ITALIAN ACTIVITY

Evening Star, Issue 23681, 14 September 1940, Page 11

ITALIAN ACTIVITY

STRENGTHENING OF FRONTIER FORGES CONTINUES ONLY SLIGHT AIR OPERATIONS ENEMY PATHOL NOTED W KENYA FHNI (British Official Wirefce*.) RUGBY, September IS. (Received September 14, at 10.20 a.m.)’ A communique issued by general headquarters in Cairo says in Egypt th« thickening up of the enemy’s defences west of the frontier is continuing. Beyond the usual raid on Mersa Matruhi air activity is slight. It is now confirmed that one enemy aircraft was brought down by anti-aircraft fire on the night of September 10-11. On the other fronts there are no operations to report. An official communique issued in Nairobi states that patrols are active on all parts of the front. One encountered superior enemy farces at Wal Garis, on the frontier of Italian Somaliland, and inflicted casualties. Our casualties wen of the slightest. ARTILLERY FIRE INCREASING ITALIAN REINFORCEMENTS RUSHED T§ BARDIA LONDON September IS. (Received September 14, at 12.8 p.rn.T The Cairo correspondent of the Associated Press saya intermittent exchanges of artillery fire between British and Italian outposts are reported to be increasing. Marshal Graaiani ia reported to be rushing fresh troops from Libya to ißardia to compensate for the recent heavy British attacks there, SURPLUS WHEAT DISPOSAL PRESENTS PROBLEH INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION ONLY SOLUTION (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 19. (Received September 14, at 9.10 a.m.)’ The disposal of. the surplus of the great wheat harvest of Canada constitutes a problem similar to that-con-fronting Australia, which has ’large stocks from last year, also the United States and Argentina. : “ The problem to-day,” says ‘ The Times,’ “is intensified by the war blockade, but as the world knows only too well from experience after the great harvest of .1928 that price fluctuations caused by the unregulated og irregular marketing of great temporary suplusea can have catastrophic effects even in peace time. It is not a! question affecting the wheatfarmer alone. One of the major preoccupations of the recent Pan-American conference at Panama was how to deal with surpluses of ■ various product* piling up in South American countries. A committee has been appointed to arrange for their orderly marketing and for the necessary finance. Th* influential British mission, about to prpceed to 1 Argentina, and probably later other South American countries, to promote British trade in South America, must certainly deal with this problem, in which Britain is hardly less interested than’ the United States. On the face of it the problem can bs solved only by international co-opera-tion on a great scale. If resolutely tackled now by the Government in consultation with the primary produc-ing-countries themselves, they ought ta be able to work out a comprehensive plan for dealing with such surpluses, not only during the war, but as permanent world economic machinery, and thus prevent any repetition of tha disastrous fluctuations in prices s» largely responsible for the economis collapse in. 1931.”