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Reports in Balkan capitals indicated that the Axis meant business, that three divisions of crack Nazi troops had arrived in Bari on Italy's heel and were being ferried across to Albania...
...nuisance value of air-raid alarms. Bombs splattered on Buna, south of Moyale in Kenya. From the Dodecanese Islands they bombed Haifa and Tel Aviv in Palestine. The debacle of Dakar did not help the British cause in the Near East. Nightly the Italian short-wave station at Bari urged the Moslem world and particularly Egyptians to "throw off the yoke" of British Imperialism...
...years ago, when the Italian radio station at Bari was engaged daily in shooting revolt-inciting broadcasts at the Arabs in the Near East, British Broadcasting Corp. decided to have a go at the blighters. The first BBC bulletin in Arabic was not too bright: it told how the British had executed twelve prominent Arabs for riotous assembly. Since then BBC has got the hang of the Eastern propaganda game. It now issues The Arabic Listener for fortnightly distribution wherever Arabic is heard by radio...
Less than 50 miles across the narrow Straits of Otranto, at the Italian ports of Brindisi and Bari, gun crews were also active at the same hour. There, while warships, scores of other vessels, made ready to sail, heavy guns and men were loaded on transports. Three hundred and eighty-four warplanes stood by at airports...
Britain protested officially and unofficially. Italy's answer was to increase the Bari broadcasts and then start distributing to Arabs radios that could be tuned in only on the Italian station. Lately Britain has retaliated with radio sets...