Africa - Egypt

Apr. 18 Photograph Issued by British Information Services Biz a Fortune in Ivory is sold : Behind the object of their bidding dealers listen to the auctioneer (right) in the Ivory Room, Treasury Square, Mombasa, Kenya. All Asians, except one, from such far-away places as Zanzibar and Tanganyika as well as Mombasa, they had spent 5, 680 (£30, 600) when their bidding had finished, hardly a record amount but it was an exceptionally hot day, even for Mombasa. what they bought, representing some 1, 200 elephants, will eventually find its way to such countries as the United states, India, Japan and the Philippines, but most will go to Hong Kong, a center of Ivory carving

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Amount Asians Auctioneer Bidding Bought Dealers Elephants Eventually Except Exceptionally Finished Hardly Issued Listen Mombasa Philippines Representing Spent Tanganyika Treasury Zanzibar

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