Show ETHIOPIANS ROUT ITALIAN FORCE NATIVES SLAY MANY FOES IN FIERCE COMBAT IL Fascist Unit Breaks L Before Assault of Africans n By the Associated Press ADDIS ABABA Nov 13 13 Desperate Ethiopian defenders in inflicted In- In wholesale losses on the Italian Ital Ital- ian n invaders a government com corn said today the native warriors war war- Jors winning dual victories on the northern and southern fronts The official announcement re reported reported reported re- re ported man many deaths were suffered by by both sides in a bitter engagement engagement engage engage- ment at Anele in Ogaden province to the south but the Italians Italians Ital Ital- ians tans fled in rout from another encounter encounter en en- counter in the same region On On the northern front the tho com corn said an Ethiopian force under Commander Gabre as- as a greatly superior It Italian lian unit killing the leader and a large umber number of soldiers and scattering the e C unit in disorder The Ethiopian deaths in this eng en- en r g gement were set at eight with S Continued on Page Pale Two 1 T Column Six ITALIANS FLEE AFRICAN CLASH A Continued from Page One the Italians suffering many more The liThe conduct of the Ethiopian troops was be beyond ond all aU praise said tho the The main combat in Ogaden province ince thee through which a great fas fascist force und r General Rudolfo Rudolo Grazian Graziani Grazi- Grazi an ani has been advancing from Italian was reported waged be between between between be- be tween Ethiopian infantry and ItalIan Italian Italian Ital Ital- ian tank and machine gun units Capture Four Tanks I The Italians turned a deadly fire on the native foot soldiers the com corn said but Emperor Halle Haibe Selassie's forces succeeded In capturing cap cap- turing four tanKs after a sanguinary sanguinary san san- struggle in Il which the tho Ancle Anele field wa was strewn with dead The government reported six she ItalIan Italian Italian Ital Ital- ian officers and numerous troops were killed In another engagement In the tho Ancle Anele district and the Ethiopians Ethiopians Ethi Ethi- captured six trucks Italian soldiers surviving this encounter encounter en en- counter were said to have fled in panic Anxiety Expressed In government circles anxiety over the defense of was expressed expressed ex ox- pressed as the result of a report that Italians had made their first aerial reconnaissance over the city which dominates Ethiopia's routes to the sea It was also reported that two ItalIan Italian Italian Ital Ital- ian airplanes perhaps the same ones seen at had reconnoitered over midway between and Harar Indications that Emperor Haile Halle Selassie plans a stiff defense of were shown by the statement from a reliable source that the biggest biggest biggest big big- gest shipment of machine guns yetto yetto yet yetto to enter Ethiopia has been retained there following its arrival from Reserves Ready Reaty A large number of motor trucks Is expected to leave tho the capital soon for the area Not only do highways from British British British Brit Brit- ish lead to but its fall faU would leave the railroad which connects Addis Ababa and Djibouti French at the mer mercy y of ot the Italians Crack Ethiopian troops are being sent to Ogaden province to reInforce reinforce reinforce rein reIn- force the native Somalis who have been doing most of the defensive fighting thus far Upon the advice of at Hawa Hawa- date nate Ethiopia's former representative tive at the League of Nations who recently returned to his country the government has invited all chIc ins and wealthy Ethiopians to turn their money over to the emperor to carry on the tho war in exchange exchange exchange ex ex- ex- ex change for lands given them by the government is now at his estate at Teher near Harar |