1939-07-18 — Page 14

"You've got to

be fussy

over

horses..

Fussy about their training

-fussy about who rides them. Personally I find it's the only way. For instance, I don't much care to lead in a lucky winner; but it gives me the rarest pleasure to watch any thoroughbred ridden to a faultless victory.

In the same way I appreciate the good judgment used in the making

THE CHINA

Is Libya's Military Streng

THEN the swift Savoia. Mar.

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chetti 75 of Ala Littoria lands one at Benghazi, two and a half hours after leaving Tripoli airport, the door has only to open to teach by touch that one is in a different world. The humid heat rolls in and sponges the skin.

And when one drives in the morn- ing up into the Jebel of Cyrenaica the khaki-brown cliffs of the ranges. of Tripoli are forgotten. Grey rocks spring up around one, laced

with Aleppo pines, stunted juniper and the wild olive; there is a wine-red earth in the depressions of the ' plateau, where wheat grows high.

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This wealth without subsoil water (for the rain promotes the harvest) continues through the old Greek colony of Cyrene until one drops down grandiose curves and hair- pins to Derna, a pretty white city on the sea, looking more like old than modern Italy, with purple bou- gainvillaea trailing from one side to the other of the main shopping streets, and Arabs asleep in the sun.

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This is Greece, in rock, I've yet to discover a richer and colour. It is Greece by

graphy, for while Italy is over 400 flavour with a finer frag-miles off, Crete is less than 200. It is also a boundary; for soon after rance, a silkier smoothness

Derna the Jebel flattens away, the with a more heartening vegetation humbles itself to the ground, the sand begins to blow,

LITTLE DEFENCE glow. Till I do, I shall in- there is no fresh water but a scor

APPARATUS ching sun. To the south run long,

Is there justification sist on White Horse.'

monotonous ridges that block off the nervousness to-day? I can only Sahara One hundred and ten miles give the impressions of a short visit, of this boredom lead one to Tobruch, and as I admitted in my last article, Italy's principal naval base in Libya, I was not encouraged to go to Kufra, another 78 to Bardia, and another Jarabub or the big camp at Acroma 31 to the Egyptian frontier and behind Tohruch. Sollum.

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One notices that all the roads paratus in Cyenaica, except in pro- -Tobruch converge at the great pillar which tection of the ports of Signor Mussolini has constructed on and Derna, which were shielded by mediate Italian the frontier. A war here, if it ever a copious artillery. This was only accepted with comes, must be fought upon a nar- natural; for Derna ships fresh Italy since the F row front; and frontally. There is drinking water along the coast has made herself no room, and there are no communi- eastward, including Tobruch, where: speedy-mass m cations for the sort of counter- the water is salt and oily; and ample, the landin attack planned by France and Italy Tobruch is a small base holding, the bania, and of colo from their respective Jebels in the day I was there, three destroyers the manoeuvres v

whole divisions and nine submarines. west.

Along the roads the defences are Libya to the oth When Gen. von Brauchitsch, the

somewhat sketchy. Benghazi itself motorisation and German Commander-in-Chief, visited Libya during the first week of May, pillboxes, Bardia by a few light post the two of them is protected by a few abandoned are both efficient is continually p he spent more of his active time on tions, and only Tobruch has large tions of the Itali the Egyptian side than on the empty areas prohibited by barbed Tunisian. It was considered in wire; either the Italians are masters Libya may chang Egypt perhaps significant that in of field camouflage as compared with To-day the 21 Tripolitania-the Tunisian side-he

the French, or, more probably, they Corps and the na saw fortifications, but in Cyrenaica

have not yet seriously fortified this to it are not in a -the Egyptian-military exercises, zone except with artillery Clearly, majority of the He reviewed troops, tanks and mo-

torised units, both at Derna and they are not preparing against a bably because of

land attack Trom Egypt,

in supplying the Tobruch. Little wonder that Cairo Are there then any signs that concentrated ro was nervous, and wondered whether they are preparing offensive tween Derna an stroke against her was coming The points the traveller notes, as I thing between

noted which ide against fm from the Egypt

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