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Destruction was not halted until 150 sq. mi. had been burned to a crisp in four days, nearly ten millions in damage done...
...South. Fighting was fiercer, Italian progress more impressive. Troops under command of General Rudolfo Graziani were stretched not 60 but 400 mi. on a "provincewide front" from the Webbe Shibeli almost to the borders of British Somaliland. Fierce nests of Ethiopian sharpshooters and unseasonable rains that bogged tanks and trucks hub-deep had held up the southern advance for days, but now Italian troops, moving again in three columns, had crossed over half the Ogaden Desert, were drawing closer & closer to Harar, chief stronghold of Ras Nassibu, commander of the Ethiopian armies of the south in Ogaden. Scouting planes zooming...
Sure enough, embattled farmers rose last week, capturing Hsiangho 40 mi. from Peiping, and besieging Yungching west of Tientsin. When General Shang dispatched two companies of Chinese soldiers to quell the rebels, Japanese officials flew into a rage, thundered that the rebels were in the official "demilitarized zone" set up after the Tangku Truce (TIME, June 5, 1933), and therefore could not be touched by Chinese soldiers who must not enter it. Down sat the two companies of Chinese on the opposite bank of a canal from the demilitarized zone, within sound of the shooting rebels & ronin...
Howland and Baker, 25 mi. apart, are some 1,100 mi. due west of Jarvis. Howland was first sighted by Captain George E. Netcher out of New Bedford in 1842. Fifteen years later the U. S. S. St. Mary's formally took the islands for the U. S. What, then, was all the official secrecy about in reclaiming this land? The answer seemed to lie in a brand new factor in Pacific diplomacy: transoceanic airlines...
...they are victorious, permitted no confirmation or denial of its tribulations. Meanwhile, the Southern Army of properly-publicized General Rodolfo Graziani slogged up the banks of the Webbe Shibeli River in an unseasonable downpour until they came on a fortified Ethiopian post on a little mountain at Dagneri, 60 mi. into Ethiopia. Italian native troops delivered an old-fashioned charge, 14 of them to the death, took the hill, and back in Italy, newspapers blossomed with VITTORIA headlines...