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September 16, 1940.

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If Italy Attacks Egypt..THIS IS WHAT

ETWEEN the low plateau

But is the Eastern bur

der of Italian Libya and the narrow bolt of fertile land that borders the River Nile on its two banks (thereby constituting the only strip of Egyptian territory that is lies The worth defending) greatest natural fortress in the world.

It is almost entirely made of sand. It is nearly 100 miles wide at its narrowest part; and because, for all practical purposes, man can- not live in it, it requires no army, but only a small air force, to hold any portion of it (other than the northern strip across which runs the coastal road and the railway from Alexandria to the for- tress town of Mersa Matruth. some 150 miles west of that great naval base).

This natural fortress is the great Libyan desert whose arid sands constitute an ob- stacle to armoured fighting vehicles without parallel. It is an incomparable ally, with the added advantage tha! It has no Fifth Column.

If Italy proposes seriously to attack Egypt-with whom. at the moment, she le not at war-it will be necessary for her armies to overcome this obstacle before they can reach a single really vital spot.

THERE are three-possi- bly four-routes by which Graziani's troops could ut- tempt an assault on Egypt's life. Attempts along three of them would almost certainly fail: that along the fourth would have a temporary and considerable nuisance value; but would probably prove not to have been worth the effort. Italy (with or without Ger- man aid) could send a desert force to attack the plentifully watered oasis of Siwa that lies 30 miles east of the Cyrenai- can frontier and 160 south of the coust; and from there. strike north-eastwards across the desert to the wretched water holes of Moghara, or south-cast to the oasis of Ba- hariya. From the first of these (provided that the in- vading force could success- fully negotiate the maraby chasms of the Kattara de- pression, much of which is 600 feet below sea level) u direct attack on Cairo would be theoretically possible: from the latter a similar attack could be made through Cairo's market garden, the prolific oasis of Fayum.

But. And the but is im- portant. Such an enterprise Ja probably beyond the scope of any modern army, tied as it inevitably now is, to the limitations of motor trans- port.

So tremendous a trek would require preparations ona scale so vast that they could not hope to escape first the eyes of our alert reconnais sance aircraft and thereafter bombs from our Blenheims.

Even if they could, such an expedition would, in opinion, be headed for disas ter as soon as it set out.

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You can train men so fine ly that they can endure great. heat and great fatigue on less

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By PHILIP JORDAN

Special Correspondent in the Middle East

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than a pint of water a day; but you cannot st train Ar- moured fighting vehicles. country such as that which they have to cross the appe- tites of such vehicles for both water and fuel, so far from diminishing, Increase siderably; and to feed them and keep them to a standard of comparative

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SUDAN

GATTIKA

ARABIA

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nirheld it is an ideni country for troop-carrying planes and for parachutista. In theory and providing that Ger- many could spare her ally a vast number of troop-carrying planes--Cairo could be emclency

dangered. And if Cairo is would require lines of com-

endangered the whole of the munication upon a scale that

Suez Canal

auffera would present an easy target To our bombers.

equally, for it is from the capital city that the impor- tant towns of Suez, Ismailia and Port Said draw every drop of fresh water that they

ITALY'S probable inten- tion-provided that she can obtain the initiative, which is by no means certain-is to attack Egypt through the coastal belt where the rond and railway run.

Her chances of success along this route, while grenier than those which would oper- ate in favour of the attack through Siwa, are slender.

Athwart the road to Alex- andria and the delta lies the fortress of Mersa Matruh,

Such in the adequacy both of Mersa Matruh's planning and of the British troops who operate from it, that a force considerably larger and more loyal than any that the enemy could concentrate unobserved would be required to force a passage through its concrete walls.

It is true that the enemy could attempt a detour with the object of cutting both the road and the railway cast of Matruh; but because the countryside is exceptionally advantageous for both obser- vation and operations by the armoured division such an attempt would almost cer- tainly be stopped.

