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"E 1x AFRICA SEMPER ALIQUID

NOVI," wrote. Pliny some 1,800 years ago, and by Africa he meant that strip of Mediterranean seaboard that runs from Tunis to Alexandria. This was a quotation even in those early days, as four centuries previously Aristotle had said much the same thing, but he put it "Out of Libya something evil always comes.”.

One gathers, therefore, from Roman and Greek history that this semi-waste land was always in the news and something of a surprise factor.

There is some mystery about Libya for at the height of Rome's prosperity it was apparently a most thriving and densely- populated province. Mariut, the eastern protion, which lies on the fringe of the Nile culti- vation, was called the granary of Rome, and Mariut wine was fam- ous all over the Roman Empire. Lake Mariut, now a vast salt pan, was a fresh-water lagoon fed by the Nile and there were docks and VIEWS - OPINIONS - IDEAS in

quays for corn ships along its shores, whilst Mersa Matruh, LONDON-PARIS-ROME-BERLIN farther west, now an

advanced post of the British and Egyptian armies, was a famous seaside re- sort where Cleopatra had a villa.

To-day Mariut and the rest of Libya may be described as a vast desert land with a narrow strip of cultivation running along the sea- shore the entire length. This strip, the fertility of which is governed-

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It is difficult to account for the on general sterility of the land to-day; scheme by which it may be due to a deterioration of sants from southern rainfall owing to the disappearance have been settled of of trees and farmlands, or possibly experiment is still to some alteration in levels which and many years mu have turned the sub-soil water from one can decide whet sweet to brackish. The fact remains to reconstruct the that Mariut to-day and the rest of vinces is a success the Libyan shore are ghosts of their there is a race that former selves.

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Egypt also has be areas west of the are now hundreds & of olives and vines w there were merely so of raincrop barley..

The people of the Libyan Arabs, who į claim descent from Arabia, but they ar sturdier race in eve probably the desce Libyan tribes who thorn in the flesh Pharaohs. In Itali are enlisted as soldi a brave and hardy when employed in trained units is pro and no doubt Egy force of militia levi ter value from her 4

The people of thị different type and Berder extraction. laria has ravaged lying oases for the or more, the people part degenerate, wi ing in spirit and e

Libya is and alw considerable stratej to Egypt, and previ mile stretch of comp less desert Was a barrier to invasion! this is true to-day,

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