VERY MUCH IN THE NEWS.—Egypt occupies a goodly amount of space these days in the cabled news. Great Britain’s chief interest in the kingdom is, of course, the far-famed Suez Canal. The first concession for this great undertaking was given to de Lesseps in 1854 and was for 99 years from the opening date. The canal was opened in 1869 and the total expenditure of the company was said to have been about £17,000,000. The length of the canal is 87 miles, of which 21 miles are in Lakes Timsa and Balah and the Bitter Lakes. The canal still can carry the largest modern vessels if the giants of the Atlantic service are excepted. Photograph shows a station on the “short cut from west to east.”
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Evening Star, Issue 20364, 21 December 1929, Page 7
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126VERY MUCH IN THE NEWS.—Egypt occupies a goodly amount of space these days in the cabled news. Great Britain’s chief interest in the kingdom is, of course, the far-famed Suez Canal. The first concession for this great undertaking was given to de Lesseps in 1854 and was for 99 years from the opening date. The canal was opened in 1869 and the total expenditure of the company was said to have been about £17,000,000. The length of the canal is 87 miles, of which 21 miles are in Lakes Timsa and Balah and the Bitter Lakes. The canal still can carry the largest modern vessels if the giants of the Atlantic service are excepted. Photograph shows a station on the “short cut from west to east.” Evening Star, Issue 20364, 21 December 1929, Page 7
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