Cairo, Oct. 20.
While interest has naturally been aroused throughout the Near East by reports from Axis sources regarding impending German moves there is a general disposition to take German hints of the possibility of a drive through Anatolia with increasing opticism.
Support is lent to this view by all reports reaching here from Turkey.
Two outstanding impressions are retained by a Reuter special correspondent who has just made a 1,300- mile tour from Istanbul across Syria and Palestine to. Cairo—firstly, Turkey's absolute determination to resist any violation of her security and secondly, the virtually impassable mature of Anatolia, especially in winter, Kema! "Ataturk realized that his republic's army was Mable to be weaker in mechanized units than th e of the great Western Powers d therefore not only planned hiş strategic roads accordingly but also deliberately omitted to construct certain roads where they might prove advantageous to an advancing enemy, The "Egyptian Gazette" emphasizes that in any drive through Turkey the e ould find no oil and little ammunition, while the trans. port of these necessities from Germany would be a superhuman task with the Danube trogon over dom many months.
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