SIRDAR’S DEATH

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 November 1924, Page 5

SIRDAR’S DEATH

HUNT FOB ASSASSINS. MURDER GANGS. GOVERNMENT’S PROMISE. BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION- -COPYEIGHT. LONDON, Nov. 26. The diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Telegraph understands that Zirwar Pasha (the new Premier of Egypt) has assured. Viscount Allenby (High Commissioner of Egypt) of his intention to hunt down the miu*der gangs. Commenting on the Cairo protest to th© League of Nations, the correspondent says that the dispute is clearly a domestic matter between Britain and Egypt, and is covered by article 21 of the covenant. With a view to strengthening Visoimt Allenby’s hands during the present critical situation, Mr. Neville Henderson has been appointed a Minister plenipotentiary whilst employed at the Residency in Cairo. Surprise is manifested in some quarters at the nature of the opinions on the Egyptian situation expressed in the French Press. It is pointed out that the more responsible journals do not contest Britain’©: right to safeguard her interests. The other section is always critical of Britain, and adopts its usual attitude. Le Temps, while emphasising the point, that France does not intend to interfere, isays' : “Recourse to new forcible measures would not be understood. Now that Egypt has shown a desre to arrange .matters it is certainly to the interest of Britain to settle once and for all the questions which have been suspended since the proclamation of Egyptian independence.’’ CAIRO, Nov. 25. Further British troops are arriving from Malta and Gibraltar in the next few days. A brigade of ' infantry with fixed bayonets will parade at Cairo tomorrow.

Two bluejackets from the warship Valiant have been mssing in Alexandria for the past forty-eight hours.