Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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NAIROBI, Kenya--Italy's hold on southern Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland has been "doomed," British quarters said tonight, by the capture of the Somaliland capital of Mogadiscio in a British land, sea, and air assault climaxing one of the swiftest victories...
...with newly invented magnesium-thermite bombs. But the German Army's situation was then so desperate that the high command felt such horror would win them only harsher peace terms. Magnesium-thermite bombs, now raining on British cities, were first used extensively in the Italian invasion of Ethiopia in 1936. But, says Zanetti, no new incendiary types have been invented since 1918, nor are new types very likely to appear. Other pyrofacts...
With Agordat in their possession, the British were set to cut off Northern Eritrea and eventually squeeze Ethiopia. Against the day when the Ethiopian squeeze might be applied, Negus Haile Selassie and Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, a slim lad of 24 who divorced his wife be ause her father submitted to the Italians, rallied their compatriots...
Land patrols based on Kenya continued to raid small Italian outposts in Ethiopia and elsewhere in Italian Somaliland. The South African air force bombed and machine-gunned forts and military buildings, and helped seize several vital waterholes...
Italy's war in Ethiopia and her Spanish blunders provided him invaluable information, and the construction of Italian highways through Albania to the Greek frontier revealed Mussolini's plan of conquest...