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By Walt Disney
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If Italy Attacks Egypt.. THIS IS WHAT
BETWEEN the low Pu Lor
Darrow
that is the Eastern bor. der of Italian Libya and the bolt of fertile land that bordera the River Nile on its two banks (thereby constituting the only strip of Egyptian territory that worth defending) Thes the greatest natural fortress the world.
It is almost entirely made of sand. It is nearly 100 miles wide at its neroWCA part; and because, for All practical purposes, man can not live in it, it requires no army, but only 4 stalt air force, to hold any portion of it (other than the northern strip across which runs the coastal road and the railway from Alexandria to the for- treas town of Mersa Matruth, some 150 miles west of that great naval base).
This natural fortress in the great Libyan desert whose arid sands constitute an ob- stacle to armoured fighting vehicles without parallel. It is an incomparable ally, with the added advantage that it has no Fifth Column.
If Italy proposes seriously to attack Egypt-with whomi. at the moment, she is not at war it will be necessary for her armies to overcome this obstacle before they can reach a single really vital spot.
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THERE Are three-po981- bly four-routes by which Graziani's troops could at. tempt an assault on Egypt's life. Attempts along three of them would almost certainly fail: that along the fourth would have a temporary and considerable nuisance value; but would probably prove not to have been worth the effort.
Italy (with or without Ger- man aid) could send a desert force to attuck the plentifully watered oasia of Siwa that lies 30 miles east of the Cyrenai- can frontier and 160 south of the count; and from there strike north-eastwards across the desert to the wretched water holes of Moghara, or south-east to the oasis of Ba hariys. From the first of these (provided that the in- vading force could success- fully negotiate the marshy chasms of the Kattara de- pression, much of which is 600 feet below sea level) . a direct attack on Cairo would be theoretically possible: from the latter a similar attack could be made through Cairo'a market garden, the prolific oasis of Fayum.
But. And the but is im- portant. Such an enterprise is probably beyond the scope of any modern army, tied as it inevitably now is to the limitations of motor trans- port.
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So tremendous a trek would require preparations on scale so vast that they could not hope to escape first the eyes of our alert reconnais-
sance aircraft and thereafter
bombs from our Blenheims.
Even if they could, such an expedition would, in my opinion, be headed for disas ter as soon as it set out.
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than a punt of water a day: but you cannot so train ar moured lighting vehicles. country such as that which they have to cross the appe. Lites of such vehicles for both water and fuel, so far from diminishing. increase siderably and to feed them and keep them to a standard of comparative efficiency would require lines of com- munication upon a scale tha! would present an easy target to our bombers,
ITALY'S probable inter- tion-provided that she can obtain the initiative, which is by no means certain-is to
Egypt through ntluck
the coastal belt where the road and railway run.
Her chances of MRICCONS along this route, while greater than those which would oper ate in favour of the attack through Siwa, are slender.
Athwart the road to Alex- andria and the delta lies the fortress of Mersa Matruh.
Such is the adequacy both of Mersa Matruh's planning and of the British troops who operate from it, that à force considerably larger and more loyal than any that the enemy could concentrate unobserved would be required to force a passage through its concrete walls,
It is true that the enemy could attempt a detour with the object of cutting both the road and the railway cast of Matruh: but
because the countryside is exceptionally advantageous for both obser- vation and operations by the armoured division auch attempt would almost tainly be stopped.
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THE third possible route is
by the sea; but because of
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airiel it is an ideal country for troop-carrying planes and In theory for parachutists.
and providing that Ger- many could spare her ally a vast number of troop carrying planes-Cairo could be
And if Cairo is dangered. endangered the whole of the Suez Canal res suffers for it is from the equally. capital city that the impor- lant towns of Suez. Ismailia and Port Said draw every drop of fresh water that they
They have
other supply than the sweet water canal that starts at the Cairo barrage.
use.
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There is no point in deny- ing that the landing of a force somewhere close to Cairo would constitute a formidable menace to the country; but that it would eventually be dealt with I have no doubt. For besides the natural ob- stacles which would impede and possibly destroy any at- tacking force along any of the routes I have outlined. there remain other obstacles ench tougher than them all.
AND those are the British and
ཎྞIམཱ Dominion Army stationed in Egypt and Pales- tine under the command of the cautious and able General Wilson; the British Navy Unsed upon Alexandria; and last, but very far from least, the R.A.F., whose young men, jealous of the hazard that are permitted to their colleagues in this country, are playing similar their part with bravery and skill.
Taken all in all the odds are heavily against the enemies of Egypt and Britain in the Middle East.
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THE GERMANS
Following is a translation of Ca B.B.C. broadcast in German
BY SEFTON DELMER
It is estimated that, despite the death penalty and jam-j ❤ming. 10,000,000 Germaus listen to B.B.C. broadensis.
TTERR WALTHER FUNK,
H Reich Minister of Econo- mica, last week addressed foreign newspaper representa- tiven in Berlin on the subject of the so-called new economic order for Europe.
It is fitting that Herr Funk should have chosen to pul Across the "new economic order" swindle.
He is an expert in pushing fraudulent promotions.
I knew him well many years ago in Berlin when he was still a journalist, editor of the Berliner Boersen Zeitung. It WAR notorious that the good Funk was open to bribes. He had an excessive and expensive love of the schnapps bottle.
