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THE CHINA HATE THURSDAY –– MOVER
EGYPTS RELATIONS The Blue Sapphire CANADIAN
WITH BRITAIN
Page 6)
There is no question as to the
Page 3)
One or two customers came into the shop, sem
limbs. But suchĮsistants' and went had "never occurred commissi
natural Hiking that the Egypto him, and so no matter where he through the
tion entertains for the indivi dual Bagħishman; and: that-this
feeling is heartily reciprocated
asaway maybe at the seaside; Litle Robi
dass doors.
to the safe two weeks" holiday or. In He took out Dine sapphire, zitending jewel sales, or be which, in its red-lacquer bax, he
is proved by the large number tween the covers of his own little placed in the window in a pro- no sooner were his eyes closedțminent position. Near it, but not of retired officials who have made their houses in Cairo and in sleep than it seemed to him that too close to kill its subdned Alexanthia, partly because of they were open again, looking out aquamarines, and on the other side the climate and more particu-on the enchanted garden from the radiance he laid a necklace of larly because of the friendiness crecent-shaped bridge over which, a fifteenth century cross cunning- and charm of the inhabitants as soon as the temple bells chimed, by worked and engraved by Italian Then guildsmen, which was set with pale One cannot help feeling that he knew she would come.
with this natural sentiment of they would stand-there, hand-in-moonstones and tourmalines of a goodwill as a basis a lasting hand, while the fish swam as was soft, yet crystal-clear pink. settlement with this very like their wont, rippling the surface of He stood back to adhire his able race should not prove im-the pool, and the silver cold moon handiwork and saw that I was
rose slowly behind the garden good. It was unlikely, he thoug possible
The present regrettable state follage until it topped the cypress that anyone would ask to see the sapphire, though its beauty same-↑ of affairs in the north-east of tree
Africa and the passage of thou- But on the day of little Robin-times caused passers-by to look sands of Italian troops through son's thirtieth birthday he woke up and enter the shop, to depart with the Suez Canal has brought in the early hours in his bed with a stone or a brooch or a necklet home rather forcibly to Egypt
́Always his dream had more modern. more ex suite, with that the day when
broken off, incomplete, as it were, an age of garishness, of platinum nation can exist without fear
so that he was never quite sure bathrooms, glass dining tables. from of aggression
where it ended; but now, as he sat solitaires chromium steel marble Powers is farther off than ever in his bed, leaning forward There was a loud CRASH and the
Facts Speak Plainly
ging at the light from the sun-plate glass window shivered to a Facts speak plainer than rise which filtered through his gaping hole in front of him, and pacts and there have been so blind, he realised that it had been a gloved hand attached to a man's many incidents during the last different, and that as they stood aleeve clawed for the gold-mounted three years which prove that on the bridge she had told him that sapphire. But little Robinson was the world, instead of progress they were destined no longer to quicker than the hand. Without ing towards universal peace, meet each other in his dreams as a second's hesitation he dived for bas definitely moved in the they had done for the past ten ward into the window front. his opposite direction.
years, and when, with sorrow and fingers closing in a tight grip Signor Mussolini must be surprise, he had asked her why, round the sapphire in its bar. He given credit for one thing, and she had replied that he must not heard explosion, felt himself that is his extreme candour in be afraid for they would shortly lying on his hack, half in the shop telling the world that be together for all time. Then she half in the window. Everything
main reason for his bad come closer to him and let him was spaming Tound. the onslaught on Abyssinia is a de-hold her in his arms. They had Round...Faster.... Faster.... sire for a colony for his surplus hissed, and then the garden, the And then, perfectly naturally he population and the necessity for pool, the fish and the lilies and the was walking out of the shop and taw materials within the Italian crescent bridge and the moon-tip-through the door, hand in hand kingdom
rped cypress had ail merged into a with her, the girl of the crescent The most violently Anglo-winding, revolving mass, and he bridge and the garden with the phobe Egyptian cannot accusely awake with the tones of her ly pool. He looked down at her Great Britain of exploiting his voice in his ears and the soft fingers which lay gently interlaced country. in any way on these warmth of her kiss still big with his and he saw that she was lines, for there is not a British
wearing the blue sapphire with the
lips
品
Bound.--
colonist in the Nile Valley And to-day, little Robinson oriental gold setting, and when there is no Customs barrier in thought, I am thirty years old, and they reached the garden, which our favour, and our business I am never going to dream about they arrived at almost immediately firms compete on an equal footer in the garden any more; but in some unexplained manner, it ing with all other nationalities
it will be all right, because she has was no longer night but day! The for contracts and concessions.
Cypress told me that we are going to be birds were singing in the cy Trade Opportunities
together for always. So he got up tree and butterflies flickered and In this respect Egypt is in a from his bed and bathed and dress-danced in the sunlight over the far more satisfactory positioned himself, and at ten o'clock you pool where the fish swan lanly than, say, the Mandate of Syria could have seen him behind the among the lily plants. They stood In fact, there are those who glass-topped counter in the together, smiling happily on the say we have woefully neglected fashionable jewellery store, quiet crescent bridge and watched them our opportunities, for much of and well dressed and outwardly a The man who had hurled the the trade of Egypt is in the little blase, just as he had stood for hands of foreigners, and many leading Egyptians would prefer the last ten years, and for all you knew would stand for another ten to see Great Britain playing a more prominent part in their
commerce.
With the forces of Italy's. Libyan colony to the west rein- forced to 30,000, and with a vast army massed near the Sudan froitier to the south.
Egypt has some reason for wondering exactly what her position would be now but for the clause in the Treaty of 1922 by which Great Britain made herself responsible for the guardianship of Egypt against foreign aggression
Profound Grafitade Most thinking Egyptians
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that their negotiations for dependence in the past, though St. Joseph's Church
Officers, 1/8th Punjab to a certain extent successful
Regt did not reach the stage where
Kowloon Union Charch they would find themselves EMS Duncan facing the world with no friend-
Royal Naval Hospital ly Great Power behind them.
Ber: HC Davis The existing state of disp. A. Mess in North Africa has had the and Tia happy result of bringing EgyPe dept. Fennell.
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brick through the window of the fashionable jewellery store and fired the shot which killed little Robinson, was never caught, which, when you come to consider the clever ways of the modern jewel thief is not so strange.
But what the police and the a3- sistants who crowded round the body of the jewellery salesman could wrot understand, was why, when they prised from the dead fingers the red lacquer box in which the sapphire had laid, it was empty.
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