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...dogs. But what he likes best is to fight battles on land. This time, as commander of the newly designated Eighth Imperial Army, he had a whopper on his hands. Lieut. General Cunningham's fame is young: last spring he drove 1,500 miles from Kenya, through Italian Somaliland and the Ethiopian desert right to Addis Ababa, reaching the capital faster than other British columns with far shorter distances to go. His name is almost always bracketed with his succinct Order of the Day before that march: "Hit them. Hit them hard and hit them again...
Vichy announced: The British and Free French are invading Vichy Somaliland; they have sent two columns from Eritrea toward the strategic port of Djibouti...
...Governor of Somaliland: After advancing on the town of Tadjoura, the columns are rapidly retreating toward Eritrea...
Clue to the invasion, supplied by the Somaliland radio: A band of askaris made a raid to steal a flock of sheep and goats, failed...
...French Somaliland was near the end of its tether. Last week Vichy, pleading for U.S. food for Djibouti, tried desperately to enlist U.S. sympathy for the victims of the brutal British. The British had their own tale of brutality. Djibouti's Vichyfrench authorities, they said, were driving natives out of the colony and into the encircling British lines at guns' point, shooting them if they tried to return...