THE BRUISED SPHINXES
It is ;t pity, remarks a London paper, that it has been decided to lca\e Uie marks of damage done by a German bomb t(> 1 1 it' bronze sphinxes at Hie base of Cleopatra’s needle, as a “ war I reminder. ’’ The boles in these creatures" i sides are ugly, and we shall have I lenty 1 of “war reminders'' without delib ‘.-.d ely going in for unloveliness. No one knows, by the way, what tragedies have been enacted around Cleopatra's Needle in the i dim past, but this obelisk has seen Eng- I lishmen die, grimly, before, even that dreadful tragedy of the German bomb and the tramcar upon the dark embankment. Six men lost (heir lives in a gallant hut fruitless attempt to save the Needle from parting eornpauy with the ship (hat towed it to England, during a storm in the I lay of Biscay. It was subsequently adrift for some time before it was recovered.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2645, 20 October 1919, Page 3
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162THE BRUISED SPHINXES Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2645, 20 October 1919, Page 3
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