EGYPT

Evening Star, Issue 18256, 21 April 1923, Page 3

EGYPT

KING’S DESPOTISM CHECKED. MURDER GANG DISCLOSED. Praia Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CAIRO, April 20. King Fuad I. has signed the Constitution. , The military Governorship instituted by Lord A lien by after the recent outrages has been abolished. [Fuad was bolding out for constitutional rights, virtually making the monarchy both a temporal and religious despotism.)' The, trial of fifteen Egyptians continues. Tim prosecution detailed' a plot, which commenced in the spring of 1919. when a young Egyptian aged eighteen, met Shoitch l-rafcT el Raima, who- suggested that the voulli should join a pang for murdering Englishmen. The youth agreed, and 1 asked a friend named Nazir, who is also one of the accused, to join the gang. Later the voulba found the Sheikh was co-operating with Fahmy, who was convicted in a vengeance case in 1920 and condemned to a long term of imprisonment, _ Meanwhile a man named Alohammed Amin joined the murder gang. On May 8. 1919, a bomb was thrown at Danvish Pasha. A few hours later Alohammed Amin was found with wounds on his hands and arm, apparently from an explosion. Tho organisation was known as tho Black Ham! or the Black Revolver Society. Nazir on February 17 boasted that an Englishman would be killed. The following day Nazir was seen near the_ Alinintry of Agriculture, and a few minutes later Mr Aldred Brown was killed with a revolver shot, Nazir later boasted that he and a man named Te.wfik had shot Mr lli-own. Tho gang later planned 1 to murder Mr Anderson, Oriental Secretary_ to the Residency, but the scheme miscarried. On April 16, 1922, Nazir and Tewfik succeeded in shooting two British corporals at Cairo station. —A. and N.Z. Cable.