Word: gallabat
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...Emperor Haile Selassie, sending word to tribesmen in the fastnesses of captive Ethiopia that the day of liberation, castration and feasting was at hand. The British had no major force to spare for a strong thrust at the 100,000 Italians cut off from home in Ethiopia, but at Gallabat, Kassala and down in Italian Somaliland they delivered jabs and jolts. In a swift raid they seized El Wak, across Kenya's east border, took 120 prisoners, seized or burned important Italian supplies...
...supply road along the coast, British naval units last week hove up and shelled the new 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...
Paramount in Great Britain's grand war strategy is knocking out Italy first, then coping with Hitler. This program began to show in sharp outline last fortnight when the British Middle East forces reoccupied Gallabat and took Italian prisoners near Kassala on the eastern Sudan front-when they struck by air at Naples, Brindisi, Durazzo and Valona from new air footholds in Crete (see p. 23), causing consternation in Rome and loud stories about the Pope's new air-raid shelter...
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...
...rate was boosted from 26? a word to 68?. Should the wireless station be destroyed by Italian bombers, correspondents can use the telegraph line which follows the country's only railroad into French Somaliland. Should both wireless and telegraph be destroyed, dispatches can be sent by runners to Gallabat, in the Sudan, or by chartered plane to the British cable station at Khartoum, 500 mi. from Addis Ababa...