EGYPTIAN CRISIS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1928, Page 3

EGYPTIAN CRISIS

(Australian Press Association & Sun.) ' STUDENTS STRIKES. ; CAIRO, March 8. Serious students riots occurred. Thirty students were injured, also eight of the police, whom fifteen hundred striking students stoned from Wald building in which they took relugo, when the police scattered them with heavy sticks. The police wore tin helmets and shields. Naliao Pasha appealed to the demonstrators to return to their homes and most of them obeyed. Students at Slacks School, Assiut, attacked the Amereian College when the latter’s students refused to strike, smashed a gate and tore up trees. Several were injured, including the principal, Dr Russell. Other strikers burned three motor ears at Tantah, including that of the Egyptian Commandant who also was severely manhandled. REJECTION OF TREATY. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). LONDON. Aln rcli 8. The “Evening Post” does not regret the rejection of the Treaty and says it likes least the proposed intrusion of the League in the Egyptian scene, adding that our Foreign Secretary in his infatuation for Geneva, was willing to lay the vital communications of the British Empire at the hazard ot reference to the League. Fortunately Sarwat and his friends did not share his enthusiasm. If the AA'afd had possessed more, guile it would have accepted the Treaty and conditions in the confident hope that some future Council of tho League might make trouble for the Empire in Egypt. The “Daily Telegraph” describes the failure as a* political tragedy and intervention of blind destructive forces to wreck the work of a good and honourable intention. CAIRO, March 8. King Fuad has summoned Nahns Pasha, to the Palace. The AVafd no longer desires Naims to take the reins. It is believed the only solution is a dissolution.