Word: barentu
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CARIO--An Italian army of 200,000 men tonight faced dismemberment and entrapment as British Empire forces smashed deeper into Benito Mussolini's East African Empire on five fronts after seizing the Eritrean town of Barentu, military dispatches said...
Strategic Barentu, 70 miles inside Eritrea near the Ethiopian border, fell barely 24 hours after the British capture of the railroad town of Agordat, 40 miles northward, after fierce fighting that cost the Italians heavily in dead, wounded and prisoners...
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