MOSLEMS DEMONSTRATE
POLICE OFEN FIRE IN, CAIRO Received Saturdav, 10.30 a.m. LODDON, May 10. The Egyptian police opened fire with buck-shot against Moslem demonstrators throwing stones from the room of the Azh-ar Mosque in Cairo, savs the Associ'ated Fress of Great Britain's Cairo correspon- | dent. The police dispersed a crowd of thousands strong which attempted to hold a demonstration over Palestine in the square below. About 200 then ran to the roof of ! the mosque. One poiiceman was Imjured by a shower of stones and' j debris. Three times the police were j forced to retreat from the front of | the mosque. j Armed police controlling the j square penned several thousand 1 Moslems in the mosque.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 May 1946, Page 5
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