Show ITALIANS BEAT TRIBAL FORCE Ethiopians Defeated in So So- After Sharp Fighting ROME Dec 1 7 The JP-The Stefan Stefani News Mews Agency announced today that thai armed bodies of Ethiopians attacked Italian December 5 but were driven n noU oil U following sharp fighting Italy was made nervous during the past year by reports that the Ethiopian Ethiopian Ethiopian Ethi Ethi- empire was wa-s arming with modem modern modern mod mod- em ern arm army equipment including airplanes airplanes air air- planes and machine guns guns Since Ethiopia and Italian as aswell aswell aswell well as the other Italian colony of o Eritrea are neighbors fears of a r re religious religious re- re war were felt With th the signi signing g of a treaty of peace and amity on September 29 however much of this fear was dis dis- dis Another fillip to had cad feeling feeling- was given about the middle of November when the Italian consulate at Gon Gon- eaf gar Ethiopia was attacked by an armed group In recent months Italy has reinforced reinforced rein rein- in Italian tor forced ed its military forces and Er Eritrea trea |