BRITAIN’S PROSPECTS GOOD
DEFENCE OF MIDDLE EAST ITALIAN DREAM j [U.P.A.-By Electric Telegraph-Copyright} LONDON, 4th December. Britain’s prospects in the Middle East are good, according to the editor of an Egyptian newspaper who has just returned from a visit to the Western Desert. Remarking that Britain has neglected nothing to ensure that Egypt’s defences ar impregnable, he says that Mussolini entrusted Marshal Graziani, his most able commander in desert warfare, with the task not only of securing Italian domination of Egypt, but of conquering the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, thus securing an empire stretching to the remotest corners of Africa and to the Far East.
The writer of the article says that the strong defences of the British forces in Egypt have caused this dream to melt away in painful disillusion. If in Albania the enemy’s strength is already yielding under the hammer blows of the Greeks, it will smash asunder in the Western Desert.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 6 December 1940, Page 5
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