Grave Fracas

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1019, 9 July 1930, Page 9

Grave Fracas

RISING IN EGYPT KILLS SIX

Nahas Pasha's Car Mobbed

STONES AND BRICKBATS FOR POLICE

A SERIOUS rising in Egypt resulted in six deaths and scores of minor casualties. The Prime Minister’s motorcar was forced through a hostile mob, while the police were showered with stones aud brickbats. An unsuccessful attempt was made to, hang a policeman front a window in the house where the Prime Minister was at dinner.

United P. A.—By Telegraph Copyright Reed. 1.5 p.m. CAIRO, Tuesday. Six persons were killed and 46 injured in a riot at Mansourah during the visit of Nahas Pasha, Prime Minister, whose car to which 30 students were clinging, charged through a police cordon. The car drove on until it encountered a supporting military cordon with fixed bayonets. The mob discharged a fusillade at the troops with stones and brickbats. Fighting later broke out in the house where Nahas Pasha was lunching, and two policemen were killed and 28 injured. The mob attempted to hang a police-

man in a wire noose from a window, but the wire broke. Finally mounted troops charged and dispersed the crowds. Early last week two people were killed and several were injured in a disturbance at Bilbeis station, on the occasion of a visit by the ex-Prime Minister, Nahas Pasha, to Zagazig, 40 miles north-east of Cairo, where he had opened a non co-operation campaign. Tlio Government immediately afterward issued a communique stating that as Nahas is now preaching open revolt, it is determined to act rigorously in future in order to safeguard the country from trouble-makers. In the course of a speech. Nahas denied that his party, the AYafd, is organising disturbances, for which, he alleged, the Government alone is responsible.