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Exactly what happened, and exactly where, may never be clear. In the sun-baked district of Ualual, claimed by Abyssinians to be 100 kilometers inside their frontier, and claimed by Italians to be in Italian Somaliland, an Italian force had to fight for the surprisingly long time of three days to disperse some Abyssinians. The Italians boasted that they killed , claimed to have been wantonly attacked. The Italian Minister at Addis Ababa demanded "indemnity and moral reparations." His Imperial Majesty Power of Trinity I, reputed descendant of King Solomon's Queen of Sheba, promptly flashed charges to Geneva that...
There has been no lack of pretexts in the past for encroachment by Italian colonists in Somaliland upon the rich cotton lands between them and their confreres in Libya. Always, however, they have been restrained by the protests of Great Britain and France. Now, however, the English objections have been withdrawn, probably because Italian expansion is considered less dangerous than French. It is also apparent that the Quai d'Orsay now feels that Abyssinia is of less importance than central Europe. When M. Laval calls upon Signor Mussolini this week, he will probably express his gratitude for support against German...
...Royal Italian Big-Game Hunt reached a glorious climax in the jungles of Italian Somaliland when King Vittorio Emanuele III brought down a bull elephant with a single shot...
...Italian Somaliland, Italy's straight little Vittorio Emanuele III landed from the royal yacht Savoia, dedicated a new fort on the boundary of envious Ethiopia, marched into the jungle on a big-game hunt...
...Northern Asturias police had raided a secret cache of arms and discovered a plot to overthrow the Republic. The arms came from the National factory at Toledo. They had been paid for by a rich financier with the good Basque name of Echevarietta, theoretically for shipment to French Somaliland. The guns seized in Asturias were only a small part of the order. Where were the others...