"Preparations we saw in military centres, factories, and dockyards of the British Isles and, we may add, in the soul of the British are proof that the struggle will be prolonged. The fight will continue to the bitter end because the Allies feel they are defending a cause that is most natuřal, the rights and honour of humanity."
The "Berne Basler" states: "The British Air Force's exploits are sublime. -It is not wishful thinking of British official statements that the Air Force is qualitatively greatly superior to the German. Quantitative Superiority will follow as a result of new air armaments plus American orders. The Allied fleet losses hardly orter into consideration and the retreat from Flanders proved the air arm did not master sea power.
"The French Army, the British Navy, the British Air Force are practically intact."—Reuter. was still residing at Bath, Twenty thousand Italian troops were said to be concentrating on the opposite side of the border in Ethiopia.
These troops were described as comprising mostly native Askaris from Eritrea and Somaliland, with Libyan camel corps and Ethiopian cavalry, The latter group was said to be commanded by a personal enemy of the Negus.
The 'Ethiopian troops in Kenya were presumably remnants of the Negus' army, which fled across the border in the spring of 1936 and
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