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NEWS FROM THE WAR FRONTS
Reported Desertion Of Abyssinians
(Special to the "Hong Kong Dally I'ress ({'opyright).
Rome, Oct 11. Thursday the Abyssinian General Gugsa, commanding the Eastern section of the Tigre region on the North Trout, went over to the Itahan side with some thou sands of troops, according to an Italian report from the front is- sted on Friday by the Propaganda Minister,
Ougsa is known to be a personal enemy of Ras Seyoum, comman- der-in-chief of the Northern Army. Ougna's action continues the re- port. was shortly afterwards fol- lowed by Ras Kassa Arain with his
men.
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The list of casualties published for the first four days of fighting gives 30 dead, of which five are Italians, 70 as wounded. 20 being Italians And 33 nutive soldiers missing. One field gun-one ma- chine gun and 134 rifles and thirty ammunition containers have been captured from the enemy, states the report, which however makes no mention of prisoners.
Emperor has complied with his request. Havariate. will be replac- ed at Geneva by Minister Blatin- Keta Waldomarian. whose name was prominently mentioned some- time age in connection with the ramous Rickett concession.---- Franmcenu Kuo Min
CHIEFTAIN DESERTS
HOME FOOTBALL Some Major Upsets
London, Oct. 12. The home football
.eague mat- ches over the week-end were not without upsets. most notable among the major ones being Mid- dlesborough's convincing win over Huddersfield, Sunderland's fallure at Grimby, Derby's defeat by the It is officially announced by the
Wednesday, Manchester City's Italian authorities at Asmara, in overthrown at Blackburn, and the
at had arrived Eritrea, that the powerful calef-Arsenal's setback Stamford
ain Hate Selassie Guiza, ruler of
Bridge. the Makale region in Eritrea, has deserted to Italy with 12,000
men and 12,000 rifles and 100 machine- guna.
He himself, however. declined to depart until the consular agent from Magallo had arrived. His request to remain in Addis Ababa until this 04icial
was declined by the Emperor who is also expected to refuse the application for an audience which the Minister made- Francen hun Min
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ITALIAN STRENGTH
Berlin, Oct. 11,
The strength of the Italian
forces who in three columns be gan to advance on October 3, Into Abyssinia, is stated to aggre Kate 110,000 meg with 3,300 mu- chine guns. 230 cannons, 92 tanks, and 35,000 horses and
mules, according to a report on by a semi-official German
Friday news agency's special correspondent at the Italian frunt in North Aby5-
sinia.
The report adds that each Italian detachment is accom- panied by experts familiar with the conditions in Abyssinia and who are entrusted with the task of propagating the Italian aims among the native population in occupied territories, !
No military action was reported. for two days, which elapsed since the last report was issued, it being merely stated that various van- These experts are mostly former guard' skirmishes occurred. with | Askaris who served with the the Abyssinian detachments on Italian Colonial Army and subse- Thursday in the course of the ad- 'quently settled on the border dis- vunce of native troops, and the tricts-Franancean, Kuo, Man communications were consolidated, and the construction of roads con- tinued, while water supplies were improved.
On the South Front, the report states that numerous cases of de- sertion of Abyssinian troops to the Italian, colours have taken place. and asserting on the other hand that the reports by the foreign Dress of the desertion of the Ital- lan native troops are untrue. is also untrue that an Italian air- plane was brought down near Axum. Within the next few days the report concludes, the Italian Headquarters will be transferred to the occupied territory- Tenpetrena Kwa Min
VIOLENT BATTLE
Addis Ababa, Oct. 11.
It
It is reported that the vigorous Abyssinian counter-attack On Adowa has developed into a vio- lent battle for other positions a.ong the northern front, Occu- Died by the Iailans, accompanied 'by heavy losses on both sides.
Many rumours are current that Ras Beyoum's troops bave taken. a great many prisoners and cap- ured a large quantity of war material. Other rapor s speak of heavy artillery and' air bombard- ment by the Italians, preparatory to making a renewed infantry assault. Since the telephone be- tween Addis Ababa and Adowa was not working it was difficult to confirm any of these reports.
PLANE BROUGHT DOWN
From Wareno, situated north of Harrar in the province of Issa, comes the report that one of the two Italian planes which flew over the vicinity was brought down by rifle fire, both the pilot and the observer, and the litle dog which they had as a mascot being kiled. On the southern front, in the province of Ogaden, the Italians appear to be making preparations for a big attack, according to a despatch from the commander of the Abyssinian south army. who reports great concentration of tanks and artillery as well as p'anes in the Bali sector.
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Hitherto no large scale action. had been taken in the south front owing to the Abyssinians avoiding come into grips with the Italians whose advance had been bampered by guerilla warfare tactics. About 20,000 voluntsers from Wallamo arrived here with their wives and baggages in order to offer their services to the Em- peror, and are ΠΟΤ encamped outside the capital, awaiting in- structions.
