RED SEA ISLANDS
BRITISH PLANS FOR THE FUTUUE. ITALY'S EYES CAST ON YEMEN. London, April 18. Britain is quietly taking precautions against Signor Mursolini's next coloniall adventure, which is expected to be the 1 conquest of the Arab kingdom of Yemen.l in soutliern Arabia, the mineral resources of which are as yet untapped, states a! special correspondent of the Sunday | Chronicle. | Writmg from Perim, the British-owned | island in the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb ("Gate of Tears"), tlie correspondent alleges that during a tour of the Red Sea Islands he saw Italian engineers and sailors, who had been landed on certain islets in defiance of the fact that the latter belong to the King of Yemen. British plans to turn Aden into a permanent naval base are progressing, and with Perim developed as an emergency base Aden may ri.val Gibraltar in irnportance on the route between England and Australia. The Italians are .'laying the foundations of a naval base only ten miles from the western point of- Perim. .
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 April 1937, Page 8
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