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MAMPAIGNING conditions in the Middle East were described by authoritative quarters in London. It was pointed out that the policy of the British Comman- der-in-Chief in Egypt must be one of “active defence.”
In Libya, the collapse of France has brought a Kreat change in the situation, it was pointed out The numerous and
Italian well-equipped artnies there are To longer threatened on two fronts but can concentrate wholly on the Egyptian border.
The character of the cou try, the difficulty of commem ention, and the lack of water prevent the concentration of great numbers on the trom tiers of Egypt, Consequently the policy of the British Comi mander-in-Chief in Egypt must necessarily be Due of active defence aetive within limits which the changed com. ditions impose upon it.
Character Of The Country
The character of a paign to be fought there dictated by the character of the country itself. It is a de. sert largely formed by plateau, passable for chanised traffic, but over very large areas covered with dri.i. ing sand dunes which make
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Teption is that any boy, no matter of what race, creed Ог ancestry, has 21 technical right to the ambi- tion that he will grow up fa breume President of the United States.
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To-day, Wendell Willkin is almost hear being the text President of United States Franklin the Delen Roosevelt.
About three months ago an un- ortant group of big business men get to talking among them- Leive and decided that Willkle, 75,000del, a year president of the Commonwealth and Southern Ulities Empire, would make o good Republican President.
It seemed laughable. Wilkie
everything had
candidate against reform-minded Roosevelt should not have. He was in big business, with an office only half a bicck from hated Wall-street; he had voted for Roosevelt in 1932, an Americans do not like ture- conts; he was unknown to the great mass of American voters; he had stood against Mid-Western Isolation demanding ald for the Allics.
No one with such disadvantages slood chance against Roosevelt glamour, but Willkle's supporters were undaunted.
In One month their efforts swung only three per cent. of America's Republicans to the Winkle banner..........
By last week Wilkio, still with- out a professional political
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movements impossible. dominating factor is the lack of water, and this necounts for the distribution of our troops,
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At Sollum, on the frontier itself, the water supplies are inscient for more than very small garrison. Isolated wels can be held and the de. seri tracta can be patrolled, but the real military frontier is as far back from the politi- cal frontier as Mersa Matruh. Similarly for the Itabans, Hardin is advanend headquar- ters and Tobruk, with its harbour, the natural supply Eneme.
The frontier Itself to de- limuted by a barbed-wire fence live feet high and 12 fort wide, put up by the Italians some years ago, with Jorts at Intervals behind it. On the Egyptian side there are 719 such forts. The Italian fixed posts are natural vajvels of attack, and all kind nghting so far has been conducted on the Haion Bude of the fron tier. The hard wire fence
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arily that Wendell Wance gets Ameri- as the typed Armenian sterno logy of it try who treated with mutedlive bebel in Innself trul the would gross up to the President
He was bearm in a small town, he med o gal tram that small town, he made good in that stall town me a lawyer. He moved to the big city, and made good in the Thint big city is a business inan. is the kind of story America Iikes.
At the Republican Convention st Philadelphia, the drst bullets went tor Dewey mad Tult. Delegates were afraid of Willkie; although the Press of the nation—or that port af di that is not pro-Roosevelt -demanded Willkie as candidate, delegates were afraid they would not be repaid for their vote if Willkic, Д Candidate without machino, were adopted.
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But popular opinion broke through their fear. Willkle climbed and climbed. Finally, towards one In the morning. Wilkie nominated amid the greatest popu- lar outcry stald Republicans con remember.
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has been cut and various forts have been captured.
Fort Capuzzo, which has been rectcupied by the Italians since the British first cap- tured and dismantled it, is serving a most useful pur. pose; it compels the defending force to mend continual con voys for its sustenance or re- lief, and these are necessarily vulnerable and continue 10 suffer losses at our hands.
In Kenya
The fighting in Kenya is in very different country. and yet the limitations of terrain produce not dissimilar effects. Roads are few, cross-country movement, especially in the rainy season, is diflicult, and the lack of water makes in- possible a heavy concentration of troops. The fronter itself almost follows the contour of The Abyssinian platenu, which breaks down in cliffs to the Kenya plain.
Such few British posts us There were on the Kenya fron-
Hier
were lightly held, and could not be defended for any length of time against attack from the plateau above. More over, conditions in Abyssinia had compelled the Italians to maintain there forces much larger than were required in Kenya. This enabled the Italians temporarily to occupy corner of the north-eastern Kenya The Mandera triangle between Alyssonin and Italian Somaliland. There we had no trop at all, not even police. and by what they described as "the brilliant combined action
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of land and air forces" the Italians, their movements made easier by the existence of a road just inside the fron- tier, were able to enter the country and occupy a number of water holes. The capture of these they announced as a military triumph.
To the west of that triangle the frontier post of Moyale, defended by a single company of the King's African Rifles, for five days resisted superior forces supported by arti Tey and warcraft with a total less of only ten men
Farther to the west, north of Lake Rudolf. British forces have takers the initiative, and native into the Troops have rulded far enemy country and done consider- late damage to such milltary ok- pretives as exist.
ARE YOU SURE?
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1. What town in southern France
the papal seat? ance Chida is thr 14th. century?
15th
2. Where are the Bad Lands and what people Inhabit thr
3. If you were given a Drenite would you:—
Plaut it, cook at, katt it, or wear II?
