Word: somaliland
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...have rival dogs-Sir Andrew a Scotty, Alan an Airedale. Last week the younger Cunningham turned up as a rival in the honors of war as well: as Lieut. General Cunningham, commander of the spectacular British assault which last week resulted in the capture of Mogadiscio, capital of Italian Somaliland...
...took them two months to force a crossing of the crucial Juba River, 100 miles from British Kenya; then it took them only two days to dash 200 miles more from the Juba to Mogadiscio. In the exploit they claimed more than 9,000 captives. Having lost British Somaliland (68,000 square miles) last August, and now having virtually won. Italian Somaliland (194,000 square miles), the British were, as ever, pleased but not given to overstatement. Comment of British military spokesman in Cairo: "Quite a nice exchange; we now have a Somaliland that is slightly better than...
...little more. By last week, British and South Africans had chased the Italians as far as the Juba River, which before the transfer marked the boundary between Italian and British colonies. If the British could establish bridgeheads beyond the Juba, their toughest job in the invasion of Italian Somaliland would be done. Gradually, through the week, the British loosed the Italians' hold on defense positions in front of the Juba. They forced two crossings a few miles upriver from the coast. At week's end the British jubilantly announced the capture of Jumbo, a port at the river...
NAIROBI, Kenya--Italy's hold on southern Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland has been "doomed," British quarters said tonight, by the capture of the Somaliland capital of Mogadiscio in a British land, sea, and air assault climaxing one of the swiftest victories...
Biggest British gains of the week in East Africa came 1,150 miles south of Cheren in Italian Somaliland. South African forces covered 70 miles in two days, pushed into Chisimaio on the tepid Indian Ocean. Supported by the Royal Navy and the South African Air Force, these blistered fighters were all set to start up the 250-mile coastal road to the capital city of Magadiscio...