Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1935, Page 30

{OC-YEAR WARFARE SEEN IN ETHIOPIA Czarist General, Now Wash- ingtonian, Says Race Is Audacious. Fortified by his experience as 8 @igh-ranking officer in the Russian y under the Czar, former Lieut. . Wiladimire A. Levandowsky, now an engineer and landscape architect in jfli¢ National Capital Park and Plan- Commission, said yesterday he be- s it will take Italy 100 years com- ly to subjugate the Ethiopians, if Indeed it can ever be done. War be- tween Great Britain and Italy he be- lieves most probable. Gen. Levandowsky, who has been for years an American citizen and an employe of the Planning Commission, is a veteran of three major conflicts In the world's history—the Boxer Up- rising in China, the Russo-Japanese War and the World War. His last major post was as chief of staff in the Czar'’s army in the Caucasus and @sia Minor. . He knows the great difficulties ac- tompanying mountain fighting and likens Mussolini’s task in Ethiopia to that of the Russian government in subduing the wild tribes of the Cau- casus—a job that took a century or so—and was accomplished only by eonstructing roads through the deep forests and the mountain fastnesses. Planes Cannot Hold Ground. ‘While Italy’s planes will be effective In bombing centers of population in Ethiopia, Gen. Levandowsky pointed out this is not military occupation, for occupation means establishing bases, pacifying the civillan population and €olonizing. ‘The difficulties confronting the pres- ent Italian military expedition he characterized as comparable to the fight of France over 75 years and more in Algeria and Spain in Mo- rocco. But these peoples, he asserted, are weaker than the Ethiopians, who tre very proud, good fighters with an unconquerable spirit. The French, he recalled. attempted to exert influence upon Ethiopia, but with meager success—the small French Bomaliland being the only concrete evidence of her efforts to secure a Roothold in that part of Africa. As a soldier, Gen. Levandowsky knows the course of war—high enthu- siasm for the cause at first, then the long, hard struggle, when patriotism wanes and the officers have trouble, particularly with the young men in their ranks and then the unrest among the civilian population in the homeland, particularly when the others realize their sons will never teturn to them. This story will be tepeated in the case of Italy, he says, &nd is none too sure that Mussolini's Homestic situation is secure. Gen. Levandowsky believes the Italians in Ethiopia will have an al- fnost impossible task in getting their tanks in operation in the mountainous country. The deserts and mountains are two of Ethiopia’s greatest military @ssets, says the. general, and this, coupled with the unquenchable spirit of the people, will make conquest diffi- " cult. Dysentery and malaria will at- tack the invaders, for these diseases have already made inroads upon them. He foresees a strong possibility of a conflict between England and Italy, with the London government closing down the Suez Canal. When “guns §e facing guns,” as is now the case the Mediterranean, a greater war close at hand, he says. thinks, are bringing in munitions . England has backed new cara- Bn roads through Ethiopia, in com- ition with the French-owned rail- d, from Addis Ababa to Djibouti French Somaliland, he declares, and se roads are most important. ree-quarters of the frontier of hiopia are in English hands. The Ethiopians, he asserts, are “per- ect shots,” for they have compara- vely little ammuntion and must make tell. The mountain peoples, who e stronger physically and in spirit, much harder to subjugate than ire the people of the plains, he ob- es. The water supply for the talians will be one of the gravest oblems for Mussolini’s men, says n. Levandowsky, who has had some % 5 British Have Advantage. E’:he British railroads in the Sudan, far, in going to the relief of Gen. ‘ownsend. Dead dogs or camels will thrown into the water supply and alone—without poisoning—will nder the water undrinkable. ‘One of Gen. Levandowsky’s personal ends, a Russian Leontief, was gov- or general of the equatorial prov- ce in Ethiopia, in the time of Mene- and from him he learned much ut that country. The general has n in Djibouti, as well as other sec- ons of that part of the world. He alls that some Ethiopians were in ussia in his time—some at the Mili- Academy, although some had to n home due to the severity of he Winters—at St. Petersburg—and e were priests sent to the churches Russia, for they are akin in re- jon. “Gen. Levandowsky fought in Per- , in the Turkish part of Asia Minor d in the Caucasus. His command- g general was Gen. Youdenite. Gen. vandowsky was a cavalry officer in e Czar's army and became a first tenant in 1892. In 1918, he was lieutenant general, but with the plshevik uprising he lost everything lived in Paris and Italy before ming to the United States. ADVERTISEMENT. IT THA COLD WHERE IT LIVES- in the System! Don’t fool yourself about a cold! It’s nothing to be taken lightly nor treated lightly. A cold is an fnternal infection that will quickly spread within the system unless promptly checked. 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