Box Elder News Journal | 1905-06-08 | Page 7 | Unfortunate Abbreviation

unfortunate abbreviation another volume of the diary of sir grant dut duff lias has been published one of 0 his stories concerns lord cromer the english diplomatist and tewfik the late khedive ot of egypt it towfik lay ding at helwan not tar far from cairo on his return to cairo from helwan lord cromer prepared a message to the london foreign office telling ot of the condition 0 of the khedive before this message had gone be however w the died and lord cr cromer 0 bent a straight message to th this ls effect to his hia government then the telegraph operator seems to have become confused cont used and sent the first message in cipher it reached the foreign office in london as follows 1 I have just returned from hell where the khedive now Is 13