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Other Italian papers charged that a certain Lieut.-Colonel Clifford from British Somaliland has said that Ethiopia's Emperor is willing to place his country under British protection for 25 years as the best insurance against Italy's designs...
...stop that. Nineteenth Century Britain was content to discipline Abyssinia in hard-fought border skirmishes. Since then she has acquired peaceably what she wants most in the country: control of Lake Tsana, source of the Blue Nile and life blood of the thriving Sudan cotton fields. Djibouti in French Somaliland is the port of entry for all Abyssinia, and France already controls the only railroad in the country, that between Djibouti and Addis Ababa. There is little reason for her to waste men and money in the country. But France and Britain have one most distinct reason for wishing some...
Practical. 1) Italy's two East African colonies, Eritrea and Italian Somaliland, are unconnected except by the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. As early as 1906, France and Britain gave her permission to build a railroad through Abyssinia to connect the two. Only a military expedition will make it possible...
...Belgium. II Duce's air-tight censorship continued to obscure what, if anything, the 75,000 troops he has sent to Africa (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.) are doing. Last week 100,000 Abyssinian troops were supposed to have been sent slogging down through the mud toward Italian Somaliland. In Addis Ababa the wart, smart Emperor of Abyssinia received guests while fondling three cocker spaniels given him in happier times by Italy's Little King, announced that this week Abyssinia will arraign Italy before he League Council...
...days after the Vulcania embarked, the Biancamano set sail from Sicily, bound for Somaliland, with 100 officers, 2,600 soldiers and quantities of supplies including motor trucks, artillery and motorized artillery...