SITUATION QUIET

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 25 October 1941, Page 5

SITUATION QUIET

ACTIVITY IN LIBYA KKITISII iWIKOI.S < ON I INI I NO ( lIMK I M Mil. Wrill IM MV R< < 10.3 Rugby, Oi t !*. A Cairo Headquarter* com inuiiique slates: “In Libya apart from some light enemy shelling of (lie harbour at Tobruk, which cau*r<i no damage, the situation throughout yesterday was quiet. Enemy air activity was also on -t reduced seale. Patrolling activi lies were continued in the frontier area, though no contact with the enemy was made." —B.O. W UNITY IN AFRICA >EI N AS ONE OF I.FFEUTS OI U Ml Rugby, Oct. 2t. General de Gaulle, in a speech in London to the Royal African Society, said the war was causing elements of economic unity to appear in Africa. “African lands, which at present aie more or less separated from their mother countries, find that they are to •a large extent complementary to one another," he said. “Thus, for instance, a thousand new links of exchange are being formed between Free Freneu Africa, Nigeria. Belgian Congo. South Africa, and Angolia. From the Cape to the Niger, people are beginning to real ise that cattle raised on the banks of the Shari can be eaten like any other, that lorries from Johannesburg can be used to good purpose, that cloth from Elizabethville makes a very fine suit, and that vegetables from Luanda are we!; worth cooking. "Through governors’ conferences, missions for study of purchase and sale and revisions of tariffs and Customs duties, one can see the outline in virtue ,of the war, of a true African economic life, which could certainly never have been created by normal circumstance . But also in the moral sphere the drama is organising African solidity. It is not in vain that men are coming from all parts of Africa to find themselves side by side in arms in the same battlefield, serving the same cause, which they all know full well to lie the cau e of liberty.’ —B O W