Show GREAT NILE RESERVOIR FORMALLY OPENED Distinguished Assemblage Witnesses the Egyptian Event Eg Egypt It Dec 11 The ll-The The great Nile reservoir and dam were opened yesterday In the pr presence sence of or the Khedive Khedive Khe Khe- dive Duke and Duchess of ot Connaught Lord Cromer the British ag agent nt and General Consul Ip In p Egypt pt and Lad Lady Cromer the thc Ministers and many other distinguished persons The opening ceremony occurred n III the afternoon when the I Khedive t turned a n. ke key which put the electric machinery Jn n n motion whereupon the til gates were opened and a a body of o water rushed through lh them m. m The Duchess of Connaught th th last stone atthe of at the dam am ther f stone one of which was laid by bythe the the Duke or of Con Connaught aught February 12 lS |