STUDENTS REVOLT

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 December 1924, Page 5

STUDENTS REVOLT

ENGLISH PROFESSORS BOOED.

SERIOUS DISTURBANCE. HEADMASTER REMOVED. JY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Dee. 8, 10.20 a.m. , CAIRO, Dec. 7. At Teppiliia Training College 800 excited students demonstrated for two hours. The new Under-Secretary for Education transferred the Egyptian headmaster to another post, upon which the students again revolted yesterday, booing the English professors and refusing to answer questions. The professors withdrew and informed the Under-Secretary that they would not continue to instruct students unless the ringleaders were, arrested and an apology tendered. The Under-Secre-tary dismissed fifty students. DENIED BY EGYPTIANS. LONDON, Dec, 6. Scotland Yard men are visiting the haunts cf Egyptian students in connection with the reported plot against the lives of British Cabinet Ministers. The _ detectives are pitying special attention to the places where they foregather, but no arrests have been made. The Egyptian Association of Britain and Ireland has issued a protest against ’‘the, Latest attempt by tlie Press to inflame-public opinion against Egyptians by irresponsible and imaginary statements concerning Egyptian students in England.” It declares that Egypt’s Nationalist movement is purely legal, constitutional and non-violent. DEAD SIDAR’S CHAUFFEUR, LONDON, Dec. G. Fred. March, the chauffeur to the murdered Sirdar of Egypt (Sir Lee Stack) has been awarded the medal of the British Empire.