ETH 184Memo sent from the Governor of Galla Sidamo to the troops on the subject of border security. Translation is as follows:
Troop Command Royal Galla Government And Sidama Operations Office
No; 1320 / op of prot.
Gimma, March 31, 1939
Subject: Dependencies, operational activities and security service along the border of military garrisons.
This commando with its sheet n.389 / O / M has defined the territorial district of garrison and the commander's attributions regarding the jobs and the use of the troops.
From an operational point of view, the garrison can only depend directly on the commando of the sector or on the commando to which, from the commando of the sector itself, has been entrusted with the security of the territory in which it is located: of battalion or group troops, in turn , dependent on the sector.
This commando does not consider it necessary to constrain the operational radius of garrison with respect to the others because of limits and constraints, the brigands would benefit.
The case of the security service is different, requiring the definition of territorial limits for the departments, subdividing the border zone of a band group between the subgroups and these, in turn, dividing their own section with places, and the places , with small seats, For the same need, the establishment of fixed border posts whose force cannot go beyond the limit that is given by the need for surveillance and patrol shifts /
Summarizing then the principals depend on:
a) For territorial issues from the d settor commands:
b) For the use in operations by the battalion or Group commandos bands to which the sector has entrusted the security of a specific area or region;
c) For border surveillance, when the commander of the department and also the garrison commander, from the commando of the Bands Group: where the garrison commander does not identify himself with that of the department, he depends for all the questions on the command of the sector with the exception of what it concerns the security service for which the commander of the department that exercises the supervision reports directly to the superior responsible for the service (band group)
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Their sphere is:
a) Quealla established by the same commander of garrison for territorial issues (discipline, garrison service etc.)
b) In the case of operations, the one that the operational needs impose, limited only by the sensitivity of the commander in the first time, then by the orders of the battalion commander or of the responsible sector;
c) For the supervision, that determined by the commando of the band group.
The designated army general governor and commander of the F / TO troops. P. GAZZERA
P.C.C
The ten. Head Colonel of S.M - P. Ricci. m
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