Word: asmara
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...first time since he took command in East Africa, dapper, precise Marshal Pietro Badoglio received war correspondents in Asmara last week, told them what they might and might not say. Declared Italy's expeditionary Commander-in-chief...
Since Dictator Benito Mussolini has sharply forbidden his soldiers to be served by native women, their needs in Asmara last week were being supplied by French and Italian girls, the French being in greater demand with equal wages rigidly enforced...
Though Marshal Pietro Badoglio made an 800-mile flight from G. H. Q. at Asmara straight across Ethiopia to the headquarters of the Southern Army, the expected simultaneous advance did not take place, nor was there any general shake-up in the Italian command...
...fighting but worked like demons to consolidate their position. This is an engineers' war, and the sappers' greatest feat last week was completing emergency landing fields at Adigrat and Aduwa and finishing the motor road from Aduwa back to Italy's main base at Asmara. No sooner was the road finished than white-whiskered old General de Bono drove over it to Aduwa, covering in three hours the distance that had taken his men three days to capture...
...news training in Chicago, remembers Mussolini as a fellow reporter at the Cannes Conference in 1921. Last week Newshawk Miller witnessed the start of the invasion of Ethiopia from the mountain-top observation post of skinny, goat-bearded General de Bono, sent an exclusive dispatch by wireless from Asmara (see p. 19). The message reached Rome before official dispatches, was relayed to London by telephone, thence by cable to New York and all U. P. wires...