EGYPT URGED TO HUE DECLARATION OF WAR.
SAADIST LEADER.
Must Help Britain To Beat
Common Foe.
United Press Association.—Copyright.
(Reed, noon.)
CAIRO, Aug. 19
Ahmed Maher Pasha, President of the Chamber of Deputies, and leader of the Saadist part}-, urged Egypt to enter the -war in order to safeguard her independence against the threatened Italian invasion.
"Egyptians,"' he said, "must unite and co-operate with the British in an effort to repulse the common foe. Italian troop concentrations on the Egyptian border obviously threaten this country, and, therefore, it is the duty of Egyptians to defend their soil and assist Britain in accordance with the alliance.
"Despite Mussolini's promise to respect Egypt's territorial integrity, Italians have indiscriminately bombed Egyptian towns. The public no longer asks whether we will enter the war but when."
The Egyptian Minister of Finance lias ordered new sequestrations of Italian property on the Suez, in Cairo and in Heliopoli.a. Eleven thousand live hundred Italians are registered with the Cairo police.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 197, 20 August 1940, Page 7
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