DEFIED!

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 November 1924, Page 5

DEFIED!

EGYPTIAN OFFICERS

REFUSE TO LEAVE SUDAN. BRITISH DOCTOR KILLED. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPY EIGHT (Received Nov. 29, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 28. The chief outstanding point in the Egyptian relates to the British demands in regard to three high officials, in which connection it appears that the Egyptian Government wants to know the exact meaning of the demand. It shall enforce its authority over the three officials declared when the present crisis is over. _ The general situation must he considered, but meanwhile the solution of the four reserved points which the British Cabinet was ready to discuss with Zaghlul when he was in London must not be prejudiced by any action b ythe Egyptian Government. CAIRO, Nov. 28. Lord AUenby will not attend the St. Andrew’s dinner owing to illness. Two platoons of the Eleventh Sudanese at Khartoum mutineed and rushed the military hospital, killing a British and two Syrian doctors. British troops fired on the mutineers, who suffered severely. In view of the continuance of the students’ strike the Ministry of Education ’has issued a statement that the ficßools will, be conducted irrespective of the numbers at present. The ex-Premier Rushdi Pasha favours the submission of the dispute to the League. He is surprised that the Government has so fa rtaken no official step in this, since Alahram understands that Persia is ready to raise the question at the League on behalf of Egypt.—Reuter. • . LONDON, Nov. 28. The Daily Chronicle’s Cairo correspondent says that bitter fighting is proceeding in Khartoum streets. British troops have surrounded and are machine-gunning the Sudanese rebels, whose losses are heavy.—Au6.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CAIRO, Nov. 27. A Government communique states that when the aeting-Sirdar gave orders that Egyptian officers and troops leave the Sudan, they refused and resisted, and informed the- Sirdar that they would not leave unless the Egyptian Government ordered them to leave. British troops surrounded them, and the _ Khartoum Government telegraphed asking that orders be transmitted to the Khartoum troops to leave, whereupon the Ministry met and decided that the Minister for War should send the required orders so as to prevent bloodshed, LONDON, Nov. 27. Of those arrested in Cairo, Abdul Rahman was elected deputy after his release ,by Zaghloul from William Marram is a brilliant orator and graduated in law at Oxford. He conducted Zaghloulist propaganda in London against Viscount Allenby in 1921 and was deported from with Zaghloul. Nakrashi was dismissed from the civil service after the Government officials’ strike in 1919. Since then he lias been promoted repeatedly by Zaghloul. It is alleged lie refused Ms position to obstruct the Brtish officials’ investigations into the police murders. It is reported J that Bafakat Pasha., Zaghloul’s Minister for the Interior, has also been arrested, and that in consequence of the arrests three members of the New Government have resigned. The Daily Chronicle says the Egyptian arrests are precautionary. The prisoners will not be brought to trial, but will be interned. This is the only practical way of averting more murders. Directly after the Sirdar was shot and before the British Note had been delivered. Mr. McKeown Boyd, Direc-tor-General of the European section of the Department,of Public Security, and Russell Pasha-, commandant of the Cairo police, asked to be relieved of taking part in the search for the murderers. as they were convinced that the Egyptian Government could best conduct an investigation. The meaning of these white officials was that the” organisers .of tho murder were prominent. Zaghloulists, and that the members of the Zaghloul Ministry knew them and were in a position to obstruct an official search. Hence it is not surnrising thft Zaghloul’s Minister for the Interior was arrested.