UNREST IN EGYPT

Evening Star, Issue 22193, 22 November 1935, Page 11

UNREST IN EGYPT

A DAY OF MOURNING FURTHER RIOTING REPORTED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright CAIRO, November 21. (Received November 22, at ]. p.m.) The day of mourning organised by the Nationalists as a protest against the policy of the Egyptian and British Governments resulted in closed shops, deserted bazaars, and the stoppage of the Arabic newspapers. A fight occurred this morning outside the Nationalists’ headquarters, where a girl of fourteen made a fiery speech to a crowd of 200 who pelted the police with missiles. The latter, though £hcy had seven injured, merely surrounded the rioters until the arrival of the police chief, who ordered everyone to be released. There were disturbances at many places in the afternoon. Trams, buses, ami cars were stoned and passengers injured. The police during the day fired three rounds into the air. A boy was wounded. Fifty persons were arrested. Markedly contrasting with the disturbances, Nessim" Pasha, members of the Cabinet, Prince Mohamed Ali, Sir Miles Lamp'son,- and 80 Egyptian and European notabilities, as gubsts of Admiral Fisher, witnessed off Alexandria the biggest- British Naval Manoeuvres ever staged in the Eastern Mediterranean. , A magnificent spectacle was presented by the battle squadron, consisting of five battleships, six cruisers, eighteen destroyers, aiid two aircraft carriers.