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...flank of Italy's main army of the north with its spearhead at Makale, they had gone where no white men had ever gone before, skirting the blazing Danakil Desert, then up over the bitter cold highlands facing the Derdega Mountains. One thing General Mariotti knew: Degiac Kassa Sebat was ahead of him with an indefinite number of well-armed Ethiopians and he would attack as soon as the Italian column got near enough. The gorge seemed a likely place, for a ridge ran straight across it about 200 yards ahead...
...ticket-taker, Vincent Pecha was well thought of in his own country. To protest his arrest, Czechoslovak officials halted the Budapest-Kassa train service. Not to be outdone, Hungarian vacationists left Czechoslovak resorts, cancelled reservations at Tatra and Karlsbad, prepared to drink their August sulphur water in Germany instead. Prague newspapers cried for further reprisals to obtain the release of Pecha, talked headily of war. Hungarian authorities, convinced of Pecha's guilt, did nothing but hold their prisoner, prepared...