NEW RED SEA PORT
Italian Plan Receives German Support Melbourne, July 5. Captain C. C. Logan, a passenger in the Comorin, who is on final leave before retiring from the position of harbour master at Port Sudan, said to-day that Italian expansion in North Africa following the conquest of Abyssinia would result in a new and important seaport on the Red Sea. The Italians, Captain Logan said, seemed to have abandoned all developmental work at Massawa, the entry port of Eritrea. Assisted by Germans and by German shipping, they were converting the little native port of Asab, 100 miles south of Massawa, and nearer Abyssinia, into the principal Italian port in Eritrea. In the meantime, Port Sudan was obtaining increased trade from Italy’s attempts at colonisation. Captain Logan, who has been harbour master at Port Sudan for 17 years, left Sydney 34 years ago in the fourmasted barque, Torriesdale. He intends to live in Sydney. •
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 249, 17 July 1937, Page 11
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155NEW RED SEA PORT Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 249, 17 July 1937, Page 11
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