THE third possible route is by the sea; but because of

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They have no other supply than the sweet water canal that starts at the Cairo barrage.

There is no point in deny. ing that the landing of a force somewhere close 10 Cairo would constitute a formidable menace to the country; but that it would eventually be dealt with I have no doubt. For besides the natural ob stacles which would impede and possibly destroy any at- tacking force along any of I have outlined. the routes there remain other obstacles --each tougher than them all.

AND those are the British Dominion Army now and stationed in Egypt and Pales- tine under the command of the cautious and able General Wilson; the British Navy based upon Alexandria; and inst, but very far from least, the R.A.F.. whose young men, jealous of the hazard that are permitted to their colleagues in this country, are playing similar their part with 1 bravery and skill.

Taken all in all the odds are heavily against the enemies of Egypt and Britain in the Middle East.

WE ARE TELLING

THE

GERMANS

Fallowing is a translation

B.B.C. broadcast in German

BY SEFTON DELMER

It is estimated that, despite? the death penalty and jam-) ›ming. 10,000,000 Germans listen to B.B.C. broadcasts.

H

ERR WALTHER FUNK, Reich Minister of Econo- mics, last week addressed foreign newspaper representa- tives in Berlin on the subject of the so-called new economic order for Europe.

It is fitting that Herr Funk should have chosen to put ACTORS the "new economic order" swindle.

He fe an expert in pushing fraudulent promotions.

I knew him well many years ago in Berlin when he was still a journallat, editor of the Berliner Boersen Zeitung, It was notorious that the

Was good Funk

to open bribes. He had an excessive and expensive love of the schnapps bottle.

THE nabobs of the heavy industry whom he had render- ed many a publicistic service considered Walther a trust- worthy and reliable agent.

And so, when in 1930 they made their bargain with Hit- ler by which, in return for their financial support of his party. Hitler was to hand them over the German people for exploitation, the indus- trialists sent Walther to Hit- ler as liaison officer with the heavy industry-and to spy un him,

Many years later, when Doktor Schacht

the economic breakdown of Ger- many approaching and re- fused to carry on without a change of policy, Hitler had recourse to his old experi- enced sharepusher, Funk. And that's how Walther got his present post.

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BUT I am afraid that he may shortly find himself with- out a job. For last week, when he was trying to sell the "new economic order" to the foreign Pressmen, in Berlin, he was really too indiscreet. Perhaps he had permitted himself a couple of glasses too many of his beloved Dan- zig Machandel gin.

Just listen to what he said to them:-

"When the, war has been vlotoriously concluded Ger- many will employ for the re-

the supremacy of the British Wounded. March In construction of Europe the

Fleet in Mediterranean wa- ters this is hardly to be feared. True, units in fast motor-boats might be landed cast of Matruh and might do some damage to both the road and the railway; but it road and the railway; but it would not be long before they were immobilised either by our air force or by troops. who might appear suddenly from positions where, the Italians would not expect to find them.

There remains the fourth route. The air.

Because practically the whole of Egypt is one vast

Belgian Parade

Exiles Visit Cenotaph Wounded 'Belgian soldiers, some of them only a few hours out of hospi tal, paraded with other Belgian exiles to celebrate their country's national festival in Whitehall.

They stood shoulder to shoulder with bemedalled veterans of the last war as they paid homage at the Cenotaph.

Under the black, yellow and erlinson of the Belgian standard they marched from Parliament-square and from the French and Belgians throng ing the pavements come "Vives" for

"Le Angleterre,"

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same methods which attained such brilliant successes in Germany before and during the war."

Well, even I could not have told you more clearly than that that this alleged now. order is nothing more than ugly, corrupt old National- Socialist anarchy over again.

ers and their capitalist accom- plices a cover of legality in their raids on other men's property. Only too true; the Ruccesses gained by these methods were splendid and brilliant.

Herr Funk too is a success. He can afford to pay a rent of 40,000 marks a year for his villa in Wannsee, almost as much as his official salary.

But Walther has the

money.

