Thursday - Sail from Naples to the Red Sea transport America (commander, captain of ship Joseph Palumbo) with on board Lieutenant General Alessandro Asinari of San Marzano appointed Superior Commander in Africa, his command and 700 troops and materials to land in Massaua the November 8.
It is the first contingent of troops of the Special Body of Africa which, upon completion of the arrivals and with the departments already in place, will form an operational mass of about 20.000 men, of which 3000 are indigenous, with 38 pieces of artillery and the landing companies of ships on the spot.
[The following day, the 28, the cistern Tevere (commander, vessel lieutenant Giuseppe Manusardi) leaves Naples for Massaua who will reach 9 November. In Massaua the water supply of the population and the military garrison, much increased with the latest arrivals from Italy, requires in addition to the distillery Europe ship equipped with two Normandy distillers of 65 t / day water production capacity, two British ships chartered, Mangarw and International, each capable of producing an average of 100 t / day and two cisterns, Tevere and Magra, capable of 230 and 50 t respectively used as pumping stations in masonry tanks or tanks mounted on decauville railway wagons serving stations]
