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...Italy's conquest of Ethiopia was recently given de facto recognition by (1 the U. S., 2 France, 3 Russia, 4 the Irish Free State, 5 Canada...
...Ethiopia arrived last week 105 Italian colonists, each the father of a family waiting anxiously in Italy. The most capable expect to receive, gratis, an Ethiopian farm of 66 to 125 acres, but for the first two years the colonists (and others who follow them) will farm communal tracts...
...encouraging for the families of the colonists was the news printed last week by Armed Forces (Benito Mussolini's official military paper). It gave an account, presumably not exaggerated, of the difficulties of pacifying Ethiopia. During the rainy season (mid-June to mid-September) 113 Italian bombing planes were kept busy supplying isolated Italian outposts. Armed Forces described as "characteristic" the "episodes" of Lalibela, Bilbala Gorgis, Debra Brehan and Debra Sina...
Considering the apparent ease and frequency with which forces of several hundred troops were pent up by guerillas and the large amount of cash needed in the field (possibly for bribes as well as the purchase of food), it appeared the conquest of Ethiopia is neither complete nor likely to be cheap. As a further indication of conditions Armed Forces added that airplanes constantly had to patrol the railroad to Addis Ababa and, to keep peace in the country, planes dropped 6,834 bombs in a single area in three months...
...WARS AND MORE TO COME-Herbert L. Matthews - Carrick & Evans ($2.50). Direct, unphilosophical reporting by one of the ablest New York Times correspondents, on the Italian campaign in Ethiopia and the siege of Madrid. The eleven chapters on Ethiopia make the Italian advance more of a pushover than U. S. readers would have guessed; the twelve Spanish chapters, written from the Loyalist side, give a confused account of political developments, a vivid description of the battle of Brihuega, which Matthews considers one of the most decisive in history...