MURDERS IN EGYPT

Evening Star, Issue 18334, 23 July 1923, Page 6

MURDERS IN EGYPT

DEATH SENTENCES IMPOSED. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright CAIRO, July 20. Of the fifteen Egyptian conspirato: whoso trial commenced last April, fiv including Nazir, have been sentenced death. Seven have been sentenced ■' terms of imprisonment varying from thu years to life.—A. and N.Z. Cable. [Two bomb outrages were reported i Cairo on the evening of March 4. r Jj miscreants dashed through the city in, motor car and hurled a bomb into a, cj which was much frequented by Briti soldiers, killing an Egyptian waiter ;i wounding three British soldiers. Th then threw a bomb into the signal roi of the British Army Headquarters, whr is nearby, but fortunately it failed to t plode. Afc the trial of fifteen conspirato iu April the prosecution detailed a pl\ which commenced in the spring of 19] when a young Egyptian aged eights met Sheikh Srafel ol Hanna, who su gested that the youth should join a gai for murdering Englishmen. The you agreed, and asked a friend named Nai also to join the gang. The organisatic was known as the Black Hand or tl Black Revolver Society. Nazir on Febr ary 17 boasted that an Englishman won, bo killed. The following day Nazir w; seen near the Ministry of Agriculture, ar a few minutes later Mr Aldred Brow was killed with a revolver shot. Naz later boasted that ho and a man name Tewfik had shot Mr Brown. The gar later planned to murder Mr Andcrsoi Oriental Secretary to the Residency, In the scheme miscarried. On April Ii 1922, Nazir and Tewfik succeeded i shooting two British corporals at Caii station.]