THE TANTAH MURDER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8144, 29 June 1906, Page 3

THE TANTAH MURDER.

J ■ A PREMEDITATED ATTACK. EGYPTIAN ASSAILANTS tjCONDEMNED. % * Caibo. June 27. k; ' Four o! Capt. Bull's assailants have §« ' been sentenced to be hanged, and four 'to ■ penal servitude for life, three to fifteen years' imprisonment, and niue ss"*' to shorter terms, and five to receive fifty lashes. Thirty-one were acquitted. Received 29,12.22 p.m. J Losdos, June 28. The evidenco at the Tantah trials ihowed the probability of the fire in the floor of the grain shed having been

* preconcerted, because the distance from s the spot showed it was impossible to originated from shooting. The fr afmdpAtal discharge of a rifle, after it *'■ „ vyis snatohed from one of the officers <; wounded four natives. Major Pine Z Caffln and other officers, seeing the native excitement, surrendered their fe t ifles and withdrew. All were pursued, assaulted, and robbed. The officers and native witnesses identified the I' ringleaders. Captain Bull was assailed §j[ four miles distant from the place of W the original interference. Beceived 29,12.32 a.m. fc ' London, June 28. Mr Dillon -inquired whether Sir f Edward Grey would obtain a respite r t„ r the Egyptians until the evidence ... had been examined. Ks- Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman, in Sir ! " jk Grey's absence, replied that Sir F. Pr- and Lord Cromer's discretion humanity might be fully trusted. Sir E. Grey, in reply to_a Liberal

fe" " deputation, promised an inquiry into p. the circumstances, and remarked that the cue was probably bad because the H officers were assaulted after they suri'i rendered their weapons. ?" The concensus of newspaper opinion I- that it was a recrudescence of due to Turkish wire pulling K on the frontier and tlio action of their I" emissaries in Egypt. Pan-Islamic §• agitators had been rendered desperate, |L „,! thrown on their own resources ■f * 6 ever aince tlic Anglo-French compan) P 6 , n d the consent of the Powers entrusted I'" Britain with the safety of Europeans £ "The Times" says the severity of | sentences 13 imperatively _ demanded E- under the cirounstances. "As long I, as we are responsible for the government of Egypt we must make authority i s respected, and suppress outbreaks with unsparing vigor." k, w Beceivei 29,1.8 a.m. r*\ London, June 28. Th executions are fixed for this f afternoon. The "Times'" Alexandria corres- : pondent says the evidence proved thai the attack had been premeditated for months. " The "l)ail/.Mail" states the Courl - declared the attack was premeditated.