Can This be Egypt?
“The New Zealanders are in Egypt, as everybody knows," writes a Cairo correspondent in a London daily. ‘The radio won't tell, the newspapers don't say. Ol' course, we can see their tents, but we don't 'know’ where they are. The camp spreads out over the desert. There are seven miles ct roads with names newly painted on signposts. . . . Here are lorries from New Zealand, camouflaged in green, looking like emerald oases in the desert. The sturdy young soldiers n>v drilling, marching, doing physic.ii jerks. No one is standing idle, no one leaning against anything upright, r.n one sitting on anything horizon!..l. To one lying asleep in the sun: can this really be Egypt?"
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20241, 8 May 1940, Page 5
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117Can This be Egypt? Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20241, 8 May 1940, Page 5
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