Cairo, May 25, The Suez Canal area was raided by enemy planes, but, although a few bombs" were dropped, no damage was caused fand there were no casualties, Stated a communique issued last night by the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior.
Air-raid warnings were also sounded yesterday in Cairo and in another area in north Egypt, but no, bombs were leader, and cheques are still stream ing In s0\that the final total is expected 10 be well over £150,000, inger today is to ask declared Field-Marshal Smuts, in a birthday speech yesterday, ""The United States are busy arming Great Britain and South Africa og well og themselves for the Struggle ahead. They are doing it because they see the danger, Complete Confidence "As Jong as there is an enemy on the African continent we shall fect red unsafe, Our boys are going to Egypt. hope they will there help wipe out this danger which ig threatening the world. I want this danger swept, He expressed complete confidence shout the outcome of the war and warned the people to expect things to go up and down, feel that whatever vicissitudes this summer may bring the end will be that the Germans will again be ated. I om not nervous about the outcome. I sleep peacefully at, night"
Referring to Abyssinia he declared that of all the birthday presents ceived by him he particularly appre-elated one "which came from our friends in the north, They sent the Duke of Aosta himself to bring it to R.A.F. Attacks on Enemy Ships Apart from tank activity, the Ger= mans have shown no signs of trying to recover territory lost during" the British push last Week, and in fact seem at present more concerned with constructing defences around Copuzz0, along the frontier and atoiind Tobruk.
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