EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1930, Page 5

EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS

NATIVE PRESS SUSPENDED.

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: ALEXANDRIA, July 15. Seven huiiurcd tioups lia.o arrived from Cairo at Alexandria, and as a result .tile situation is now under control. '/The number of persons killed is between iourteen and seventeen, including several Europeans. There are at least two hundred injured. Tiie population have been ordered to be indoors early in the evening. Most;of the streets are in darkness, as street lamps in the city thoroughfares; have been smashed. The' -new Prime Minister, Sulky Pasha,-'land other Ministers have arrived. ' They held a council meeting in the evening. They have suspended indefinitely three chief Wafdist Party newspapers, which have been publishing articles against the Sidky Government. r--1 ;Ui ; •

NOT OUT FOR REVOLUTION.

LONDON, July 15.

jCakrtun Ebied Jjey, who was Minister of Finance in Nashua Pasha’s late Cabinet, is at present on a visit to London with other Egyptian members of parliament. • He denies a report tlint the Wafd Party or Nahas Pasha meditates : a revolution in Egypt and the establishment of a. republic or regency. S ' LONDON, July 16. “The Times's ” Alexandria correspondent says :—The Wafdist Committee ordered two hours of -silence to be observed in memory of “ the martyrs for the constitution,” as the dead rioters at Bilebis and Mansura are termed. This order caused the worst rioting since 1921.' Organised attacks were carried but. Cartloads of stones and bottles were thrown at the police, who were lacking in steel helmets and arms, and Were kept on the run. The crowds overturned and set fire to three police lorries. The police were almost powerless until the police' climbed on of the roof of the law courts, and fired volleys into the mob.

i - LATEST REPORTS,

. CAIRO, July 16. The latest report of the casualties state 17 are killed and 400 wounded. It. is denied that troops were called out and fired.' SERIOUS POSITION. mi: .WARSHIPS ORDERED. . (Received this dav at 9.40 n.m.) LONDON, July 16. In ;the House of Commons, Mr MacDonald said in view of the menace to foreign life and property in Alexandria, two warships had been ordered thither. These were the Queen Elizabeth and Ramillies. He added that the High Commissioner, in Egypt. In view of yesterday’s events had informed. Nahas Pasha that he . was held responsible, with the Egyptian Government, for the protection of foreign lives ana property. . ALEXANDRIA CASUALTIES. (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) CAIRO, July 16. It- is-, officially announced that the casualties in Alexandria riots included one 'European and thirteen natives killed, and eight Europeans and one hundred and thirteen natives injured. The Italian Consul has protested against the death of an Italian from heart failure, after a blow on the head.; .