SIRDAR'S AIDE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18550, 27 November 1925, Page 8

SIRDAR'S AIDE.

CAIRO OUTRAGE RECAUg3 CAPTAIN CAMPBELL'S 1 i t L The dramatic murder of the Qow*. >' nor-General of tho Sudan. MaiatST " oral Sir Leo Stark, in Cairo, iTiS / od by the presence i n Chri«tdh3 of Sir Leo Stack's tain P. K. Campbell, who was mtmMl ' cd by tho Sirdar's assassins. --^sl*'" Tho Sirdar and Captain* were returning fr om tho War oZTSii Cairo on November lf>th assassins had hidden themseW JS .1 doorway round a corner, and as Wm I party camo into tho main street. 3P> attack was launched \ bomh S"^'' first thrown but did not enlS J lnen the assailants repoatedlT «8h > automatic pistols, hitting Sir Mack in the stomach. ln thohaad.2P r * in tho foot, tho chest, and the chauffeur in ii rffe'' The chauffeur, an Australian mJjifc l 1 ™!\ t,Jn, . cci „ to th ° aid© and txdkM »* Captain Campbell replied "Gu2as* on I'' whereupon March drov© ttoTaP' at full speed to tho probahlr savivg his own and Campbell's life. The Sirdar, tnuSSm? 1\- wounded, -iied some hours rival nt the Iteiideoey. lip Captain Camnboll is the •**! dHw& late Patrick Campbell, of Ilani w»' and he is a, brother-in-law of JfSb H. S. S WestmacHfc. of Cbrirtdi2»' He h ? ld a commission i n tho UK \\atch, nml served with ife IS lontomntioje.s/' taking part in tWB ' treat from Mors. He was -fnXwF in the nrm at the in 1914 S a?njn nt i n September. 1915 m The captain has now retired (Ml tho Army. He was married in AnfK Inst, and big troir of tho «1 minion is both a honevmooTi %pMm visit to hi? sifter. Ho will |S to London i:i March. ■HI'