CAIRO CITADEL

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24914, 29 June 1946, Page 7

CAIRO CITADEL

EARLY TRANSFER TO EGYPT BRITISH EMBASSY’S NOTE LONDON, June 27. The British Embassy in Cairo has sent a Note to the Egyptian Government saying that British military officials will hand over to Egypt on July 2 the Cairo Citadel, which was built in 1176. and has been occupied by British troops for 64 vears. Mr H. Earle, editor of the “Egyptian Gazette." Cairo, who is at present on furlough in London, said that already the British Headquarters establishment in Cairo had been considerably reduced, and it was expected that the Kasr el Nil barracks would be evacuated about the same time as the Citadel. The 45th Scottish General Hospital near Gezirs had already been handed back to the Egvntians, and the only British military hospital still in use wps the 63rd General Hospital at Helmieh. Mr Earle said the removal of large bodies of troons from Egypt had already greatly accentuated the unem ploy men t problem, and created a fertile breeding ground for unrest and the operation of gangster elements. No doubt many of these had equipped themselves with arms retrieved from the desert battlefields by wandering Bedouins Although reports might convey the that to°rc was growing hnafuitx’ r»monc Fgvntfans to the fhic v-pc The rela« «nn« ->* PHHch rMdpnts with the continued reasonably harmonious end the incidents of'terrorism and hooliganism reported were the work either of a tutors or terrorist gang-’ who were taking advantage of the present disturbed conditions.