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...rich Feres Mai Valley and a number of important wells. Nowhere last week did the Ethiopians fight back very hard. Safely behind the Italian lines Emperor Haile Selassie's renegade son-in-law, Ras Gugsa, strutted about in a helmet and new Italian uniform that General de Bono has given him, returning the stiff salutes of Italian sentries with broad grins...
...North, the 110,000 Italians under General Emilio de Bono did no 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...
After its capture Aduwa showed little evidence of fighting, none of bombing. The muddy streets were swept clean, festooned with flags and triumphal arches of branches. Just outside the town General de Bono changed from his automobile to the back of a skittish little Arab charger, rode through the streets and to the parade ground beyond the town. There he reviewed 11,000 of his men, dedicated the monument whose erection was the first move of the invading Italians...
Over the river, the Italians formed three columns. The left one swung east to Adigrat in an effort to encircle Aduwa from the left. To General de Bono, peering at maps, puffing cigarets on his cool mountain top, came the word: Adigrat had been captured almost without opposition. Italians sweeping into the town found it deserted of everything but old men, women and children, all of them painfully undernourished. The country had been swept bare of food for the warriors now hiding in the mountains. On to Aduwa...
...United Press War Correspondent No. i, who got his 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...