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...country of the Nile. She claims special interest, and intends to enforce it, in the Egyptian army and frontiers. Egypt's hesitation about acceding to this demand will avail her nothing. More logically than ever Egypt is an essential link in Britain's Empire. Not only the Suez and the sea passage to India, but the protectorates in Traz and Palestine, the virtual protectorate in Persia, all these make control over Egypt doubly important to Great Britain...
Lawrence of Arabia. To understand how this young Welshman has become a popular author,? one must recall (TIME, July 26) how he played a leading role in kindling the Arab revolt against Turkey during the World War, and thus furthered the defense of the Suez Canal and the break-up of the Turkish Empire...
Died. Marcus Samuel, Viscount Bearsted, 73, onetime (1902-03) Lord Mayor of London, seashell? and oil trader, who inaugurated bulk transportation of petroleum through the Suez Canal; in London. He survived his wife, Fanny Elizabeth Benjamin, by a few hours...
...Total 1925 profits $8,300,000. Total assets $160,000,000. **Senior partner in half a dozen of the chief British Oriental steamship companies, Vice President of the Suez Canal Co., for the past three decades chairman or a member of a round two score of governmental committees charged with everything from signing a Commercial Treaty with China (1899) to selling German warships allotted to Britain under the Treaty of Versailles, still active...
Naturally Miss Bell offered her services and proved invaluable to the Empire when the World War made it necessary for Britain to save Suez and the route to India from possible Mohammedan encroachment. Miss Bell became, to use an ugly word, a spy. She disguised herself as an Arabian, several times penetrated into Turkey, succeeded in bringing many an Arab chief, suspicious of Occidentals, into alliance with Great Britain...