LEGATION COMEDY The foreign minister handed the Itailan minister a Note on Thursday withdrawing all diplo matic agreements which explfe pli Saturday, Count Vinci took colgnisance of the Nútë though pro esting in writing against the allegation ́that - the... Legation's radio transmitter had "been used since the opening of hostilities, and agreed that the whole of the Legation staff would leave the capital, on Baturday morning,
HAVARIATE IMPATIENT
Addis Ababa, Oct 11. Tired with cooling his heels at Geneva, and burning with ardour to be at the front, the Abyssinian delegate
to the League of Na- Abyssinia's most capable generals. tions, M. Havarlate who is one of
and a graduate of the former Im- perial Russian Military Academy of St. Petersburg. has repeatedly requested the Emperor to recall him from Geneva, and entrust him' with a military command.
The Ethiopian leader,
Ras Seyoum, has reappeared suddenly to the east of Adɔwɑ, it is admit- ted. He is reported to be leading considerable force of irregulars and is menacing the Italian lines. Heuter,
Bury, playing at home, got the upperhand of Leicester, and Southampton were beaten at Notts Reading maintain their lead of the Southern section, but Tranmere failed at the Northern section,
Wrexham In
suits, as cabled by Reuter:
The following were the full re-
FIRST DIVISION
1 Bolton
A. Vila Blackburn
HOME RUGGER
Close Victory For
All Blacks
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London, Oct. 12. The New Zealand All Blacks secured their eighth rugby win when they beat the South of Scotland by II points to 8.
The following were the results. of other matches played to-day- North Midlands 21, Leicester-
shire 3. Birkenhead Park 23, Liverpool 10, Bristol 0. Bath 0. Cambridge Un. 29, Old Leysians
8.
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Cardiff 0, Gloucester "3. Halldax 6, Headingley 5. Harlequins 21. Combined
vices 16. Lélcester 10, Bridgwater 17. London Irish 6. London Welsh 8.
Ser-
Newport 13, Blackheath 0.
2
Northampton 5, Waterloo 3.
4 Man'ter C.
1.
Richmond 5, Swansea 7.
Chelsea
1 Arsenal
1
Rosslyn Park T. London Scottish
Grimsby
4 Sunderland
0
15.
1 W. Brom.
1
Quy's Hosp. 5. Old Alleynians 3.
1 Birmingham
2
Aberavon 3. Pontypridd 0.
4 Huddersfield
2
Devonport S. 13. Torquay 8
1 Brentford
3
Llanelly 9, Neath 0,
1 Derby
0
4' Everton
0
16.
2 Preston.
1
3 Sheffield U.
0
1 Hull
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3 Leicester
1.0
3 Bradford
2
Reuter,
1' Fulham
2
ROME'S SATISFACTION
Rome, Oct. 11.
Leeds Neys of the desertion of two Liverpool Ethiopian chieftains has been re- Middlesboro celved in Rome with considerable Portsmouth satisfaction where it is regarded Wednesday as the first fruits of the Itakan
Wolves. policy to win over sections of the Stoke population to the Italian side. As the Italian advance proceeds the stream of deserters is expected to swell.
Smultaneously with the mili- tary operations, political officers have begun to try to persuade the Ethiopians of the advantages of Italian rule."
OFFENSIVE STATIONARY
News from Ethiopia indicates that the Italian troops are con- solidating their lines of com- munication.on the Northern Front, where another advance will not be made for a fortnight.
The offensive appears stationary on the Somali front, where the Italians are on the defensive.
SECOND DIVISION
Blackpool Bradford C. Bury Doncaster Man'ter U. Newcastle Norwich Notts F.
Plymouth Tottenham West Ham
THIRD Brighton Bristol C. Gardif Crystal P. Gingham Millwal;
1 Charlton
4. Port Vale
2 S'ampton
7 Barnsley
5 Burnley
4 Swansea DIVISION (South)
NNO.
Portsmouth §. 6, Old Whitgiftians
Weston-super-Mare 14. Plymouth
A. 6.
Edinburgh Inst 10. Stewartoni-
ans 15.
Herlotonians 37 Melrose
Hartlepools 1 Crewe Mansfeld
N. Brighton Oldham Rotherham
1 Carlinte
3 Chester
1
3
1
2 Gateshead
1
2 Walsall
0
0
Stockport
1 Accrington
2
Wrexham
4 Tranmere
0
Bournemouth 1
York
2 Rochdale
0 Coventry
0
SCOTTISH LEAGUE
3 Notts C.
2
Airdrie
1 Queen O'S
2 Clapton
2
Arbroath
0 Aberdeen
-1
0 Luton.
1
Ayr.
1 St. J'stone.
2
1 Swindon
0
"Celtic
2 Southend
0
Dundee
0 Kimarnock
I
Din line
7 Hamilton
2
2
Hibernian
3 Albion
0
3 Aldershot.
2
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2 Newport
5
Partick
THIRD DIVISION (North) Barrow Chesterfield Halifax
*T: Ladack
0 Lincoln
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5. Southport
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0 Darlington
1
Northampton
Queen's P. R. 3 Exeter
3 Bristol.
There is no news whatever from
where the Southern Eritrean tront. Reading An Italian column has! Torquay occupied Mount Moussaadi and is Watford proceeding in the direction p# D'redawa' and the Addis Ababa rallway.-
It is now announced that the heuter..
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