THE nabobs of the heavy industry whom he had render- ed many a publicistic service considered Walther a trust- worthy and reliable agent.
And so, when in 1930 they made their bargain with Hit- ler by which, In return for their financial support of his party. Hitler was to hand them over the German people for exploitation, the indua- trialists sent Walther to Hit- Jer as Baison officer with the heavy industry-and to spy on him.
Many years later, when Doktor Schacht
tha Baw economic breakdown of Ger- re- many approaching und fused to carry on without a change of policy, Hitler had his old experi- Funk. enced sharepusher, And that's how Walther got his present post.
recourse tu
BUT 1 am afraid that he may shortly find himself with- out a job. For last week, when he was trying to sell the "new economic order" to the foreign Pressmen in Berlin, he was really too indiscreet. Perhaps he had permitted himself a couple of glassCS too many of his beloved Dan- zig Machandel gin.
Just listen to what he said to them:-
"When the war has been victoriously concluded Ger- many will employ for the re-.
the supremacy of the British Wounded March In construction of Europe the
Fleet in Mediterranean wa- ters this is hardly to be feared. True, units in fast motor-boats might be landed cast of Matruh and might do some damage to both the road and the railway; but road and the railway; but it would not be long before they were immobilised either by our air force or by troops who might appear suddenly from positions where the Italians would not expect to find them.
There remains the fourth route. The air.
Because practically the whole of Egypt is one vast
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same methods which attained such brilliant successer Germany before and, during the war."
ers and their capitalist accom- plices a cover of legality in their raids on other men's property. Only too true; the these successes gained by methods were splendid and brilliant.
Herr Funk too is a success He can afford to pay a rent of 40,000 marks a year for his villa in Wannsee, almost as much as his official salary,
But Walther has the money. For in his safe and trusted hands lies the admin- istration of the so-called New Industrial Fund, the secret fund of fifty million marks from which the big industrial- ists pay out the most impor- tant of their bribes and silence money.
YES, and then we have the com- success of the former mercial traveller of the Bava- rian Motor Works, Captain Goering, who since the arrival of his party in power has piled up fabulous wealth for himself. He has copied the Jewish Aganciers whom he decried so loudly by putting- his own relatives and those of his wife into powerful key positions where they can help him as valuable allies.
Hermann's
brother, Wil-
helm Goering, is the boss of the Germanised Czech Skoda Works.
the
And who is the new chair. man of the board of directors in the great Thyssen concern -none other than the one- time bank clerk Gauleiter Terboven. Yes, that's way to be auccessful.
For the small fry among the party officials, though, and for the German people as a whole, there is no gain from these brilliant and splendid successes.
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Hanyang Leaves On Maiden Trip
Severni Innovations in the passen. ger accommodation of Butterfield and Swire ships are seen in the Hanyang. her which has left Hongkong maiden voyage.
Bulli at Talkoo Dockyard, she has must attractive accommodation for 16 saloon passengers with four single and four double cabins. The ship is the punka fitted throughout with louvre ventilation systern in place of faris, and the modern finishings are a decided improvement on that pro- built for the vided on former run, She has steerage accommoda- tion for 68 passengers. This space has also been 'greally improved.
Each saloon cabin has hot and cold water, a wardrobe, and modern style The airy lounge dressing table: and dining saloon other
are handsomely panelled in light woods and connected by a wide staircase type companion- way.
AND now, under the benevolent direction of Walther, a. new econo- mic order is, to be instituted in
these and
same great Europe, economie successes which have already been conferred on the German and Czech peoples are to be shared out among the nations as well.
great industrial land of France is to have its factories razed such as are not taken over by Nazis. Industrial workers are to be compelled to become agricul- tural workers-they, have actually begun on this already. The dan- gerous competition of French in- dustry and all other industries
to ceusc shall
harass the big the capitalists of the Rhine and Ruhr, in order that the lords of the Rhine and the Ruhr shall at last receive the, dividends for the vast sums which they have invested in the Hitler concern, shall get a re- turn for the partnerships which they have conceded to the Nazl
leaders.
So that from their position of, in- dustrial monopoly, unhampered by outside competition, they may im- pose their economic dictatorship on the peoples of Europe, the German Included, may force them to accept a standard of wages and of labour reducing them to serfdom' and slavery.
Well, even I could not have told you more clearly' than that that this alleged new order is nothing more than
BUT, thank God, this nightmare They stood shoulder to shoulder with bemedalled veterans of the last ugly, corrupt old Nationals but the wishdream of Walther masters. Only in the and his Cenotaph the black, yellow and ing to put forward the same war as they paid homage at the Socialist anarchy over again.
event of a German victory can it In other words, they are go-
become terrible reality. crimson of the Belgian standard they old blarney about rationalisa- marched from Parliament-square and from the French and Belgions throng tion, economic planning, Ger- ing the pavements came "Vives" for manisation, Aryanisation, de
"Le "Angleterre,"
Rof."
*ners, Lajudaisation, and what not, nil Belgique,"
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Under
So don't be downhearted, Ger- nan listeners. There will be no អាយ subjugation of Europe by the Nazi gangsters and their capitalist part
For we Britons are going to win this fight, the fight for, the victory the Belgian church of Notre Dame, one purpose: that of giving of Libertyour: Iborty, your de Hal, Camden Town.
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