Meanwhile, Ras Seyum, in the mountains overhanging the right flank
of the Northern ad Vance, begins to make his preserice felt. On the left a well-planned ambush in the Azbi gorge comes as a reminder that the arduous precaution of " crowning the heights " cannot for an instant be neglected with impunity. An ingenious booby- trap for drawing the Italian aircraft. into close rifle and machine-gun range: proves that the Abyssinian is not overawed by this, to him, new .weapon of offence, while near Makale the civil population, at sonic cost to itself, seems to be resenting the commandeering of supplies. In the Northern Ogaden General. Graziani, whose move- ments are the subject of conflicting reports, is meeting with increasing opposition, and there are signs that the Abyssinians will light hard to keep the Jigjiga road open for the importation of arms and supplies from British Somaliland.
