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...outpost, road and wells. Motorized units on land engaged Italian advance units with the usual conflicting report of results. On the eastern Sudan front, British pressure by land and air was increased at Gallabat, Kassala and the roads to Italy's supply base, Gondar, in the Lake Tana region of Ethiopia...
Same day they took Kassala, the Italians moved in force on Gallabat, a Sudanese post important for its nearness to Gondar and the roads around Lake Tana to Addis Ababa. Last fortnight they also took Kurmuk, another border post, south of where the Blue Nile flows out of Ethiopia...
...Italians on their part, soon after entering the war, began advancing on the Sudan from the Abyssinian watershed where rise the Blue Nile and the Atbara River, around Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Fear of these streams' sources falling into Italian hands was one of the factors which undermined the famed Hoare-Laval Deal in 1935, whose adoption might have averted the Axis' being formed. Ethiopia became Italian anyway, and the threat to the vital water supply of Egypt and the Sudan was underscored by the Italian advance in this region...
Females: Abigail, Bela, Chinke, Driesel, Fradchen, Frommet, Gole, Hadassah, Hannacha, Hitzel, Jezebel, Judith, Libe, Mathel, Pesschen, Pessel, Pirle, Rachel, Rebekka, Rivka, Sara, Schlämche, Tana, Zipora...
...Ethiopian "bandits" go on "murdering" generals and bishops, The road-building fever has suddenly abated, throwing out of work 15,000 whites in a land of guerillas and flies, Africa will fix the white intruders and take care of her own in the long run. The cotton of Lake Tana has too short a fibre; the coffee of Harar costs more than Brazil; and it seems that King Tut and his gang sifted every grain of gold out of Ethiopia...