ANTI-BRITISH MOVE SETTLED
LOXDOX, .May 8. When 1300 London-bound Australians in the Orion declined at Port Said today to pay 7s 11 d landing tax to the Kgyptian quarantine officials and threatened to remain aboard, the skopkeepers, realising they were losing trade, surrounded the officials waving lists and the tax was waived, says the Daily Express Port Said correspondent. The quarantine men imposed the tax recently as part of the anti-Britisn campalgn. The Egyptian Parliament liad not authorised it and the International Chamber of Shipping and tne Suez Canal Company's governor both protested against it.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 May 1947, Page 5
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