RIOTS IN CAIRO CONTINUE

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24798, 12 February 1946, Page 5

RIOTS IN CAIRO CONTINUE

Demands Made By Students

WITHDRAWAL OF BRITISH

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 1 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 11. The Egyptian police raided the offices of the Wafdist newspapers “Al Misri” and “Al Wafd al Masri” and seized all editions carrying the stories of university students’ anti-British demonstrations, reports the Associated Press correspondent in Cairo. No action has been taken against other newspapers publishing the story. The Prosecutor-General’s office has issued an order instructing the press not to publish any information of the progress of the official investigation into the reasons for the demonstrations. The students, who are demanding the evacuation of British troops and the incorporation of the AngloEgyptian Sudan into the kingdom* of Egypt, are going on with plans to defy police orders against holding a procession at the funeral of a student killed in the rioting. Police fired over workers and students demonstrating at Alexandria yesterday, says Reuter’s correspondent. About 50 were wounded. The crowd dispersed after two hours and a half. The Prime Minister (Nokrashy Pasha) said that the situation was in hand. A minority of students was affected. One thousand Cairo University students yesterday fought with truckloads'of police in the second day of anti-British riots, says the Cairo correspondent of the Associated Press. Many students were injured and one was killed when the police, after students had stoned them, charged with their clubs. “Torch of Revolution”

The students assembled outside the university and shouted: “Down with Imperialistic England. Down with Nokrashy Pasha.” Tearing down a torch which was to be presented to King Farouk on his birthday to-day, the students brandished it and cried: “This is the torch of revolution. We are ready for sacrifice!” Nationalist students at the Fuad Awal University at Giza barricaded themselves in the university grounds, and carried a resolution that they would not resume studies until Nokrashy Pasha resigned. Groups of students assaulted police cars patrolling outside the university, overpowered the drivers, drove the cars into the university groups and smashed them with pickaxes. One student was knocked down and killed by a police car. Bandaged students who were injured in the first day’s riots delivered fiery speeches urging a continuance of resistance.

The University administration decided, in an attempt to prevent further disorders, to try to lock the faculty of art students’ classrooms until nightfall.