EGYPTIAN UNREST

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 July 1930, Page 7

EGYPTIAN UNREST

MR HENDERSON’S STATEMENT.

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RUGBY, July 23.

Replying in a Parliamentary answer to-day to a request fpr particulars of last Monday’s disorders in Egypt, the Foreign Secretary, Mr Arthur Henderson, said that in Cairo 15 demonstrations took place, varying in size from 400 to 300 people. The demonstrators threw stones and broke tram windows and street lamps. No other damage to European property had been reported. The only cases of injury to foreigners were one European tram conductor and one Hungarian injured. The situation in Cairo was now well in hand, and no British forces were employed either there or in Port Said and Suez, where disturbances also had occurred. The disorders, he added, .were nowhere serious. and there was no participation in them by the respectable elements of the population. Workers everywhere kept out of the demonstrations and remained steadily at their employment. LONDON DELEGATION. (Received July 25, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 24. The “Morning Post” says that according to the Egyptian and Arabic Press, the Wafd delegation which is at present in London attending the inter-Parliamentary Congress, received £30,000 to cover the expenses of living, and entertaining the right people.