DARING WORK
NEW ROAD SURVEYED
NEW ZEA LANDER EX-MISSION-ARY IN ABYSSINIA
How a New Zealander, formerly a missionary in Abyssinia, with a British and three Abyssinian soldiers surveyed a road from the Sudan 100 miles into Abyssinia, was told by Ethiopian headquarters.
It was an audacious enterprise to permit tire substitution of motors for camels, which at present transport supplies to patriots.
The road traverses sweltering, fever-infested virgin bush, with elephant grass 12 feet high and abounding with wild animals. The New Zealandcrs party advanced on foot, with rifles always at the ready. Once they sighted native conscripts bathing, but they were too numerous, and the leader of the party notified the base, which sent -out a patrol to round up the enemy.
One hundred semi-naked blacks, armed Avith spears, bows and arrows are already hacking a road through the bush. Patrols range the thick scrub to prevent attack, and antiaircraft batteries have been established, but no planes have appeared.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 266, 3 February 1941, Page 6
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160DARING WORK Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 266, 3 February 1941, Page 6
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