand West, was sum- moned before Mr. H. G. Sheldon.
KC, this morning, for having in his persession two private codes. Sgl Russell. of the Special Branch, said that the endes were found in aertised's premises when They were raided.
A fine of $100 was imposed.
S.C.A. CLERK CHARGED
Lewis Tang, 33, clerk, of the SCA. was charged before Mr. G. T. Lowry this morning, with accepting a bribe of $1 from Lij Kang-ming, at his office yester- day
Mr. C. A. S. Russ pleaded not guilty ou behalf of defendant. while Sub-Inspector J. O'Dono Van is for the prosecution.
ITALIAN ARMY
GIVING BATTLE NEAR DESSIE
ac-
The Italian nor- thern army in Abys- sinia has "turned" and given battle in front of Dessie, cording to a despatch from a special corres- →Dondent with the South African forces, says Reuter from Johannesburg.
NANKING SHOOTS FIVE CHINESE
Five prisoners convicted of at- tempting to frustrate the peace movement and for endangering the currency system of the Nan- king Government were executed by a ring squad to-day by order of the Ministry of Police of the Nanking regime, says the Japan- controlled "Central Press ese Service" in Shanghai,
Three of the prisoners were found
i It engaged
"espionage against the peace movement while the other two confessed to hav- ing assassinated employees of the Central Reserve Bank," (Nanking regime) the announcement states.
Reuter,
MINES LOOSE IN ATLANTIC
(SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL")
THE NAVY DEPARTMENT IN WASHINGTON HAS WARNED
Hearing was fixed for Tuesday,¦ ALL SHIPPING AGAINST April 27.
NAVAL ANCHORAGE
OFFENCE
Charged with using grappling rons and other methods of lifting articles from the sea-bed at the Naval Anchorage at Kowloon without permission, Chan Mui, boatmaster, and Chang Ka-so, boatmistress, were fined $7 or seven days at the Marine Court this morning by Commander T. C. Suff.
Charged with rubbing Chan Tin-yu of a purse, three Chinese were remanded for a week by
Mr. H. C. Macnamara al the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- ing.
DRIFTING MINES.
It is reported that mines have been sighted in **many widely separated localities and special precaution should be taken to in- sure a good lookout."
One mine was sighted 190 miles to the north of Haill. tonal News Service.
BRITISH
Interna-
SEIZE SHIP BARBER
British officials at Bermuda boarded the American liner Ex- cambion and removed the ship's barber, Oscar Richard Stabler, on suspicion of espionage.
Stabler is German born but was naturalised as an American in 1933. Reuter.
ABYSSINIANS HAND OVER TOWN TO US
NATIVE BOYS, PROUDLY CARRYING ABAN- DONED ITALIAN RIFLES AND BANDOLIERS, GREETED A BRITISH OFFICER AS HE "OCCU- PIED" THE NORTH-WESTERN ABYSSINIA TOWN OF ADI REMOZ. THE STORY WAS TOLD BY THE OFFICER HIMSELF.
He has just returned to the Sudan after taking over control of 5,000 square miles of the Abyssiniari provinces of Wolkait and Togade.
The officer entered Abyssinia "All the notables I contacted to check reports that the Italians, freely recognised, the Emperor's were evacuating the region. authority, and before leaving I "Before I had gone ten miles," appointed one of them to take he said, "I was greeted by a de- | charge." legation of chiefs, who asked me Italians had just left........ to go to Adi Remoz, which the
Fascists Shot
- For weeks these chiefs had been corresponding with the Em- People Cheer
peror, and before the Italian gar- "At every village
went rison even got out of the town through, our khaki-camouflaged weapons which they had left be- Brilish cars were
hind were turned on them. greeted by
Two blackshirts were cheering, singing and stamping
shot in the
we
inhabitants, while priests held the streets, and 55 along
up our passage and blessed us with their ornate sliver crosses,
"At Adi Romoz Wo were welcomed with cups of Te (Abyssinian: honey wine) and dishes of chopped raw meat, which the Abyssinians love.
route of their flight.
Every Abyssinian male from the age of ten upwards was armed to the teeth with abandoned weapons, the officer added.
In their panic flight tho Ita- llans abandoned thousands of rounds of ammunition.