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Italians retaliated by bombing British defenses in the Sudan, flew over Cairo for the 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...
...Bombed Haifa again (claimed to have caused the British to shut off their Iraq oil pipeline...
...teeming millions, whose bond to the British, whom they dislike, is only that they dislike the Italians more, could offer no opposition. There would be imminent danger that the Arabs of Palestine, still piqued at Britain's unfulfilled promises of 1915, would revolt. And certainly the termini at Haifa and Tripoli of the pipelines from Mosul would fall into Italian hands. Britain's hold on the Near East would collapse...
...other side of Alexandria, at Haifa in Palestine, where the British oil pipeline from Mosul reaches tidewater, the Italians claimed a success last week which the British did not deny. Ten big Italian bombers, flying at great altitude from the Dodecanese Islands, giving the British bases at Cyprus a wide berth, dumped 50 bombs on the Haifa oil terminal and refinery, started fires which burned for days afterward. British pursuit ships from a base on Mt. Carmel were too late to overhaul the hit-&-run Italians...
Last year U. S. exporters sold $162,763,000 worth of goods in the strange ports that line the Cradle of Civilization. Excalibur's manifest was a cross section of this lost market: automobiles, steel, chemicals, machinery for Alexandria, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beirut; iron, lubricating oils and tinplate for Genoa and Naples; an assortment of flour, corn products, hides, apples, wool, tires, lead, wearing apparel, paper, missionaries. From Mediterranean docks, the U. S. got a $153,677,000 import trade. Of this, too, American Export freighters carried the lion's share: long-staple cotton from Alexandria, olive...