22 APRIL 1916, Page 2

Mr. Massey, the Times correspondent in Eastern Egypt, gives us

some interesting particulars as to the way in which the defences covering the eastern side of the Suez Canal are progressing. Every one who has been through the Suez Canal knows how very " deserty " the Desert looks on the Syrian side ; but now, we are told, there are plenty of signs of activity in the shape of a vast system of road and railway communication and of animal transport. It is interesting in this context to be told that the duties of the Prince of Wales as Staff Captain have taken him to two places recently occupied by us in force, and that he showed an endurance and a physical fitness which have won the admiration of the troops.