Rain, rain, rain

ROME WARNS DELAY LIKELY
BECAUSE OF TORRENTIAL RAINS
Italians Advancing Along Shoa-Meda Plain
On Last Stage Of Their March To Addis

ROME, May 2, 1936 - Italian troops are advancing along the great Shoa-Meda plain northeast of Addis Ababa on the last stage of their march to the capital, authoritative dispatches from the front said today.
Their advance was delayed by rains, which sent torrents across their path, and officials warned against excessive optimism as to the hour or day in which the city would fall. Officials said they didn't believe the report that the Emperor had fled, but were confident he would go westward.
Popular Fascist eagerness to celebrate a climax to the seven-month-old war burst in many cities last night. Unconfirmed reports that Italian troops had entered Addis Ababa precipitated widespread demonstrations.
Operation of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad was reported suspended, and another report, which would please the Italians if true, was that the crown prince, after leaving the city with his father, had turned back to surrender the capital personally to Marshal Badoglio.