WIDESPREAD RIOTING IN CAIRO
OPPOSITION TO ANCL0-ECVPTI4N TREATY Received Wednesday, 10.45 a.m. CAIRO, November 27. Pohce and university students fired at each other in Abbassia, a north-eastern suburb, today. One student was killed and 400 were arrested. SeverM police were injured. Eye witnesses say that two were killed and one woman injured in the Shubra area of Cairo.
The police cordoned off the . 'treets round the railway station md nearby Tewfirkieh School, vhich students set alight. A school vas set alight in the Choubra disrict and was quickly extinguished. In the Shubra area boys with ilazing torches broke down street amps and set fire to the bscaping vas. They also smashed shop windows. Thousands of police are guarding Parliament Building. The police in Alexandria fired :nto the air when baton charges igainst demonstrators were unuccessful. University students toned the police, injuring four. The Cairo riots began when nobs approached British Hcadluarters, shouting: "The British must get out of Egypt." The police iharged and were met with acid bombs made in the students' laboratories. The rioters moved toward I he general post office, where theyj threw more acid bombs, and over-
turned and set fire to buses. The police retaliated with jets of boilin'g water. 1 The Prime Minister, Sidky Pasha. ; fighting in Parliament to win ; approval for the new AngloEgyptian Treaty, ordered the "use all force to stop the rioters." He added: "Someone is paying them and someone is ar'ming them." Over fifty Opposition niembers walked out of Parliament this afternoon as a protest against the Government's decision to debate the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty proposals in secret. Sidky Pasha's motion that the Chamber should meet in camera was caixied so quickly that the Opposition mem,bers were unable to object publicly. ;Tfiey tried to persuade the Govem--ment to hold a public debate, and then walked out. j Sidky Pasha, in appealing direct 'to Parliament, is going over the heads of the Anglo-Egyptian deleg'ation.
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Chronicle (Levin), 27 November 1946, Page 5
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