Cairo, Sept. 18.
NGLO-EGYPTIAN military talks, designed to reach an agreement on the role the Egyptian Army is to play in combatting the Italian invasion of Egypt, began here last night as a half million Italian troops continued their drive toward Alexandria and Cairo.
The Egyptian Minister of National Defence, Mahmud Fahmy Kissy Pasha, and senior British and Egyptian army officers are participating in the military talks.
Egypt's recently expanded army of 873 oticers and 24,041 men is under hho treaty obligation to fight alongside the British troops except in defence of the Suez Canal.
The defence of Egypt against the Italian invasion will be made along 4 front considerably shorter than the Libyan-Egyptian frontier, a British military spokesman said here last night
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