SHOTS FIRED AT THE EGYPTIAN PREMIER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 57, 30 November 1937, Page 5

SHOTS FIRED AT THE EGYPTIAN PREMIER

-Press Assn.—

Armed Youth Captured by Police HELIOPOLIS SENSATION

(By T«legraph-

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(Eeeeived 30, 8.45 a.m.) CAIEO, Nov. 29. Four shots were fired at Nahas Pasha, the Bgyptian Pi-ime Minister^ as be drove through Heliopolis to attend a political meeting. Police leapt from an escorting car and captured an Egyptian youth named Izzedine Abdel Khader, who had two revolvers in his possession. Khader was clad in the uniform of the Green Shirt organisation of young Egyptiaiis, which is hostile to the Premier and to the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty. After the shooting, Nahas drove to the meeting, where he- personally announced the attempted as'sassination. Crowds of his supporters- armed with sticks marched from the meeting and smashed the windows of the. Opposition newspapers. Small. bands of hooligans created disturbances elsewhere. Serious disturbances occurred outside the home of Mohamed Mahmud Pasha, leader of the Opposition, who ordered his servants to fire in the air. The crow'd also fired. The police charged and several demonstrators were injured. Khader, who is aged 22, is a grandson of Arabi Pasha, the leader of the 1882 revoiution. Later: Twenty were admitted to hospital as a result of the riots. Police wearing steel helmets were on • patrol all night and placed a cordon round Mahmoud's residence. Large crowds, mostly students, demonstrated in the forenoon in favour of Nahas Pasha. The British Government has congratulated the Egyptian Government on Nahas Paslia's escape.