PERILS OF HIGH OFFICE.
EGYPTIAN PLOT.
TO ASSASSINATE KITCHENER.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. August 18, 11.40. p.m.)
London, August 18., The "Daily Express" states that tlio Foreign Offioe lias been warned of a plot to assassinate Lord Kitchener, who is at present taking .a holiday in England.
Detectives are endeavouring to trace oil Egyptian Oxford undergraduate, a closo adherent of Farid Bey, the Egyptian Nationalist leader. This undergraduate had avowed his intention of procuring Lord Kitchener's assassination.
Mahomed Bey Farid, 'in consequence of a seditious speech, delivered by him at the annual meeting of the Nationalist party, at which he was elected president, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment, with hard labour, in April, 1912. Before the trial, however, he left for Constantinople, and subsequently pouglit refuge in Switzerland. In July a ■ plot was discovered which had for its object the assassination of tho Khedive, Lord Kitchener, and tho Premier. A number of arrests wero made, and three Egyptians were sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1832, 19 August 1913, Page 5
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165PERILS OF HIGH OFFICE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1832, 19 August 1913, Page 5
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