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If Italy Attacks Egypt.. THIS IS WHAT Football
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that is the Eastern bar. der of Italian Libya and the narrow belt of fertile lund that borders the River Nile on its two banks (thereby constituting the only strips of that in Egyptian territory
lies the worth defending) greatest natural fortress the world,
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It is almost entirely mis
It is nearly of sand. miles, wide at its narrowest All part; and because, for practical purposes, man can not live in it, it requires u army, bat only a small wit force, to hold any portion of it (other than the northern strip across which runs the constal rond and the railway from Alexandria to the for Iress town of Merna Matruth. some 150 miles west of that great naval base)
This natural fortress in the great Libyan desert whose arid Bands constitute an ob stacle to armoured fighting vehicles without parallel. It is an incomparable ally, with tho added advantage that it has no Fifth Column.
If Italy proposes seriously to attach Egypt-with whom. at the moment, she is not af war-it will be necessary for her armies to overcome thin obstacle before they can reach a single really vital spot.
THERE are three-possi- 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 attack the plentifully watered oasis of Siwa that lies 30 miles east of the Cyrenal- can frontier and 160 south of the coast; and from there strike north-castwards across the desert to the wretched water holes of Moghara, or south-east to the oasis of Ba- hariya. From the first of these (provided that the in- vading force could fully negotiate the marshy chasma of the Kattara de- pression, much of which is 600 feet below sea level) direct attack on Cairo would be theoretically possible: from the latter a similar attack could be made through Catro's market garden, the prolific oasis of Fayum.
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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, opinion, be headed for disas ter as soon as it set out.
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Special Correspondent in than pind of water a day. B from AT- but you cannot apoured fighting vehicles entry such A that which
airfeld it is an iden country they have to cross the appe
for troop-carrying planes and tites of auch vehicles for both
for parachutists. In theory water and fuel, so far from
increase
and providing that Ger- diminishing.
many could spare her ally a siderably; and to feed them
vast number of troop-carrying and keep them to a standard
planes---Cairo could be efficiency of comparative
dangered. And if Cairo is would require lines of com.
entlangered the whole of the munication upon a senle that
suffers Canal MIND Sucz would present an easy target
from the equally for it is to our bombers
that the impor- capital city tant towns of Suez, Ismailin draw every sund Port Said drop of fresh water that they have They
114) other supply than the sweet water canal that starts at the Cato barrage
ITALY'S probable inten- tion-provided that she can obtain the initiative, which is by no means certain is to Attack Egypt through the coastal beit where the renci and railway run.
Success
Her chances along this route, while greater than those which would oper- in favour of the attack through Siwn, are slender,
ate
Athwart the road to Alex. andria and the delta lies the furtress of Mersa Matruh.
Such is the adequacy both of Mersa Matruh's planning and of the British troops who operate from it. that a 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 attem a detour with the object of cutting both the road and the railway cast of Matruh; but
the because countryside is exceptionally advantageous fur hoth obser- vation and operations by the grmoured division such attempt would almost tainly he stopped,
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un
cer-
THE third possible route is but because of by the sea;
the supremacy of the British
Fleet in Mediterranean wa- ters this is hardly to bo feared. True, units in fast motor-boats might be landed east of Matruh and might do some damage to both the roud, and the railway; but it 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 Italians would not expect to
find them.
the
There remains the fourth route. The air.
the
*Because practically whole of Egypt is one vast
HAH
There is a point in deny- ing that the landing of a forec close to Cairo somewhere would constitute a formidable the country; but menace to
eventually be that it would dealt with 1 have no doubt. For besides the natural ob- stacles which would impele and possibly destroy any at- along any of tacking force
I have outlined. The routes there remain other obstacles -ench tougher than them all.
now
AND those are the British
Dominion Army and stationed in Egypt and Pales- tine under the command of the cautious and able General British Navy Wilson; the based 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 their part with similar bravery and skill.
Taken all in all the odds heavily against the enemies of Egypt and Britain in the Middle East.
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Wounded March In
Belgian Parade
Exiles Visit Cenotaph. Wounded Belgian soldiers, some of them only a few hours out of hospi tal, paraded with other Belgian exiles to celebrate their country's national festival In Whitehail.
war as
They stood shoulder to shoulder with bemedalled veterans of the last as they paid homage at the Cenotaph. Under
the black, yellow and erimason of the Belgian standard they marched from Parliament-square and from the French and Belgions throng- ing the pavements came "Vives" for
Roi.
"LO
Angland "La France." Belgique,"
La
There was a service afterwards at the Belgian church of Notre Dame de Hol, Camden Town.
WE ARE TELLING Results
THE GERMANS
Following is a translation of Sa B.B.C. broadcast in Germont
BY SEFTON DELMER
It
estimated that, despite the death penalty and jam-2
Germans 10,000,000 ❤ming.
listen to B.1.C. broadcasts.
TJERR WALTHER FUNK.
Hitech Minister of Econo-
mics, inst week addressed foreign newspaper representa- tives in Berlin on the subject of the so-called new economic order for Europe.
It is ing that Herr Funk should have chosen to put ize "new economic order" swindle.
Across
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 Was notorious that the Funk Was орел to good 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 trust- considered Walther a
worthy and reliable agent.
