"WANTED proof-reader for the Egyptian Mail."
It certainly does want one; but for the sake of the gaiety of nations we
trust it won't get him.
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"With regard to the expeditionary force, the unexampled heroism
and determination of our troops enabled them to establish a
foothold on the tip of the peninsula, but photographs confirm
the reports of eye-witnesses that they were literally holding on
by their eyelids to the positions they had occupied."--_Sunday
Times._
And the subsequent abandonment was performed like winking.
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