REBELS IN EGYPT.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 February 1922, Page 5

REBELS IN EGYPT.

'A MURDER CAMPAIGN. AGAINST THE BRITISH. OFFICIALS SHOT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Cairo, Feb. 19. Mr. Jordan’s murder was the fifth outrage of the kind in a week and suggests that the rebels have commenced a policy of murdering British officials and residents. Extraordinary circumstances surround Mr. Jordan’s death. Hie body was found on one of the busiest bridges of the city, but there was not an iota of evidence how it came there, though it was broad daylight. When taken to hospital a Native doctor certified that death was due to heart failure, but a post-mortem revealed a bullet in the stomach. Mr. Brown was shot with a revolver in a busy street when he left his office at lunch time. Mr. Brown’s servant, who was behind his master, was also wounded. His assailant escaped, firing in order to deter pursuers. Mr. Brown died in the evening. Mr. Peach, a railway official, was leaving a suburban station with his wife when he was shot in the thigh by two Natives who escaped. SELF-GOVERNMENT SCHEME. London, Feb. 18. The Times correspondent confirms the report that Lord Allenby has reached a complete understanding with the Cabinet. Mr. Lloyd George fully concurred in certain amendments giving fuller effect to tne proposals. The result places AnglorEgyptian relations on an entirely new basis, firmly establishing Egyptian liberties and British interests, patting the responsibility for Egyptian administration upon the Egyptians themselves, placing the conduct of various departments more in the hands of Egyptians and gradually reducing the British personnel.