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December 6, 1940.

H. V. MORTON takes you along

GRAZIANI'S ROAD

INTO

is said that an English soldier of the last war described Mesopotamia as "miles and miles and miles of-damn-all."

The same eloquent des- cription might be applied to the Libyan Desert, along whose northern fringe the Italian armies are advancing towards Egypt.

It is a terrible wilderness, much of it still unexplored, terrifying in extent, and presided over, according to Arab tradition, by the devil himself.

But the Italians evidently have no desire to repeat the dis- uster which befell a Persian army of 50,000 strong which set off to march into the heart of this desert many centuries ago, and was never seen or heard of again.

EXANDRIA”

SUEZ

DIR ELCO CAIROJ

LIBYA

EGYPT

EGYPT

TRIPOLI

●KIRKUK

SUDAN KASSALA KHARTOUM

ITALIAN TERRITORY

MILES

MOYALE

KENYA

IRAN

SAUDI ARABIA

SOMALILAND

TH? SOMAL

THREE ITALIAN ARMIES are said to be forming for n attack on Egypt, one along the coast to Alexandria, and the others trom Libya and Italiän East Africa planned to meet at Wndi

Halfa on the Nile at the south of EgyDL

About every ten or fifteen race, probably the descendants It is said that "the spirit miles there is a bleak little rail- of the varied people who inha wind" arose, and that some way station standing forlorn on bited the coast-line in Roman where in the trackless wastes the flat sand and, not far away, days, the 50,000 still lie in their ar- a poverty-stricken village whose houses are made mostly of old mour as they died.

petrol tins.

Along The Coast

There are no trees. The only stone buildings in these squalid The Italians are advancing, villages are the mosque and the not into the dangerous interior, police station. but along the coast road to

The extraordinary

thing

"They wear a voluminous, and generally spotlessly white, gar ment called a jurd, which is slung over, the shoulder and is, I have no doubt, a memory of the Roman toga.

..

stricken than the last, and then, about thirty miles from Alexan- dria, one comes suddenly upon n little walled town with an em-. battled Arab gateway; and this is Burg-el-Arab.

Desert Culture

This little town, which looks so old and Saracenic, was built by an Englishman after the last war, Major Jennings-Bramly, who has explored the Western Desert and possesses a deep af- fection for the strange, back- ward people who inhabit it.

When he retired from Government service, he decided to settle down in the desert and to build a town which might serve as a focus for the dis- persed life of the desert folk.

Burg-el-Arab was to be the market of the Western Desert, a centre of culture, healing and manufacture, a place where the Arabs.could bring their meagre produce and learn new methods. of agriculture.

Excellent work has been döne there and is still being done. Manufactures have been started, and the desert round about has been planted with olives, vines, carobs, and other trees with a commercial value.

The founder of Burg-el-Arab lives with his wife and family in a beautiful house which he. designed himself, and, if he has not been able to make the de- sert blossom quite like, the rose, he has at least the satisfaction of knowing that he has made the only attempt since Roman

Alexandria. This road is never about this coastal strip is that, little red skull cap from which times to civilise that desolate

At

far from the sea. some although it is so blenk and de- places it is ten miles distant, solate to-day, there is evidence but generally it is not more than that a flourishing civilisation two or three miles away from a existed there in Roman times.

glimpse of the blue Mediter- Roman Ruins

are

Const.

Instead of the kefiych of the Bedouin, or the tarbush of the Egyptian, these people wear a

It is not known at what point hangs a. bright blue tassel.

The only Europeans who in- habit this coast Greek upon the 200-mile road to Ale traders. The general store in xandria the British forces will every little village is invariably call a habit to the Italian ad- owned by some dark unshaven, quick-minded little inerchant

"I Shall from Alexandria, or, perhaps by

Remember. some emigrant from the Greek islands.

vance.

A SPLENDID WORK

HONGKONG probably more, certainly as many social problems to the square mile as any heavily populated city in the world. The root causes vary but slightly, with the ranean waves.

Like everything in this part economic aspect dominating. It is not a metalled road, of the world, auch civilisation This is the factor which does so

neither is it a straight one. depended upon fresh water. much to thwart and retard the

Along the whole 200-mile It would not, perhaps, be rash public-spirited work of the

It is now sandy and soft, and The ruins of Roman towns ly-

ing on the bare sand, the re stretch of coast road from Mer- to expect the defenders of several voluntary organisations now hard and full of pot holes; mains of olive terraces and even sa Matruh to Alexandria there Egypt to allow the enemy to seeking to bring amelioration to and it is accompanied, from of vineyards, prove that cen- is absolutely nothing to claim expect the defenders of Egypt the Colony's social sore-spots.

Matruh eastwards to turies ago the Romans tapped the attention until one reaches to allow the enemy to over-run Mersa

this a place called Burg-el-Arab.

bleak and unprofitable Hongkong's "victims of circum- Alexandria, by a single-track water supplies which have since

Fuka, Galal, El Dab'a, Ghazal stretch of country for many stances" number tens of thou- railway line that is generally either dried up or become lost.

The people who live along the are some of the names of the miles, drawing him farther and- sands; they exist at near-star-washed away in long stretches

coast road are not Egyptians, villages on the way, each one farther away from his bares vation point on

during the rainy season. -neither are they Arabs. They exactly like the other, each one and permitting him to lengthen an average

and poverty- his lines of communication, wage, as the current report of

The rain falls only along the are North Africans of mixed more

which are singularly vulnerable the Society for the, Protection coastal belt. The interior often,

to attack both by air and sea. of Children points out, of $1.80 sees no rain at all for periods of

When in the next few days I read that such and such per head monthly, and their pro-six, ten and fifteen years; even

"town" has been entered by the blem appears to defy solution. longer.

