MORE ARRESTS IN EGYPT
Measures Against Foreign Power (N.Z. Press Association— Copyright) (Re p rf 9 ’ P ’ m ’ ) • CAIRO, January 18. Egyptian security forces today continued to round up persons suspected of implication in the consn racy exposed by General Naguib’s Government on Friday. A spokesman said tonight that drastic measures would be Sted ‘ a f ° re,gn P ° Wer Whose aid the accused W had Among those arrested were Colonel Raschad Mehanna a former member of the Regency Council, Prince Abbas Halim a cousin of Prince Farouk, and Serag el Din TfaJS secretary-general of the Wafd Party. ' ’ a former ThAv S lrt ra hein^ I h^ia n - BtS r. Were a ?" on K those arrested today. They are being held in Cairo prisons. The sookpsman an id that those arrested would be tried soon, but not by a civil court.
r„™ neral Naguib, at his press com the ?mr,Zw St^ rday ; Js nde . d to-minimise the importance of the plot, which the Government claimed to have Thwarted, but indicated that in future “strongarm. x * ac V cs x would be employed against malcontents. Egyptian police today occupied the offices of all political parties and confiscated all documents. Radio reported tonight that the offices of six left-wing publications were also occupied and copies. of papers seized. F b
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26943, 20 January 1953, Page 7
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