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...London Times divulged to its readers last week "a disagreeable surprise." Bengasi had fallen into Axis hands again. Later in the week it had a pleasant surprise: Addis Ababa had fallen into British hands without a struggle...
Last week Haile Selassie, who began to think he might soon again be Negus (Emperor of Ethiopia) in fact as well as name, set up field headquarters at Burie, 150 miles from Addis Ababa. Next day he issued a proclamation to his native troops which was a bald-faced misrepresentation even if issued for laudable ends...
Harar fell the same day as Cheren to a British column advancing from Somaliland in the south. Italian resistance in Marda Pass before Harar was surprisingly light, and the British met almost no resistance at Harar itself. This column's mission-breaking the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad-was accomplished at week's end when the British announced they had occupied Dire Dawa, the nearest station to Harar on the railway, and that the Italians had withdrawn westward toward the capital. Main reason given by the Italians for this withdrawal was again British air activity. All week long...
...Benito Mussolini's Imperial Forces were completely hemmed in. Cut off from supply by sea, and also from escape by sea, they were in a virtually hopeless position. The British anticipated that they would make their next stand at the Awash River, 100 miles east of Addis Ababa...
...southern Ethiopian road junction of Neghelli, 300 miles from Addis Ababa, fell at week's end, the British began laying pounds, shillings and pence on the line as to which of the several drives on Addis Ababa would win, place and show...