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By Lieut.-Gen. Sir DOUGLAS BROWNRIGG BETTE DAVIS

and

any serious danger from the Italian forces on parts of Italian or German air attack. the circumference. The advan-- CHARLES BOYER

An Expert The second group under tage of this position can best be

illustrated by taking the exam- General Wavell consists of ple of the Indian troops who

Sums Up the British troops in the fought at Sidi Barrani in De

Sudan under the command cember and a few weeks later

Operations of Major-General W. Platt. took part in the capture of Kas-

sala on the Eritrean border, over These forces are operating in 1,500 miles from the Mediter two main columns in an caster- ranean..

ALL THIS

Threefold Campaign AND

In the Middle East

Events in Africa have ly direction, one column along The second point of extreme the railway from Biscia to the interest and importance, the moved with such rapidity Red Sea port of Massawa, in value of sea power, hardly re- that it is wise to take a Eritrea, and the other from quires emphasis. Without com- Metemmn towards the heart of mand of the ocean routes our quick survey of the present Abyssinia. These two columns troops in Africa could not be situation in the Middle East, are operating about 200 miles kept supplied with the munitions apart. To give some idea of the of war, nearly all of which have. so as to be able to follow distances over which these to come to the different parts of future operations more con- African operations are taking Africa by sea, from the United

place it is interesting to note Kingdom. nectedly.

that General Platt's head-

But pride in the power of this quarters are over 1,000 miles Forces of the British Em- from General Wavell's head- achievement should be accom- panied by n warning. Every subsidiary theatre of war is n An approximate estimate of drain on the home front The the Italian Forces in Italy's East

pire are facing Italian quarters in Cairo. Forces on three widely separated fronts in Africa, African Empire is 250,000 all three being under the (about the same strength as the Libyan army with which Grazi- supreme command of Gen- uni began his ill-fated cam- eral Sir Archibald Wavell.

paign). These forces are made up of 50,000 tribal levies, 100,- A Free French Force is 000 metropolitan troops and operating against the Ita-blackshirts, and 100,000 native

troops.

arms

and equipment used

lians in South West Tripoli, The third group consists of the against the Italians in Libya,

ningham. These troops

are

.

THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph indicate news which is strictly copyright but there seems no reason to British Forces in East Africa Eritrea, and Abyssinia can only Bee 115. Such news suppose that this operation under Major-General A. Cun- be supplied at the expense of the troops in Britain. That is the Hongkong on the date of publication by forms any part of Sir Archi- operating in a northerly direc- nicety of balance which must be serve all rights and forbid republications, bald Wavell's plan. Its tion from the Kenya border shown by the War Committee on against the Italian troops in the advice of the Chief of the Abyssinia.

Imperial General Staff. And in tendering the advice he has to The enemy consist of a part remember that, just as General of the 250,000 mentioned above. Wavell has the advantage of Under his command General operating on Interior linea Cunningham has troops brought against the Italians, so has Hit- from South and from West ler that advantage in operating Africa as well as those ordinarl- against the world-wide British ly situated in East Africa: Empire.

mons.

PARACHUTISTS

HEAVEN TOO

Serialised by Harry Lee From the Novel By RACHEL FIELD

а

THE STORY THUS FAR: Made- moiselle Henriette governess -in titled Parisian famliy is tried for the murder of her employer's wife, and acquitted, Through the aid of Henry Field, a young American preacher, the secures a position as teacher of French in an exclusive New, York school for girls. Her pupils, discovering, her past, Taunt her. She decides to resign. Urged by Field, she makes tip her mind to stay and to tell them her story, thu demanding their respect. They listen breathlestly as she tails of the young governess crossing the stormy. English Channel on her way to a new position with the wealthy de Pralins in Paris. She tells, too, of meeting young Field, without dreaming of; the. part he was destined to play in her adventurous fifa,

CHAPTER 11

THE

HE young man continued earnestly: "I saw you first on the dock at Southampton! How sad those people were when they said goodbye to you! I was sad for them, I don't know why! That little girl, how bit terly she wept!"

