STRATEGIC FORCES IN EAST AFRICA
(N.Z. Press Association^.Copyright) LONDON, April 20. Officers from the War Office have begun investigations at Nairobi into administrative problems arising from the British Government’s decision to maintain land, sea and air forces for strategic purposes in East Africa, says the Nairobi correspondent of “The Times.” No decision has yet been taken on the size of the British force to be stationed in Kenya, the date of its arrival, or its location. The military correspondent of “The Times” says that the main administrative implication of the Government’s decision to maintain forces in East Africa is the need to arrange lines of communication and supply for the force, which is obviously intended to be bigger than one battalion. The task of such a force will be the defence of the Arabian peninsula and support of the Bagdad Alliance, for which it will require great mobility.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28258, 22 April 1957, Page 15
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