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...Germany has so far used no gas, possibly because of its effect on U. S. public opinion, but her gas factories are reported working full and overtime. There is no documented proof that gas has been used in world warfare since Italian troops spewed it against barefooted Ethiopian warriors in 1936 (reported fatalities about 500). Yet gas is a potent weapon (it caused more than 1,000,000 of the 37,513,886 casualties of World War I, was responsible for about one-third of all A. E. F. hospital cases), may still be used in World...
Reynolds Packard, United Press manager in Italy and correspondent in the Ethiopian and Spanish wars, reported from the fighting that he personally saw Italian forces penetrate Greece at a number of points in some instance for "many miles"--and that he was convinced the Greeks had not entered Albania at any point. Italian operations were handicapped last week by rain and mud, Packard said, but now were advancing in force along the entire front...
...cross between the Montana badlands and Death Valley. Except in the mountains near the coast, which rise as high as 6,500 ft. in a wall behind Berbera, it rains only 2½ inches per year. In July and August a hot, dry monsoon blows from the blazing Ethiopian hinterland. Nothing grows in British Somaliland except thorn trees, dense dry "bush" and tough desert fodder to keep alive the nomadic natives' herds of sheep, goats, camels, ostriches...
Haile Selassie's field general outside his; captive country, charged with rousing and arming Ethiopian exiles in Kenya, the Sudan and the border hills, is Ras Birru, a, fierce, black-wooled little general who fought the Italians under Haile Selassie's late War Minister Ras Mulugheta and refused to surrender even when urged by Haile Selassie's turncoat son-in-law, Ras, Gugsa, who still governs the Tigrai region in the north...
Another element in the native Ethiopian. revolt against Italy was to have been the Mohammedans, who comprise one-fifth of all Ethiopians. Stronghold of the black. Moslems is Harar, near French and British. Somaliland. A son of the late Islamic Leader Lij Yasu, who took refuge from the Italians in Djibouti, was to have led this; uprising, but France's surrender damped! the project. Last fortnight an armistice, commission ended Djibouti's state of siege,, opened to Italy its terminal of the strategic: railroad to Addis Ababa. But even without above-ground leadership, the Islamic followers...