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All quiet at the airfield, a man watches for the plane ...
While the Tong and other agents of the Rule of Six hold off the Egyptian police the rest get the loaded lorry away ....
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to be continued ...
Thursday, 24 February 2022
Cairo Airport - the authorities try to intercept the pyramidion....
The Rule of Six have taken the pyramidion off the Stealers at the rail yard; and after a quick short hop flight from nearby improvised airfield in the desert will be landing at Cairo Airport. An informant has notified the authorities about the arrival of the unscheduled flight and they will attempt to intercept the flight when it arrives to seize the pyramidion.
At a hangar, agents from the Rule of Six await the plane as well....
A lorry and van arrive at the airfield ....
As the lorry and van head up to the hangar, armed Egyptian police make their move ....
As the plane arrives, a detachment of British troops move into position as it taxis towards the hangar ...
The lorry and van are in position as the plane approaches the hangar ....
the plane taxis into position and cuts its engines, men get out and prepare to load the lorry; Egyptian police are making their approach and are by the hangar ...
The crate is unloaded from the plane ....
Just as the crate had been loaded onto the lorry, the Egyptian police make their move - in response member of Mu Fanchu's Tong move out of their hiding place in the hangar
and move straight for the Egyptian police ....
The British troops start moving towards the hangar ....
The Tong are getting bogged down in their fight with the Egyptian police ...
The van and the lorry are on their way down the road behind the hangar ....
A shot from one of the Egyptian police kills the lorry driver as it passes by, the lorry swerves off the road ...
Meanwhile the British troops are closing in ....
A British officer fights for control of the lorry ....
He holds off his attacker; some British troops in their lorry come down the road and are met with a hail of fire for the Rule of Six agents...
The British officer loses his fight to control the lorry, the Rule of Six have it again and are moving off down the road...
They start down the road to leave the airfield....
The British troops are back on the move but too late to catch them ....
The Rule of Six agents and the surviving Tong successfully leave the airfield with the pyramidion ...
As the Rule of Six got away with the pyramidion, Kit Campion and Captain Pollock (who had been watching proceedings) ran to their car - perhaps they could follow them ....
The lorry and van headed north; Kit Campion drove at breakneck speed to catch them up - they were nowhere to be seen, as they passed a small settlement - they caught sight of them.
Kit Campion slowed down and kept back just in sight so they could follow them ... they looked like they were heading to Port Said..
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