CAIRO BOMB OUTRAGES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 95, 21 April 1923, Page 7

CAIRO BOMB OUTRAGES.

EGYPTIANS ON TRIAL. THE BLACK REVOLVER GANG. LONDON, April 20. The trial of 15 Egyptians on charges in connection with the bomb outrages I on the evening of Sunday, March -1, is j being continued. j The prosecution detailed a plot, which I commence,l in the spring of 1910, when an Egyptian youth, aged IS, met Sheik Shefeikl Uann'a. who suggested that the youth should join a gang for murdering Knglishmen. 'i'he youth agreed, and asked a friend named Nazir, who is one >>f the accused, also to join the gang. Later, the youths found that the sheik was co-operating with Kulimy. who wns convicted in ihe vengeance case in 1920. an.l condemned to a long term of im- 1 prisoiimcnt. .Meanwhile a man named Mobamed ' Amin joined the murder gang on May S, 1010, when n. bomb was thrown at Darwish Pasha. A few hours later Mohained Amin was found with wounds on his bands and arm, apparently from an explosion. Hy 1021 Ihe organisation was known as the Ulack Hand or Black Revolver Society. Na/.ir, on February 17. boasted that an Knglislunan would be killed the following day. Xazir was seen near the Ministry of Kducation, and a few minutes later Mr. Alfred Brown was killed with a revolver. Na/.ir later boasted that be and a man named Tewfik shot Mr. Brown. The gang later planned (he murder of Mr. Anderson. Oriental Secretary t<> the Residency, but the scheme failed. On April Hi, 1022, N'azir and Tewfik sue,'cede,! in shooting two British corporals at ihe Cairo railway station. Na/.ir also boasted that lie bad committed other murders.- (A. ami N.Z.t Daring bomb outrages were perpetrated on Sunday evening. March 4. The miscreants dashed through the city in a motor ear. and burled bombs into a cafe which is nine!) frequented hy British soldiers. killing an Egyptian" waiter ami wounding three British soldiers who wenhaving ;i meal. They then threw a bomb into the signal room of tin* British Army headquarters, which is nearby, and used (o be ihe Kdin Palace Hotel. If tlie , second bomb had exploded it would have disorganised tbe whole British communication in Cairo district. The city was astounded al the daring nature of the outrages, which was the worst bombing attempt vet made. The bombers escaped , *,I„,ugh the British headquarters were, strongly guarded. Six members of the , executive of the extreme Nationalists,] who signed an inflammatory manifesto, I were arrested in connection with the out- | rages.