Word: somalilands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Africa had resolved themselves into one campaign-an encirclement of Addis Ababa. When he took Ethiopia, Benito Mussolini's strategy was to send his main attack (Marshals De Bono and Badoglio) southward from Eritrea, and to meet it with a smaller containing attack (General Graziani) northward from Italian Somaliland. This time the British strategy was to bottle as many troops as possible in Eritrea and then converge on Addis Ababa from the northwest and south. The main British attack came from the south...
From Italian Somaliland, up across the savannas, a British force last week advanced to near Giggiga, from which a road leads 50 miles to Harar, thence to the railway from the sea to Addis Ababa...
...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...