Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1948 — Page 12

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most 5000 feet above sea level, in According to recent-figures the; tribal fork of social organiza-tained a lively trade with what a healthy area. By contrast, the country’s 104,000 square miles— tion. now is Italian Somaliland. lowlands aré very hot and in-|about twice the size of Wyoming Since the Mohammedan re- NEXT: The of fested with malaria. The port of |<—are inhabited by « little over a|ligion, with its all-embracing] yp... . he vital problem Assab, in the country’s southern-| million people. Of these, Italiani hold on its followers, is wide- — most tip, was Italy's first colonial|settlers number not more than|spread in these areas the Com- y “In this article, second of a |Possession, 15,000, the rest being natives. munist doctrine is not likely to piri series om Italy's former pos. | In 1896, 39 years before Benito| Like Eritrea, Italian Somali- RELIEVE sessions, Dr. Byng, well known Mussolini used Eritrea as a base|land concentrates almost entirely expert oit"international affaires, for invading Ethiopia, Tealy 2 on agriculture and livestock rais-| the old belief that King Solo‘the significance plied the same strategy in its first|ing. mon’s caravans brought their : LENE to hy One week deli Italy’s former East-African — attempt to conquer that country.| . The natives of both these for-| precious loads of frankincense Eh ; in your size and pattern. onies, Eritrea and Italian | But in the decisive battle of mer Italian possessions are cul-| from Arabian ports which main- : Somaliland, for the present in- [Adowa in the same year, Em-|turally far behind those of Italy's (et . h ternational situation. {peror Menelik of Ethiopia, then former North African colony of Lyman ros., ne. - {known as Abyssinia, Completely Libya. The latter are largely of about half the area of Maine, is{wiped out the Italian expedition}. stock and have formed part inhabited by 800,000 natives and ary force of 12,000. of the pattern of Arab eciviliza- Alkalizes 31 On the Circle MA. 7437 60,000 Italians. The population’s| Like Eritrea, Italian Somali-|tion for 13 centuries. livelihood is derived mainly from land combines international stra-| By contrast, the people of Eriagriculture and the raising of tegic significance of the first|trea and Somaliland have much livestock. magnitude with relative econemic| African Negro blood, and have The capital, Asmara, lies al- unimportance. largely retained the primitive

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