4. One hundred and fifty-nine years ago to-day a fanious engineer who designed "The Rocket" was born.
(a) What was his name?; (b) for what invention did he receive £1,000?
5. During what campaign was a warship Grst sunk by submarine?
6. What famous British author wrote in 2660;-
"I did send for a cup of tea, a China drink of which I had never „drunk before."
And what is the international effect of Willkie's nomination? Well, it can be counted na Д British victory
America's In hustings.
The Republican party adopted weak-kneed
platform. pence Dewoy was for minding America's own business. Taft was a pure isolationist. Willkie was openly in favour of helping England win the war against Hitlerism. And 'Will-
kle won.
Great Britain can feel confident to-day. that America is going to remain her active friends. One of two meh will be in the White House for four years after this. One friend Wendell Willo or friend Roosevelt. .
7. What is wrong with the spel- ling of these:----
(e)
(a) Brocolll, (b) delfinium, (c) galardin, (d) Penstemon, schizanthus, (f) narcistiks,
B. How old was the youngest English Prime Minister when he took 'omas?
9. If you read that its chief plaves are Kelium, Tihnam, Mor
Westerland, Rantum and could you name the island? .
10. What is tarpaulļa?
11. Which sign of the Zodiac Bighlty!
(a) Ram, (b) Twins, (c) Goat. 12. What film star once mp talned Sussex st cricket?
15. Name the Belgian
fa Premier, fb) Foreign Minis- ter. 101 Defence Minister,
16. Which has been British the longer-Malta or Gibraltar?
17. In what famous novel ap- pear Sir William Ashton as Lærd Kreper of Scotland, and Lucy, his daughter as the bride?
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18. Bearing 3 world Ruow it was
Violin, drum, stute, priano, bas- Sun, clariACL.
10. Sir Benjamin Backblie was
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(a) Character
a play, (b) English politician, (c) Elizabethan adventurer.
20. The French department of Ardennes is bounded by thr:c historic rivers. What are they?
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1. Avignon; 1309-1377,- 2. South Dakota,
Sloux Indians.
USA; the
3. Wear it-It is a variety of
topaz.
4. (a) George Stephenson; (b)
colliery safety lamp.
5. American Civil War, in 1864, 6. Pepyz.
7. Broccoli, delphinium, gaillardin,
pentstemon, schizanthus, ar
B. Pitt, twenty-four.
D.
Sylt
10. Canvas covered with tar
11. Aries, Gemial, Capricomuş,
12. Aubrey Smith.
13.
Sack 6t wool: 364lbs.;, chest of tea, BAIbs.
14. 1 Corinthians, x, 12,
18. M. Pierlot, M. Spark, General
13. Which in the heavier (a) Sack of wool or (b) chest of
10. Gibraltar became British in tea? Give the weight of each.
1713, and Malta in 1814. 14. Wherefore let bla
that!
17. Scally""Bride of Lammermoor."! thinketh ho standeth take heed 18. Bassoon "Icat`he' fall fromná (15
(a) Psalms, (b) Proverbs, ....(c) Corinthians, (d) St. Matthew.
19. Character in Sheridan's "The
School for Scandal” ve
20. Bieuse, Marne, Alme.
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In Kenya, na on the Libyan fron- Her, fighting is itkely to be more In the nature of skirmishing and guerrilla warfare than of military manoeuvres On A
senie. A grand vainy season has begun, and mili- tary activities are likely to be hampered very considerably, but the guerrilla can sull play his part, and the war of attrition, which may well decide the issue in Abys kinda, is not likely to be closed down by bad weather.
Iceland likes its 'B.E.F.'
MARLY in the summer we
E quietly dermed lead
The Icelanders were as sur- prised as anyone: "Why pick on us?" they said. "There's nothing here but fish."
Most people here have forgotten
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about this occupation now, und it may
指 remute tople; but Iceland may yet be of strategic Army of
importance, and our Decupation is still there.
The troops have settled down comfortably; the leelanders---most of whom had never seen an armed soldier before--have taken to them well.
Some 30 Icelandic ships are cen stantly bringing us 8sh. Searnen who have been to Hull & Grimsby can speak sonic English, make friends with our troops; housewives in the suburbs of Reykjavik took hot coffee to them when they were tiving under canvas, realising that they might ind it cold.
(In fact, Iceland is not a land of Ice & snow; it has about the same mean temperature as North Scot- land. Chief hardship, in winter, is the binck-out; daylight lasts only 5-6 hours. Just now, with the midnight sun, there is no darkness at all.)
It took our men only a fortnight to drink ni Iceland's stocks of beer. This isn't as bad (or good) as it sounds Icelandle beer is practically non-alcoholic.
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GERMANS were beginning to take an interest in Iceland before the war. *** ́Some of their scientists were Bur- !Other veying geologically, "scientists" Nazi hacks were congratulating Icelanders on being pure Aryans. Bounder scientists, from America, found that Tec landers closest relatives were the Scots &
Irish.
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There wore about 100 Germans Reykjavik when war broke out scamen & shopkeepers mostly, as elsewhere" well organised by the Nazis
Gerlach, German congul, was
Dr. a Nozi big-shot few regretted his 'denárturo (except" "some" children who had been invited by his 11- year-old daughter to her birthday: party that day). Only one English. book was found in his bit library: Douglas Reed's" "Insanity. Fale."
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