1939-03-28 — Page 14

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH

"I can tell

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"The Italians Always Held That

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NHOSE of us who have cruised in French are in possession, and they” the Mediterranean with an have built the naval port of Bizerta eye for geographical diplomacy or which is in some sense the reply should we say diplomatic geography? to Italian designs.

-have become aware of the ex- These strategic considerations are treme importance of the strip of perhaps vital. The British who re- country known as Tunísia set in gard the Mediterranean as an es the middle of the African shores sential maritime route could not al- facing the Italian island of Sicily. low Tunisis to fall into Italian

For here is a comparatively nar row channel of that large salt lake- for, except that it communicates with the Atlantic Ocean by the Straits of Gibraltar, it is virtually a lake-known as, the Mediterranean Sea. A great French en- gineer, De Lesseps, constructed an eastern exit, the Suex Canal; but nothing would be easier than to close this artificial waterway.

Just as England "stands sentinel

By SISLEY HUDDLESTON

In the "Christian

-Science Monitor"

at Gibraltar. Italy hopes to stand' haids, any more than they could al- sentinel here.

low Sicily to fall into French hands,

The two Mediterranean

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But the French occupation of neutralize each other. Tunisia tends to thwart the Italian

powers

It was in 1881 that the French in- ambition. If Italy commanded vaded Tunisia, because the tribe of Tunisia, as well as Sicily, and had a the Kroumirs came on cattle-raiding submarine and airplane base at Pan- expeditions into Algeria, which was tellaria, it would certainly be mis-* already French, They did not annex tress of the Mediterranean. But Tunisia. They did not add it to the it does not command Tunisia. The Empire. Strictly speaking. Tunisia

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Here's Luck!

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BEER

Bringing Up Father

LET'S GO IN THE NEXT GALLERY I'M SO ANXIOUS TO STUDY SOME OF THOSE FINE

PAINTINGS IN STILL-LIFE”-”.

YER BROTHER IS A STUDY.

IFE

BUT

PAI

For the first time since the Great War, a son of the ex-Kaiser visited Paris yesterday to preside at the ceremony in memory of German War victims at Ivry Cem etery. Photo shows Prince August Wilhelm leaving the cemetery accompanied by German air attache after the ceremony.

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