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SHEPHEARD'S HOTEL & GHEZIREH PALACE CAIRO
THE EYPTIAN HOTELS LTD.
TelegrAddress SHEPHEARDS CAIRO
LIEBER'S CODE USED

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QUIS AQUAM NILI BIBIT AERUM BIBET

Shepheard's Hotel Dec 12th 1906

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My dear Colonel,

On my return to the hotel this evening I found your cablegram reading "Sale Effected, Phillip McMillan and Stain purchasers. Deposited your credit fourteen thousand. Improving slowly."

Well, I for one, am glad to see the end of a combination which was formed too hurriedly and of too many elements of differing interests to run the Free Press as it should be run.  

It is a fine properly and if

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