Word: somaliland
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...Benito Mussolini was concerned last week, his colonies of Eritrea, Italian Somaliland and newly-conquered Ethiopia ceased to exist separately. With swift strokes he divided his East African domain into five autonomous provinces under the supervision of Viceroy Pietro Badoglio in the new capital, Addis Ababa. The new provinces and their capitals: Eritrea (Asmara); Amhara (Gondar); Harar (Harar), Somaliland (Mogadiscio); Galla & Sidamo (Gimma). Il Duce also promised religious freedom to Moslems of his domain, returned the Ethiopian Coptic Christian Church to its old Egyptian affiliation...
...just approved by the Grand Council. Besides the complete annexation of Ethiopia and the proclamation of the King as Emperor, it provided that Ethiopia was to be ruled by a Governor General with the title of Vice roy who will also have authority over the Governors of Eritrea and Somaliland. First Viceroy of Ethiopia: Marshal of Italy, Cavaliere Pietro Badoglio, Marquis of Sabotino...
This message severely reminded Italy of the 1906 treaty guaranteeing French rights in Ethiopia, notably the French railroad from Addis Ababa to Djibouti in French Somaliland.* Last week Italian soldiers were swarming all over this tidy French investment, giving orders to indignantly vociferous French engineers (see p. 23). Did Italy propose, M. Flandin asked, to maintain the "open door" in Ethiopia as France has done in French Morocco...
...round-trip flights from Paris to Oslo, Tunis and Oran, Algeria, a four-stop flight from France to French Indo-China. The awards for Italy were divided among Mario Stoppani and two others. Stoppani set a seaplane distance record of 3,103 miles between Trieste and Berbera in British Somaliland...
...Somaliland front at Wadara the reconnaissance has found and taken the entire Swedish field hospital encampment . . . mounted on five trucks with Red Cross flags and insignia. The cars also contained 27 cases of munitions...