EGYPTIAN POLITICS
CLEANING UP THE AUGEAN STABLE. [ Australian Press A.ssn.—United Service. ] CAIRO, Sept. 14. Mahmoud I’asha visited Tanta, the Wafadists' hotbed, where he addressed a large assemblage of notabilities an 1 assured them that constitutional Government would be restored. He declared that the Government’s aim was to rid the nation of the fearful nightmare which had made the Parliamentary machine a danger to public morality and an instrument of anarchy instead of a safeguard to discipline. The Government would proceed dur ing the winter with the heightening of the Assouan dam and the construction of the GwbeJelaiilia dam, by which Egypt would receive an extra 5,000,000 cubic, metres of Nile water, which would irrigate 700.000 acres.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 220, 17 September 1928, Page 7
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