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The Emptying Of Sinai

Gerda Cohen Sharm-el-Sheikh F or 150 miles you pass slag heaps of grey grit like some desolate open-cast mining in Lanarkshire, mountains of rock spew, sudden dry gulches......

One Hundred Years Ago Mr C. P. Ilbert, Of The

Equity Bar, and one of Sir H. Thring's Staff, has been appointed Legal Member of Council in India. The selection, though possibly an admirable one, will certainly occasion some......