Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Near East. London admitted that Great Britain has 500,000 men there-and then tried to suppress the figure. The Australians and New Zealanders landing at Suez were reported to number 30,000, volunteers all. Further attention was drawn to this troop pool by the arrival in Cairo, Egypt of its commander, fox-smart little General Maxime Weygand, to join Lieut. General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, Britain's Near East commander, in reviewing an Anglo-Egyptian contingent, three-quarters British and largely mechanized, drawn up on the desert just outside Heliopolis. The line extended for a mile...
...Corsair, flown by Captain Edward Samson Alcock, younger brother of the Empire's late famed pioneer Transatlantic Flier Captain Sir John Alcock, was bound last March from Kisumu to Cairo, on the South Africa-to-England run. Young Alcock was rocketing along over the jungle at 200 m.p.h. when he found he was running out of fuel. Instead of flying over Juba, he was 150 miles to the southeast. The Dangu River, swarming with hippos, crocodiles and water snakes, hedged by high and slippery banks, yawned beneath...
...John Reith figured the twice-floundered Corsair still worth a muckle. He sent a fellow Scot, braw George Halliday, Imperial Airways sectional engineer, out from Cairo. By this time the river had gone down and there would not again be enough water for a take-off till spring of 1940. Scot Halliday figured Congo weather would have ruined the Corsair utterly by then...