SITUATION IN EGYPT
IMPROVEMENT FOLLOWS .ARRIVAL OF COMMISSION. London, December 24. Tho correspondent of the Australian Press Association learns that the situation in Egypt since the arrival of Lord Milner's Commission is steadily improving There have been no untoward events except one or two minor 'Incidents ia which Brit'sii, soldiers, were attacked in the streets. In spite of tlie efforts of tho agitators,, the .peoplo &re becoming less inclined to view the mission with suspicion, although its actual , work has not yet commenced. A large' number of Egyptian notabilities, some of whom are of pronounced Nationalist views, .decline ito boycott tho Commission as. urged by the. agitatora; on the contrary, they have intimated- their, readiness to give evidence.—A ns.-N!Z. Cablo Assn. ATTEMPT TO WRECK ALEXANDRIA EXPRESS. ■ : (Rec. December 23, 11.45 p.m.) Cairo, December 25. The shops are reopening and trains are again running. An attempt to wreck the Alexandria express,.was frustrated in a sensational manner. The driver of a slow train saw heaps of stones, and raced his train forward just in time to warn the express, the engine of which was derailed—"The Times."
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 79, 29 December 1919, Page 5
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184SITUATION IN EGYPT Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 79, 29 December 1919, Page 5
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