SUEZ CANAL
STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE BRITISH EGYPTIAN POLICY'. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 26 The ‘ Daily Express ’ states that the Committee of Imperial Defence lias completed the report on British military policy in Egypt which was referred to it by Air Ramsay MacDonald. The report stresses the vital strategic importance of the Suez Cana], and recommends that whatever Britain’s political relations with Egypt may be, an adequate force of British troops should lie maintained on the canal banks together with naval patrols on the canal. In order to protect these troops and patrols from possible aggression from land a British force would have to be maintained continuously in Cairo. The report therefore recommends that the number of troops there now—namely, 12,000—should on no account bo reduced. The ‘Daily Express’ adds that the Cabinet lias accepted the report to form a. basis for British policy in Egypt.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19004, 28 July 1925, Page 5
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149SUEZ CANAL Evening Star, Issue 19004, 28 July 1925, Page 5
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