The large-scale movements of Brit. ish naval units in the Mediterranean being followed with unusual interest throughout Europe, despite repeated assertions by the British Admiralty that they are only of a routine nature.
While 24 British warships and the hospital ship Maine are now anchored in the harbour at Alexandria, the chief seaport of Egypt, fourteen British war vessels arrived at Navarino, a Greek seaport, to-day.
The Royal Air Force is also very active in Alexandria, where a plane {is continually on patrol in the neighbourhood of the port and the Aboukir depot, thirteen miles north-east of Alexandria.
'Meanwhile, it is reported that' barbed wire has been placed alt round Malta—Reuter.
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