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Show ; ITALY TO THROW 500,000 MEN INTO j EGYPT IF NEEDED ! By C. F. BEETELU. Spria Cable by Arrangement With LnnHon rtaily ! Telegraph and International Nc-ne Srvfi-e.) -j BORDEAUX. Dec. 6. A secret a r-j r-j rangement has been made by Great Brlt-.1 Brlt-.1 ain and Italy, I am informed in author! - tatlve circles here, whereby Italy will : Throw .VjO.000 men into Egypt if Turkey's ! army menaces Cairo. Italy will take this step, H is added, for the protection of her Interests in Tripoli. That colony is by no means in a settled condition, and a Mussulman success in Egypt might lead to an uprising up-rising in Tripoli that would tempt Enver Pasha to avenge his defeat at the hands ! of Italy three years ago. i Thanks to Italy's action in definitely I throwing her lot with the allies. Franco j recently has been able to move up to the : j front several additional army corps of ! j first line troops which have : hitherto i I oidr garrisoned to the south to guard a gainst any surprise from Ha ly that might have bcn brought about by Germany's Ger-many's intrigues in Rome. , ' Tarn also inrormed that England and France ha ve jointly advanced to Italy $200,000,000 to enable her to hear the 1 cost of mobilization, as hfcr Tripoli war left her in a condition of financial prostration pros-tration from which she has not yet recovered. |