Destruction Of Statue
(Rec. 9 p.m.) PORT SAID, Dec. 24. Egyptians today toppled a statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps into the canal he designed. An Egyptian youth lighted a charge under the statue watched by a jubilant crowd of 5000, according to British United Press. The statue of the canal builder, which has stood since 1891 at the northern entrance to the Suez Canal, crashed into a harbour barge. As it fell, the crowd screamed: “Down with France . . . Down with Britain . . . Down with the imperialists.”
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28160, 26 December 1956, Page 7
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