DISTURBANCES IN THE SUDAN

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27279, 20 February 1954, Page 7

DISTURBANCES IN THE SUDAN

Egyptian Minister Blames Britain CAIRO, Feb. 17. Major Salah Salem, the Egyptian Minister of National Guidance, today blamed the British for anti-northern demonstrations by tribesmen at Juba in the Southern Sudan. He said that the British were fomenting troubles and promoting sedition among the southern tribes, through the supreme influence of their administrators. Major Salem claimed that some Sudanese police chiefs, had been replaced by Britons. “I welcome the incidents in the south because they urge on us the need to unite all our forces for the destruction of the British administration there as soon as a ‘Sudanisation’ committee is established,” he said. “What has taken place since the Anglo-Egyptian Agreement last year is not ‘Sudanisation’ but ‘Anglicisation.’ ” Reports reaching Cairo indicate that the situation at Juba is quiet. The Baria tribesmen who were earlier reported as massing'to attack the town are stated to have returned to their villages. They are said to have had no aggressive intentions.

Boy of 15 Admits Burglaries.— A boy of 15 admitted in a London Juvenile Court today *that he had broken into 42 houses in the last seven weeks and stolen jewellery and other property, worth £l5OO. He absconded from an approved school in December. He was remanded after undertaking not to abscond from the remand home.—London, February 18.