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Show Map of Suez Canal and Territory Around It Where Fighting Is On. J&whsup Tu?S "yac CLAnSfJC J sHm egypt rMLiJS, v - ,cai) flra&77 j .oSjk Desert of JV05TAMI OR & '""' aka8aA jTcmm egypt Iji- 7ig'w jr This map hUows thu Suez canal, tho Ited sen mid the xouo in which the Turkish muiy of invasion ts operating. Tho olllclal report In Constantinople I said that the Turks won n victory over tho British at El Kuntnrn, about eighteen miles from the ennui, and asserted that they hud nlready reached tho canal Itself. It whs realized that If this report were true the most Important Impor-tant lino ot i-oiiimuiilcntlou between Great Britain nnd Australia and her dependencies de-pendencies In the east and also with Japan was In danger or destruction. Tho canal Is n"t protected by fortillcatlons, and un InviidliiK army of nuy size would probably bo nblo to destroy at least part of It with Htise. |