An item dated New York 20 July reported that Italy bought recently in Greece a large number of ships and now gain five in the USA to be used as transports.(1)
Note
1. The morning edition of the newspaper Het Vaderland reported the departure of troop transports from Naples to East Africa. 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.
