GANG ROUNDED UP
POTENTIAL ASSASSINS EGYPTIAN POLICE ACTIVE CAIRO, Jan. 17. The police have rounded up every known member of a gang of young Egyptians who planned the assassination of all prominent Egyptians with pro-British sympathies. There were 11 arrests, including those of two officers detained during the war for assisting German spies. The arrests followed the alleged confession by Hussein Tewfik, who shot dead Amin Osman Pasha, an ex-Min-istcr of Finance. The gang’s black-list of potential victims included Sir Thomas Russell, commandant of the Cairo police and head of the Anti-Narcotics Bureau. It was the gang’s intention to attempt to assassinate him if lie continued to hold his appointment after August, when he is due to retire.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21924, 19 January 1946, Page 3
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