"I'd been her governess for five years!"

THOSE who have already been worried about the possibility of the Germans using the British uniforme which they captured before Dunkirk for the disguise of parachutists to be planted on this country, will not be chief importance lies in the

When the lonely traveller was reassured by the reply given recently fact that French forces in There is a fourth British force. The fall of the Italian Empire

in Palestine, under General in Africa is startling in its ra-about to leave the swaying deck to a question in the House of Com-Africa are ready and eager Wavell's command, but this is pidity. The future in Africa and go inside, the stranger im- for active participation not yet actively engaged against will be full of Interest, but in-plored her to stay with such The War Secretary Indicated that against the common enemy, an enemy.

terest will be increased if we bluff honesty that she hadn't the bear in mind the immense dis- heart to refuge. efforts have been made to get sup- First of the four groups points of outstanding military vell exercises command and re- At the moment there are two tances over which General Wa-, into which General Wavell's interest. First, the advantage member the

"I'm an American," he went on. "from Massachusetts. My name is balance careful forces are divided is the acoruing to General Wavell

Field-Henry Field there's a Martyn which must be maintained by the in the middle. Oh, yes, and a Rave... assurance that they had reached or Lieut-General Sir Maitland lines; second, the vital impor any time the relative importance minister yet, with some travel. Army of the Nile, under through operating on interior War Committee in deciding at rond in front. I'm not a full-flodged tance of the command of the of sending munitions to Africa broadening myself with some travel. Wilson. Within this com- sea,

to consolidate a victory or re-will hurt a minister, do you?"

L don't suppose a little broadening

plies of buttie dress and greatcoats through to our prisoners of war in Germany, but he could not give_an.

would reach those for whom they are intended.

WAVELL

At first glance it right seem foolish mand is the Western Desert to send these uniforms into Germany Force, under Major-Gen-General Wavell at Cairo is in taining them at home against the

the middle of a vast circle with possibility of invasion. and present the Nazis with a tempta-eral O'Connor, which has to tion they could not resist. It can be its credit the defeat in de-j assumed, however, that if the Nazis tail of the Italian forces met wanted British uniforms as a means successively at Sidi Barrani, of facilitating Invasion, they would Bardia, Tobruk, Derna and have no great diMculty in manufac- Benghazi. Against the turing passable Imitations. Their Western Desert Force genius in ersatz production is well Graziani is supposed to have known, and the copying of a uniform mustered 250,000 men, half —any uniform-and its manufacture in bluk, would scan to present of war in our hands.

of whom are now prisoners Insuperable dimculty.

A portrait in miniature

She liked him in spite of herself, though when the boat docked, she said goodbye without consenting to give him her name, and walked away they'd as impersonally as though never met, leaving him deeply per-

·plexed.

Having reached the imposing home of the Duke and Duchess de Praslin to whom she had latters of introduc- tion the governese "followed the Lyerled servant along many shadowy corridors, passing on the way the MENERAL WAVELL'S de- Beersheba with the greatest possi-chning Abbe Galiard in the black,

robes of his calling. She was finally sert victory has been due ble speed, Wavell's hinged on taking ushered into a vart chamber where, Nibelwa, the Italian stronghold fifteen swathed in slike and laces, on a chaise the feeble fre, reposedi the languid and

Allenby moved his troops across The Duke, a handsome man, who had.

GE

laboration of Britain's two other

It would be much more to the point The Western Desert Force to the manner in which the men miles south of Sidi Barrani manced lounge which had been drawn close to K. 'we set about devising means has been altered in composi- under him performed, to the col- by crack troops, in the same way. vitriolie Madaine la Duchesse. whereby the identity of possible tion as fighting has pro-arme, the Navy and Air Force by night, had than hide in dried-evidently again on his exasperating German invaders in British uniforms gressed, and at one time or and to the fact that "we had up river beds by day and then ung spouse, soon saw that that lady moont could be readily established. Bri-another has comprised Bri- luck." tain's defence plans, so complete tish, Dominion, and Indian otherwise, should not be deficient in troops, with a spear-head of

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The statement should remove all portance of freeing Egypt double. Britain has no territorial and the Suez Canal from designs on Abyssinto, but intends to free the country from the invader, Hallo Selassie, for his part, is anxious that when restored to the tirone he should have the advice and guidance of progressive countries in developing the destinies of His people.

