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Eastward the Cardinal's passage was almost regal. He inspected II Duce's colonial Massaua, dedicated a new.-cathedral at Port Said, unflinchingly visited lepers in Colombo, enjoyed receptions in Bombay and Singapore. But always during the 22 days the Conte Rosso sped eastward the ship's wireless brought disturbing word of the Holy Father's health. Fifteen years ago storms at sea kept Dennis Cardinal' Dougherty from taking part in the conclave which elected Pope Pius XI after the death of Benedict XV. Last month, honored though he was as the first...
Taking advantage of the rains, now drenching Ethiopia in earnest, Ethiopians last week set fire to an ammunition dump near Massaua, attacked Dessye in force and even hurled themselves against the capital, Addis Ababa, in a two-day series of suicidal infantry charges against machine guns and light artillery...
...bigwigs in Soviet America of tomorrow TIME gladly presents onetime Newsstand Buyer Edwards. Since July cargoes of Soviet wheat from Sebastopol, coal and coal tar from Nicolaiev, and oil from Batum have been regularly arriving at Massaua and Mogadishu, Italian war bases in Africa. Much Soviet oil is also being sold to Italy direct, as Communists paradoxically fuel the Fascist fleet...
...Flying from the cool mountains around Asmara to the steaming caldron of Massaua, Italy's Red Sea port, your correspondent, piloted by Count Galeazzo Ciano, son-in-law of Premier Benito Mussolini, saw something today of the tremendous preparations for Il Duce's drive into Ethiopia and found a new respect for the men working behind the lines. Il Duce's two flying sons, Victor and Bruno, were at the airport here at dawn today when the correspondent, flying from Khartum, in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, landed. Mussolini's kinsmen were screwing fuses into bombs, with comrades of lesser station...
Major Italian air bases have been increased from three to nine, air landing fields from ten to 26. At Massaua in Eritrea, the main Italian war base commanding Northern Ethiopia and uncomfortably close to British interests in the Sudan, war paraphernalia were being unloaded last week at the rate of 4,000 tons per day. Forty new Italian locomotives had just been unloaded and General de Bono was stepping up the strategic railway from Massaua to Asmara, increasing transportation facilities daily. Upland Asmara, few months ago a town of 4,500, last week was a teeming city...