TROOPS MUTINY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 December 1924, Page 5

TROOPS MUTINY

OUTBREAK IN SUDAN. CONFLICT WITH REBELS. HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED. [While it is not anticipated that the trouble in Egypt will -assume gigantic proportions, the position is sufficiently alarming to create much uneasiness. Rebels in the Sudanese forces and British troops have come into conflict, and heavy losses have been inflicted on the former.] BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATIONS—COPYRIGHT. Received Dec. 1, 11.25 a.m. CAIRO, Nov. 30. Telegraphic communication lias been restored with Khartoum. MALTA, No,v. 30. The First Gordon Highlanders, which, were due to proceed to India, have been diverted to Egypt.—Reuter. LONDON, Nov. 29. Bitter fighting between British troops and rebels in the Sudanese forces occurred in the streets of Khartoum. The British forces surrounded the rebels and opened fire with machine-guns, inflicting heavy losses. The Cairo correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says that long standing insurrectionary movements in the ranks of the Egyptian Army spread to a portion of the Sudanese forces, being fanned by Egyptian officers, who are plentifully supplied with Zaghlul propaganda and funds. The trouble at Khartoum began by two platoons of disaffected Sudanese storming the hospital, where one British and two Syrian doctors were killed. A running, indiscriminate fight opened in the surrounding streets between the mutineers and a few British troops, who hurriedly rushed up.

Official details show that the mutineers were intercepted by a platoon of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders after which the acting-Sirdar called on them to return to duty. They refused, and after every opportunity to surrender had been given fire was opened on them, the mutineers replying with rifle and machine-gun lire. They then withdrew under cover of darkness. On the morning of November 29 it was found necessary to bombard and demolish the buildings in which the main body was located. The survivors then surrendered. The mutineers suffered heavily. Other units were not affected. CAIRO, Nov. 29. In view of the protests against the arrests of deputies the Government has issued a communique stating that a judicial authority is investigating the question whether Parliamentary immunity is suspended during the adjournment of the session. PARIS, Nov. 28. The Egyptian protest to foreign Parliaments cam© up befor© the Foreign Affairs Committee of tile Chamber, to which it was automatically referred. The protest was read and was then ordered to be placed in the archives. There was no discussion, so the document is therefore shelved. • An ex-Premier (Rushdi Pasha) favours the submission of the dispute to the League of Nations. He .is surprised that the Government has so far not taken any official stei> in this sense.

The AI Ahram understands that 1 ersia is ready to raise the question at the League on behalf of Egypt.