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RED SEA ISLANDS LONDON, April 18. Britain is quietly taking precautions against Signor * Mussolini’s next colonial adventure, which is expected to be the conquest of the Arab kingdom of Yemen, in southern Arabia, the mineral resources of which are as yet untapped, states a special correspondent of the Sunday Chronicle. Writing from Perim, the British-own-ed island in the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb (“Gate of Tears”), the correspondent alleges that during the tour of the Red Sea Islands he saw Italian engineers and sailors, who had been landed on certain islets in defiance of ths 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 rival Gibraltar in importance on the route between England and Australia. The Italians are laying the foundations of a naval base only 10 miles from the western point of Perim.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20731, 19 May 1937, Page 6
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