BASE DEPOT IN KENYA
STORES FROM INDIA AND EGYPT ARRIVAL OF PARTY OF ROYAL ENGINEERS (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON. September 13. The Nairobi correspondent of “The Times” says that 300 Royal Engineers from Egypt have arrived in Kenya to prepare the ground for the arrival of military stores being evacuated from India and Egypt. A base depot is being prepared. Rail and road works are also to be put in hand to improve communica-
tions between Nairobi and Mombasa, and a water pipeline is to be laid. It is stated, he adds, that the British Government has decided to use East Africa as a reception base for evacuated stores but has made no decision on the much-rumoured use of East Africa as a new Middle East base. Nevertheless, it is widely believed that Kenya will be the new base, and that the decision to build large depots for stores is a step in that direction.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25289, 15 September 1947, Page 7
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