THE SIRDAR'S MURDER
POLITICAL CRIME IN EGYPT.
(ADSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received 22nd April, 2.15 p.m.) , CAIRO, 21st April. Confessions by several of the arrested murderers of the Sirdar have been published, and show that after the breakdown of the negotiations between Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald and Zaghlul, the members of a vengeance society called "The Redeemers," met in the house of Chafik Mansour, who is a Deputy, and decided upon a political murder." The Sirdar was chosen as the victim. Rashid committed the murder, assisted by five others, Chafik agreeing that political assassination would help the independence movement. Chafik, however, now declares that the murder was only decided in principle in his house. He says-that he always feared that crime would endanger Egypt. In view of the confessions, the trial should- begin in the middle of May and only last a few days. So far 150 persons, have been arrested on suspicion. Four of the actual revolvers were found.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 93, 22 April 1925, Page 6
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