On the Abyssinian Border
Moyale, where persistent fighting between British and Italian forces has been reported for some time, and which has now been evacuated, is one of the small posts on the frontier between Kenya and Abyssinia. The country is waterless and rocky and any force there would have to carry its supplies of food and ammunition, The British air base nearest Moyale is Nairobi, in Kenya Colony, some hundreds of miles away. Great areas of Kenya, where it meets Abyssinia in the north and Italian Somaliland on the East, consist of tracts of desert and mountain, cut through with dry water4 courses,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 57, 26 July 1940, Page 3
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