Allied Troops Keep Watch Over The Gateway To The East. British Troops on wartime manufuyres in Egypt. Men of A British armored division leaping to it in the course of energetic exercises in the desert. The Great Allied empires of Britain and France hold the western front but they near their Lyes on the middle east. They ***** fully historic passes to the East which ***** in the keeping of the British general wavell and the French General Weygand. Heri as everywhere the British and French are working in close Co-operation. April 22, 1940.