SUPPLIES FOR EGYPT
CARGO HANDLED AT SUE2 (Recd. 10 p.m.) London, Sept. 28. The amount of cargo unloaded at Suez, through which. General Sir H. R. Alexander’s Command draws its entire supplies and reinforcements, now averages 8000 tons a day, compared with 800 tons a week before the war, reports the Cairo correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. Quay accomomdation at Port Tewfik, on the southern entrance of the Canal, has trebled since the outbreak. This capacity will be doubled when the big new docks are completed on the east side of Suez Bay. The dock labourers are mostly fellahins from the upper Egyptian villages. They get a bonus for particularly soeedy unloading. Work proceeds 24 hours a day and seven dajgj
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 230, 30 September 1942, Page 5
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