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The end of the war meant that AB could go ahead with his plans for expansion. Demobilisation eased the staff position; quite a number of young men were taken on during the winter. The firm’s letter heading in early 1919 shows that the Yemeni agencies — Hodeida and Mokha — had been re-opened, and that, on the African side, the firm was established in Djibouti, Zeila, Bulhar, Berbera, Addis Abeba, Diredawa, Harrar, Mogadiscio, Merca, Brava, Itala, Mahaddei and Baidoa. AB’s forthcoming trip to Europe intended to initiate more far reaching developments.
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Footman, D. (1986). Stoner. In: Antonin Besse of Aden. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07731-1_6
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