EGYPT'S DISORDERS.
Respectable Workers Stand
Aloof.
POSITION IN HAND
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received 12.30 p.m.)
RUGBY, July 23,
Replying in a Parliamentary answer to-day regarding particulars of last Monday's disorders in Egypt, the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Arthur Henderson, "said that in Cairo 15 demonstrations took place, varying in size. The demonstrators threw stones and broke tram windows and street lamps. No other damage to European property had been reported. The only cases of injury to foreigners were one European tram conductor , and one Hungarian injured. The situation in Cairo was now well in hand, and no British forces were employed either there. or in,. Port Said and Suez, where disturbances had also occurred. The disorders, lie added, were 'nowhere serious, and there was no participation in them by the respectable elements of the population. The workers everywhere kept out of the demonstrations and remained steadily at their employment.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 173, 24 July 1930, Page 7
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