NOTHING NEGLECTED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 December 1940, Page 5

NOTHING NEGLECTED

IN THE BRITISH DEFENCE OF EGYPT •' AN INTERESTING REVIEW. ITALIAN DREAM MELTING AWAY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, December 4. ' Britain’s prospects in the Middle East are good, according to the editor of an Egyptian newspaper who has just returned from a visit to the Western Desert. Remarking that Britain has neglected nothing to ensure that Egypt’s defences are impregnable, he says that Mussolini entrusted Marshal Graziani, his most able commander in desert warfare, with the task not only of se-. curing Italian domination of Egypt, but of conquering the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, thus securing an empire stretching to the remotest corners of Africa and to the Far East. ' The writer of the '.article says that the strong defences of the British forces in Egypt have caused this dream to melt away in painful disillusion. If in Albania the enemy’s strength is already yielding under the hammer blows of the Greeks, it will smash asunder in the Western Desert.