EGYPT

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 6 June 1919, Page 7

EGYPT

TWO DEATH SENTENCES CAR]! 1 K,l'

OUT

UNREST STILL PREVALENT

BY CABLE-PBEBS ASSOCIATION—COPYEiUET

(Received June 6, 11.45 a.m.;

CAIRO, June

Of the death sentences, two .have j been carried out. Two other leadershave been commuted to ten years' imprisonment. Unrest is still prevalent. In several raids on Cairo cafes seditious J literature w.as seized, and there were some arrests. Evidence at the Deirut trial showed that after five British officers had been stripped and beaten to death, the mob compelled the stationmaster to falsify the reports.