EGYPTIAN STUDENTS

Evening Star, Issue 25715, 12 February 1946, Page 6

EGYPTIAN STUDENTS

ULTIMATUM TO AUTHORITIES NO WORK UNTIL BRITISH TROOPS LEAVE (Rec. 8 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 11. Students who barricaded themselves in the Faculty of Medicine building of the Cairo University came out this morning. The police entered and arrested 28 students, says Reuter's correspondent. About 90 students are detained in Kasrelaini Hospital, which is declared " no man's land " by both police and students. Most of the detainees are suffering from head injuries. One is not expected to recover. A students' spokesman said the students would not return to their classes until foreign troops had been withdrawn from Egypt and the Sudan. " We are not anti-British, but we demand that the Labour Government fulfil its pledges of liberty and independence for Egypt," he stated. The police fired over workers and students demonstrating in Alexandria to-day, says Reuter's Alexandria correspondent. About 50 were wounded, and the crowd dispersed after two hours and a-half. The Prime Minister, Nokrasky Pasha, stated in Cairo that the situation was in hand, and that only a minority of the students was affected. The Egyptian police raided the offices of the Wafdist newspapers, 'AI Misri' and ' Wafd Al Misri,' and seized all editions carrying stories of the students and anti-British demonstrations, reports the Associated Press correspondent in Cairo. No action was taken against other newspapers publishing the story. The public Prosecu-tor-General's office issued an order instructing the Press not to publish any information of the _ progress of the official investigation into the reasons for the demonstrations. The students, who are demanding the evacuation of British troops and the incorporation of the Anglo-Egyp-tian Sudan into the kingdom of Egypt, are going on with plans to defy the police orders against holding a procession at the funeral of a student killed in the rioting.