FALL OF MOGADISHU
ITALIAN OUTPOST OF EMPIRE. Mussolini must have gnashed his teeth at the fall of Mogadishu, seat of Government of Italian Somaliland and a proud Fascist “outpost of Empire.” He will no doubt recall the countless millions of lines spent on the colony during the past 15 years to put thousands of acres under cotton, to build 3.000 miles of roads, construct a railway to the hinterland, and to assist about 2,000 settlers. The uncaptured portions of the colony consist of scrub and thorn plains, “never, never country,” neither worth defending nor invading. The Duke of Aosta, Viceroy of Abyssinia, told the Duce “we will hold out somehow.” For what, and with what?
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1941, Page 7
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115FALL OF MOGADISHU Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1941, Page 7
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