BRITAIN'S NEW MIDDLE EAST BASE
Press Assn.-
SITE CHOSEN IN PALESTINE
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Received Monday, 10.10 a.m. LOJNJdON, June 9. Britain's chief Middle East peacetxme army base will be only aoout 12v mues irom Suez Canal, says the Duny Express Cairo correspondent. It ?is in Palestine, soutn-west of Gaza, where the army recently bought vast traets as a site for the base, which will reputediy'cost £1,000,000, and begins exactly ten yards east cf the jCigyptian trontier. {i, field lViarshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, who has arrived at Mana en route to Cairo, is expectea to arrive at Cairo to-rnorrow on the lirst stage of his inspection of tne Middie Bast instahations.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 June 1946, Page 4
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