Perilously Long Supply Line In Ethiopia Seen By British As Italy's Chief Worry
British observers call the East African supply route to Addis Ababa Italy's main weak point in the campaign against Ethiopia. A 3,000 mile line from Eritrea to ports risks collapse if the Suez Canal closes, with disease, terrain, and enemy action threatening transport and food for 250,000 troops. HistoricalNapier reference notes past losses and suggests only a fraction would reach the capital.
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Ethiopia
Italy
Associated Press
London
Oct
Musessini
Eritrea
Suez Canal
Mussolini
Asmara
Addis Ababa
Italy Contemplates Ethiopia War Costs and Food Strain
A leading Italian general staff report to Mussolini warned that a week break could push an army toward starvation, with no local ammo or industry and reliance on Italian supplies. It forecast half a million troops over 8 to 10 years to subjugate Ethiopia at prohibitive cost.
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Ethiopia
Robert Napier
Emperor Theodore
Napier
Red Sea
Italy
Mussolini
Duce
Two men killed by auto near Sissonville West Virginia
In Sissonville West Virginia on October 18 an automobile struck and killed Lester Young aged 23 and Ernest Lanham aged 26 as they walked along the highway. State police launched a search for the driver.
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Associated Press
Sissonville
W. Va
Lester Young
Ernest Lanham
Waldo Senior Music Club Elects New Officers
Oak Hill West Virginia Waldo Senior Music Club closes its fiscal year with officer elections. New president Louise Tully and other posts chosen. lesson featured composer. delegate named for Princeton convention October 26. Also notes missionary Circle 3 of Methodist church and Garden Club meeting details.
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Waldo Senior Music Club
Freda Martin
Louise Tully
Vonah James Elliott
Thelda Jackson
Louise Baumgartner
Princeton
Margaret Lively
National Federation of Music Clubs
Methodist Church
L. E. Richmond
B. C. Peters
British airman killed in Lincolnshire air crash
London Oct. 18 Pilot Nevill Fisher aged 21, son of Admiral Sir William Fisher, commander in chief of Britain's Mediterranean fleet, was killed yesterday in an air crash at Brauncewell Lincolnshire.
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Associated Press
London
Nevill Fisher
Sir William Fisher
Great Britain
Brauncewell
Lincolnshire
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