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The Minister Resident in Ethiopia (Engert) to the Secretary of State
Addis
Ababa, October 27, 1936—4
p.m.
[Received October 28—5:54 p.m.]
[Received October 28—5:54 p.m.]
615. Italian communiqué states that 1500 Ethiopians, including 600 regulars under Dejavaz Fikre Mariam, were yesterday defeated in the region of Dabacojo some 35 miles southeast of Addis Ababa. After violent fighting the enemy was dispersed leaving 321 killed among whom Fikre Mariam himself.
It is also announced that on October 24 the Italian column under Colonel Malta entered Lekemti.
Engert