Word: eritrea
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...last week the many British drives in East Africa had resolved themselves into one campaign-an encirclement of Addis Ababa. When he took Ethiopia, Benito Mussolini's strategy was to send his main attack (Marshals De Bono and Badoglio) southward from Eritrea, and to meet it with a smaller containing attack (General Graziani) northward from Italian Somaliland. This time the British strategy was to bottle as many troops as possible in Eritrea and then converge on Addis Ababa from the northwest and south. The main British attack came from the south...
...problem. Army regulations demand that every British infantryman be issued a steel helmet. But the Sikhs insist on wearing turbans, over which no steel helmet can fit. Finally, the Sikhs worked out an agreement with their British officers, accepted the helmets. Last week as they edged ahead through central Eritrea each Sikh wore a turban on his head, obediently dangled a British helmet from his haversack...
...difficult country for mechanized troops. Best British bet seemed to be fresh troops driving down the Red Sea coast from the north, which threatened to cut off the defenders on the plateau or force their retreat. When Cheren fell the Italians would be in a fair way to losing Eritrea, their oldest colony...
CAIRO--British mechanized forces, biting off the entire northern triangle of Italian Eritrea, have reached the Red Sea and captured the town of Mersa Taclai while R.A.F. bombers laid siege to the Eritrean capital of Asmara, it was stated officially today...
With their great experience in ruling native populations, the British staged their attack on Eritrea largely with Indian troops - also mostly Moslems. These troops not only fought fiercely against the Italians; they were well received by the natives. It also looked well to the whole Middle Eastern Moslem world, which is already largely pledged to Britain although Signer Mussolini declared himself Defender of Islam in 1937. In the East the British had once more reversed their old maxim, Divide and Rule, to read: Unite and Revolt...