For- in his safe and trusted hands lies the admin- istration of the so-called New Industrial Fund, the secret [und of fifty million marks from which the big industrial- ists pay out the most impor. tant of their bribes and silento money.

YES, and then we have the success of the former com- mercial traveller of the Bava- rian Motor Works, Captain Goering, who since the arrival of his party in power has piled up fabulous wealth for himself. He has copied the Jewish financiers whom he decried so loudly by putting his own relatives and those of his wife into powerful key positions where they can help him as valuable allies.

Wi-

Hermann's brother, helm Goering, is the boss of the Germanised Czech Skoda Works.

And who is the new chair- man of the board of directors in the great Thyssen concern -none other than the one- Gauleiter time bank clerk Terboven. Yes, that's way to be successful.

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For the small fry among the party officials, though, and for the German people as a whole, there is no gain from these brilliant and splendid successes.

AND now, uxier the benevolent direction of Walther, a new econo- in mic order is to be instituted Europe.

these and

Бите great have which economic successes already been conferred on the German and Czech peoples are to be shared out among the other nations as well.

of

The great industrial land France is to have its factories razed

such as are not taken over by Nazis, Industrial workers are to be compelled. fo become agricul- tural workers-they have actually begun on this already. The dan- gerous competition of French in- dustry and all other industries to harass the big shail capitalists of the Rhine and the Ruhr, in order that the lords of the Rhine and the Ruhr shall at last 1 receive the dividends for the vast sums which they have invested in the Hitler concern, shall get a re- turn for the partnerships which they have conceded to, the Nazi leaders.

crise

So that from their position of in-' dustrial monopoly, unhampered by outside competition, they may im pose their economie dictatorship.on the peoples of Europe, the German included, may force them to accept a standard of wages and of labour reducing them to serfdom and slavery

BUT, thank God, this nightmare is but the withdream of Walther and his masters. Only in the event of a German victory.can become terrible reality.

So don't be downhearted, Ger- man lateners. There will be no subjugation of Europe by the Nazi gangsters and their capitalist part-

'In other words, they are go- ing to put forward the same old blamey about rationalisa tion, economic planning, Ger manisation, Aryanisation, de Lajudaisation, and what not, all

of which really served only For we.Britons are going to win this fight, the fight for, the victory one purpose: that of giving of Liberty--our" ilberty, your the small clique of Nazi lead-liberty, the liberty of the world.

Belgique," and "La Franco"

There was a service afterwards at the Belgian-church of Notre Dame de Hal, Camden Town.

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Hanyang Leaves On Maiden Trip

Several innovations in the passen. ger accommodation of Butterfleld and Swire ships are seen in the Hanyang, her which has left Hongkong on maiden

voyage, Built at Talkoo Dockyard, she has most attractive accommodation for

CLEVE 16 saloon

con passengers with four single and four double cabins. The ship is

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The Hanyang has much more deck space for passengers than usual, and the vessel will unquestionably prove a most popular addition to the Company's coastal fleet.

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The style of the Hanyang's accom modation may be likened to luxurious fittings on board the new Glen cargo-liners, in which the unc of handsomely panelled wall and companion-ways has been effective.

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The Hanyang, which is understood to be a 12% to 13 knot vessel, com- pleted her trials successfully recently. The fourth H-class ship to be built for the China Navigation Company, she has a cargo capacity of 2,500 tons deadweight and 4,200 tons measure- ment. A sister ship is still building at Talkoo Dockyard.

LARGE SHIPS WANTED BRITAIN IN MARKET FOR CARGO VESSELS *..

New York, Sept. 15. Beltain has re-entered the American market for certain types of i cargo vessels, it is learned in merchant marine circles, says the New York Herald-Tribune,

Mr. J. J. Walsh, West Coast re- presentative of the British Ministry for Shipping, according to advices from San Francisco, has made known that “limited number” of vessels. Lá the 17,000, ton, class or larger are being sought for immediate delivery.

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