Many a sailor shanghaied at Aden, has been carried round Cape Guardafui, easternmost point of Africa, and down its coast to Zanzibar, without ever knowing that after passing the Cape he sailed for 1,000 miles past the Italian protectorate of Somaliland.
Ignorance of this protectorate is not confined to seafarers. Last week numerous geographies were thumbed as Italy reported that she was sending troops to dominate the northern part of this region, after having contented herself with asserting actual authority only in the south during the 36 years of her régime.
Historians recalled that...
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