MORE STRIKE RIOTS AT EGYPTIAN CAPITAL
CAIRO, April 7. Two thousand police, using mach-ine-guns and tear-gas stormed the roof-top positions of striking male nurses at Egypt’s biggest hospital. They arrested 225 whom they had wounded. Troops fired on 500 students from the medical school adjoining the hospital who had bombarded them with stones and bottles for nearly two hours. The police said the strikers started fires in the hospital laboratories. Smoke poured from the hospital, where there are several hundred patients under treatment. The male nurses were finally ejected after severe fighting. It is reported that the male nurses earlier in their effort to press their claims for better pay, refused to bring oxycen to seriously ill natients.
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Grey River Argus, 9 April 1948, Page 5
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