EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1921, Page 3

EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS

AUSTRALIAN A Nil N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

EGYPTIAN RIOTERS. LONDON, Dec. 2i

\ Foreign Office communique states disturbances continue in Cairo Lppci Egypt is reported quiet. Tiooi- « taken charge of Suez and Port SauL Other reports state during « t - nnce at Zifta, Egyptian troops bred on a mob. killing sixteen. Fresh troubles occurred - t l ort Said, wherein two rioters were killcc \ erreat majority of employees m Cairo" have resumed, but strikes in several places occnred. The provinces and Alexandi m • • quiet. Four hundred agitators bare been arrested.

FOUR HUNDRED ARRESTS LONDON, Dec 28

* British Foreign Office c°mmun>cafon relative to Egypt, says that disturbances continue in Cairo City. Upper Egypt is now reported cpneC Trotflp*. hare -taken charge of Suez and Port Said. . Other Teports state that dunn( f . disturbance at Zita, some Egyptian troops fired on the mob, k.l'ing 16. FresK troubles have occurred at Poit Raid, wherein two rioters were killed. great majority of the striking employes at Cairo have resumed, Lut there are strikes in several places in the provinces. Alexandria is fairly quiet. Four hundred agitators have been arrested.

WHOLESALE REPRESSION

LONDON, Doc. 28.

A later Foreign Office communique Btates: “Tuesday’s casualties in Cairo were eleven Egyptians killed and 14 wounded. The British suffered no casualties.

“The disturbances continue. "Attempts have been made to wreck the railways. One train was derailed on the 25th. “Lower Egypt is the chief area of the provincial disturbances. “A number of further arrests have been made in Cairo and Alexandria. “Eieht armed Nile River steamers under'naval officers, are now operating in Upper and Lower Egypt.