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SAMPAIGNING conditions in the Middle East were described by authoritative quarters in London. It was pointed out that the policy of the British Comman- der-in-Chief in Egypt must be one of "active defence."
numerous Italian
In Libya, the collapse of France has brought a great change in the situation, it was pointed out. The and well-equipped armies there are no longer threatened on two fronts but can concentrate wholly on the Egyptian border
The character of the Cirin- try, the difficulty of communi- cation, and the lack of water prevent the concentration of great numbers on the fron- tiers of Egypt. Consequently the policy of the British Com- mander-in-Chief in Egy pl
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must necessarily be one of active defence-active within limits which the changed con- ditions impose upon it.
Character Of The Country
The character of paign to be fought there is dictated by the character of the country itself. It is a de- Bert largely formed by a
for plateau, passable chanised traffic, but over very large areas covered with drift- ing Band dunes which make
Willkie because
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movements impossible. The dominating factor is the inck of water, and this accounts for the distribution of our troops.
At Sollum, on the frontier itself, the water supplies are insufficient for more than a very small garrison; isolated wells can be held and the de- sert tracts can be patrolled. but the real military frontler is as far back from the politi- cal frontier as Mersa Matruh. Similarly for the italians, Bardia is advanced headquar- ters and Tobruk, with its harbour, the natural supply base.
The frontier Itself is de limited by a barbed-wire fence five feet high and 12 feet wide, put up by the Italians some years ago, with forts at Intervals behind it, On the Egyptian side there are auch forts. The Italian fixed posts are natural objects of attack, and all land fighting so far has been conducted on the Italian side of the fron- tier. The barbed-wire fence
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mitchie still bitterly opposed by Thomas Dewey anth and Senafor Hubert Taft, und
E keynote of America's entured the imagination of the
that any
conception is boy, no matter of what race, creed or ancestry, has 11 technical right to the ambi- tion that he will grow up to become President of the United States.
Wendell Willkte had that amul- tion when he was a boy, but six months ago neither he nor any of thome who knew him thought that there was a chance in a rillton could ever be realined,
To-day, Wendell Willkie is almost us nen being the next President of
United the
States
Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
AS
About three months ago an un- Important group of big business men got to talking among them- selves, and decided that Willkie, 75,000dol. a year president of the Commonwealth and Southern Ulities Empire, would make a good Republican President
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It seemed laughable. Willkin had everything
candidate against reform-minded Roosevelt should not have. He was in big business, with an office, only half block from hated Wall-street;
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he had voted for Roosevelt in 1932, and Americans do not like turn- coats; he was unknown to the. great mass of American voters: he had stood against Mid-Western Isolation demanding ald for the Allies.
No one with such disadvantages stood a chance against Roosevelt glamour, but Willkle's supporters were undaunted,
In one month their efforts awung only three per cent. of America's Republicans to the Willkio banner,janda J
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nation The LOTINOD
mainly that Wendell Wilkie gave Ameri- cans the typical American sueress story of a boy who treated with meredible beber in himself that he would grow up to be President,
He was born in a minull town, be married a girl from that smal town, he made good in that small awyer. He moved to TOWN AM the big city, and made good in the That big city as a business man,
is the kind of story America likes.
At the Republican Convention at Philadelphin, the first ballots went for Dewey and Taft. Delegates were afraid of Wilkie: although
Press of the nation or that the port of it that is not pro-Roosevelt demanded Wilkie as candidate, delegates were afraid they would not be repaid for their votes f Willkle, a candidate without machine, were adopted.
a
But
broke popular opinion through their fear. Willkle climbed and climbed. Finally, towards one in the morning. Willkie WER nominated amid the greatest popu- lar outery staid Republicana can remember.
And what is the international
Willklo's effect of
nomination? be counted Well, it con British victory- in America's hustings.
The Republican party adopted a weak-kneed
platform. pence Duwey was for minding America's own business. Taft was a pure Isolationist. Willkie was openly in favour of helping England win the war against Hitlerism. And Will- kle won.
Great Britain enn feel confident to-day that America is going to remain her active friends. One of two men will be in the White House for four years, after this, One friend Wendell Wilkie or
By last weeks Wilkie, stil with- 'out
professional political friend Roosevelt.
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has been cut and various forts have been captured.
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Fort Capuzzo, which has been reoccupied by the Italians since the British first cap- tured and dismantled it, ia Berving must useful pur- pose; it compels the defending force to send continual con- voys for its sustenance or re- lief, and these are necessarily vulnerable and continue to suffer losses at our hands.
In Kenya
The fighting in Kenya is in very different country, and yet the limitations of terrain produce not dissimilar effecia, Hoads are few, cross-country movement, especially in the rainy season, la diffent, and the lack of water makes im- possible a heavy concentration of troops. The frontier itself almost follows the contour of the Abyssinian plateau, which breaks down in cliffs to the Kenya plain.
Such few British posts as there were on the Kenya fron- tier were lightly held, and could not be defended for any length of time against attack from the plateau above. More- over, conditions in Abyssinia had compelled the Italians to maintain there forces much larger than were required in Kenya. This enabled the Italians temporarily to occupy the north-castern corner of Kenya the Mandera triangle between Abyssinia and Italinu Somaliland. There we had no troops at all, not even police, and by what they described as "the brilliant combined action
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of land and air forces" the Italians, their movements made easier by the existence of a road just Inside the fron- tier, were able to enter the country and occupy a number of water holes The capture of these they announced as a military triumph.
