MORE RIOTS IN CAIRO

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21652, 10 December 1935, Page 13

MORE RIOTS IN CAIRO

* UNIVERSITY REOPENS MOB SHOUTS "DOWN WITH ENGLAND 5 ' RUSSELL PASHA ATTACKS CROWD WITH FISTS (UNITED Z'iIESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) (Received December 9, 8.45 p.m.) CAIRO, December 8. Fierce rioting for two days followed the reopening of the university, which was closed after the rioting last month. A mob demonstrated outside the Turf Club, hurling insults at the Union Jack and shouting, "Down with Hoare" and ''Down with England." Russell Pasha, commandant of the Cairo police force, came out and ordered the dispersal of the mob. When they refused, he ran out, used his bare fists, and laid out several of the demonstrators. Although his clothes were torn, he was unhurt. The mob dispersed on the arrival of the police. The outbreak followed a disturbance on Saturday, when Lieuten-ant-Colonel Lucas, assistant commandant of police, was stoned and wounded in the head. The signal for fresh riots to-day was the burning of two tram-cars by students, who kept the police at bay with fire-hoses until the cars were well alight. The police were forced to fire in the air to scatter a crowd of 2000 students who barricaded themselves in a school and stoned the police from the building. Eighteen were injured, including four policemen. Seventyrfive arrests were made. Two British officers were injured by stray shots when the police fired in the air. The students broke gas lamps and set on fire the escaping gas, which is now flaming, giving the streets a torchlight effect. The Government has issued a warning that the police will fire at the rioters instead of over their heads if the disturbances are repeated.