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...Caproni bombers led by Il Duce's ace son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano. Ras Gugsa, whose tribesmen had led the unopposed Italian advance all the way from Aduwa, 60 miles to the north last week, moved into his palace. By order of white bearded General Emilio de Bono he had been appointed the puppet Governor of Tigre Province for Italy. Italian regulars moved out to level camping ground on the outskirts of Makale...
Dear to venerable generals destined to die in bed are the largest and showiest Zeiss field telescopes. Squinting through his on Ethiopia's Northern front last week, goat-bearded Italian Commander Emilio de Bono was trying to see what the Dictator's war machine was doing 40 miles away. In the foreground Old de Bono could see distinctly part of a grimy Italian labor battalion slaving to make roads, a spate of lumbering trucks and tanks, many a picturesque sight full of local Ethiopian color...
General de Bono, inevitably, could not help wondering what sort of report on himself and the war is now being made to Il Duce and Il Re by the King's great military crony, Marshal Pietro Badoglio, who last week sailed home across the Mediterranean from his recent inspection trip...
Long-heralded Italian drives got under way fortnight ago on the Northern Front and Southern Front, but orders which considerably mystified correspondents last week stopped both in their tracks. At the headquarters of Old de Bono rumors were thicker than gnats. Some correspondents cabled that a camel corps of 20,000 men was being organized in the southwestern corner of Eritrea for a dash, not at any of the main Ethiopian positions but at Britain's "sphere of influence" in the general direction of Lake Tana...
...reach been seized, but a large number of his kinsmen had been put to death in Ethiopian revenge. Announcing to his 1,500 warriors that not only his but all their relatives had been slaughtered, Ras Gugsa exhorted his numerous personal followers to avenge themselves. General de Bono took a chance and gave them rifles, and away they streaked far in advance of the Italian columns which this week were driving toward Makale, whose inhabitants hoisted white flags when bombing planes piloted by Count Galeazzo Ciano and Bruno and Vittorio Mussolini flew low over the town...