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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 5 (September 1, 1932)

The African Base

The African Base.

The Princes' Mediterranean cruise emphasises the importance of sea power, and of Malta and Egypt. Egypt is the steppingstone to the Sudan, where they now grow cotton on the Gezira plain, which is being irrigated by the Sennar Dam, and which has an area almost as great as the whole of cultivated Egypt. Egypt was a base in the World War, and is to-day a base for such minor (yet potent) expeditions as the Royal Air Force operation against Arab tribes, who were controlled by about 500 men who flew from Egypt to the Bagdad region, and whose return was announced on the 17th August. Each troop-carrying aeroplane carried eighteen soldiers and a crew of about five. These big machines have been featured recently in the moving pictures (a new avenue of publicity with big possibilities). They have another sensation coming in Mollison's Atlantic feat, which the world applauds.