IMPORTANCE OF LIBYA
Historian Lifts the Veil ITALIAN WAR 'AIMS (Received ; ROME, April 3. I The poasibility of the transfer of General Balbo to a more congenial post after his exacting service in Libya is being discussed in conjunction with the official historian 's account of the completion of the great Libyan coast Toadi recently opened by Signor Mussolini. The historian lifts the veil and says the importance of Libya during the' Ethiopian war in relation to the seciirity of the Mediterranean and patticularly the Egyptian frontier .owing to Britain's hostility necessitatcd the employment of 13,000 men in ten hours day and nights shifts to rush the con* struction of the road. The temperature was 120 and there were perpetual sandstorms. The worst problem was the water supply. The men were tempted jto drink from brackish welis from | which intestinal troubles becaine rainInant. >
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 66, 5 April 1937, Page 9
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