Word: ethiopia
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From the land that was once Ethiopia and is now part of Italian East Africa, Italy up to last week had launched two drives into British colonies-one southward into Kenya, the other westward into the Sudan. Neither had got very far last week when Italy launched a third-into British Somaliland...
...Mandeb ("gate to the mandate"). To defend Somaliland, Britain had the Camel Corps, originally formed by British Marine officers to hunt Mohammed bin Abdullah, the "Mad Mullah" who for 20 years (1900-20) carried on a religious revolt until R. A. F. bombing planes drove him into Ethiopia. Chief gain for Italy in driving Britain from Somaliland would be prestige among the Arab peoples...
Italy's plan to join her eastern and north central holdings in Africa at Britain's expense rests secondarily on her efforts to enlarge the borders of her most recently acquired and indigestible piece of African pie: Ethiopia. Viceroy there and Governor General of Italian East Africa is the ablest member of the Royal Family, Prince Amedeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, first cousin of King Vittorio Emanuele. Into his 42 years this dynamic Duke has packed a great deal of colonial service and fighting in Tripoli, the Sahara, Ethiopia, incognito in the Belgian Congo. Lean and tall...
Same day they took Kassala, the Italians moved in force on Gallabat, a Sudanese post important for its nearness to Gondar and the roads around Lake Tana to Addis Ababa. Last fortnight they also took Kurmuk, another border post, south of where the Blue Nile flows out of Ethiopia...
...Italians on their part, soon after entering the war, began advancing on the Sudan from the Abyssinian watershed where rise the Blue Nile and the Atbara River, around Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Fear of these streams' sources falling into Italian hands was one of the factors which undermined the famed Hoare-Laval Deal in 1935, whose adoption might have averted the Axis' being formed. Ethiopia became Italian anyway, and the threat to the vital water supply of Egypt and the Sudan was underscored by the Italian advance in this region...