MISCHIEF BY WAR.
. . The Mahmoudieh Canal, which war telegrams announce as having been cut by Arabi Pasha, for the purpose of intercepting the water supply to. Alexandria, is the one which Mohemit AH caused to'be Aug in 18iO by the '‘forced’ labor of 250,000 peasants, of whom 20,000. died from heat, fever, and starvation. Until the opening of the railway this was the regular mode of travelling to Cairo, and even lately was an important trade artery. Passing at first between the wealthy Alexandrians, the canal then forms a barrier between Lakes Mareotis and Abu-Kir, skirts Lake Eclkn, and enters the Rosetta branch of the Nile by the lock-gates and and,stem-pumps of Atfeh. Most of the Nile produce for export finds its way through the Mahoudieh Canal.
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Patea Mail, 28 July 1882, Page 2
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127MISCHIEF BY WAR. Patea Mail, 28 July 1882, Page 2
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