Word: mogadiscio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tallest tales. They even have rival dogs-Sir Andrew a Scotty, Alan an Airedale. Last week the younger Cunningham turned up as a rival in the honors of war as well: as Lieut. General Cunningham, commander of the spectacular British assault which last week resulted in the capture of Mogadiscio, capital of Italian Somaliland...
...them. Hit them hard, and hit them again." They did, and did again. It took them two months to force a crossing of the crucial Juba River, 100 miles from British Kenya; then it took them only two days to dash 200 miles more from the Juba to Mogadiscio. In the exploit they claimed more than 9,000 captives. Having lost British Somaliland (68,000 square miles) last August, and now having virtually won. Italian Somaliland (194,000 square miles), the British were, as ever, pleased but not given to overstatement. Comment of British military spokesman in Cairo: "Quite...
...crossings a few miles upriver from the coast. At week's end the British jubilantly announced the capture of Jumbo, a port at the river's mouth which, they said, assured their crossings, sewed up southern Jubaland, and made their advance on the province's capital, Mogadiscio, a far easier...
NAIROBI, Kenya--Italy's hold on southern Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland has been "doomed," British quarters said tonight, by the capture of the Somaliland capital of Mogadiscio in a British land, sea, and air assault climaxing one of the swiftest victories...
...Kenya Colony to include Fort Polignac on Lake Rudolf in the north and Buna, a British air base 60 miles south of Moyale, one of the preliminary keys to the capture of Nairobi. The British retorted with a satisfying raid by the South African Air Force, which swooped on Mogadiscio, main port of Italian Somaliland, and blasted "hundreds" of military trucks assembled there for the Kenya push...