AID BY BRITAIN.
PORT AND RAILWAY IN EGYPT. (United Press Association— Copyright.) LONDON, February 6. Lord. Cranborne (Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs) was asked in the House of Commons about a proposal for dredging Alexandria Harbour and the construction of a railway from Fuka, and whether the Egyptian Government had requested financial assistance. Lord Cranborne replied that the estimated expenditure for additional dredging of Alexandria' Harbour was 20,000 Egyptian pounds, and his Majesty’s Government had spontaneously offered to contribute a sum of not more than 10,000 Egyptian pounds. The estimated cost of the Fuka-Matruh railway was 94,000 Egyptian pounds, and the Government had offered toward, that expenditure a. sum not exceeding £20,000. The Egyptian Government was contributing the remainder. The British Government would not acquire any control over the harbour or the railway line.—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 100, 8 February 1936, Page 6
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