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Allied troops in the Mediterranean and Near East will LEGS OF
be kept busy and cannot be sent to France.
The Italians may take over part of the Western Front, thus relieving the Germans for the drive on Paris.
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Point Three is an interesting sub- ject for study. Prior to 1914, when Italy was a member of the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria, Italy was to take over the Alsace- Lorraine front and thus relieve the German troops for other duties. That plan fell through when Italy joined the
Allies. Washington, To-day. The War Department is turning over to private industry its reserve machinery for the manufacture of powder, small arms ammunition and ammonia.
The President's secretary, Mr. Stephen Early, also stated the War Department was making excellent progress in the survey of materials supplies that may advantageously be declared surplus and which will be turned over to the Steel Export Com- pany.-Reuter,
LOYALTY OF COLOURED PEOPLES
London, To-day.
The Chairman of the Cape Corps Association has assured General Smuts of the absolute loyalty of the coloured people who will provide tried fighting material.
"It was urged that the training of the Cape Corps as a competent unit should begin at once to enable the coloured people to take their full part in the defence of South Africa and the Em- pire.--British Wireless.
TROOP TRAIN TRIP
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the freight trains must go over on to the slow line, and if the goods train itself is late it may have to stand still in a loop of line "out in the grass," as the goods agents call it.
A slow goods train might have to stay put in a loop such as the Blis- worth loop, just outside Rugby, for as long as an hour at a time, but this is provided for in schedule.
KEEPING TRACK OF THE WAGONS
All these things complicate the pro-. blems of Mr. X, who has to watch out all the time that his wagons do not "all "get up at one end of the line.
It is possible a similar plan is being put through now, and that Italian troops passed through the Brenner Pass for some time before Italy de- clared war. The Germans had flung many fresh troops into the battle for France, and the arrival of Italian troops, under German officers, might explain this.
He emphasised that there Is no official confirmation of this, and that it was only his own theory. But he thought it worthy of close attention.
Tender Spot:
Abyssinia is a tender spot and can be cut off from communication with Italy.
It is stated in London that the 60,000 white Italians there are in a difficult position already through a food short- age and a hostile population.
now
Similarly around Libya, which is dependent on sea transport for water, and where there is already a short- age in the hottest part of the year. Although, thanks to the rise of air power, the Mediterranean is considered a "mere ditch," the Allies are just as well placed there as the Italians and it may well be that in a short time some of our 'planes there may be spared for the Western Front. It is on the latter that the war will be won or lost.
French Hard Pressed
The French are hard pressed and may have to relinquish Paris. British reinforcements are" pouring into France almost as quickly as they evacuated from Dunkirk. Weygand and his men are calm and that is the best feature of the situation.
He pointed out that we have be- come accustomed to think of battles in terms of territory, whereas to-day the French think only in terms of the complete destruction of the German armies.-Reuter,
WITH A PINCH OF SALT
-The Divisional Superintendent has
LONDON, TO-DAY. THE ROME RADIO YESTERDAY many additional duties. He also in- spects, among other things, the de- SAID THAT THE WHOLE POPULA- tonators at the signal boxes (to see TION OF ABYSSINIA HAD RE- that they are fresh), examines the QUESTED: THE ITALIAN AUTHOR- station scrap heaps to see that no ITIES FOR THE HONOUR OF good material is being wasted, and BEING CALLED UP EN MASSE TO visits the barracks at the big stations FIGHT THE ENEMIES OF ITALY! at which the drivers, firemen,. and This statement is received in Lon- other workers are quartered.
These are among the incidental du- ties of Mr. X as he progresses up and down the line. But freight and troop trains are his big job just now,
By keeping them moving to time he and all his railway colleagues, üre helping to win the war.
don with more than scepticism and a ton of salt, for only recently there were disturbances in no less than three parts of Abyssinia, and parti- cularly north of Lake Tana, and the Italians had to send armed troops in an attempt to put the disturbances down, Reuter:
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