Word: beni
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rioting spread to the nearby towns of Tanta, Beni Suef and next day to Giza, across the Nile from Cairo. There Egyptian police, with British Major Lees at their head, met Egypt's young patriots at the great Abbas Bridge. Five times Major Lees shouted to them to go back, then a flying bottle knocked him down. The Briton rose to his knee, took out his pistol, killed one Egyptian, wounded three others. Street fighting then began in earnest. Dead at week's end were eight Egyptians; wounded were more than 200 Egyptians and police...
...Yesterday the mail runner came up with a copy of TIME for me among other things. It came to Bel-Abbes, then to Fez and on to Ourd Zem (south of Casablanca) by train. From there to Beni Mallah by truck. A native escort brought it over the first of the hills on mules to district base. There a rider of the 'pony express' carried it to battalion base. A company convoy of mules and outriders carried it to company headquarters and it was forwarded here by the above mentioned manner. The poor thing must be quite shaken...