Italians, or that such and Buch a "town" has been bombed, I shall remember that dreary road/ to Alexandria, on which there' are no towns, and where there exists nothing worth entering for bombing, except the English- man's dream, Burg-el-Arab, As they wind along the coast which, I hope, will remain safe- road they have suffered heavy ly behind the lines. casualties, since their forma- tions are excellent targets for

That the problem is tackled

And it is to the coastal belt! at all is cause for commendation that the nomads come in the wel and satisfaction, for the magni-

Bow their meagre season to tude of the task is sufficient to

crops of barley, staying just long enough to harvest them be

the mysterious interior.

bring despair to the most en-

thusiastic social worker; when fore slipping away again into.

it is revealed that the S.P.C., alone handled 8,880 cases dur-

ing the past twelve months, providing care and attention for destituto Chinese mothers and babies, it is possible to gain an appreciation of the fine work being accomplished the

by fighters of Hongkong's social

diseases.

called such) of the needy and

alling. Cases are investigated where crucity is reported or sus pected.

Only 200 Miles

Why

our

By

Lt. Col.

we

C. B. Costin-Nian

desolate

hold hand

into their precarious petrol sup ply.

VERY yard the Italiansjour 25-pounders, machine guns

Our men thrust in here, there, have and are away. They adopted guerilla tactics, and are our clusive.

the sea.

Girls Tell Of Work Near Bomb

Girls at a Midlands #unitions

bomb.

In bad years the heat and the drought kill off their horses and cattle and reduce them to fa- mine, and it is necessary for the Frontiers Administration of the advance into the Libyan and bombers. They cannot find Egyptian Government to make Desert the more exposed and targets to fire back on.

free distribution of barley in longer become their lines of order to prevent these people supply-and the shorter and from dying like flies.

more accessible become This distribution takes place own.

The section of ground the In addition, over 75,000 visits were made to the Society's has been in the news lately, and at Mersa Matruh, a place that

We are letting them Inbour Italians are advancing along branches and centres, while its the next place along the Italian with the hundreds of miles of extends from Sollum eastwards, works told recently what it is then southwards, and forma like to carry on with their jobs. inspectors made over 8,000 visits ¦ line of march.

barren desert and allowing the land island fifty feet higher than 50 yards from an exploded: to the homes (if they may be

desert to fight for us.

For this is our plan-to let It is a natural jumping-off Mr. Herbert Morrion, Minis- From Mersa Matruh to Ale them advance just so far before plateau for an attack on Merspter of Supply, raised the xandria is a distance of only our blows fall, while in the Matruh.

heroism of these gir aftor visit- 200 miles. It is possible for an meantime heavy toll is taken of In the sweltering heat, the ing their factory rgently.

This is what the gile sald:- The self-appointed task of organis ordinary traveller to make this their land and sea flanks and Italians are now boasting that

Mis Malgio Batcher, aged 24: It in one day in a car rear. Defont for them under their navy will help them with ing and running Infant welfare. journey

these conditions in the heart of water supplies and covering was a change to hay a little excite- centres and homes calls for a spirit fitted with balloon tyres.

the desert will be all the more fire. If they try this a terriflement. I don't think my typing was which rises for above any thought of Two years ago I set off from decisive,

reception will await them off the any worse than ul

Miss Gertrude Baders, aged 20: At self-uggrandisement; it demands a Morsa Matruh at 5 a.m. and burning sincerity and redoubtable reached Alexandria the same

FOLLOWING the coast road, coast, where our Fleet will get Brst as we typed we said to our

off." faith. No praise can be too high for day at about 7 pm with every a mobile (semi-armoured) divi- the chance they have waited for selves, "It might off; it might go

bone in my body aching and my sion is now leading the way, so long.

Then we got busy that we for.. WITH three divisions now ad-got all about 15./ nose, eyes and throat full of a There are several of their small

Miss Doria A, aged 20: I am a brown dust as fine na tale two-men tanks which can only vancing, Marshal Graziani -

fire straight ahead.

trying to bludgeon his walelephone operat. Mlu Legge, our of Its contemporary social organisa-

on Blitzkrieg supervisor,, said he would stay, and Many 4.7 anti-tank guns have through-not tions, deserves the fullest support of It is not a pleasant journey,

We had our lothes handy, so that asympathetic publie and an appre- neither is it a picturesque one been pushed well forward, for methods, but by trying to build so did we

the Italians have recently had up camps and dumps of stores if anything hrpened, wo, were ready clative Government. It is a society

and water as he slowly- pro- to rungs for C The desert peters out in low great cause to fear our tanks. which should not be permitted, to

gresses.

Miw Winted Bibby, aged 23, also carry a defldt of $3,851 on the year's sand dunes, long stretches of

Dach stage offers un new tara telephone Arl: It was just a job. Working Nothing should be allowed stony flatness, and, here and Tractors are dragging heavy

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The Porf to hinder its work; on the contrary there, desolato marshes 768 and supply wagons, and the gets and detaches and disperses of wamell, aged everything possible, should be done which run down to the lonely forward infantry met so far are our enemies, who have to pro- bors in the detery kent on, to whe

in lorries. All this is eating tect this longthening line.

shouldn't y at the phonser fra N

those ladles who are fulfilling this task so efficiently and effectively, un- The work of the 8.1.C., Uke that

marked by the blare of publicity.

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