Word: agordat
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CAIRO--Fascist forces tonight were reported in "full retreat" from Britain's four-pronged invasion, of Italian East Africa after British forces captured the Eritrean railroad terminus of Agordat and "many hundreds of prisoners" in fierce battle...
...toll of Italian dead and wounded was said to have been heavy in the fighting for Agordat, gateway to Italy's Red Sea Port of Massawa, 100 miles eastward...
Reports that British planes were bombing and ranging wide over such scattered points as Hargeisa and Berbera in Italian-held British Somaliland, Agordat and Gurá south of Asmara in Eritrea, and, more particularly, over the oasis of Siwa deep in the desert near the Libyan frontier, and at Metemmeh in Ethiopia near the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan border, indicated the British were keeping their air eyes open for signs of any new thrust toward the heart of the Nile Valley...