WHERE IS JARABUB?

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16152, 29 November 1924, Page 14 (Supplement)

WHERE IS JARABUB?

AND WHO SHALL HAVE IT? Italy Is again busy teaching us tha geography of Africa A littie while ago we had to learn all about Jubaland because Italy wanted Britain to give her some of it. Now she wants Solium and Jarabub from Egypt. This time, as on the other occasion, the olaim arises out of a secret agreement made by the Allies with Italy to induce her to enter the Great War on their side. In this agreement Italy was promised enlargements'* of her Afrioan dominions. It was in fulfilment of this promise that we gave her Jubaland. Neither Solium nor Jarabub appears to have been mentioned in the agreement, however, and the difficulty with regard to them Is that they are hardly ours to give They are on the frontier between Italian Tripoli and Egypt. Solium is on the Mediterranean, and Jarabub some 150 miles south of it in the Libyon desert. The district is inhabited by the warlike Sensuast tribes, nominal Egyptian subjects whom the Egyptians have' very little chance of controlling one way or the other without British help. Egypt has been granted independence, and for that reason presumably, Italy is making her demand from Egypt and not from Britain, though Egypt did not write the outside agreement.