CRISIS IN EGYPT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 November 1924, Page 5

CRISIS IN EGYPT.

PREMIER’S RESIGNATION WITHDRAWN.

BY CABLE PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT All + i u i i CAIRO, Nov. 16. All the schools have struck, the students forming processions in the street cheering Zaghlul Pasha and visiting Ministenes trying to bring out Government employees. They induced officials m the Ministry of Finance to quit w ' or £- Employees of the Ministry of Education assembled in the courtyard of the Ministry, where speakers urged a deputation to proceed to the palace and beg the King not to accept the Premier’s resignation. Crowds wrecked the premises of a comic weekly, the Alkashoul, which caricatured Zaghlul and his colleagues. The raiders set fire to the paper supplies, but they were driven off by the police. A large crowd assembled in the neighbourhood of Zaghlul’s house, Parliament and the Abdin Palace. ■ The King informed a senatorial deputation begging him not to accept Cabinet’s resignation that he had already refused. He would (receive Zaghlul again in the afternoon, and insist on his remaining in power. Zaghlul states he did not resign because the King refused to agree £o two Ministerial nominations, but he maintains that his health is unsatisfactory. : Subsequently Zaghlul withdrew his resignation.

Zaghlul later announced to Parliament that the conditions he laid own for remaining in office concerned his freedom of choice in Ministerial and administrative appointments, according to constitutional law. The King has accepted these conditions. A feature of the demonstrations was that they .were practically confined to students, hardly any of the riff raff joining in. No serious strike of Government officials is anticipated. The newspapers are publishing special editions dealing with the crisis. A DOMESTIC CRISIS. BRITAIN NOT INVOLVED. CAIRO, Nov. 16. The Cabinet trouble is entirely a domestic Egyptian crisis. The British authorities had nothing to jdo. with the matter. It. was apparently due to some misunderstanding with King Fuad in connection with the Minister for Finance. who resigned on Friday, and Hassin Pasha, whom the King made sub-director of the Royal Cabinet, and who has been dismissed since Zaghlul Pash withdrew his resignation.