To the west of that triangle the frontier past of Moyale, defended by a single company of the King'n African Rifles, for five days resisted Kuperior forces supported by artil- lery and aircraft with a total luss of only teя тем,
Farther to the west, north of Lake Rudolf. British forces have Laken the Initiative, and native troups have roided far into the enemy country and done consider- able damage to such military ob- Jectives as exist,
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the papal sex1? Is the century?
Was
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3. If you were given a pycnite would you:-
+(?
Plant it, cook it, kill (1, or wear
Bfly-nine hundred and 4. One years ago to-day a famous engineer who designed The Rockel" was born.
ja) What was his name?; (b) for what invention did he receive
£1,0007
5. During what campaign was a warship first sank by submarine?
6. What famous British author wrote in 1660:-
"1 did rend for a cup of tea, a China drink of which I had never drunk before."
7. What is srung with the spel- ling of these*~~~
(a) Brocoll!, (b) deifinium, (c) palardin, (d) penstemon, (e) achzanthus, (1) narcisuse,
B. How old was the younges English Prime Minhter when be 'took office?
8. If you read that its chief places are Keitum, Tianum, Mor- Bud), Rantum and Westerland, could you name the island?
10. What is tarpaulin?
11. Which signs of the Zodiac signify:-:
(a) Ram, (b) Twins, (c) Goat.) 12. What film star onre cap- fained Bussex ai cricket? (fe
15. Name the Belgian
(a) Premier, (b) Foreign Minis- ler, (c) Defence Minister.
16. Which has been British the Jonger-Malta or Gibraltar?
17. In what famous novel ap Dear Sir William Ashton as Lord Keeper of Scotland, and Lucy, his daughter as the bride?
18. Hearing A "fagotto" you would know it was a:
Violin, drum, stute, piano, “bas- soon, clarinet.
10. Sir Benjamin Backbite was
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(a) Character in a nlay. (b) English politician, (e) Elizabethan adventurer.
20. The French department of Ardennes is bounded by thre historio rivers. What are they?
ANSWERS
1. Avignon; 1309-1377.
2. South
Dakota, USA; Stoux Indians.
the
3. Wear it is a variety of
topaz.
4. (a) George Stephenson; (b)
colliery safety lamp.
5. American Civil War, in 1864. 6. Pepys.
7. Broccoll, delphinium, gaillardin,
pentsteman, schizanthus, nar
8. Pitt, twenty-four.
9.
Sylt
10. Canvas covered with tar.
11. Aries, Gemini, Capricornus.
12. Aubrey Smith.
13. Sack of wool, 864lbs.;- chest
tea, 84lbs.
14. 1 Corinthians, x, 12.
of
18. M. Pierlot, M. Spaak, General
Deals. 16, Gibraltar, becane British in
1713 and Malta in 1814.
17. Scott's "Bride of Lammermoor."
13. Which in the heavier: (a) Sack of wool or (b) chest of tea? Give the weight of each.
that 14. Wherefore let him thinketh he standeth take heed 2.10. Bassoon, lest ho falls from west
(a) Paalma, (b) Proverbs, (c) Corinthians, (d) St. Matthew.
19, Character in Sheridan's T
School for Scandal."
20. Meuse, Marie, Alme.
In Kenya, as on the Libyun fron- tier, fighting is likely to be more In the nature of skirmishing and guerrilla warfare than of military manoeuvres on a grand scale. The rainy season has begun, and mill- tary activities are likely to be hampered very considerably, but the guerrilla can still play his part, and the war of attrition, which may well decide the issue in Abys- riniu, is not Hkely to be closed down by bad weather,
Iceland likes its 'B.E.F.'
ARLY in the summer we
occupied Iceland.
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The Icelanders were as aur- prised as anyone: "Why pick on as?" they said, "There's nothing here but ish."
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Most people here have forgotten about this occupation now, and it may seem remote topic; but Iceland may yel be of strategie
and imperlance,
our Army Occupation is still there.
The troops have settled down comfortably; the Icelanders--most of whom had never seen an armed suldier before-have taken to them well.
Kan
Soine 30 Icelandic ships are con- stantly bringing us fish. Scamen who have been to Hull & Grimsby speak some English, make friends with our troops; housewives in the suburbs of Reykjavik look hot coffee to them when they were living under canvas, realising that they might find it cold.
(In fact, Iceland is not a land of Ice & snow; it has about the same mean temperature as North Scot- land. Chief hardship, in winter, is the black-out; daylight lasts only 5-0 hours. Just now, with the midnight sun, there is no darkness at all.)
It took our men only a fortnight to drink all Iceland's stocks "of boer. This isa't as bað (or good)
it sounds. Icelandic beer is practically non-alcoholic.
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GERMANS were beginning to take
an interest in Iceland before the war.
Some of their scientists were sur
it geologically.
Other veying "scientists" — Nazi backs — were congratulating Icelanders on being pure Aryans. Sounder scientista, from America, found that Ice- landers closest relatives were the Scote & Irish.
There were about 100 Germans in Reykjavik when war broke out --seamen & shopkeepers mostly, as elsewhere
well organised by the Nazis,
Dr. Gerlach, German consul, was Nazi big-shot; fow regretted his departure (except some children who had been invited by his 11- year-old daughter to her birthday party that day). Only one English book was found in his big library: Douglas Reed's "Insanity Fair
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