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...Bono, one of the Big Four of the March on Rome and now Governor General of Italy's East African colonies, sent to Rome the first precise report on what has been done in the past six months to turn sleepy little ports in Eritrea and Italian Somaliland into deadly advance war bases...
...French Somaliland, next door to bristling Italian Eritrea, the French naval sloop Dumont d'Urville, mounting five and one-half inch guns, ominously arrived last week, anchored to command the French harbor of Djibouti, connected by rail with Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa. All week freight cars from Addis Ababa were jam-packed with goods shipped out by frightened foreign merchants in Ethiopia who closed their stores, hoped to keep their goods in storage on French soil until better times. French Premier Pierre Laval, realizing the extreme delicacy of French Somaliland's situation, appointed last week...
...Italy was, as she is today, attempting to wrest a colonial empire from Ethiopia. Then as now, domestic difficulties lay behind the military operations. After several years out of office, Francesco Crispi had staged a strong comeback as Premier of Italy. The new Italian colonies of Eritrea and Somaliland had just been established on the African coast. Though France and Russia were secretly negotiating with Haile Selassie's granduncle, the potent Emperor Menelik, many chiefs questioned his authority and seemed willing Italian allies. Early in the summer of 1895 Premier Crispi had called the new Governor of Eritrea, General...
...come around and get the League formula. It provides that the totally deadlocked Italo-Ethiopian conciliation commission shall again discuss whether Italians or Ethiopians fired the first shots of the Ualual Incident (TIME, Dec. 24), but shall not discuss the real issue of whether Ualual is in Italian Somaliland, as Italians claim, or in Ethiopia, as Ethiopians maintain. While this is going on Italy, France and Britain will negotiate about Ethiopia among themselves and totally outside the League of Nations on the basis of their Treaty of 1906, unrecognized by Ethiopia and said to provide for the division of Ethiopia...
Chicago's high-spirited Tribune, having announced that it will no longer maintain a correspondent in Rome to "take government handouts" (TIME, June 24), last week obtained from Correspondent Will Barber in Djibouti, French Somaliland, a lurid account of what goes on in neighboring Italian Eritrea as the Dictator's forces get ready to fight after the summer rains...