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Italian Leaders Make Estimates: 10,000 Reported Killed In Battle Near Dolo. ; Italian Leaders Make Estimates: 10,000 Reported Killed In Battle Near Dolo. ROME, Jan. 27 (AP)—Italy's high command in Africa boosted to 15,000 today its claims of Ethiopian casualties in recent fighting on northern and southern fronts. A great battle north of Dolo and the ensuing drive by the southern armies through nearly 300 miles of hostile territory claimed 10,000 Ethiopian lives, said a report from Marshal Pietro Badoglio, commander-in-chief of the colonial armies. Two days ago Badoglio said 5000 of the foe had been killed or wounded in major engagements in the north, climaxed, reportedly, by a smashing Italian victory. General Rudolfo Graziani's column pushed on from Neghelli Wadara, a distance of approximately 40 miles, while blackshirts in armored cars drove along the British Kenya colony border after a battle in which, Italians said, 1467 Ethiopians were slain. Haile Orders Retreat (Addis Ababa dispatches yesterday said Emperor Haile Selassie had ordered Desta Demtu, in command of the southern armies, to withdraw into the mountains behind Wadara, nearly 300 miles from Dolo, for a stand against the invaders). Plunging through the jungles of the Dawa Parma river, the troops of General Agostini repulsed Ethiopians under a Greek officer and seized the village of Malca Murri, 132 miles west of Dolo, the fascist high commander alleged. Italian losses of officers and white troops in the southern fighting were "small," Badoglio added, while "those of the native troops amount to some hundreds dead, wounded and missing." |