Word: kassala
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Despite the rainy season and heavy British air raids on their bases, the Italians attacked at four places along their 2,000-mile fiunt from the Red Sea to the Indiaa Ocean. On July 5, with artillery, bombing; planes, tanks and 3,000 Askari troops they assailed and took Kassala. Railhead for the line to Port Sudan, Kassala is the eastern gateway (Khartoum the western) for the Sudan's rich cotton plantations. It commands the valley of the Atbara River, a Nile tributary down which an army would move to strike at Egypt and Suez from the south. Last...