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Show CAIRO, EGYPT, . . . Egypt's famous Camel Corps, the hard riding Haganah, the "Mounties" ol North Africa, hold their an- nual desert maneuvers to train new recruits. Numbering more than 1,000 men and 2.000 white Mahara camels from the Egyptian Sudan,, they are the most colorful camel ' patrol in the world today. Dirided into three divisions, they make up the Frontier Camel ' Corps, the Police Camel Corps and the Coast Guard Camel Corps, In the almost Impassable wastes of the Sahara, where soft sands make automobiles useless, the camel is still King of Transportation. Egypt's Camel Corps patrols the desert day and night-helpi- ng down thievesN the helpless-tracki- ng -- and those who smuggle and trespass across Egypt's three thousand miles of boundaries. These men are selected on the basis of Intelligence, excellent eye- sight and a physical constitution that few men could match. They are trained to cross the toughest desert wastes with only a four day supply of water-a- nd it must last a minimum of 5 days! A camel can go 10 days without water. An average daily patrol covers 65 miles of Sahara sands! tents-n- o At nlght-n- o shelters are used. The Haganah sleeps untler the Egyptian stars, with his one blanket. Each is taught to"' bread-- is cook his own food. And the staple diet-des- ert baked right in the desert sand. Sand, they say, is the cleanest of all the world's terrain sand is dirtless and bakes bread perfectly. Most amazing faculty of the Egyptian Camel Corps is their ability . to follow any given camel track-amo- ng hundreds of others. The marks weight of the camel and the weight of his load are tell-tato the eye of an expert, w Leaving their barracks near the center of Cairo, a Police Desert patrol passes through the colorful city of Heliopolis and on into the desert. Following inspection, an expert guide and an oJHcer train a handful of raw recruits to track down a "camel thief" planted near Egypt's fabulous 4,000 year old pyramids. The expert detects the footprints of the "stolen camel'-sho- ws the to approach a hideout and how recruits how to follow them-ho- w to capture the culprit. It is a dramatic demonstration of old world policing that modern science cannot improve. , '..3 r -- 4 1 le . . . 1 SixtyFivc Mile Patrols Over Sahara ! 1 f a Tk cast mrlu''ea m, botlivgRivr Nil Sudan, wfctrt fh rit4r focaa, pnliti mrm myrtft hum mt tkm ppr dark Africa. i V i I TK CanMl fo!lw Crpi can fol!w any giwn cam! track emortg hmtrc!t f t lott cairght vp whh Hns. O.T,r-iorvc-tf caw)l IdUm and M, tm f krv Ktrt fk (oki m rUKnr wkot rcrv': wirh maoatsmi f?fvtt. 4 |