Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though Marshal Pietro Badoglio made an 800-mile flight from G. H. Q. at Asmara straight across Ethiopia to the headquarters of the Southern Army, the expected simultaneous advance did not take place, nor was there any general shake-up in the Italian command...
...this week neither Italy nor Ethiopia had officially declared...
...three Italian armies fronting Ethiopia on the North, South and East the first two have been well-publicized but Il Duce masked his Eastern Army in such reticence that last week even the name of its General was still unknown to the world...
Reason: the Eastern Army, striving to bite its way in from Assab on the Red Sea to cut Ethiopia's only railway near Dire Dawa, (see p. 17), faces obstacles of terrain all but insurmountable. It must skirt the blazing, uninhabitable Danakil Desert, worm its way up jagged mountain gorges, cross fever-ridden swamps. Only chance for quick success depended on bribing the local Ethiopian satrap, Ras Yayou, who styles himself "Sultan of Aussa...
...victorious, permitted no confirmation or denial of its tribulations. Meanwhile, the Southern Army of properly-publicized General Rodolfo Graziani slogged up the banks of the Webbe Shibeli River in an unseasonable downpour until they came on a fortified Ethiopian post on a little mountain at Dagneri, 60 mi. into Ethiopia. Italian native troops delivered an old-fashioned charge, 14 of them to the death, took the hill, and back in Italy, newspapers blossomed with VITTORIA headlines...