Here the desertion of France has inflicted a disastrous blow upon the shanees of resistance to this critical offensive, France hada very con-Siderable force at Tunis and. Syria, Which. combined with the stron harrison Britain had both in Egypt and the Sudan, constituted an army which would have been equal, if not superior, to anything aly could bring into the field in that region. The capture of Alexandria and Port Said would place the British Fleet in precarious position in the Mediter~ wre indications that Fascist Spain is preparing fo leap. into the Brena. She has lready earmarked Gibraltar and French Morocco as her share of the loot.
Military experts who have cast doubts on the genuineness of German threats of invading Britain are me lined. to treat them as a bluff tider the British Government from ling reinforcements to the Medi-terra 8 until it Is. too Into to take
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