Fortified line established at an average distance of about ten miles from the waterway and about ninety miles in length—almost as long as the British Front in France.

General Murray's policy was vitally agitated early last month, when an army of 11,000 Turks did succeed in crossing the desert, engaging the British at Soma. Where they met with disastrous defeat, Hail this might have been averted. It was, the canal was as inlet as a woodland stream.

In the organization of his defenses in the Canal Zone, General Murray has made use of the training he had early in the war in France, when, as chief of the general staff, under General French, he played a leading role in the British retreat from Mott. An opportunity to study the organization and to see every feature of the defense of the canal was given to a representative of the Associated Press just transferred from the British front in France to the blistering heat and the shifting sands of the Sinai desert. 