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Died. Prince Amedeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, 43, ex-Governor General of Italian East Africa and Viceroy of Ethiopia; of tuberculosis; in Kenya Colony, East Africa. Mussolini's most ardent supporter in the House of Savoy, the tall, slim "Fascist Duke" was believed by many to have been given his African job as grooming for the Italian throne. But in Ethiopia he lost all but 17,000 of his 100,000 troops, surrendered to the British...
...building two runways, each a mile long; a radio station; underground gas tanks; a warehouse, loading sheds, etc. Right next to this field, and probably later to be included in it, is another one built by Air France for its Paris-Buenos Aires run. From it Savoia-Marchettis of the Italian Lati line this week still took off for Rome. A hulking Frenchman named Reynaud, in charge of this field, likes to remember how the big Air France boats used to go through every few days with gifts for him, fresh vegetables from Argentina, wine and fruit from Dakar. Since...
...tall young man stepped into the sunlight from the cavernous door of Fort Toselli above the unfinished cemetery. He was Prince Amadeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, Governor General of Italian East Africa, Viceroy of Ethiopia, and he had spent the night all alone in this echoing fort deep in the mountains of the Empire Rome had sent him to rule...
...poured a steel rain into Bardia. Aerial spotters reported the damage to supplies was heavy. The Italians admitted only one soldier killed, eleven wounded, by more than 300 shells. The British ships left for home as abruptly as they had come, and in due course two vengeful flights of Savoia bombers caught them up. Stick after stick of bombs plunged down, but all struck the sea. British fighters, claimed ten or eleven of the Savoias shot down. No Italian warships showed during the action, which the British said only proved once more their naval mastery in the eastern Mediterranean...
Against them moved Prince Amadeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, a lank, leathery, 42-year-old veteran of Italy's colonial service. Under his command were some 21,000 Savoy Grenadiers, seven legions of askaris* and a reserve of some 70,000 semi-trained labor troops. For the Somaliland venture he had 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...