DISSOLVED

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1938, Page 9

DISSOLVED

EGYPTIAN PARLIAMENT

GENERAL ELECTION TO

BE HELD

PREMIER REFUSES TO

RESIGN

(United Press Association—By Electric i Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received February 3, 9.35 a.m.). CAIRO, February 2. A Royal Decree dissolved Parliament and orders a General Election. ..-' The former Premier, Nahas Pasha, went to the Palace with a petition to King Farouk to appoint a new Ministry pending the elections. , The dissolution decree followed an all-night sitting of Cabinet, which confessed its inability to face Nahas Pasha's threatened no-confidence motion. The Premier, Mahmoud Pasha, declined to resign, preferring a dissolution and feeling confident that he will be returned with a majority at the elections, which will be held within two months. It appeared that a unique stay-in strike would be staged when Wafdist deputies raced to Parliament House immediately after the dissolution decree and installed themselves in the building before the police were able to carry out an order not to allow anyone to enter. Later, however, the Wafdists were evacuated from the Chamber. King Farouk for the third time has had his hpneymoon interrupted and has hastened to Cairo. N