Word: ronchetti
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...Italian commander, Colonel Ronchetti, incurred no active resistance; the Senussites are familiar enough with European armaments to realize their hopeless impotence. Italian-censored radio despatches declared that the Senussite chieftains performed the ceremony of submission while the Italian flag was unfurled from a specially imported staff. Later, Colonel Ronchetti appointed the Sherif Pasha el Gariani custodian of the Senussites' holy places...