CONCENTRATION IN EGYPT.
'■■ SERBIA. RATHER THAN SYRIA
■ •■■■w;^ :■ -a : .'PARIS, November .21. • ;> ; "Lo t Teirnps" states that strong Bri•fcisli. 'cbntmg<*nts .are collected near the Suez' Canap and' are credited with the intention of taking the . offensive in Syria, via the. Sinai 'Peninsula. "Such ',an. expedition is unlikely to be success-ful-became is must cross 450 miles of. iirokeh country ;md tho, forces which' woitld' be used up on v the way'would themselves be. sufneierit to conquer Syria at. one blow if they were land?'!
Alexandretta. Making the Suez CanaJ the starting .point would be to repeai the mistake made at Gallipoli in attacking the southern end of the penineula. Of the considerable British reinforcements in -Egypt many could be {borrowed from Salonika without endangering the Suez Canal, and could be used in Serbia, thereby giving a better guarantee to the British possessions, becausp thY:- enemies which may threaten them are* in Serbia, where they must be beat-ou in order to bar the road eastward.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8303, 23 November 1915, Page 6
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163CONCENTRATION IN EGYPT. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8303, 23 November 1915, Page 6
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