And so, when in 1930 they male their bargain with Hit- ler by which, in return for their financial support of his to hand party, Hitler was them over the German people for exploitation, the indus- trialists at Walther to Hit- ler as liaison officer with the heavy Industry--and to sру on him.
re-
Many years later, when Doktor Schacht kaw the economic breakdown of Ger- many approaching and fused to carry on without a change of policy, Hitler had his old experi- enced sharepusher, Funk. And that's how Walther got his present post.
recourse to
BUT I 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 glasses 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- construction of Europe the
same methods which attained such brilliant successes in Germany before and during'
the war."
era and their capitalist accom- plices cover of legality in their raids on other men's property. Only too true; the these BUCCCAMPS kalned 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 For in his safe and money. 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
their bribes and silence money.
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com-
YES, and then we have the success of the former mercial traveller of the Bava- rinn Moter Works, Captain Goering, who since the arrival of his party in power hus piled up fabulous wealth for himself. He has copied the Jewish financiers 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.
Wil.
Hermann'a brother, heim Goering, is the boss of the Germunised Czech Skoda Works.
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
that's Terboven. Yes,
the way to be successful.
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.
AND now, under the benevolent direction of Walther, a new ceónu- mie order is to be instituted in
Wiese
grent Europe, and
have
economie
which Sucresses ntrendy been conferred on Hie German and Czech peoples are to be shared but among the othor
nation as well. nations as wel
land of
The great industrial France is to have Its factorles razed -such us are not taken over by Nazis. Industrial workers are to be compelled to become agricul- tural worker they have actually begun on this already. The dan- gerous competition of French in- dustry and all other industries
to ccase
the harass
big shall capitalists of the Rhine and the Ruhr, in order that the lords of the Rhine and the Ruhr shall at last receive the dividende for the vast sums which they have invested in the Hiller concern, shall get a re turn for the partnerships which they have conceded to the Nazi leaders.
the
So that from their position of in- dustrial monopoly, unhampered by outside competition, they may im- pose their economic dictatorship on peoples of Europe, the German Well, even I could not have included, may force them to accept a standard of wages and of labour told you more clearly than
reducing them to serfdom and slavery, that-that this alleged. new order is nothing more than
thank God, this nightmare BUT ugly, corrupt old National-is but the wishdream of Walther and his masters. Only in the Socialist anarchy over again.
event of a German victory can it become terrible reality.
In other words, they are go- ing to put forward, the same old blarney about rationaliga-. tion, economic planning, Ger- manisation, Aryanisation, de- judalsation, and what not,, all of which really served only, one purpose: that of giving the small clique of Nazi lead-
So don't be downhearted; Ger- man Esteners. There will be no subjugation of Europe by the Nazi gangsters and their capitalist part-
nera.
For we Britons are going to win this fight, the night for the victory of Libertyour liberty. Jour liberty, the liberty of the world.
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MELBOURNE. Sept. 15 (UP) Aler Ar Semi-finals of the Victoria and South Amritsar Australia League were played to- Bangkok day resulting in victories for Rich-Batavia Bombay mond and Start over Melbourne and Calentia
Agencies: Port Adelaide respectively. In both
Cilve Street
these gumes the margts of triumph Fairite Place was less than ten poiuis, Richmond Canton won 15-11 (107) to 14-17 (101), and Cawnpore
Start won 11-12 (78) to 10-18 (70) Cebu
Colombo
Complete scores were:
VICTORIA Semi-finals Richmond 10-11 (107), Melbourne 16-17 (101).
SOUTH AUSTRALIA Semi-Binala Sturt 11-12 (78), Port Adelaide 10-16 (70).
WEST AUSTRALIA W Perth 20-16 (138), Swan tricts 7-6 (49).
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Raigon
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Follo
Beremban
Karachi
Bhangtial
Klang
Singapore
Kobe
Billawan
Kunin
Saurabaya
Lumpur
Taiping
Kuching
Tientsin
Madras
Tongkah
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New York
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Lawn Bowls League
Senior Shield Virtually Won By Recreio 'A'
BY DEFEATING Craigen-| gower on Saturday, Recreio "A" have virtually won the Senior Divisional champion- ship. The Valley team in thus sustaining their first home de- feat of the season are now six points behind the leaders, and! though they have one game in. hand, to earn the right to a play-off not only must they win all three of their remaining games, but Recreio "A" will have to lose both theirs.
PEAS
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Canned Peas are so much, batter DELIGHTFULLY FRESH
V. M. Omar's'rink was the only one
OVET to record a win-and that was R. F. Luz, bui by two shots only. R. Bus went down by four shots to F. X, Silva, after being led 19-7 on the 15th head, but it was left to the redoubtable C. G. Silva to provide the He trounced C. S. finishing touch, Rosselet 30-10 after leading 26-5 at: the 15th.
Interest, however, yet remains in In the Second and Third Divisions. the former, the Kowloon B.O.C. are two points in the lead of Talkoo and four ahead of the Kowloon F. C. (whe have one game in hand). The Bowling Green Club and Talkoo have cach two more games to play,
The Prison Officers Club are lea- ders of the Third Division by two points over the Hongkong Electric, each with one more match to play. in both these sections, therefore, there are possibilities of plays-off or reversal of the present
even
standings.
Rugby Training At Happy Valley
PREPARATIONS for the coming season by the Hongkong Rugby Foot ball Club will commence on Wednes- day, Sept. 18, in the form of Dhysical training on the Club ground, starting at 5.30 p.m.
Instructions will be given by Mr. Members are re- C. M. MeEwan. quested to bo present, and are ad- vised to take a pair of gym shoes.
Speaker Bankhead
Passes Away
Took Ill On Thursday WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (UP)- Mr. Willlan B. Bankhead, Speaker of the House of Representatives, has died at Naval Hospital from acute sciatica. According to "Reuter," Speaker Bankhead was taken ill on Thursday" when addressing a meeting in support of Mr. Roosevelt's presidential Cam
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