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Water Supply in Eritrea . The Italian Expeditionary Force, it appears,

has been drawing large supplies of fresh water from Aden and the Sudan, both British (the Sudan Anglo-Egyptian). So far as this is still the case it suggests one obvious and effective form of pressure. It may be premature to cut off the supply before fighting has begun, but it would be intolerable that this country should be providing Signor Mussolini with a necessity of life to enable him to prosecute his aggression in Abyssinia. Even at the present stage it is not a matter for satisfaction that we should be providing him with the means for the prepara- tion of anression.

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