"SUEZ" —A Pictorial Serial of the 20th Century-Fox Film

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 36, 17 February 1939, Page 22

"SUEZ" —A Pictorial Serial of the 20th Century-Fox Film

SCARCELY had the work got under way when sudden raids by Arab tribesmen struck terror in the hearts of the workmen. Prince Said hurriedly increased the Egyptian army -to meet these attacks, and from prisoners it was dJearned that the Turkish Sultan, apparently urged. by England, never friendly to the Canal, was behind the'raids. Boldly, Said promised that he would fight the Turkish Empire if need be to assure completion of the work, and doggedly the eet sano through: Hq diands. we

UT an even more formidable menace confronted Ferdinand when the project was well started. The perfidious Napoleon, his Continental ambitions in danger by an unfriendly England, announced that no further aid would be given the Canai.. The giant dredges and their thousands of workers seemed’ foredoomed to halt, and a grand. benefit to mankind destined to sacrifice on the altar-of political expediency. In this dire emergency, Prince Said again showed his courage. The crown jewels of his family, cherished for centuries, were sold to. keep the work. going. But that would not be enough, BS Liat tdinpnd fastened to England :to seek; to. sway that: to a more favourable attitude,

FORTUNE smiled on Ferdinand de Lesseps. Empireminded Benjamin Disraeli had displaced the Conservative regime in Parliament. With a stirring word picture of the aid which the Empire would receive from the Canal, he won Parliament over to a change in policy, and the greatest obstacle to new financing of the Canal was thus removed. Funds again poured in, and the work continued, But there was to develop a new menace against which man could offer but puny resistance. De Lesseps was to learn of desert storms. (To be concluded:)