COUNT DE LESSEP'S MONOPOLY IN EGYPT.
COLLAPSE OF A JETTY.-SIXTY FIVE PERSONS DROWNED.
DROAVNING OF CAPTAIN AVEBB :
THE FAMOUS SWIMMER.
CETEAVAYO REPORTED KILLED IN
THE BATTLE AT ULUNDI
LONDON. July 25. In the House of Commons last night Sir Stafford Northcotc gave notice that he Avould move a resolution ""that the claim of the Count do Lcsseps of a monoply for the construction of canals through Egypt be repudiated in any parleying that may take place in future betAvcen the British Government and the Suez Canal Company. Telegrams have been received here reporting that a lamentable disaster has occurred at Patapico (tie). A jetty, while croAvdcd Avith pleasure seekers, collapsed, and all those upon it Averc throAvn into the water, sixty-five being drowned.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3753, 26 July 1883, Page 3
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123COUNT DE LESSEP'S MONOPOLY IN EGYPT. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3753, 26 July 1883, Page 3
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