FATE OF EGYPT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 30, 6 February 1939, Page 11

FATE OF EGYPT.

IN ITALY'S HANDS.

VULNERABILITY OF NlbE.

VISITING SPEAKER'S VIEWS.

By his control of the headwaters of the Nile, Mussolini had the fate of Egypt in the hollow;, of his hand, stated Mr. T. Foster, who arrived in Auckland in the Aorangi yesterday to conduct a lecture tour on behalf of the Auckland British-Israel Association. Mr. Foster has recently concluded successful tours in Great Britain, Canada and the United States.

Mr. Foster said that when in .Egypt recently he made close observations in the light of Mussolini's ambitions in the Middle Fast. He .found that the Egyptians were suspicious of Italian |mlicy. Mussolini had had a military road built from Libya to the Egyptian border, and retained a standing armv of SO,OOO troops. Recently 20,000 colonists were sent to Lybia. However, the greatest concern was for the welfare of the Kiver Nile, upon which Egypt, being practically without rainfall, was dependent for its water supply. The Nile was the second largest river in the world, and had two sources, the White Nile, in Central Africa, and the Blue Nile, which rose in the Ethiopian Mountains. It was from the Blue? Nile that the flood waters caine in August and September for the irrigation of agricultural Egypt. "Mussolini is now of the opinion that the water should noi go down to Egypt, but should be used for irrigating purposes in Ethiopia," said Mr. Foster. "Egypt's water supply could be cut off in two places—in Lake Tsana. Ethiopia and near Khartoum, where there is a rock outcrop holding the waters in position. A carload of dynamite could blast the outcrop and the water would be diverted into the Sahara Desert. The Egyptians have not forgotten the cry from the Italian Press after the fall of Addis Ababa: 'Ethiopia has fallen; Egypt will be next.'"

Mr. Foster said that be had come into contact, with numbers of Jewish refugees on both sides of the Atlantic. The present persecution and outflow of Jews from Germany was interesting in the light of Biblidiil prophesy. Jeremiah xvi. 16 read: "Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them (the Jews); and after I will send many hunters and they shall hunt them from every mountain and from every hill and out of the holes of the rocks." Mr. Foster said that the fishers were Great Britain and the Zionists and the hunters were Mussolini and Hitler.

""Since Hitler has made peace pact* with Britain and France, it indicates that his ambition is now in the Ka«t," continued Mr. Foster. "His next great objective is the Ukraine, which, Iteing in the direction of Bagdad, revives the old pre-war Berlin-Bagdad axis. At the time of the Czechoslovakia crisis there were road signs In German reading, "On to Palestine!" This is just where the Bible prophesies that the nations of the world will jiather for the final crisis. Mussolini, with his ambitions for control of the Suez Canal and The Jibouti railway, owned by France, comes to Palestine. Russia will also head in that direction. She cannot go east because of Japan, nor west becausc of Germany." Mr. Foster said that the BritishIsrael movement was spreading rapidly in England, and some of the leading personages were directly connected with it. Members of the Royal Family had made it clear that they believed that the Royal House of Britain was descended from the ancient line of David, set up in Jerusalem 3000 year.s «P°-

An Australian by birth, Mr. Foster has travelled throuyrhou West and South Australia and Tasmania by caravan, lecturing en route. Two years ago he entered the British-Israel College at Harrow Weald, England, for study, and has since engaged in extensive lecture tours. He will speak in the Concert Chamber. Town Hall, this evening on '"Hitler, Jews and Palestine." •*»