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ebbene sì.....pare proprio che abbia trionfato la verità....come ha detto Paolone.....a furia di lavorare ai fianchi li ho....sfiancati!
Il tutto è stato inviato a Bbc e Daily Mail da Geoffrey Kolbe
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ALEXANDER ROSS BAG
8th August 2007
An Italian group of thirteen (12 adults, one child), with Khaled Makram of Oscar Tours (12 Talaat Harb Street, Down Town, Cairo, Egypt) as their tour guide were heading towards "Camp Chianti", the site used as a camp by Lazlo Almasy (on whom the "English Patient" was based) in the early 1930's when he was exploring this area. Camp Chianti is just west of the Gilf Kebir, a large plateau the size of Switzerland in the South West corner of Egypt. The site is just a few kilometres from the "Cave of Swimmers", which also featured in "The English Patient"
The bag was first spotted laying on the ground by Paolo Chiodi, who was with Sandra Orselli in their car. They stopped to examine the bag and were amazed to discover a treasure of letters, photographs and other items which, so it turned out, belonged to Alexander Ross and which had been dropped while he was passing through this area in 1942. Alexander Ross was in the Signals Corps, attached to the Long Range Desert Group.
On seeing that Paolo Chiodi and Sandra Orselli had stopped, the others in the group returned to see why and then helped Paolo and Sandra collect up and gather the contents of the bag, which were by now blowing around in the wind.
It was agreed that Khaled Makram should take charge of the bag, find Alexander Ross and return the bag to him – or to his family if he was not still alive.
The sister of Alexander Ross, Irene Porter, was traced on the Internet from the BBC Radio Lancashire website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/08/a4170908.shtml 1st March 2008
Khaled Makram fulfils his mission and returns the bag to Irene Porter, the sister of the late Alexander Ross.
Also attached: Map of Egypt, showing where the bag was found. Group photo of the Italian group who found the bag.
The map can be downloaded from
http://www.pisces-press.com/egypt/bagmap.jpg The group photo can be downloaded from
http://www.pisces-press.com/egypt/gphoto.jpg Notes:
Some rolls of film negatives were also found in the bag. These were taken by Andras Zboray, of Fleigel Jezerniczky Expeditions,
http://www.fjexpeditions.com to the National Film Archives in Hungary, who succeeded in the delicate task of unrolling the now extremely brittle negative film and taking some prints off the negatives. Khaled Makram has also brought the negatives and the resulting prints to be presented to Irene Porter.
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