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From the new, fast-growing Fascist war base at Asmara (TIME, Aug. 26) in Eritrea, the Herald Tribune's John T. Whitaker reported on the Challenger...
...Flying from the cool mountains around Asmara to the steaming caldron of Massaua, Italy's Red Sea port, your correspondent, piloted by Count Galeazzo Ciano, son-in-law of Premier Benito Mussolini, saw something today of the tremendous preparations for Il Duce's drive into Ethiopia and found a new respect for the men working behind the lines. Il Duce's two flying sons, Victor and Bruno, were at the airport here at dawn today when the correspondent, flying from Khartum, in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, landed. Mussolini's kinsmen were screwing fuses into bombs, with comrades of lesser station...
...commanding Northern Ethiopia and uncomfortably close to British interests in the Sudan, war paraphernalia were being unloaded last week at the rate of 4,000 tons per day. Forty new Italian locomotives had just been unloaded and General de Bono was stepping up the strategic railway from Massaua to Asmara, increasing transportation facilities daily. Upland Asmara, few months ago a town of 4,500, last week was a teeming city...
...Thousands of other soldiers and workers, however, are obliged to work all day in the scorching desert country, mending roads that trucks, tanks and tractors smash to bits a few hours later as they roar through the night to the plateau at the capital of [Eritrea], Asmara...
...Asmara, which means "Good Pasture Place," King Vittorio Emmanuele enquired minutely as to doings on the whole plateau, the "Plain of 1,000 Villages." Unfortunately Eritrea is again costing Italy dear. It was run at a loss for the first 30 years, began to break even in 1920, but has again become an expensive luxury for Italy and her ambitious, damn-the-expense Duce. Greatest achievement of Italians in Eritrea is to have introduced cotton culture in valleys previously thought incapable of growing cotton, then to have built capacious cotton gins at Asmara and Massawa. With cotton sunk like other...