UNREST IN EGYPT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 860, 5 July 1910, Page 5

UNREST IN EGYPT.

MOURNING FOR WAKDANI. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Cairo, July 3. Many of the students in the Government and private schools of Cairo are wearing black cravats as a mark of mourning for Ibrahim Wardani, the young sludont recently executed for tho murder of Boutros Pasha, Egyptian Premier.

REMARKABLE SCENE. COUNSEL'S IMPASSIONED ADDRESS. The closing incidents of the trial of Wnrdani for tho murder of Boutros Pasha were of a somewhat extraordinary character, llolbaoui Bey, counsel lor tho defence, put forward tho political motives of the crime and desired to introduce the subject of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Convention. The conclusion of ITelbaoui's defence were remarkable in more rejects than one. He ceased to address tho Court, but spoke directly to the accused. After apologising to him for abasing him to the level of ordinary, criminals as ho had been compelled to do in the interest of his defence, the advocate proceeded "If your great soul refuses to live enchaiuod, if you do not wish to live in the bagnio with brigands and evildoers (for that is all the pity a merciful judge can give yon), arise, go to your death with a brave heart and a firm step. For death will come to vdu to-morrow if not to-day and will not bo denied. Go, my child, go to your God, who holds the scales of sublime equity untrammelled by the necessities of time or circumstance. Go; our hearts go with you, our eyes will weep for you for ever. Go; your death sentence, pronounced by human justice, may prove more than your life, a great lesson to your people and your country. Go. If man lias no pity for you, Divine mercy is fathomless. Farewell, my child. Farewell farewell!"