MALARIA IN EGYPT
65,000 DEATHS. LONDON, Feb. 24. The Egyptian Senate last night angrily discussed the press censorship, says Reuter’s Cairo correspondent. Hey|kal Pasha, president of the Liberal Party, said tb.at London newspapers coerced the Government to release news of the' malaria menace in Southern Egypt. Hussein Siri’v Pasha, a former premier also accused the Government of suppressing the news of malaria. He said that censors banned an article stating sixty-five thousand had died in southern Egypt, while food intended for the victims had been stolen.
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Grey River Argus, 26 February 1944, Page 4
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