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...Emilio de Bono, the Italian Commander-in-Chief. waiting to be relieved of his command rode ten miles beyond Makale toward Alaji, next important town in the Italian advance from the North. Through his huge staff telescope he could see it distinctly. He and the respectful officers round him knew that the General, about to become a Marshal, would never enter it as an Italian commander. Then the old man, leaving his Chief of Staff, General Melchiade Gabba, in command, drove through cheering lines of blackshirted Italian workmen along the roads they had just built, toward the coast and Italy...
...Quadrumvir jolted last week up to the Army's highest rank of Marshal and into retirement was goat-bearded, rheumy-eyed but able and sagacious old General Emilio de Bono. Under this Original Fascist the flower of Italy's hottest-headed youthful volunteers have gone out to Africa, avenged the 19th Century "Shame of Aduwa" and occupied some 10,000 sq. mi. The combination of young hotheads in the van with a very old Fascist behind them has been either extremely odd or touched with genius. Enemies of the Dictator have accused him of sending first to fight...
Trailing his glory Old de Bono is now replaced by the Army's idol and the King's close friend. Marshal Pietro Badoglio, greatest of Italy's surviving World War commanders and in 1928, when Mussolini had been Dictator for six years, created Marquis of the Sabotino, the mountain he captured in August 1916 during the Battle of Gorizia. In November 1917 he was made the public goat of Italy's most inglorious rout at Caporetto, but within the Army his Kudos as a commander did not evaporate and he became sole Sub-Chief-of-Staff...
Notice to Mutineers. Marshal Badoglio was sent to Africa last month by the Dictator to inspect particularly the Northern Front under Old de Bono's command (TIME, Oct. 28). He also visited the Southern Front on which General Graziani has been forging up toward Harar and Ethiopia's only railway, returned to Rome fortnight ago. Gossip has had General Graziani vexed by Old de Bono's reluctance to send him as many troops as he has asked for. What the dashing General in the South might not listen to from the Qtiadrnmvir, he will presumably...
Even the oversized telescope of General de Bono could find no massing of Ethiopians near Makale. Scouts reported many a party of them moving toward Amba Alaji, a natural mountain fortress overlooking the trail to Dessye and Addis Ababa. As if to keep up interest in their dreary little war, Italians talked darkly of a pitched battle to come...