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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Sep 26, 1940
Page
2
The fragment describes lumbers of the Gulf of Suez and Red Sea with principal fare Jubal Shadwan Galatin Zederged or St John's Island, noting coastal locations and island references. The text is incomplete, leaving unnamed events or actions.
The text cites official land area figures around 12431 square miles with a smaller 1089 square miles for Inkes et al, describes Nile Valley width from under 3 miles to over 10 miles, and notes delta provinces with fertile soil. It records Nile length 3470 miles from Nyanca to the mouths, with no tributaries, seasonal rise and fall, and a population mix of about 1,240,4542 Egyptians in census 1917 alongside Bedouin nomads and semi-nomads across Libyan Arabian deserts.
The fragment describes Bedouins and Nubians in the Libyan Desert near the Fayum and Oasis regions with wells supplying water. It references the Great War era British protectorate and succession events around Cairo, including Ahmet Faud and the pyramids, noting the Great Pyramid’s height and the connection to treaties and ambassadorial accrediting.
A garbled text fragment references wartime topics, including France, Berlin, American soldiers, and various places and events. The passage resembles a disrupted, OCRed news page with scattered mentions of fronts, occupations, and broadcasts, lacking coherent narrative or clear dates.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe sugar as a social prop and growing intake, with scattered references to meals, treats, and travel in a distant location. The readable terms mention names and places loosely but lack clear events or outcomes.
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