Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fallen in Adam's time. To protect the Egyptian pilgrims from Ibn Saud's marauding Wahabi warriors went each year a company of Egyptian soldiers and a military band. In 1926 King Ibn Saud objected to the troops. His ascetic Wahabis said they objected to the whole caravan and especially the band. The Wahabis attacked the pilgrim caravan, killed an Egyptian officer...
...KHYBER CARAVAN-Gordon Sinclair-Farrar & Rinehart ($3). Adventures in India by a sophisticated professional with an eye for detail...
Scouting planes told him that Ethiopians were in force on the caravan route due north of Gabredarre. He tried a flank attack along the Giana Gobbo River to the left and hit a hornets' nest. Italians charged time & again up impossible gullies, always to fall back before a blistering fire...
...Ethiopian forces opposing Italy's southern armies, had been bombed to ruins. In the north, after the great battle of Enderta and its smashing sequel at Amba Alaji (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.), all Italy expected to see the Fascist troops sweep bravely on down the main caravan trail to Dessye and Addis Ababa. They did not realize that there were some 280 back-breaking miles between Italy's advance posts and Addis Ababa, that innumerable hordes of undefeated tribesmen still infested the route...
Party. Under him were 5,000 young Blackshirts in armored trucks. Along the Sudan border they rolled almost without opposition to the gates of Gondar, important caravan town near Lake Tana. Colonel Starace. who can do nothing without making a speech, saw to it last week that his speech on the eve of capturing Gondar reached every foreign correspondent...