Egypt

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 13, 18 April 1916, Page 8

Egypt

ROUNDABOUT THE CANAL.

THE JIFF-JAFFA SCRAP. fINiXKU I’UiCHS JISBUOiATIOK. London, April 17. Apropos of i 1 1 ■-* Australian success at Jill-jalla, la I* hi telegrams from eastern Egypt stale ill at the lurks pursue their prep .'•.rations m a hallhearted fashion, with less purpose of damaging the Canal than ol keeping the Bedouins restless, and influencing the Arab population in Asia Minor and Africa. Meanwhile, we are pushing on, and have made the Canal so se< are that passengers can sleep in their staterooms as soundly as' ui peace time. The defences have been completed at a speed highly creditable to the British territorials. The Indians, Australians, and Xew ZeaV.-nders ex.tend so far into the desert that the Turks cannot even see the waterway. A vast system of road and railway communication was dug deep across the eastern side of the Canal a year ago, when it seemed that the Canal was to be defended on water, but now the Britishers are far in the direction of the Turkish base.