PAYING THE PRICE.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 August 1919, Page 3

PAYING THE PRICE.

7 EGYPTIAN RIOTER-S HANGED. * LONDON, July 13. Reuter’s ciorrespondent at Cairo 'tele. graphed on July 7 thxat three of the ringleaders in the murder of the English railway oflicial, Smith, at E 1 Wasta, on March 15th, had been hanged, and two others had been sentenced to pemal servitude for life, and for 10 years respectively. A message on July 9 reported that the Premier stated that out of 51 death sentences passed by the military courts, in connection with the recent riots, one man lla‘d been pardoned, and 10 sentences had been commuted. On the intervention of the Premier, the Commander-in-Chief commuted six other sentences, and promised that the military courts would cease to exercise these functions on July 15, except in’ connection with attacks on members of His Majesty ’s forces. Those interned on political grounds would be released, and the censorship on outward correspondence would be abolished. .