OVER 1000 ARRESTED IN CAIRO
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POIICE SW00P TO FOIL THEATENED STRIKE
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Received Thursclay, 11 a.m. CAIRO, July 10. It is officially announced that Egyptian police swooped at dawn on several houses in the Cairo area and arrested a number of alleged Communists. Documents and literature were seized. The police stated that those arrested will ' be detained until the threat of a strike on July 11 has subsided. The strike was planned as a day of mourning for the anniversary of the British shelling of Alexandria in 1882. The police confiscated the entire editjons of four morning newspapers on the grounds that they were calling on the people to strike. It is estimated that about 1000 were arrested in all. The Prime Minister, Sidky Pasha, who came specially from his summer residence to Alexandria for the raid,, is spending the afternoon at the Ministry of the Interior studying the case.
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Chronicle (Levin), 11 July 1946, Page 5
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