An item dated Port Saïd 2 October reported that the Italian troop transport Saturnia wich on board the duke of Bergamo arrived that day and that five other transports with totally 13,500 men were expected within short time.(1)
Note
1. In 1936 became Eritrea, Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland part of the Italian province Italian East Africa or Africa Orientale Italiana. The Ethiopian Empire (also referred to as Abyssinia) was just before captured by Italy during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War between October 1935 and May 1936. Eritrea was since 1 January 1890 an Italian colony after the Italian invasion in Ethiopia in which Italy was defeated.