The Emperor is known to have been working "fortio abolition of slavery in this dominions before the Italian bggression. When the coun Ley is freed it will ent upon a now ilta. There will be dinoullies, when so much intractable-hummi how to be dealt withy put must be

encounter with

abrigade of 'Australian "light horse to more the newcomer, and, spoke in nt Beersheba with such speed that her place. ma But every one the Turks were prevented from des-"We require a povezzicss file. in Egypt is talk- troying the wolls or

escaping.

Desportes ho-began, t, agrocably, "to ing about Wa- General Wavell aimilarly moved take full charge of the children! I'm afraid you'll and them quite a hand- vell's genius as his troops across the desert by nightful, The three girls are at the awk a general, with had them hide there by day and

ward, ages between- sovens and eleven. Imagination nung tanks followed by infantry at

Then there's a boy who wng born some enough to put on Nibeiwn in the same manner seizing years Intor" Ibe. Duke's eyeshad grown strangely tender. Raynald his name 18-he's not quite four m'bright. 1. "Raynald is senaliivat like me,” sighed General Wavell followed up the first the Duchess, filing at her husband who built thrust with a crescendo. of blows so accusingly, For years before he was 'army that rapidly that the enemy was still be born I was made ill and slahappy and he will always bear the marks of, my

uffering

a campaign of all supplies and Immediately turning

daring, them to use against the enemy.

of

breathless 09. As in the Palestine - campalar Ittle fallow but his health piana??

#and, trainer

the

troops

the

chinsed the

lans out of Egypt ing surprised the day after the drive

opened.

In his biography of Allenby ★

The Army head cannot command the Navy or Air Force to do anything. The He can only ask, a

first followed by Louise, and umbelle.

In less than a week.

General Wavell wrote: The great In the Middle war saw the virtual passing from the kick and at the moment Mme. Mall- "The Duke rave the "fra an Impatient Bast there is no battlefield of cavalry arms, though iard, whose place Mille. Henriette was WAVELLE Uprome.com- not, if le hoped, of the cavalry spirit, to all, arrived with the children, Ray-

mander "over all which will stil) and expression in nald and blonde little Berthe came ~The Shocker ** three-bratiches, controlling and exploiting the mobl-

of armed vehicles."

campaign has fulfilled: **** La qulet, unas- ailve to the necessity of having the

man, not tall, but always most advanced equipment, has al He lost his left 70In France whya bean fully appreciative of the in the last war, and while he carries simportance of the sca" and air arms, a monocle to aid the other eye he

and gets alont Cunningham and. Alr

General (wavall his palways been

been General

Bir Before: the

Yeptun pei

adolescent, and dark like. (Bale mother? All were excited and Raynalds in over- flowing-emotion, plucked-blouso from his mother's favourite cyclamens. For this misdemeanor Mme. Milliard slapped him cruelly and forbade him hir suppor. It was for the new Made moiselle, he walled "because she had P-pink ribbons in her hair!"

The Duchess put her ...“ bony, be- hoad For dinavat'a sänko,” Maillard," she cried,

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gether, and told them fran thái họ campaled in Palestine in the last war did not have enough mat lefty a mark on him which is very offensive, but hoped evident at pressit. There are strike the way, jik

Ameds, * Such - daring:

Hakimimilarities between Allcam whitha, British Eripire is the

Leampaign rand : CaeneralsWavell's

·

Parson). PÅnd take the children ‘out, all ot:ibeni)!.When they were gonn¦ihe ried to her husband, with; narrowed Zvaryono, In this house Josows,

she cried manideslly

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