FIERCE RIOTING

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 140, 10 December 1935, Page 9

FIERCE RIOTING

STUDENTS IN CAIRO

UNION JACK INSULTED

DAMAGE IN STREETS

United Tress Association—]3y Electric Tele graph—Copyright.' CAIRO, December 8. Fierce rioting for two days followed the reopening of the University, which closed after the rioting last mouth. A mob demonstrated outside the Turf Club, hurling insults at the Union Jack and shouting, "Down with Hoare! Down with England."

Colonel Russell, commandant of the Cairo Police Force, came out and ordered the dispersal of the mob. When they refused, he ran but, used bare fists, and laid out several demonstrators. Although his clothes were torn, he was unhurt. The mob dispersed on the arrival of the police. The outbreak followed a disturbance on Saturday, when Lieutenant-Colonel Lucas, assistant commandant of police, was stoned and wounded in the head. The signal for fresh riots today was the burning of two tramcars by students, who kept the police at bay with fixe hoses until the cars were well alight. The police were forced to fire in the air to scatter the crowd.

Two thousand students barricaded themselves in a school and stoned the police from the building. Eighteen were injured, including, four policemen. Seventy-five arrests were made. Two British, officers were injured by stray shots when the police fired in the air.

The students broke gas lamps and set on fire the escaping gas, which is now flaming, giving the streets a torchlike effect.