Word: eritrean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French preparations in East Africa, where Italy also has some unfulfilled "aspirations." Artillery reinforcements were en route to Djibouti, French Somaliland. French authorities began recruiting natives to add to the 6,000 Somaliland defenders and to match Italy's concentration of 15,000 men on the Ethiopian and Eritrean borders...
...Mussolini summoned big, jovial Sir Aldo home to Rome in 1932 to found the Royal Institute for Tropical Diseases, it might well have warned the sharp-witted that Mussolini was interested in more than the natives of Italy's colonies. Before the Italian armies reached the hot, dank Eritrean and Somaliland lowlands, Sir Aldo was commander-in-chief of the Italian Medical Corps...
...Chessad Ezba, a mountain eight miles from Lake Ashangi, spread his support on surrounding peaks. Marshal Badoglio had assembled 200 bombing and pursuit planes. He had Alpini and Sabauda Divisions facing the Ethiopian Guard and was able, after an amazing forced march, to whip another division of leather-footed Eritrean native troops along Haile Selassie's right flank...
Marshall Badoglio still had no miles farther to advance before he would capture-as Lieut. General Napier did for Queen Victoria-malodorous Magdala, which was then the capital. Addis Ababa is 170 miles still farther on. The total advance last week was about 120 miles from the Eritrean border...
...been in imminent danger of sudden death four times-but those incidents lasted only a few seconds or minutes. This trip over the Journey of Death, the 'Road of 1,500 Turnings,' lasts from 90 minutes to two hours if you get through at all. "0ur native Eritrean driver is driving a popular-priced American car and is not too familiar with its mechanics. . . . We reach a scene that sobers him. A motor truck has just plunged over a 150-foot precipice. Mangled remains of the driver are dragged up to the road. He lies there dying...