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Calm was gone. Newspapers, were delivered after the censor hadi Įdone: his work "upon them. The [papers were slashed, the offending {articles" had been removed.. The price, however, remained the same. And broadcasts from a near-by commitry "could be heard on lond speakers
To Britain, according to the people. Malta was of even less im-) portance than Gibraltar. Gibral Įtat, true enough, was useless; but Malta was worse than useles
This, they said in the square, was obviously the decision of thei [Government. At the first sign of ja hostile 'plane every ship in the jharbour would have to put to sea, there to be an easy mark for destruction.
on posters, Was
Warships At Port Said
The jury in the Federal Court in Halste, New York, turned loose Dutch Schalts, the New York racketeer mogul, and 'won his `- -appreciative. smile (inset), but underwaźlders. who knew him
best did him in, in a Newark, New Jersey-saloon, in the manner - depicted here.
Our Best Ambassadors
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„Britain_had lost her standing as 12 Mediterranean Power With Gibraltar and Malta gone, and thanks entirely to Britain's Qunilateral efforts towards disarma- ment, the Empire shrank to the
cases for doctors, more plain, or- |dimensions of the United Kingdom.
The remainder is an honest ac-dinary half-trained soldiers would Her trade was at the mercy of an owledgment of faith in Britain. have to be acclimatised and nursed who cared to sink her ships Malta would shortly become the The men from the ships are am-until they were fit for those hills, bassadors; they bring testimony to those deserts, those waterless areas possession of another Power.
The Mediterranean, beautiful as the goodwill and watchfulness of that gave access to Eden.
Disillusion, it seemed could go! it might be, attractive as it looked the Government.
Those ports, whose in reality the On the other hand, it is perhaps no further. graveyard of British shipping. No as well that the simple Italian development has been sudden, and ship would be allowed to pass soldiers on their way to glory do out of all proportion to the needs without running the gauntlet of not understand the salutation in of Eritrea, were dead places-dead offensive action. The Goverment Arabic that comes to them from and dried Djibouti would remain. The paraders the gateway to the prosperous, fer- was of two minds, and, being of passing workmen. two minds, had no plan, no weight, on the bank do understand; and a tile places.
little trouble sometimes ensues.
The French, obviously, were not no promise of security.
But what was good enough for worrying much. They had faith the Egyptian was by no
(in something; but what? In the It was a relief to sail from that good enough for the cosmopolitans League's ability to prevent unto- harbour of men who waited for the at the gate of the
seaward happenings? Hardly, if the worst, and to catch the first ray of The Italian flag dominated the people of Djibouti were to be be hope by passing HMS. Despatch Canal. and EMS. Resolution as we en-
Two ships they said. "A tered Port Said. They looked
few mines or half a submarine casually efficient, there at the en-could account for them. trance to the port, governing the caught napping!"
Yet what was one sloop, ORE Suez Canal
Apparently all British influence feeble, modern China station sloop, It was 80 Port Said, naturally, had its own in Egypt was caded. Then what to defend Djibouti? itale to tell, its own evidence of Port Sudan?
useless; they said that their Gov- produce. The town is not what it
There at least, in splendid nen-rument, too, had nothing to say. was. It is no longer the world's trality, there might be something The colony was useless worst, and therefore most enter
Fatalisa encouraging. taining, place. Mustapha Abd eldercurrent of uneasiness. HMS. The undemonstrative, menthu- Ati will tell you with a grin that Hastings had been refloated only siastic fataliam of Abyssinia was the English cleaned it up, and it
There. has never recovered. He will tell our or two before we arrived, better than such pestizzism.
and HMS. Penzance was standing at least, preparedness meant very you, as he did us, what EMS.
by. Still, as the officials remark-little. they would do what they Resolution can do if she feels so ed, a ship and a bit were better would, with what they had. Un- inclined
than none; but in the same Breath civilised? Probably; but not fret Here was the first bit of real they told us that there were fast ting. Those barefooted irregulars enthusiasm we had encountered cruisers lower down the coast able armed with knives and spears went It came strangely from an Egypto out-steam and out-range the out against machine guns and tian who, in his heart of hearts guard-boats if necessary.
It howitzers without cursing the Gov- had long nursed cultivated
wouldn't be battle; it would be ernment for its lack of preparation. grudge against the white races-singhter.
Il-trained, fl-equipped as they But, whatever his feeling a month
were, they at least kept their faces
or two ago, there was no mixtalding
his present satisfaction
Beved. The railway would be cut. instantly, and that meant the end |of any prosperity the barren little! Britain is colony might have.
There was an
Importance Of Sudan
Greater security lay in the fact front
The educated among them look Italian transports bound for that the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan "East Africa" filed by and through was a condominium, technically to the League of Nations for the the canal in an almost uninterrupt-not part of the British Empire, miracle; but they are leading their ed flow, their decks crowded, the rim, as such places should be run, to the warfare to which they air throbbing with the music by men selected without examina-are accustomed
Later, when we had travelled in blared from loud-speakers and cation and apparently on the strength
their country, we came back to thusiastic throatá. Theircom- of their athletic prowess. patriots paraded the town in force, Gloom was as thick as fog over learn that submarines, Italian sub prend of their mission to bring the Red Sea, not only in British marines, had passed through the
♦ ♦ civilisation to Ethiopia and bread and condominium places, but in Canal Everybody almost without
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Italian ports also. Though the exception, whether British troopships were carrying young French subject, thought that that "Think Of It"
jenthusiasts to Massawa and Assab, was the last blow.
We decided to see what Aden had|| “Think of it, Basha,” intoned the those ports were equally devoid of individual who called himself Jock cheer.
[to say about it all. Our voyage so Macgregor "They go too far and The troops, 10,000 of them in afar fad brought one long tale of refuse good advice. No free fel day or two, had left Port Said full doubt and apprehension, of uneasi- lah knows what next. Soon what of good spirits and high ambition.ness, of that lack of comfidence that characteristic before the Thura, 19th Dec. happens to Abyssimis happens to The sun and the ports of disemin
us perhaps?**
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Optimism At Aden. Egypt had made her choice, and iter, and that was all. They ceased Aden began to tu the scales. that choice was for freedom and, to be idols, they were now-what? We found a turn of opinion. There British support They who maye Mote work for the officers of the was even a little optimism.. about the town streets of Egypt port, more work for caterers, more are under no llusion. Many of them are midly prophetic. Most of them are wholly gleeful. -They nay to a man how many troops have been paid for in pas sage through the canal. They realise the profit accruing to the 1926 Canal Camina
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