Italy Preparing East Africa Supplies Flowing Into Fortified PortThe scene on the quayside at Massowah, Eritrea - Italy's fortified port - showing the piles of supplies that is being unloaded from ships.Provisions, guns, carriages and hardware are now pouring into the Italian port of Massowah, Eritrea, in a steady stream as Italy throws more and more of her resources into provisioning and equipping the thousands upon thousands of soldiers that she is sending cut there. August 30, 1935. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).