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...while food and munitions were catching up with them. Harar, overlooking Ethiopia's only railway and onetime headquarters of the Ethiopian forces opposing Italy's southern armies, had been bombed to ruins. In the north, after the great battle of Enderta and its smashing sequel at Amba Alaji (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.), all Italy expected to see the Fascist troops sweep bravely on down the main caravan trail to Dessye and Addis Ababa. They did not realize that there were some 280 back-breaking miles between Italy's advance posts and Addis Ababa, that innumerable hordes...
They still were last week. As Marshal Badoglio's war machine lumbered and built roads and climbed forward, Italy's crack troops scaled the terrific 11,000-ft. heights of grim Mount Alaji (25 miles farther on) and the flag of Italy was again fairly up on the great Ethiopian Plateau...
Next obstacle to the Italians, towering 11,000-ft. Mount Alaji did not fall last week as Marshal Badoglio put every available soldier to working on roads and perfecting his service of supply for a fresh offensive. In Rome numerous Italian Senators heard the Papal Secretary of State, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, deliver an address which kept Fascists on pins & needles in their anxiety to hear that the Holy Father had at last come out wholeheartedly for Italy's war. They considered this to have come to pass when Cardinal Pacelli hailed Dictator Mussolini as "not only the Head...
...parts: a jagged ridge known to the Italians as "The Herringbone" and, at the extreme right, a flat-topped peak called "The Priest's Hat." All the land at its base was known as the Enderta. Through the same telescope, when the clouds cleared, could be seen Alaji, another mountain about 30 miles further on. These two peaks were main pegs in Ethiopia's defense. At 8 a. m., with a round moon still high in the sky, operations started with a short advance all along the line. This was to be a white man's battle...
...Last week Mussolini's flying son-in-law Count Ciano led the "Desperate Squadron" on a strafing expedition possibly meant to avenge Italian reverses which, as nominal Minister for Press-Information, he could not admit. After hurling an avalanche of bombs into the Ethiopian gorges of Buia, Amba Alaji, Lake Ashanghi and Mai Mescic, chubby Count Ciano guessed the squadron had killed 2,000 Ethiopians, counted in his plane holes made by three antiaircraft shells and 36 Ethiopian bullets, some of which struck his oil tank...