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...That is Massaua, port city in the Italian colony of Eritrea, as described today by one of the first men to reach Djibouti from Massaua, in several weeks. He is a citizen of a nation historically friendly and disposed to favor Italian aspirations...
Chicago's high-spirited Tribune, having announced that it will no longer maintain a correspondent in Rome to "take government handouts" (TIME, June 24), last week obtained from Correspondent Will Barber in Djibouti, French Somaliland, a lurid account of what goes on in neighboring Italian Eritrea as the Dictator's forces get ready to fight after the summer rains...
Practical. 1) Italy's two East African colonies, Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, are unconnected except by the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. As early as 1906, France and Britain gave her permission to build a railroad through Abyssinia to connect the two. Only a military expedition will make it possible...
...Mussolini's cheering troops had to footslog their way into Abyssinia from the blanketing coast of Eritrea, their cheers would not last long after they hit the Danakil. A natural moat, 400 miles long and 150 wide, it roughly parallels the Abyssinian border, sinks to 400 feet below sea level, boasts temperatures as high as 156° in the shade. Before Explorer Nesbitt, no white man had ever succeeded in crossing it, though three expeditions had tried. In Hell-Hole of Creation he tells how he and two Italian companions, with a native caravan, traversed the entire length...
...Virtual carte blanche from France, with Britain's implied approval, to go as far as Il Duce likes in encroaching upon Abyssinia from Italian Eritrea and Italian Somaliland...