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BRITAIN STILL RULES SOVIET NEWSPAPER STATEMENT DISAPPOINTMENT OF ITALY (United Tress Assn.—Etec. Tel. CopyrtffM) MOSCOW, August 16 The Soviet newspaper Izvestia, in a leading article, says Britain holds the upper hand in the Mediterranean. Britain lost the French bases, which made her strategic plans useless, but beyond a doubt Italy’s domination of Somaliland or command of Bab-el-Mandeb, the strait joining the Red Sea with the Indian Ocean, will not mean command over either the Mediterranean or the Red Sea while Britain controls the Suez Canal and Egypt.
Italy cannot effectively attack Egypt from the Libyan desert. The issue of the war in Europe will settle the fate ■ of the Mediterranean, the article concludes.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21195, 19 August 1940, Page 8
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116COMMAND OF SEAS Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21195, 19 August 1940, Page 8
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