Asmara - nerve centre of Italian campaign in the North.

Asmara - nerve centre of Italian campaign in the North. This picture, taken from an Italian military plane, is one of the few aerial views made of Asmara, the important base in Eritrea and "nerve centre" of the Italian campaign in the northern front. All supplies and munitions for the troops pass through the town, which is on the railway line from Massawa, the Eritrean port on the Red Sea. The native quarter, with its queer-shaped huts built with geometrical precision in long parallel lines, is on the outskirts of the city. At bottom right army transport lorries are lined up before they left with supplies for the war front.