17 APRIL 1936, Page 1
If any fighting spirit remains on the Abyssinian side— and
no one who knows the Abyssinians and their Emperor will readily believe that it does not—Marshal Badoglio may yet find himself involved in a type of warfare in which his civilised and highly mechanised forces will for the first time have to engage in detail and on almost equal terms an agile guerrilla enemy at moments and on ground of its choice, not his. Addis Ababa may possibly fall before the rains. The capacity to destroy it at any moment is already in Italian hands. It is not likely, it is true, to prove a second Moscow ; but that its fall will necessarily put an end to Abyssinian resistance is far from being a foregone conclusion.
