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HAVE just spent a short fort-
night in Libya, half in Tripoll- tania and half in Cyrenaica. In that time I covered the whole length of the territory from Ben Gardane in Tunisia, the last great fort of the French, to Sollum in Egypt, the An- glo-Egyptian frontier "eye" for the elaborate defences which the joint forces of Britain and Egypt are constructing at Mersa Matruh.
Marshal Balbo and his repre- sentatives were extremely hospit- able. I was naturally accompanied · wherever I went, and the only places which I was not encouraged to visit were on the eastern fron- tier: Kufra (probably because of its immense distance from the coast), the Oasis of Jarabub, some 200 miles south of the coast facing the Egyptian oasis of Siwa, and the encampment at Acroma, just be hind Tobruch, where Gen. von Brauchitsch, the German Comman- der-in-Chief, had recently witness- ed military exercises.
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In Tripolitania, on the other hand, I was allowed without ques- tion to descend to Nalut, at the western end of the Jebel Nefusa. Beyond here the Italians have con- structed heavy defences compar able, if not in strength at least in cemented and gunned by the French strategic value, to those dug and round Foum Tatahouine.
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Including military workers and native irregulars, the total of fight- First, the strength of the Libyan ing men in Libya is about 120,000. garrison. There are to-day, and The Army corps are fully motorised have been since the end of January, and highly mobile. The aviation three complete army corps in must be accounted the most power- Libya, two white and one native. ful in Africa. The
Army 20th Metropolitan Corps, consisting -- of the two divi- visions, Sabratha and Syrte, each strategic problem of the Libyan long since as a too strong of two regiments, garrisons Tripoli- Government involves forces on two Line and F Everywh tania; the 21st Metropolitan Army major land fronts, as well Corps, of the two divisions Cyren- covering force in the south, and an- aica and Marmarica, similarly other disposed along half her coast of the def subdivided, is posted in Cyrenaica. line. Through the great Litoranea principle The Libyan Army Corps is divided or coast road inaugurated by Signor tirely diff Mussolins in 1987 binds the two French. I between the two sectors.
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Each army corps has, besides, habitable areas of Libya, in a trench sys its own heavy regiment of artil strategic whole and enables rapid communica lery; and each of the four infantry transfer of units from one frontier The defen anti divisions its light and medium to the other, nature has built each by groups artillery. Each is also accompanied side of Libya so differently that and
thing up by a detachment of Bersaglieri and they must be considered apart; as into the a Italy's dispositions on the Tuni other, and by a mass of military workers, who the Italians consider them. for the whole of Libya total about 30,000; their job is fortifications sian, front are plainly defensive. crete, whi and discipline and must be ac- Travellers who were in Tripoli to counted as military potential, if in- wards the end of last year tell me ferior to the rest. Finally, there are that there was then much boast the differ two regiments of aviation, heavy ing among the troops that to-mor- the maps and light, ・ for each white army row they would be eating their of manoe corps, making about 800 "planes in spaghetti in Tunis. I found no trace Gardane) all; the bombers are the speedy of this attitude. Relations with the (Tripoli-) Savoia-Marchettis 79, the equally French are strained, but, in my similar; ↑ fast light attack-ships called local- view, if the Italian high command it were, c ly "Ghiblis" (the ghibli is the vio- (represented in Libya by Gén, tier seor lent dust wind that blows off the Coans, Marshal Badoglio's chief of of a unif Sahara when least expected), vari. staff in Ethiopia) ever thought of crescent ous Italian fighters and, at a mini- an invasion of Tunisia they have from Gat
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