BAN ON STRIKE IN CAIRO

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24814, 2 March 1946, Page 7

BAN ON STRIKE IN CAIRO

ACTION TAKEN BY PRIME MINISTER

(Rec. 6.30 p.m.) CAIRO, Feb. 2g, The Egyptian Prime Minister (Js? mail Sidky Pasha) has banned a silent demonstration and general strike which a committee of student workers had planned to hold in Cairo on Mfirch 4 in memory of “the evacuation mar? tyrs” killed jn last week’s rioting. Sidky Pasha declared such a demon? stration would do more harm than good in vifw of the coming negotiations for the revision of thp EnglishEgyptian treaty. He appealed for public support for the Government’s measures to establish tranquillity. Fikri Azaba, president of the Egyptian press syndicate, has cabled Lord Addison protesting against Lord AdcH? son’s reference in the House of Lords on February 25 to “the incitement |o violence published by the Egyptian press.” Fikri Azaba said: “Our Government fully understands its duty is not to allow foreign intervention ip the affairs of a free, independent State and will brook nc aggression against its sovereignty within the scope of its authority. Moreover, it understands that thp freedom of the press is sacred and that Egyptian newspapers did not incite, but only recorded a British aggressive action, testified by irrefutable proofs."