EGYPTIAN ASSASSIN.
PREMIER WOUNDED. A NATIONALIST FIRES FIVE SHOTS. ; TO AVENGE DENSHAWI. By Telegraph-Press Aesooiatlon-OoßyrlKht. (Eee. February 21, 9.30 pin.) ■"<■',. , :..: Cairo, February 21. Wardany,: a Mohammedan .student, fired five 6hots, seriously, wounding" Boutros Pasha,' the Egyptian Premier. . ~. -'.. The attack; occurred outside the Foreign Office, Cairo. ,". The Premier was removed to the hospital. . . ■ ■■■■'.■■■ : ■■■■■" " Nationalist. literature was : found. in Wardany/s pocket.,' He' acted as secretary, of the Young Egyptian Congress held last year at Geneva.' . . . - ; , ■ . ■ ..,'• He declares that he desired to avenge the Denshawi affair and the prolongation'of Suez Canal concession, i .■.•■•.■' /' [In the trouble at Denshawi, Captain Bull .was killed by the natives, another officer had an arm broken, others were injured. There are various accounte'.as to the causes.; Four natives were hanged, four were flogged, and others were ' imprisoned. ■ The latter were, subsequently released as an act of clemency;] .■ ,;.; :
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 748, 22 February 1910, Page 5
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