Word: eritrea
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Thus, at the age of five, died Benito Mussolini's infant colony. There was still probably a battle to be fought. Italian troops from Addis Ababa fled north to meet the Italian troops fleeing down from Eritrea. Presumably the two forces planned to join for one last stand...
With the fall of Cheren, the British hoped for no further major battle in Eritrea. They pressed on through the hills at once toward the capital, Asmara, as fast as sappers ahead of the armored-car spearhead could clear away land mines and landslides left by the Italians. Ahead of the sappers the R.A.F. continued its bombardment, destroying trucks and twisting bridges. Beyond Asmara lies Massaua, Eritrea's only good port, which the Royal Navy had tightly corked and hoped soon to possess...
...question was how many Italians were prepared to defend Harar, and how hard. It was likely that most of the Italians who had been in British Somaliland had fallen back into this area. The Italians would probably put up a stanch fight here because here-and at Cheren in Eritrea-were the last chances for strong stand: before Addis Ababa. If the British could crack the old town of Harar, they could cut the rail line, just north of Harar, from Addis Ababa...
...Eritrea. Pride has been scant for the homebodies of Italy lately, but last week the name Cheren filled them with it. On the high escarpment near the town known as Sancheil Briggs Peak, the Italians had put up their bravest fight of the African war. In the face of constant bombings, under steady artillery fire, nearly surrounded, some 35,000 Italians showed that they could be as stubborn as the rocky buttes they defended. They resisted British attacks, and countered with their own-losing in one a brave general named Orlando Lorenzini. General Lorenzini, who led a brigade...
...Eritrea a six-week-old deadlock was last week still unresolved. The Italians were ensconced around Cheren on magnificent natural forts. The British were last week busily probing in all directions around the Italian-held heights, to see where the enemy might be vulnerable. They themselves claimed capture of some new heights...