"DOWN WITH BRITAIN"

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 9

"DOWN WITH BRITAIN"

STUDENT ACTIVITY

CAVALRY IN STREETS

United Press Association- I'.y Ulcctric Tele graph— Copyright. (Received January 2, 10 a.m.)

CAIRO, January I

Bridges have been closed and strong forces o£ police and cavalry are patrolling the streets to prevent students making a mass attack on the city. Mobs of students seized the occasion of the opening of a congress at Cairo for renewed anti-British demonstrations. As delegates entered the university students shouted "Down with Britain." The British High Commissioner, Sir' Miles Lampson, cancelled his engagement to attend in view of the tension. King Fuad excused himself on the grounds of a chill. The Prune Minister met a hostile reception outside the university and instructed his chauffeur to return. His car was damaged. The immediate object of the students' demonstration was to extort from the Government an amnesty for their comrades who were arrested in connection with the riots preceding the restoration of the Constitution, but, in excitement bordering on hysteria, this objective was forgotten in howling down English rulers and the High Commissioner. Students manhandled the Minister of Justice. The majority dispersed quietly after the meeting, but 2000 held their own meeting, delivering fiery speeches. An emergency meeting of Cabinet is considering the next steps. v Later. The vernacular Press states that Mr. Anthony Eden replied sympathetically to the United Front's Note asking' for an Anglo-Egyptian treaty on the lines of the 1930 agreement, under which Egypt will become an independent nation qualified to join the League of Nations. The British High Commissioner is reported to have conveyed Mr. Eden's reply to Nahas Pasha last night. He requests time to study the question.

The United Front met to consider Mr. Eden's message and adjourned. The prospect of delay indicated by Mr. Eden is naturally unpalatable to Egyptian minds, but public opinion is likely to take its cue from the United Front.