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...Gibraltar to Aden, because all land forces involved therein must be supplied by sea. Commanding the British naval forces based on Alexandria was Vice Admiral Andrew Browne Cunningham, who last week had to report the torpedoing of the anti-aircraft cruiser Calypso, apparently during action against Italy's Libyan base at Tobruch. His ships sank several Italian submarines and the old cruiser San Giorgio remodeled for coast defense. The British said they were mining the approaches to Venice and the waters around Italy's heel...
...Middle East concentrated last week on Italy's Libyan and Eritrean bases, while South African bombers attacked in southern Ethiopia and Jubaland. Patrols of Lieut. General Henry Maitland Wilson's Egyptian command (40,000 strong) took two Italian forts and 200 askari prisoners on the Libyan border...
...Author Saint Exupéry, who fought his way through a 150-mile cyclone off the Argentine coast; survived a smashup at 175 m.p.h. in the Libyan desert (on his Paris-Saïgon flight), was rescued in time's nick after a 350-mile trudge...
...more substantial rumors seeped through that German troops had infiltrated Libya. Color to the rumor was lent by the fact that German Storm Troop Leader Viktor Lutze had just "toured" the Libyan frontier as a civilian. Also visiting Libya was Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Chief of the Italian General Staff...
France. The French acted as if they believed all they heard about Italian and German mobilization and more too. In Tunisia some troops were held in barracks, while others moved up to the fortified line near the Libyan border. French submarines patrolled the Tunisian Coast. The French Mediterranean fleet of 44 warships moved suddenly into the naval base at Bizerte, at the entrance to the narrowest part of the Mediterranean opposite Sicily. Carrying out "spring exercises" not far away were 92 men-of-war of the British Home and Mediterranean Fleets...