Word: somalilanders
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With Premier Edouard Daladier about to make a swing around France's North African possessions to promote "empire solidarity," France's East African colonists in French Somaliland were suddenly thrown into a panic by reports that 80,000 Italian troops were about to march over the border from Italian East Africa (Eritrea, Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia) and seize the country. As long as 18 months ago, Paris colonial officials noted that detachments of Il Duce's troops had occupied areas on what was probably the French side of the ill-defined French Somaliland-Italian East African border...
...Indians paraded the streets of sweltering Djibouti with banners declaring We Don't Want to Suffer the Same Fate as Ethiopia the French Navy Ministry dispatched two warships to the scene. The Colonial Ministry sent a detachment of 650 Senegalese sharpshooters from Marseille to strengthen the little Somaliland garrison of 1,500 colonials...
...time L'lle Bourbon reached the Suez Canal, the women's arguments were as unbearably hot as the weather. Their bickering drove the senior radio operator and ship's doctor ashore at Djibouti. De Boers took aboard a doctor whom he found in French Somaliland. At Madagascar most of the white crew mutinied, and blacks were signed on in their places. Then the fractious expedition set off for frigid St. Paul...
...only be answered by a show of naked force. The French Cabinet last week answered it by ordering So first line French war planes to leave southern France, squadron after squadron, beginning October 27, for extensive maneuvers over all French possessions in Africa, including the Sahara Desert and French Somaliland as well as North Africa. After these war birds of Paris and the moderate Left have scared the Fascist daylights out of as much of French Africa as possible, the most potent bombers will fly on to impress Madagascar and finally French Indo-China...
...perfect (a slip-up meant being crucified), did not return to England to capitalize on his fame or to refute a new assortment of rumors that he had robbed a Cairo post office and murdered an Arab who saw through his disguise. Instead he headed an expedition into unmapped Somaliland. succeeded where five previous attempts had failed in reaching Harar, saved himself by a feat of flattery from being killed. On another expedition into Somaliland, one of his officers was killed, two were badly wounded and Burton got a spear through his cheek...