ANGER IN EGYPT.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 January 1922, Page 5

ANGER IN EGYPT.

BOYCOTT OF BRITISH. MANIFESTO TO PEOPLE. PASSIVE PROTESTS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Jan. 25, 7.35 p.m. Cairo, Jan. 24. A Zaghlulist manifesto states that Egypitan anger can find a purely legal outlet in passive resistance by non-co-operation or boycott. Every Egyptian must therefore cease social intercourse with the English, and must not serve an Englishman or consult an English doctor. No Egyptian is allowed to form a Ministry until the British policy changes. The population must not use the British Courts or approach British officials regarding the boycott. They must withdraw their deposits from British banks and also take capital shares in native banks. No Egyptian must unload a British ship, and British goods must be boycotted, but Egyptian merchants are allowed six months to unload.

The document appeals to mosques, institutions and villages to publish the manifesto and form committees to organise a boycott.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Cairo, Jan. 24.

Eight prominent Zaghlulists have issued a manifesto demanding a boycott of British people and British goods. They urged the natives to follow the lines adopted by the Indian non-co-operators. The authorities immediately ordered the arrest of the eight signatories, and four are now in custody.

A leading native newspaper has been suspended for publishing the manifesto.