RIOTING IN CAIRO.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 43, 30 November 1937, Page 5

RIOTING IN CAIRO.

SEQUEL TO SHOTS AT PREMIER. CASUALTIES IN POLICE CHARGE.

(United Press Association—Copyright.! CAIRO, November 29. Four shots were fired at Nahas Pasha (Prime Minister) as he drove through Heliopolis to attend a political meeting. Policemen leapt from an escorting car and captured an Egyptian youth, Izzedine Abdel Khader, who had two revolvers in his possession. Khader was clad in the uniform of a green-shirt organisation of young Egyptians, which is hostile to the Prime Minister and to the British and Egyptian Treaty. After the shooting Nahas Pasha drove to a meeting, where he personally announced the attempted assassination. Crowds of his supporters, armed with sticks, marched from the meeting and smashed the windows of Opposition newspapers. Small bands of hooligans created disturbances elsewhere. Serious disturbances occurred outside the home of Moliamed Mahmud Pasha (Leader of the Opposition), who ordered his servants to fire in the air. The crowd also fired. The police charged and several demonstrators were injured. Khader, who is aged 22, is a grandson of Arabi Pasha, leader of the 1882 revolution. THIRTY INJURED IN HOSPITAL. NAHAS DEMONSTRATORS. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) CAIRO, November 29. Twenty have been admitted to hospital as a result of riots. The police, wearing’ steel liehiiets, were on patrol all night and placed a cordon round Mahmud Pasha’s . residence. r >4 Large crowds, mostly students, •demonstrated in the forenoon in favour of Nahas Pasha. CONGRATULATION ON ESCAPE. BRITISH GOVERNMENT’S MESSAGE. (Received This Day,-10.45 a.m.) LONDON, November 29. The British Government has’congratulated the Egyptian Government on the escape of Nahas Pasha.-—British Official Wireless.