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GIBRALTAR is big news today is significance a

the first important post on Britain's sea route to In-

dia and the Far East is apparent to everyone.

The Rock of Gibraltar is a precipitous narrow crag about It is also almost three miles long running due north and south. completely inaccessible both from the north and south, and it is only because there is a restricted shelf of land on the western side that it is possible to maintain it as a naval base and gar- rison.

When approached from the Spanish side across the race- course and military cemetery, the Rock rises, perpendicularly for nearly 1,000 At Europa Point, directly opposite the African On coast, the cliffs rise to 2001. the castera side there is only a

diminutive beach called Catalan Bay, reached by a narrow truck from the north.

The naval harbour works are now very considerable, and have —been developed from the-first-days- of the occupation. The amount of ground available for bullding, and the erection of sheds and barracks was so small that 04 acres had to be reclaimed from the sea. Some of the recovered land near the Alameda Gardens was once 40TL, under water,

:

To-day the enclosed anchorage, within the huge stone moles, ex- tends to 140 acres. Even at low tide there is a clearance of 30ft. In addition, there are three large graving docks, one of them extend- ing to more than 800ft.

Was

During the Great War Gibraltar a main coaling station for British Fleet. Latterly the dockyards have been equipped with

the

huge all fuel stores.

The harbour is deep enough at the

all times to accommodate

Mediterranean Fleet in safe an-

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chorage.And in Admiralty langu BULGARIA age Gibraltar is known as H.M.S. Commorant" for the purposes of re- cord..

THERE ure hidden galleries all over the Rock and an elaborate An attempt is tunnelling system. being made to equip the forts with suficiently heavy artillery to de- fend the linrbour below against any Attack.

Until recently there was scarce- ly any anti-aircraft organisation, but now battery has been added tu the garrison and, further, special local defence force is being organised.

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The present Governor and Com- mander-in-Chief is the famous soldier General Sir Edmund Iron- side. He has under his command force of some 3,218, consisting of two battalions of infantry--the 2nd King's Regiment and the 2nd Somerset Light Infantry, a Fortress Company of the Royal Engineers, three-howitzer batteries, and de- talls of Signals and the various corps of the commissariat.

THE nalive population, mostly descended fremn italian and Spanish settlers, totals 18,859. Their num bera ore severely restricted by the authorities because of the limited space in the little town.

"The Rock" has been a symbol of British mastery at sea since 1704, when it was surprised by a combined British and Dutch fleet under Sir George Rooke. Since then it has been maintained as a naval" and "military "base," and only once has our possession been seri

the time of ously threatened—at the American War of Indepen- dence, when the Spaniards "Inid siege to it for four years from 1770 to 1783.

For the past 180 years the his- tory of the Rock has been almost uneventful. Even during the Grent War it did not figure in any pro- minent navel Incidents, although all those years its harbour was the Eceno of great naval activity.

THE PERFECT BABY-

JOAN CONSTANCE BENNETT, of Friars-gate, Exeter, was once award- ed a-sliver jug as a perfect baby................ Last week she collapsed and died. She had complained, of toothache and about her throat.

A pathologist, at the inquent, at- tributed her death to a gorm which,

he thought, entered the bloodstream

through a tooth socket.

GRIECE

TURKEY

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Sea

ISTANBUL Scutari

Dardanelles

TURKEY

That the Dardanelles, the narrow strait uniting the Sca of Marmara with the Acgoan, it the first of the two gate- ways to the Black Sea; the other the Bosphorus.

The strait. 47 miles long. -divides the peninsula of Calli

poll, on the north-west, from Asia Minor, on the south- east. Its strategic import- ance is obvious.

Joan, one of 10 children, would || have been nine.'in July, Min

For nearly 500 years Tur key has been the guardian of the Dardanelles Bosphorus.

and. the

After Turkey's defeat in the last war the Straits were declared "open, both in peace and war, to every vessel of commerce or of war" (Treaty of Sevres, 1920).

This was changed when Turkey recovered under Kemal's leadership. The Straits, demilitarised, were to be closed-to warships of any onc Power exceeding the strength of the strongest Black Sea fleet (Treaty of Lausanno, 1923)..

Thirteen years later, after the Abyssinian and Rhineland crises, Turkey won her. da- mand for revision (Montreux Convention. 1936). She was ¡given the right: ̧

1. To remilitarise the Straits.

2. If engaged in war, to close the Straits.

3. If threatened by war, to close the Strait's "untess the League Council' · decided This step was 'not justified.

An innocent

abroad looks at

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QUESTION: Where and what is Pantelleria?

