UNDER THE SHADOW

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 68, 18 September 1923, Page 7

UNDER THE SHADOW

EGYPTIANS PROTEST

AGAINST SLURS OF FAHMY TRIAL.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIOHt.)

(RBUTBR'S TELEGRAM.)

(Received 18th September, noon).

CAIRO, 17th September. Inaccurate assertions and rash generalisations made in certain quarters in connection with the Fahmy trial, have led to a- strong protest on behalf of Egyptians, who regret that the extenuating circumstances raised by the defence, appear to have thrown a shadow over the entire Egyptian nation, owing to the error in supposing that the victim was a representative notable and a personal friend of King Fuad. It points out that Fahmy was of modest extraction, practically uneducated, except for a veneer acquired among the demimonde. The only occasion when he was received by the King was when Fuad laid the foundation stone of a hospital which Fahmy founded, but which was soon neglected. . Fahmy foil among bad companions, and committed folly after folly. He became a libertine of the cosmopolitan type. His compatriots were the first to criticise his conduct.. . The protest concludes by declaring that the Oriental has the greatest re° spect for women. The Koranic precept: "Paradise lies at the feet of mothers," is observed in spirit and heart.