SUEZ CANAL SECURE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14155, 18 April 1916, Page 5

SUEZ CANAL SECURE.

(Received April 17, 9.15 p.m.)

London, April 17

Apropos of the Australian succers at .TifJaffa, the latest; telegrams • from Eastern Egypt state that the 'J'nrks pursue their hos-tile preparations in a ■half-hearted fashion, less for the purpose of damaging the Canal than for keeping the Bedouins restless and influencing the Arab populations of A sia and Africa. Meanwhile we are pushing on our preparations, and we have i:-ade' the Canal so secure that steamship passengers can sleep in the staterooms as soundly as in peacetime. The defences have been completed at a speed that is highly creditable. British Territorials, Indians, Australians and New Zeaianders extend so far into the desert that the Turks have not even seen the waterway. A vast system of road and railway communication has been dug deep across the eastern side of the Canal. A year ago it seemed that the Canal was to he defended on the water. Now the British forces go far in the direction ci' the Turkish base.

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