INADEQUATE SENTENCES
ATTACKS OH EUROPEAN WOMEN PROTEST TO EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT. (Official British News.) Press Association —By 'Wireless—Copyright RUGBY, May 2. (Received May 3, at 11 a.ra.) Answering a question in the House of Commons, Sir Austen Chamberlain expressed regret that; it had been necessary for the British High Commission to call the serious attention of the Egyptian Government to the sentences passed by the Egyptian courts on Egyptian subjects convicted of assaults on European women during 1926. Ho said that there were in that year no fewer than four cases of such assaults on British subjects, and recently a similar assault was perpetrated on a European lady of another nationality in peculiarly brutal circumstances. The sentence imposed by the Egyptian courts in these cases were in most instances tho minimum prescribed by the law, and had proved inadequate as a deterrent. The reply of the Egyptian Government to Lord Lloyd’s representations, which had received the approval of His Majesty’s Government, had not .vet been received.
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Evening Star, Issue 19546, 3 May 1927, Page 6
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165INADEQUATE SENTENCES Evening Star, Issue 19546, 3 May 1927, Page 6
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