Word: eritreans
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...crew of a sambuk marooned a load of pilgrims on an uninhabited island near the Eritrean coast, telling them they were in the Holy Land. Most of the pilgrims died of thirst, but a few lived to identify the sambuk crew, who were hanged. Last year a Saudi Arabian patrol found another party of pilgrims, 18 of them dead of thirst, who had been dumped on a lonely shore and told to walk in the wrong direction. None of this was known to 32 innocent Nigerians who had spent two years walking from the west coast of Africa, across deserts...
...U.S.S.R. proposed outright independence for Eritrea. Poland plumped for independence in three years, Pakistan in two. Iraq wanted an Eritrean...
...East Africa, the British advances looked more like dress parade than war. Some of the Eritrean force swept down into Ethiopia and took Aduwa, scene of the famed Italian debacle in 1896. The South African detachment which had taken Italian Somaliland, had swept up across the Ethiopian savannas and had cracked Harar, now drove up the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad at the rate of 25 miles a day. There was a brief, sharp action at the Awash River. Then the British pressed on and took Addis Ababa without meeting any Italian resistance...
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...
...their Eritrean push, the British used a skill which was more than tactical. The region around Agordat is inhabited by a tribe of pure Hamites, direct descendants of ancient Egyptians, in religion mostly Moslem. There are also quite a few Indians in Eritrea. They do not like their Italian any more than any other white masters...