CONQUEST OF AFRICA

Arty AnTiDote, Issue 6, 2 October 1943, Page 3

CONQUEST OF AFRICA

• ' ’ HOU A PREMATURE XT ALT. PLAN FAILED ' ’’' up ooooOooooooc----That Italy’s aim in Abysinnia was a right about face to capture Egypt and possibly the rest of Africa was an opinion expressed by Lt-Col (LI).IL Campling, speaking ofc Tuesday night on ’’Aspects of War” 4 Italy’s shipment of considerable quantities of war material through the Sues Canal wior to the attack on Abysinnia was the first of a combination of events. At about the same time there crashed in Egypt an Italian plane in which, it is said, were found plans for a full conquest of Egypt# The well-known aviator Campbell Black, then stopping over on a flight, was despatched post-haste to London with the captured information* It was also strange that in Alexandria Harbour in which British warships were anchored a large Italian liner caught fire and, burning, moved toward the bptile-nock roadstead, It is assumed that the plan envisaged the sinking of the liner at the narrow entrance, thus immobilising tin main elements of the British Mediterranean Fleets

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