POLICE FIRE ON STUDENTS
DEMONSTRATIONS IN CAIRO Received Monday, 11 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 24. The police opened flre when students crossed the boundary of the no-man's-land area the police were maintaining in University Street, says Reuter's Cairo corres pondent. Four students were seriously injured. The police are now planning to adopt stricter measures to control rioting by students, some of whom are using firearms. One policeman was killed by a bullet this morning after the police and troops fired into the air against a mob of students stoning them. Thirty students were arrested. The trouble started on the afternoon of November 23 when thousands of students battled for four hours with cordons of troops anl police in an attempt to march from Faud E1 Awal University to Abdin Palace to ask King Farouk to di-s - miss the Government and break the Anglo-Egyptian treaty negotiations. Two thousand Egyptian troops and four armoured cars reinforced the police. The studentsthrew nine grenades and one incendiary bomb. The troops fired in the air and used buckshot and teargas. They confined the disturbances to the Giza locality and eventually dispersed the demonstrators. Thirteen poiicemen and twenty students were injured.
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Chronicle (Levin), 25 November 1946, Page 5
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