Chicago's high-spirited Tribune, having announced that it will no longer maintain a correspondent in Rome to "take government handouts" (TIME, June 24), last week obtained from Correspondent Will Barber in Djibouti, French Somaliland, a lurid account of what goes on in neighboring Italian Eritrea as the Dictator's forces get ready to fight after the summer rains.
Excerpts: "The only people getting rich out of this affair are the British, who are selling water; Arab sailors, who have brought their dhows [native sailboats] in clusters from all other Red Sea ports for use...
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