ANSWER: A small Italian Island strategically placed 'be- tween Italy and Norih Africa, transformed into a sea and air base in the last two years.

Like nearby Natta, the Beltish · bune, 11- seeks to command the bottle-neck which

Joins

the western and eastern bailns of the Mediterranean.

Some experts say is better placed than Malta because it lea like an anchored battleship right In the only deep-waler channel. while talia is further to the south-east.

Forty-five

squaro mles

June 14, 1940.

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Why Tunis gives Italy a headache

by

HARRY GREENWALL

GABES (Tunisia). THE vital importance the French General Staff at- taches to the Protectorate of Tunisia may be gathered from a remark made to me by a high French official who said: "If Italy declares war we shall in- vade Tripolitania so as to INCE

protect Egypt.".

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A FEW FACTS ABOUT

OUR NEW ENEMY

Population 43,578,000.

ITALY

I have reason to know that this plan is within the know- ledge of the Italian Govern- ment, and accounts in no small measure for the outbursts of claims respecting Tunisia.

The Italian-inspired Press states that the French intend to use this country as a jump- ing-off place to attack Tripo- Iltania.

Whatever may be the truth concerning the Italian allegation, it must be a well-established fact that the French have absolutely nothing to fear from an Italian ot- tack launched from the neighbour- lng colony.

The so-called Tunisian Maginot Line runs southwards from this city alongside the foothills which __themselves descend perpendicus- larly to the Italian frontler. It is claimed that this colonial Maginot Line is

even stronger than the Line alongside the Rhine.

With the offelal secrets 1 have nothing to do, but even a layman cannot imagine any foreign strate- gist launching an attack in this forlorn terrain,

Impassable Barrier

GABES Is approximately 250 miles from Tunis, and is linked to it by a railway line which follows the contours of the coast. The "pill-boxes" and subterranean fortresses which form the first line of defence may be even stronger than the

experts say they are; but, at all events, the second line of defence, which is provided by Nature herself, is an impassable barrier which will defy any weapon of offence except aeroplanes,

This second line is nothing less than two huge salt lakes which, except for a few miles, in the Algerian-Tunisian Irontier with the Mediterranean.

In Arabic a lake is called "Chott." To the extreme west is Chott el Ghares, which goes from the Al- gerla frontier eastwards to a small and narrow neck of land which separates the lake from the enorm- Chott el Djerid, the end of which is roughly 20 miles from the Mediterranean.

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So, even it an attacking force successfully overrun the "Maginot Line" along the mountains to the south, It would be faced by a pro- blem such as no military chief since Hannibal has ever had to face

ledge imparted Area 119,714 sq. miles. The extent of land frontiers is 1,185 miles, coast length being 5,326 miles.

Agriculture, including the growing of grapes and olives, forms the principal industry, agricultural – land extending to 70,548,878 acres. Is practically self-supporting in foodstuffs, produce of cereals totalling 10,000,000 tons.

Textiles are the largest and most important manufacturing industry.

Italy is not rich in mineral deposits, and is especially lacking în coal. Production of iron and steel amounts to only about 3,000,000 tons.

The chemical industry has been greatly de veloped, the production of sulphuric acid being 15,317,273 tons. Oil output is almost negligible..

Mercantile marine totals 2,071,830 tons gross. Italy's colonial empire is principally in Africa, and consists of Italian East Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland) and Libya. On Good Fri- day, April 7, 1939, Italy invaded Albania, which is now part of the Italian Empire and is administered Lieutenant-General. Population. 1,000,000. Area 10,629 sq. miles.

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From Impressions gained by per- sonal inspection, and from know- by persons who speak with the voice of authority, I nin able to affirm that the French General Staff does not anticipate any danger from the south, but if the danger of attack. does terlalise it will come from the east, and for this reason work is going Lon day and night to fortify the Gui

of Hammamet.

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Hugo batteries of long-range guns have been erected Just to the north _of_Sɑusso, and other batteries are... being built between Zaghouart and Hammamet.

Bone Of Contention

IT is claimed that the Port of Bizerte, north of Tunis, is a ter rifcally strong position, and that the artificial fake behind Bizerte is big enough and deep enough to hold the whole British Mediter- ranean Fleet in comfort and safe-

ty.

This, I am afraid, is at the pre- sent moment rather an exaggera=- tlon.

The territory of Tunisia is about one-third the size of Franco, but a considerable part of it is uninha- bitable. The population at the last cenius was '2,400,000.

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We at home pre apt to think of this country as one of those very for away places, and, yet do you know, this backdoor, colóny, France is just a mero 28, hours by sos from Marseilles, and by "plane Just on interval between an early breakfast and a lato lunch? N

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