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From Italian Somaliland, up across the savannas, a British force last week advanced to near Giggiga, from which a road leads 50 miles to Harar, thence to the railway from the sea to Addis Ababa...
...other spurs drove in for the encirclement. This week the British announced that a naval force had made a landing and captured Berbera, capital of British Somaliland. While this did not mean that all British Somaliland was again in British hands, it did mean that the column advancing on Harar was comparatively free to go ahead without fear of being hit on the flank. The Italians were expected to resist at Harar. If the British could break that resistance, they could probably go on to Addis Ababa without taking Cheren. But now they will have to hurry, for in about...
...ample aircraft, tanks, armored trucks and mobile light artillery for three mobile columns, totaling perhaps 10,000 men, which he set into motion last week. One column moved across the torrid, sandy coastal plain from Djibouti to Zeila. The other two, crossing the border by the road east from Harar and Giggiga, struck at Hargeisa and Oadweina-shack towns used by herdsmen and caravans as watering and market places...
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...
...valley about 70 miles from. Addis Ababa, but he slithered away by-night. A good guess is that Abebe Arragia has been of no small help to Britain's Royal Camel Corps (now mechanized) ia raids over the Somaliland border toward Italy's supply lines through Giggiga, Harar, Dire Dawa...