MUCH IMPROVED
DEFENCES OF EGYPT
RELIEF FOR SHIPPING BURDEN
(Rec. 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, March 6. "We are in a far better position to defend Egypt or to meet an attack from General Rommel than when the campaign started," said Captain Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of State, at a Press conference. The railway which is supplying the British forces in Libya is being pushed onwards, and communications are continually being improved. "The British captured vast stores which General Rommel had accumulated preparatory to the projected attack against Egypt. These are still being counted. They would amount to between 50,000 and 100,000 tons. "Our economic measures will bear fruit with the next harvest, which should make the Middle East as a whole substantially self-supporting, i thus relieving the shipping burden. "The American naval base in Eritrea is not yet laKge, but it is going to be a 'whacker.' The carrying capacity of the trans-Persian railway for supplying Russia has already been trebled, but it has not reached its maximum."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 56, 7 March 1942, Page 7
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166MUCH IMPROVED Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 56, 7 March 1942, Page 7
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