GERMAN MENACE TO EGYPT
IT IS AIMED ENTIRELY AT GREAT BRITAIN TURKS" CANNOT BE EQUIPPED BEFORE THE SUMMER. By Telegraph—Press Association—--Copyright. "Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services. (Received January 14, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 14. In "Land and Water" Mr Hilaire Belloc declares that the German menace to Eeyot and the Suez Canal is aimed entirely at Britain. "It is intended to cut off the Canal route to the Easif, compelling a. considerable proportion of the Empire's sea-borne traffic to go by the Cape "Possibly they are using half-a-million of the troops which are ample and available in the Turk Empire. . "Most of tho units are already in existence, but they cannot.be equipped before the summer. They are entirely dppendent on Austro-German munitions, transported by rail and river, on the Danube and through Bulgaria to the Bosphorus, and mainly on the Bagdad railway. .. •■ _ . . "But a new line has been constructed through the Holy Land to Beersheba, which is a distance of 175 miles from the Canal, Beersheba serving as a base for the foTce attacking Egypt. - __ "Large stores of munitions have been already accumulated, from Beersheba to the frontier, and the El Andja line has been surveyed and the roadbed mado."
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLI, Issue 9248, 15 January 1916, Page 7
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