After detailing the trooping season 670 miles, and then by the White arrangements for this winter it soon Nile and main road to. Kurmuk became necessary to write a word of the frontier, 300 miles—Addi Abal warning about 9 likely upset in the|and the western force. sehedhile, The Needs of the Mediter-From Port Sudan by rail to Kosti, ranean took the Neuralia of the Brit- 670 miles, and by the White Nile and im India Line and the Lancashire|Sobat River, main road and track out of tum, and before the opening vid Nasir to the frontier and Fort Of the season, to carry artillery and Bambels, 490 miles—Addis Ababa engineers to Malta and. Aden, and and the south west force. other shipg like the Tonic and Elfora were Aited out to increase the ton-rage available for new requirements, Egypt and the Sudan, of course, had to be strengthened, units moving from Egypt were retained and a new brigade war formed of Alexandria; and suitable measures were taken in Kenya and Somaliland. The Nevasa will be'a month Tate inher first Voyage as after taking the 7th Hus-are to Egypt she had some local 7 moving to do. So it will be with other transports and. all dates for hina, Karachi and Bombay are provisional. The completion of the new British India. ship, the Delwara,_ is being pressed and probably she will for out of the Clyde and into service in record. time.
'The passage of the Suez Canal has been" dimeult these days with the stream of Italian. transports choking, {t up, but our own port officers have been' successful in Keeping British ships moving without undue loss of Ume by reason of which it has not been necessary for any more vessels to be turned on the Cape route. The teaMe pointsman at Port Said and Suez are our own naval oMfcers aided by. the shore military stof and now, with an embargo on specified goods for Lensue Amressor No, 1. the naval role will be a much increased one. "The role wil! be complicated by the now free movement' of arms. for Abyssinia, os the Halians may make some blunt towards keeping out these cargoes.
The Supply of Arms This brings in the French, and their's will be the task of Keeping the railway open between the port of Djibutl and Addis Ababa as tong as possible. To. this end French military guards have been sent up the me to Keep it clear of unauthorized people and. presumably will remain there so Tons a8 the Abyssinians are able to hold the country north South of the line. When no. for able to do #0, the French guards will retire. before force majeure. Other Unes of cupply for Abyssinia will be alone the Berbera car Hargelsa and Harar Sudan Railway at Gedaret and camel Itallang get well down the Sudan "The four routes in the Sudan even above are also approached from the north by rail and river from Port Said through Khartum.
Tt will be seen that the main lines the arms supply are via the seaports of Djibuti and Berbera as sea transportation and short land routes make the task of delivery fairly quick and easy. 'This should have the: effect of speeding up the whole Italian campaign and the recent delay' must have made General de Bone Impatient, awaiting the arrival. of the Chief of the General Sta Rome, Marshal Badoglio. Mussblini sent him in the s, Biancamano and was landed at Massawa to confer with the Commander-in-Chief,
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