FIGHTING IN KHARTOUM.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4783, 1 December 1924, Page 2

FIGHTING IN KHARTOUM.

CLASH WITH SUDANESE REBELS. BRITISH TROOPS IN ACTION. A GRAVE SITUATION, As a culmination to the murder of General Lee Stack. Governor-General of the Sudan, and the instant measures the British Government took to probe the matter to the, core to ish the assassins and to protect Brit-* ish persons and property in the affected Territory, disaffection hass| spread among the natives and there is keen fighting in Khartoum, previously the scene of bloody conflict in out history. The activity of the police in arresting large numbers-'of suspects and conspirators and the capture of the students’ leader may have some good effect. Lord Allenby is at presen' ill, and apparently his wise military council is unavailable. The mutiny of the Eleventh' Sudanese Regiment is serious, especially as they rushed the hospital and killed three doctors. This led to a clasa between this regiment and British troops. NUMBER OF CASUALTIES. MACHINE-GUNS ENCOMPASSED. The Cairo correspondent of •‘Daily Chronicle” reports that there is bitter fighting in the streets if Khartoum. Sudanese rebels have been in action with machine-guns. Britisn troops have surrounded these rebels, whose losses are heavy. GENERAL LORD ALLENBY ILL. MUTINY OF SUDANESE REGIMENT. THREE DOCTORS ASSASSINATED. The chief outstanding point in the Egyptian situation relates to British demands in regard to three high officials, in which connection it appears.that the Egyptian Government wants j to know the exact meaning of the demand that it shall enforce authority over three officials. Two platoons of the Eleventh Sudanese at Khartoum mutinied and rushed the military hospital, killing a British and two Syrian doctors. British troops fired on the mutineers, who suffered severely. The ex-Premier, Rushdi Pasha, favours the submission of the dispute the League of N ations - lle is sur " prised that the Government so far has taken no official step in this sense. Alahram, one of the Persian delegates to the League, understands that * Persia is ready to raise the question at the League on behalf of Egypt. J THIRTY-FIVE ARRESTS MADE. DANGER TO LORD ALLENBY. STUDENTS’ LEADER A PRISONER. LONDON, November 28. Reuter’s Cairo correspondent tele, graphs that the Sudan down train from Cairo, connecting with the Sudan steamer from Haifa, is not departing to-night. There is no further news from Khartoum. The Egyptian police effected 35 arrests to-day, presumably as a precautionary measure dictated by present circumstances. ~~- It is understood that three of those arrested are suspected of conspiring against the lives of Lord, Allenby and the present Egyptian Ministers. The police arrested the leader at Alexandria.