An item referred to the newspaper Morning Post which reported that tidings from Port Saïd mentioned the arrival of 8 transports with totally 9,000 men on board underway to East Africa.(1) Coming from Eritrea arrived on Saturday and Sunday the Belvedère and the Sargenia with 600 wounded from the fights near Adoea and who were to be transported to the Dodecanesus.
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.
