UNREST IN EGYPT

Evening Star, Issue 22191, 20 November 1935, Page 11

UNREST IN EGYPT

RIOTING IN CAIRO POLICE CHARGE STUDENTS Press ■ Association—By Telegraph —Copyright CAIRO, November 18. Anglq-Egyptian - mounted police charged 800 students, many of whom were girls, attempting to storm a hospital and seize the body oi a fellow student who died there, in to give him a spectacular burial. ■ hoot police, firing blank cartridges, kept them at bay until mounted police arrived and drove the demonstrators into side streets with the Hats of theii sabres. Nobody was injured. The police batoned threatening crowds into continuous motion and arrested numbers outside- an extremist newspaper office. The Government forbids the Press to mention the riots. WAFD PROTEST TO LEAGUE GENEVA, November IS. The League has received a Wat'd protest and a students’ resolution ■gainst Britain,’blit is unlikely to give attention to either as it is empowered to deal only with appeals from the Government. FUNERAL OF STUDENT VICTIM CAIRO, November 19. (Received 1 November 20, at 1.5 p.m.) Thirty thousand people, including the Wafd leader, Nahas Pasha, university professors, schoolgirls, nurses, and 10,000 students, attended the funeral of the student shot in self-defence by Major Lees oh November 14. The procession was most impressive. There was no disorder following’ the Government’s announcement that a public funeral would bo permitted provided no sticks were carried.