Corpun file 7458
Truth, Melbourne, Australia, 1 January 1955
Food Ramp Flogging
CAIRO. -- An Egyptian black marketeer has been publicly flogged.
He was a merchant who cornered the bread market in the flooded city of Kena and sold the bread above the fixed rate.
Most of the houses in Kena were washed away in the floods and 7000 people made homeless.