Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 281William Blackwood, 1957 - England |
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Page 284
... British intervened . The sheikh who had been victimised by the raiders would then be restored ; whereupon the cry would go up that the British were behaving with their customary brutality . The cry was loudest about forty years ago ...
... British intervened . The sheikh who had been victimised by the raiders would then be restored ; whereupon the cry would go up that the British were behaving with their customary brutality . The cry was loudest about forty years ago ...
Page 292
... British warships periodically switching on their lights and illumin- ating the harbour entrance . One Egyptian battery commander , in an official report to his superior , com- plained of the British action , describ- ing it as most ...
... British warships periodically switching on their lights and illumin- ating the harbour entrance . One Egyptian battery commander , in an official report to his superior , com- plained of the British action , describ- ing it as most ...
Page 293
... British or with Arabi . ( To complicate the political scene still more the Turkish Sultan had only a fortnight before decorated Arabi with the Grand Cordon of the Medjidieh . ) The British fleet was never in any real danger ; ships had ...
... British or with Arabi . ( To complicate the political scene still more the Turkish Sultan had only a fortnight before decorated Arabi with the Grand Cordon of the Medjidieh . ) The British fleet was never in any real danger ; ships had ...
Contents
JANUARY 1957 | 1 |
A BATH IN TASHKENT BY DRUMSHIEL | 17 |
THE STONEFISH ON THE TRIDENT | 27 |
Copyright | |
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