TRIP INTO DESERT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 119, 22 May 1941, Page 10

TRIP INTO DESERT

MR. FR/fSER IN EGYPT TROOPS SEEN IX TRAINING. (N.Z.E.P. Official News Service.) CAIRO, May 20 thJ r^ vell l ng u many miles °ut into the desert this morning, the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. P saw a formation of New Zealand troops tD ;day engaged in desert training. Although these conditions are far different from those in your own country you seem remarkably fit and well, said Mr. Fraser. He congratulated the men on their appearance, and said he was sure that when the time came they would do their job just as well as those who had served in Greece. Mr. Fraser visited a completely equipped desert dental hospital While visiting a desert medical hosP!tal. he saw a field ambulance which had been presented to the New Zealand forces by the people of Paisley. Scotland. A luncheon party given at the British Embassy yesterday in honour of Mr. Fraser was attended by Hussein Sirry Pasha. Prime Minister, and other Egyptian Cabinet Ministers, General Sir Archibald and Lady Wavell, Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Blarney, the United States Minister, Mr. Kirk, and senior New Zealand staff officers. The base commandant of the Expeditionary Force gave a largelyattended evening reception at Shepherd's Hotel for Mr. Fraser. The British Ambassador, Sir Miles Lampson, and Lady Lampson, the Greek Minister, M. Capsalis, and Madame Capsalis, and senior officers of the services were among those present.