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Forty miles from Aduwa, at the frontier, the sound of those bombs reached Italian troops already on the march. In the darkness, long before the bombers had left their Asmara base, white-bearded old General de Bono, commander-in-chief, had gone with his chief-of-staff, General Melchiade Gabba, and other staff officers to a cleared mountain top from which they could have an unobstructed view of the frontier river, the Mareb, and the rude camel tracks leading up to the mountains and Aduwa...
...close of Squire Roosevelt's second vacation week at Hyde Park House, his visitors had left only one resignation behind. That came from New York City's Works Progress Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson. "It ain't gonna be any more pro bono publico," declared the grinning General. "I've got to get out and make me some money...
Meanwhile hoary but dynamic old General Emilio de Bono, one of the Big Four of the March on Rome and now Governor General of Italy's East African colonies, sent to Rome the first precise report on what has been done in the past six months to turn sleepy little ports in Eritrea and Italian Somaliland into deadly advance war bases...
...Massaua in Eritrea, the main Italian war base 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...
Snapped an aide-de-camp of Governor General de Bono: "Anybody who thinks Mussolini is only bluffing should ride over the strategic highways and bridges we have built and are building. Italy does not spend millions and bring 125,000 men to Africa for bluff...