DEFENCE OF EGYPT
DECLARATION OF WAR ON ITALY URGED BY PRESIDENT OF CHAMBER. THREAT THAT SHOULD BE REPELLED. 1 (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) CAIRO, August 19. Ahmed Maher Pasha, President of the Chamber of Deputies and leader of the Saadist Party, has urged Egypt to enter the war, in order to safeguard her independence against the threatened Italian invasion. He said: “Egyptians must unite and co-operate with the British in the effort to repulse the common foe. Italian troop concentrations on the Egyptian border obviously threaten this country; therefore it is the duty of Egyptians to defend their soil and to assist Britain, in accordance with the alliance. Despite Signor Mussolini’s promise to respect Egypt’s territorial integrity the Italians have indiscriminately bombed Egyptian towns. The public no longer asks whether we will enter the war, but when.”
The Egyptian Minister of Finance has ordered new sequestrations of Italian property in Suez, Cairo and Heliopolis. Some 11,500 Italians have registered with the Cairo police.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1940, Page 5
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